Cisce declares exam dates
MUMBAI: The Indian Secondary Certificate (ISC) and Indian Certificate Secondary Examinations (ICSE) will begin from February 8 and February 29 respectively. The Council of Indian School Certificate...
View ArticleTN students make it to world list in Pearson exam
Chennai: Three students from Tamil Nadu schools have made it to the list of world toppers in this year's Pearson Edexcel global examinations, considered a gateway to some of the world's leading...
View ArticleOrchestrated tunes & tales
Classical art Vishaka Hari is a name that one associates with not just the melody of Carnatic music, but also the beautiful parampara of Harikatha. Harikatha is a unique art form of storytelling that...
View ArticleExam site hacked, LU loses students’ data
LUCKNOW: Lucknow University has lost all the data of students who had filled in the online application to appear for back paper and improvement examination after the university's examination website...
View ArticleNew GATE, winning strategies
GATE — the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering — is considered one of the toughest all-India examinations that checks students’ knowledge of undergraduate subjects related to the stream of...
View ArticleHongkongers’ university dreams dashed by HKDSE Chinese exam
Daniel Lee Cheuk-hin aced the maths and science exams for his Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) last year. He also scored grade 4 for English. That’s pretty good going, but his Chinese...
View ArticleMusicians are self-serving: T M Krishna
NEW DELHI: Taking yet another hard jibe at the Carnatic music establishment, renowned vocalist T M Krishna has dubbed musicians as “very self-serving people”, even as he sought to demolish some more...
View ArticleListening to the notes within
Music flowed at ‘Let them shine,’ a monthly programme on Western classical music organised by the Tchaikovsky Music Club of the Russian Cultural Centre here on Sunday. The programme series, held in...
View Article50:50 weightage given to HSC, JEE percentiles for engineering seats
PUNE: The state government has decided to give 50:50 weightage to the percentile scores in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE-Main) and the Std XII board exams to prepare the final merit list for allotment...
View ArticleICSE syllabus rejig: Schools fear dilution
CHENNAI: With the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) announcing that it will revise the Class 11 syllabus to bring uniformity between ISC and CBSE syllabi, schools have...
View ArticleISC council questions ACPC’s percentile method
AHMEDABAD: Even as the Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) has introduced several changes to facilitate the process of admission during the academic year 2015-16, the controversial part...
View ArticleICSE, ISC exam results to be declared on May 18
New Delhi, May 13: The results of the ICSE Class X and ISC Class XII examinations will be announced on May 18. The...
View ArticleNow, unique ID numbers for ICSE students
CHENNAI: After facing issues last year, ranging from wrong questions papers being handed to students to a hacker mining marks data, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CICSE)...
View ArticleFour toppers in ICSE class 10 exam, girls outshine boys
Tweet New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Girls have performed better than boys in the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) examination for Class 10, which this year has four toppers securing 98.6...
View ArticleMarginal rise in ISC pass percentage
MUMBAI: Even as the country saw a marginal increase in the pass percentage of students who appeared for the ISC exams, from 95.15% to 95.27%, Maharashtra registered a pass percentage of 96.86%, almost...
View ArticleState board students likely to lose out on top colleges
MUMBAI: Even as city ICSE/ISC schools are rejoicing after the stupendous success of their students, the swelling numbers in the 90% elite club might spell doom for the aspirations of state board...
View ArticleISC results tech-hit OUR BUREAU May 17: ISC results were held up today after...
May 17: ISC results were held up today after the website of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) crashed, sending anxious students and their parents into a tizzy for over...
View ArticleTechnology for accurate Class X and XII results
: The Council of Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) will now publish results faster and with better accuracy, thanks to Live Ink Character Recognition (LICR Solution), a new technology, from...
View ArticleEvaluation of ICSE answer scripts to go hi-tech
Technology being used as teaching tool in schools is passé. Now, evaluation is going hi-tech, in an attempt to bring in greater accuracy and speed in the entire process. Evaluators assessing the 2016...
View ArticleIndian student in Cornell University hacks into ICSE, ISC database
NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old Indian student from Cornell University hacked into the database of ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) school exam results, exposed glaring anomalies in the marking system and...
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