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After many months of confusion, the common entrant tests (CET) for the professional courses in the State got underway today with more than 1, 50,000 sitting for it. The two day tests are for entry to the engineering and medical courses. In Chennai around 32,000 students are writing these exams.
The exams are being conducted after rounds of legal and other battles. And the students, who took the exams today, felt that their preparations were hit due to the confusion. But some of them also felt that they could take them in their stride.
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Arunachal teachers on protest path
The Arunachal Teachers Association has threatened to launch a phase-wise agitation from January 15 to press for various demands, including an immediate check on illegal recruitments.
Mido Kamaki, president of the association said they were being forced to take the decision after the 15-day ultimatum served on the state government for fulfilling their demands, yielded no results.
The 15-day deadline expired on December 22.
He said during the first phase of the agitation starting from January 15 to 19, the ATA would boycott all classes. The second phase will witness boycott of state board examinations and those conducted
New Delhi : IN an attempt to take the heat off the main Class X Board exams, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will now put more emphasis on practicals in Mathematics and Science and Technology.
According to CBSE officials, the practicals — comprising internal assessments and laboratory tests — will take away 40 and 20 marks respectively off main Science and Maths papers (see box for marks distribution) in the 2007 CBSE Class X Board exams.
NEW DELHI: Taken to court for forcing its decision on fee waiver for the single girl child on private schools affiliated to it, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has now adopted the path of persuasion.
Instead of making it mandatory, the Board has in a circular issued on March 22 asked private schools to consider waiving tuition fee for the single girl child from Classes IX to XII.
In October 2005, the CBSE had made affiliation dependent on tuition fee waiver for the single girl child from Classes VI to XII.