Learn Marathi language free of cost as 31-year-old Dombivli resident launches unique online course

Source: The Indian Express dated 16 February, 2017
Link: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-learn-marathi-language-free-of-cost-as-31-year-old-dombivli-resident-launches-unique-online-course-4527133/

Soon, take engg entrance tests several times a year

NEW DELHI: Students aspiring to study at the country’s top engineering colleges are likely to get multiple opportunities in a single year to crack the tough entrance exam.
The move will significantly shrink an aspirant’s waiting time for the next test in case of failure to clear the first attempt at the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main — conducted for admission to NITs, IITs and other centrally funded institutions.

For instance, if back-toback exams are conducted in December, February and April, a candidate will be allowed to write all of them, or she can opt for one or two. The best marks from any of the three tests will account for the student’s all-India ranking, which decides her eligibility for admission.

The National Testing Service (NTS), a new overarching agency that the government announced in its annual budget this February to conduct all entrance exams for higher education institutions, might hold the JEE Main fully online from the next academic session.

 The format will allow the NTS to hold the engineering test at least thrice a year, sources said. That way a student would not have to spend a full year studying for the test again.
At present, a student has the option of writing the JEE Main online or offline, but the exam is conducted just once a year. But only 125,000 of the almost 1 million students opt to take the test online.
“To ensure greater transparency and avoid instances of paper leak, the ministry is planning to conduct examinations through NTS on an online mode,” said a senior official in the human resource development ministry.

Sources said the NTS is likely to conduct all entrance examinations — including JEE, CAT, and UGC-NET — online from 2018.

Education experts welcomed the move, underscoring that several global screening tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and TOEFL are conducted up to seven times a year.

“This will ensure that a candidate is able to give his/her best if there are specific testing windows,” said Soumitra Roy of Prometric India, a global agency that had conducted tests such as CAT for premier business schools.

“This must be done provided there is adequate physical and technical infrastructure in a country like India with different demographics.”

To ensure students from rural areas don’t face obstacles in taking the online exam, NTS will help prepare them with through round-the-clock call centre support.

“NTS will establish an online testing mechanism which will be able to conduct online tests for at least 1 million students at a time with suitable systems for proctoring, instant display of marks and preparation of the merit list,” an official said.

The online system will ensure better safety mechanisms, according to Bipin Batra, executive director of the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which conducts entrance tests such as NEET PG and NEET Super Specialty for medical students.

Source: Hindustan Times, 17th February, 2017
Link: http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

LIRC Offering Scholar's Card and Merit Card Facility

Please Note…….

LEARNING & INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTRE   are offering –“Scholar’s Card” facility to first three toppersand the” Merit Card“ facility to those students who have a GPA of =>8.6of respective branches every semester as a token of appreciation of their efforts.

The Privileges of book loan are as follows:

Topper	Privilege	Loan Period
1st Topper	3 extra library cards(Total 5 cards)	1 Week
2nd Topper	2 extra library cards(Total 4 cards)	1 Week
3rd Topper	1 extra library cards(Total 3 cards)	1 Week
GPA of =>8.6	1 extra library cards(Total 3 cards)	1 Week

Rules (for over-dues, reference and book care) remain the same for the above.

These cards will not be valid after the end of the particular semester.

PROGRAMME IN IT TRAINING BY IIT-B

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay’s (IIT-B’s) Spoken Tutorial Project has started an IT training programme in collaboration with VG Vaze Arts and Science College in Mulund and spatial technologies company, Cybertech Systems and Software Ltd. The programme will be held at laboratory of Vaze College.
The one-year programme aims to provide IT training to IT and non-IT students across the country.

Using Spoken Tutorials, which are essentially a collection of ten-minute long audio-video tutorials, students will be trained in programming languages, office tools and graphic and circuit design tools, in a simple and interesting manner.
To sign up for the programme and know more, visit www.geocivic.in.

Source: Hindustan Times dated 8th February, 2017

Link: http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

List of Active Users for the Month January 2017

Every month we select users who have made maximum use of the library. Below are our active users for the month of January. The below users are entitled for 1 extra book.
Sr. No.

	Member	No. of Transactions
1	CHOUDHARY SANTOSH RAMJANAM SARSWATI	13
2	KHAN ARBAZ SALEEM YASMEEN	13
3	CHAUHAN AMAN KISHAN MAYA	12
4	NIRAJ YADAV	12
5	AISHWARYA NAMBIAR	12
6	TEJASWARARAO MOTAMARRI	11
7	SAYALI JAWRE	11
8	ASST.PROF.RAMJEE YADAV	11
9	MISHRA NILESH MARKANDAY DHARMAVATI	11
10	SAWANT SHIVANI SANDEEP SUMEDHA	10
11	SINGH SATYAM RAJNARAYAN MAYA	10
12	SHAILIN SHAH	10
13	ASST.PROF.PRIYANCA GONSALVES	10
14	SONALI PARAB	9
15	KULKARNI OMKAR SANTOSH RAJASHREE	9
16	SARVESH NARKAR	9
17	HRISHIKESH MAHESH TELANG	9

MU to evaluate answer books online from next exams

Source: The Indian Express dated January 29, 2017

http://epaper.indianexpress.com/c/16667145

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