No interview in NTSE examination

Mar 23, 2011 - PREETI KARMYOGI |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

The National Council for Educational Research and Training has decided to scrap interviews for the National Talent Search Examination scholarships.
The Executive Committee of NCERT recently decided to restrict the exam only to written test.
According to an NCERT official, “There are some students who are good at writing but are not good at expressing themselves. So we decided to confine the NTSE exam to written test only”.
The committee has also decided to give away the scholarship amount in one go. The students get `500 a month till they do Ph.D. The committee had proposed that instead of Class 8, Class 10 students be made eligible for scholarship. However, the human resource development ministry has not yet approved the proposal.

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No written exam now for disaster management
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi

March 22: The Central Board of Secondary Education has decided to scrap the written exam for disaster management part of social sciences subject. This portion will be evaluated on the basis of projects and assignments.
Till now, disaster management was a part of social sciences subject along with civics, political science, economics and history in Class 9. But now disaster management will not be a part of summative assignment 1 and 2. The board will issue guidelines as to what projects and assignments are to be given to the students for evaluation.
Apart from that, other papers, including the first two terms of India and contemporary world, India and land and people, have been devoted 23 marks each.

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