Shila Rani Das and her two daughters cleared their class 10 and class 12 board exams together in Tripura. This is how her kids inspired Shila to achieve her dreams.
New dates announced for IIT JEE Advances, JEE Main, CBSE, NEET exams. The government has also reduced the CBSE board examination syllabus for 2021 by almost 30 per cent.
Against the backdrop of COVID-19, IIT alumnus Imbesat Ahmad launched Filo, an app where students can get their doubts resolved even at odd hours from IIT and NIT experts.
Using several assistive technologies for the visually impaired like screen reader applications, digital textbook databases, and tweaking several softwares using coding, Haroon managed to write his exams without the help of a scribe and scored an A+ in all 10 subjects.
Also, what about places where there is no internet? Despite a large base of internet users, the internet penetration rate in the country stands at just nearly 50% in 2020.
As of now, CBSE has decided not to hold the board examination for students in foreign countries. However, this could be revisited since many students and parents have expressed their reservation with this decision.
“The app has come at just the right time. We were worried about the losses our students could have incurred because of this lockdown," says a government school teacher. #CoronaLockdown