The formative assessment activities, which have been introduced in CBSE schools, are paving the way towards making education application-based, meaningful and engaging for students. The rote and memorization based examination system with dry direct questions which encouraged many students to cram for exams at the end of the year and burn the midnight oil...
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The CBSE board which is leading the revolution in India to make education more holistic, meaningful and application-based is including open book exam-based type of evaluation for classes IX and XI for the new academic year. This will encourage higher order thinking and move...
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“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” – Vernon Howard. With the start of the new academic year, a lot of new topics will be introduced to the budding student. You may have new teachers, new...
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Have you delighted at the interplay of words created by tongue twisters? Bring a tongue twister that you have tried to quickly say aloud with your friends to your mind. Probably, “She sells seashells on the seashore” comes to your mind. What is special...
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Read the following paragraph and observe the underlined phrases. “It was raining cats and dogs yesterday. I had a brush with death when an electric pole fell right in front of me. I stopped dead in my tracks and shuddered to think that I...
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An important aspect of attaining fluency in English and speaking and writing with a good command of the language is to internalize the proper use of subject-verb agreement. English subject-verb agreement is something which usually many learners with lack of proper exposure struggle with...
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Have you ever mixed salt (NaCl) in water (H2O)? Do you think a chemical reaction has taken place due to mixing these two substances together? Then, what has happened? What is this salt-water known as? Can the salt be separated from the water again? ...
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