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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.

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.

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.

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When was the last time your child asked something academic out of curiosity? Asked why Rudolf has a red nose? Or why are Christmas trees cone-shaped? “One study found that between the ages of 2 and 5, kids ask about 40,000 questions. But as kids get older, this insatiable desire to know can lose some of its urgency.” Reignite this curiosity with experiential learning with the added benefit of enhancing their scores in the exams. What is Experiential Learning? From e-learning and blended learning to infusing technology into traditional teaching and offering experiential learning opportunities, 21st-century classrooms have expanded. Experiential learning explains how we learn best through experience and reflection. It is a research-based, hands-on learning process. This type of learning pushes students beyond the traditional classroom walls. It focuses on inquiry, application, and authentic learning opportunities through simulations, discussions, or other teaching methods. John Hopkins University’s studies suggest high levels of active learning in a student development program under Experiential Learning. It confirmed many previously documented benefits of experiential learning such as an increased understanding, increased ability to view SWOT areas in academia, increased ability to take initiative, increased ability to adapt to changes in curriculum, increased leadership skills, etc How is EL relevant to a CBSE Board student? Coming back to our question about why the Christmas tree is cone-shaped: it is easier to slide off snow and to gather sunlight by all leaves. Rudolf has a shiny nose because reindeers have more blood vessels in their noses to help them breathe in the extreme cold of the North Pole. CBSE has changed its examination format to ask more application-based questions like the ones discussed above. TWA has come up with innovative opportunities to enhance scores under this change. We have molded our strategies in accordance with Experiential Learning to help ace the Case Studies & Assertion-Reason based questions in the new CBSE Board Exam Format. Some of our EL backed features are: 1. Simulations wherein we aim at imitating a real-world experience, operation, or process to understand it practically. Here’s a TWA student experiencing how a gravitational force works through a virtual roller coaster ride. 2. Hands-on Experience to get real-world knowledge or skill from doing it rather than just reading about it or seeing it being done. Here TWA students understand how to gauge the Newton of force required to push/pull through a hands-on experience with a weighting scale. 3. Group discussions & refutation of misconceptions to know peer perspective and clear doubts at the student level. Here TWA students discuss a bunch of queries. You know GD’s are the best, when they get intense. 4. We employ Experiments and Demonstrations to study phenomena usually missed by the naked eye. Here TWA students are practically demonstrated how sound energy travels through different mediums. Here TWA students learn how the water pressure works through an experiment. 5. We employ Strategic Problem Solving to predict problem trajectory in advance and be prepared). Here TWA students use Fleming’s approach to solve case studies about the magnetic effects of current. Experiential learning is an active process that engages the learner, not a passive process that happens to the learner. With such an approach, you can be assured of unmatched results for your child. Encourage them to develop a scientific temper and aptitude in them to succeed academically and professionally. To know more about TWA’s Programme, you can register yourself to Attend the Next Parents’ Seminar or Request a Call Back.

It is easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis. We often dismiss small changes because they don’t seem to matter very much at the moment. But when we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. It’s the accumulation of many missteps—a 1 percent decline here and there— that eventually leads to a problem. If during a flight takeoff from LA, en route to New York, the pilot decided to adjust course 3.5 degrees to the south, the plane’s nose would move just a few feet and it would end up in Washington, DC, miles away from New York. However, If you can get just 1 percent better each day, you’ll end up with results that are nearly 37 times better after one year. Being a student in the 21st century is not fun. With the n number of deadlines, you are overworked and exhausted all the time. Making small routine changes like : sleeping/eating on time, controlling caffeine intake cutting down on study MARATHONS. We target to finish an ENTIRE book within the 12 hours of the night but can’t. The average Attention span is 40 minutes. Without a break after 40 minutes, you begin to wear out and lose your target, which further demotivates you Our education system best suits the traditional learner. Find your style and plan your study around it : Visual Learners should draw flow charts, diagrams, use colors and highlighters Audio Learners should make acronyms, rhyming words, refer to audiobooks Busting the ‘Overnight Success’ Myth When we struggle to build a good habit or break a bad one, it is not because we have lost our ability to improve. It is often because we have not yet crossed the Plateau of Latent Potential. When you finally break through the Plateau of Latent Potential, people will call it an overnight success. The outside world only sees the most dramatic event rather than all that preceded it. But you know that it’s the work you did long ago—when it seemed that you weren’t making any progress—that makes the jump today possible. “We often expect progress to be linear. This can result in a “valley of disappointment” where people feel discouraged after putting in weeks or months of hard work without experiencing any results. However, this work was not wasted. It was simply being stored. It is not until much later that the full value of previous efforts is revealed.” James Clear, Author, Atomic Habits Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. You get what you repeat. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. Student’s Takeaway Research has shown, starting small makes new habits more likely to stick. If you can get just 1 percent better each day, you’ll end up with results that are nearly 37 times better after one year.

Important Changes in Paper Pattern Pull up your socks as CBSE introduces never seen before changes in its question paper patterns. In the English question paper then you will find that about fifty percent of questions are multiple-choice questions. MCQs might be cut out in CBSE 12th Biology Question Paper 2021. Students will find more Assertion & Reason and Case-Study based questions, especially in Physics Question Paper. There is also an increase in case-study based questions in the 12 Maths paper. You must have a look at the latest sample papers to look at the specific marks distribution at http://cbseacademic.nic.in/SQP_CLASSX_2020-21.html

In our previous article, we discussed how Habits are the compound interest of small changes. Hence, it is important to develop a sustained habit of studying to improve our scores. By adopting these 3 techniques, you are bound to see a boost in the long run. 1. Implementation intentions Most of us tend to be too vague about our intentions. To actually follow through on your intentions : Prominent/obvious cues - Instead of putting up motivational posters, put up diagrams, reactivity series, or working of an electric motor so that every time you look at it, you are coerced into studying out of compulsion or even guilt. Definite/precise goals - Instead of forming vague goals like ‘I will study better’, create precise ones like ‘2 hours target to practice all NCERT examples and 2 exercises of Heron’s formula’. This way, when you sit to study, you won’t distract yourself with what to study, where to start, etc. 2. Temptation bundling “More probable behaviors reinforce the less probable ones”. James Clear, Author, Atomic Habits Try taking a behavior that you think of as important but unappealing and link it to a behavior that you’re drawn to – one that will generate a motivating dopamine hit. Pomodoro it- An Italian technique of setting your timer at 25 minutes followed by a break of five minutes; rinse and repeat. Eg. the target is to finish metal and nonmetals. Set up a Pomodoro of 25 minutes, followed by scrolling/walking/chatting whatever you feel like. When the alarm goes off, back to metals Token reward- You know how IG gives you an ‘official blue tick’ after you accumulate a certain number of followers, followed by a silver and gold button on every milestone after that. Similarly, you can give yourself a star every time you complete Chemistry, then physics, then biology. These 3 stars can then be converted into watching an episode of your desired show. This way, even if you don’t want to study, you’ll become conditioned to it if it means you get to watch your favorite show. 3. Make it easily doable “Habits are easier to build when they fit into the flow of your life”. James Clear, Author, Atomic Habits Energy is precious, and the brain is wired to conserve it whenever possible. It is human nature to follow the Law of Least Effort, which states that when deciding between two similar options, people gravitate toward the option that requires the least amount of work. Reduce friction You are more likely to study, if you are part of a peer group that is invested in studying, are into academic co-curricular, etc, even if it is just to save face or be validated by your peers Eg. Instead of calling a friend to discuss a doubt and digressing into gossip, text them to keep it short .Instead of studying on the balcony, with tons of activities of the neighbors to distract you, sit in a quiet corner where you won’t fave these frictions Choose your medium of Learning Visual Learners should draw flow charts, diagrams, use colors, and highlighters while Audio Learners should make acronyms, rhyming words, refer to audiobooks.

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

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 Major Subjects + Marking Scheme CBSE Class 10 Basics Maths Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Basics Maths Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Standard Maths Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Standard Maths Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Science Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Science Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Social Science Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Social Science Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Hindi A Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Hindi A Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 Hindi B Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 Hindi B Marking Scheme 2021 CBSE Class 10 English (Language & Literature) Sample Paper 2021 CBSE Class 10 English (Language & Literature) Marking Scheme 2021