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What started as a month-long lockdown has taken up the entire year. Thanks to our educator’s farsightedness, we entered the online classroom weeks ago, and hence are at a place of no major loss. Virtual learning has been challenging for both students and parents alike. Parents have replaced the role of teachers. Teachers only guide students to learn through materials that have been prepared through media. Parents are the ones who play an active role to teach their children at home. They have faced many challenges in this process of online learning such as limited time, the inadequacy of technical knowledge, balancing their WFH, and Home, etc. But it has been harder on the students, especially because while all the learning happens online, the exams are conducted offline. In the month of December, most of our kids are writing their pre-boards, for which, none of them have had any contact teaching. These exams are as stressful as they can get for a student of good bearing. Without classroom experience, pen and paper practice, and peer interaction, these exams can get extremely stressful The scanning, uploading, dysfunctional portals just add to the student’s hassle, elevating stress and alleviating scores. For the junior classes, the parent’s IT literacy becomes a big issue. Practically oriented subjects like Maths, Chemistry, physics, etc become more strenuous. In this unusual scenario, here is what you can do to get your child prepared to perform their best. 1. Before an online Exam: Prepare Know the test format What kind of questions will the instructor ask in the exam—multiple-choice, fill-ups, short answer, essays etc. Check your computer Verify all the correct hardware and software in advance. Make sure of an adequate Internet connection. Plan your time While writing, limit your time to that which will be allotted for the actual exam and decide how long you will spend on each question. Carve out a quiet test-taking spot with minimal distractions Turn off all notifications from IM, your phone, your email, and elsewhere. 2. During the Online Exam: Focus Clock your answers Set an alarm to notify you when you have limited time (e.g., 10 minutes) remaining in your testing period. Print and save copies of the test questions, and answers These will prove extremely helpful if you have technical problems during the test or if you encounter issues while submitting your answers. Don’t leave the test page Don’t use the same tab or the browser as you do for your exam —you may lose all your work. Open a second copy of the browser to search. Contact your Instructor In the case of technical problems, contact your instructor immediately, detailing the error messages. Take a screenshot of the error message as well. For most students, taking an online exam is a new and bewildering experience. They don’t know what to expect and aren’t certain of what skills and strategies will enable them to score their best. The online environment presents some challenges that warrant a bit of extra awareness and preparation. It is always better to be safe than sorry.

Habits begin with a cue, or a trigger to act. Walking into dark room cues you to perform an action that will enable sight. Next comes a craving for a change in state – in this case, to be able to see. Then comes our response, or action – flicking the light switch. The final step in the process, and the end goal of every habit, is the reward. If your performance does not satisfy you, it becomes your trigger. Then rises the need to improve it, the techniques for which we discussed in our last article. But it is important to actively let go of those habits that interfere with newly formed productive ones. Increase friction for bad habits Despite having all the motivation to study, we get digressed as we have a habit of logging in 3 hours on social media or Netflix, or PS4. If you want to waste less time in front of the TV, unplug it and take the batteries out of the remote. Doing so will introduce enough friction to ensure you only watch when you really want to. Validation through apps My all-time favorite is Forest. It functions by allowing you to plant a tree, which will grow with every half hour you spend avoiding your phone. Should you stray from the app, it’ll kill your tree, which may seem inconsequential but you get surprisingly invested. It’s actually incredibly sweet to expand your forest, knowing that everyone represents thirty minutes of hard work. Immediate-return environment Our brains are wired into the immediate-return environment of earlier humans, who weren’t thinking about long-term returns like saving for retirement or sticking to a diet. They were focused on immediate concerns like finding their next meal, seeking shelter. So when you are pursuing habits with a delayed return, try to attach some immediate gratification to them. Eg. when you have decided upon increasing your study time by 30 minutes every day, it will not make a difference in tomorrow’s class test. But if you miss the 30 minutes, that will gratify you. Replace this gratification with putting in 10/- in a jar every time you make the 30 minutes cut. This practice will give you 300 bucks at the end of the month which you can spend on whatever you like. In motion vs taking action “The most effective form of learning is practice, not planning” James Clear, Author, Atomic Habits Sitting to strategize your syllabus, making a schedule, downloading mock tests, forming a group study are all ‘being in motion’. While this is useful, it does not produce results on its own. No matter how many routines you form, you’ll not increase your score incoming exams if you don’t actively engage in studying and memorizing. Starting on schedule, finishing the target exercises of a chapter is taking action. It is producing results by getting off stuff from your to-do list and honing your skills. Student’s Takeaway The aggregation of marginal gains, suggests that there is a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do. Since bad habits interfere in developing good ones, it is important that we get rid of them.

The Ministry of Education has declared that 2020-21 board exams will be held between May 4 and June 10 and results will be announced in July.  Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is yet to release the date sheet for Class 10 and 12. Meanwhile, CBSE Practical Exams 2020-21 will begin from 1st March 2021. However, no separate Practical Exam Admit Card will be released. You can get the entire date sheet at cbse.nic.in CBSE is expected to announce results by July 15, 2021.

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Board exams in 2021 will be in written mode only and not online, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) officials said on Wednesday even as consultations on dates for the conduct of the examination are still underway. The officials of the board also said that if students were not able to sit for practicals in classes before the exams, alternatives would be explored. Although no final decision has come out yet. You can be a stakeholder in the process by tweeting the Education Minister today, i.e. December 3rd to share your concerns. Union Minister of Education Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' is supposed to hold an interaction with students, teachers, and parents on 10 December on the issue of conduct of board examinations and competitive examinations next year so you can expect a final decision after that.

The Central Board of Secondary Education has released new sample papers with the marking scheme for the upcoming Board Exam 2021which are prepared according to the reduced CBSE syllabus. Students can now actually prepare according to the pattern followed in the sample papers and get to know the format of questions as well as the CBSE Marking Scheme that will help to know the pattern of distribution of marks across different answers. The marking scheme is very useful to know the right criteria for scoring. CBSE Sample Papers for Elective Subjects + Marking Scheme CBSE Class 10 Computer Application Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Computer Application Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Home Science Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Home Science Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Elements of Book Keeping and Accountancy Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Elements of Book Keeping and Accountancy Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Elements of Business Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Elements of Business Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 NCC Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 NCC Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Painting Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Painting Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 German Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 German Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Spanish Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Spanish Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 French Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 French Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Japanese Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Japanese Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Punjabi Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Punjabi Marking Scheme 2021

There has been a campaign going on Twitter for while asking students, teachers, and parents to submit their queries and suggestions about the board exams 2020-21. Usually, the datasheet comes out in December, but COVID-19 has put it behind schedule.    Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has recently tweeted and confirmed that he himself will address the queries regarding these exams on December 3. Pokhriyal has urged the students, parents, and stakeholders to post their queries or concerns with the hashtag #EducationMinisterGoesLive on Twitter.  Share your views by clicking on the image below or by tweeting it to Mr. Pokhriyal's handle.

The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced that students who appeared for the Class 10 Basic Mathematics exam have the option to opt for Maths in Class 11 without appearing for the Standard Mathematics paper in the CBSE Compartment Exam. Because of the spread of COVID 19, there was a delay in the conduct of the CBSE compartment exam 2020. So, it has been decided by the board that students are given the chance to choose Maths in Class 11 as a one-time exception in the academic year 2020-21 due to the pandemic.