ICSE reduces Class x and Class XII examination fees

The council for the Indian School Certificate Examination which runs around 2000 schools (CISCE) across the country has decided to reduce the examination fees by over 50 percent.

Its a good news for the student appearing for class X and XII in march 2013

Jose Aikara the chairman of CISCE said "We have decided to reduce examination fees from Rs 2100 to Rs 1000 this time"

"The council had increased the examination fees as it required funds for various purposes. The council has decided to cut the amount from next year for the benefit of students", he said on the sideline of a function here.

The syllabus in Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Commerce had been changed as per suggestion by experts. The government wanted that the students would appear in the examination in 2014 in uniform syllabus across the country.

Mumbai University may exclude internal test scores in credit system

Mumbai University (MU) is planning to scrap internal assessment scores weightage system. The university will be holding a term-end 100-mark exam in each of the two semesters in a year. If the proposal is accepted, students may not have internal exams from next year, at least in traditional courses. Mumbai University has been planning this for around 4 years. In 2011, When the credit-based grading system was introduced, the internal assessment was given a weightage of 40 marks out of 100. The weightage was reduced to 25 marks in 2014.

Admission to Engineering colleges in Maharashtra through JEE

From 2014 onwards, Admissions to various colleges across Maharashtra will be through JEE (Joint Entrance Examinations). Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) decided to conduct centralized exams for admission to engineering courses. This comes as good respite for students of Maharashtra state. Earlier they had to appear for various tests, but now they will have to concentrate on single test. Here is list of few points to remember for students.

CBSE announces dates for Class X and Class XII exam

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided dates for class X and class XII examination. Both class X and class XII examination will start from 1 st march 2012 but has different end dates. Class X examination will get over by 26th March 2012 and class XII exams will be finished by 13th April 2012.

Mumbai University offering Dual Degrees

Mumbai university is offering students dual degrees from the academic session 2012 – 2013. Students seeking admission in two different colleges need to get a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the first college before applying for the second college so that Mumbai university is not responsible for clash of examination dates. The university has scrapped the decision regarding completing of engineering within 8 years tenure. S K Ukrande has decided to allow only those students to pick the course who are capable of doing it.

Karnataka to introduce CBSE syllabus in the new academic year

Karnataka government has decided to introduce CBSE syllabus for 11th standard students for the academic year 2012 – 2013 while 12th standard students will have state board syllabus. The move was taken to groom students at par with the different competitive examination . Interim courses will be conducted for 10th standard students to help them cope up with the class 11th CBSE pattern of learning. Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri said