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Students who opted for school exam fare better
Chandigarh, June 1
“Path breakers” is how academic circles define these 4,000 odd students who opted out of appearing for class X boards, so far the most important academic milestone in a student’s life. Their decision, accompanied by a lot of apprehensions, has finally yielded results, as these students have a better average performance than the 11,000 other students who stuck to the conventional mode of examination. While the CBSE is yet to release its official data, according to the evaluation reports collected for its internal purpose, the Board has found that a majorioty of the students who appeared for school exams came out with flying colours, both in exams and co-scholastic activities.
New-look report card surprises many
Chandigarh, June 1
The class board results this year are surely a far cry from the conventional array of academic percentages. In addition to making the Board exam optional, it has also bid farewell to good old mark-sheet which determined your academic caste. They have now given way to swanky report card, which was a surprise package for many.
PU student top GPAT 2011 scorer
Chandigarh, June 1
Attain exceptional levels of performance, 31 of the 33 students of (UIPS), Panjab University, who appeared in the Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test 2011
(GPAT) conducted nationwide have cleared it. This rigorous exam is the gateway to masters in pharmacy program in prestigious institutions in the country and makes a candidate eligible for doing PhD in pharmacy.
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Ekjot Sodhi (rank 1), Pooja Goyal (rank 39) and Ranjana Bhandari (rank 89) in a jubilant mood at the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh, on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik
City to hold head count of its poor
Chandigarh, June 1
Chandigarh will be the first city to hold the head count of its poor, besides the caste and religion census.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting presided over by Union Home Secretary GK Pillai in New Delhi yesterday where it was decided to conduct the below poverty line
(BPL), caste and religion census in the first phase in June in the union territories of Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and
Tripura.
Rain pours relief, brings down mercury
Chandigarh, June 1
City residents woke up to a pleasant Wednesday morning with showers lashing the region. The westerly disturbance brought rain and smiles on the faces of city residents with the day temperature falling by 13 degrees Celsius.
A mother-son duo tries to save itself from rain.
Tribune photos: Vinay Malik
Chandigarh airport to serve up exquisite dining experience
Chandigarh, June 1
While Chandigarh (IXC) may take some more time to be on the international route map, it’ll soon acquire the flavour of international dinning, similar to the ones savoured at the Los Angeles (LAX) or Toronto
(YYZ) airports, as the Airports Authority of India has tied up with renowned
HMSHost, a leader in travel dinning, for its food and beverage outlets.
Agri dept campaign to save water
Fatehgarh Sahib, June 1
The district agriculture department has decided to launch a campaign under the Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) to create awareness among farmers not to transplant paddy before June 10.
Panchkula admn to raid ultrasound centres
Panchkula, June 1
The district administration will carry out regular raids at various ultrasound centres in the district in order to eradicate the menace of female feticide from society.
Trauma victim gets new lease of life
Mohali, June 1
When 24-year-old Barjinder Singh, an accident victim, was wheeled into the emergency of a private hospital, his family had little hope of his survival. However, with the efforts of the trauma team at the hospital, Barjinder is happy to be amidst his parents, young wife and six-month-old baby 15 days later.
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WEDNESDAY SHOWERS A car makes its way through a water-logged road at Piccadily Chowk in Chandigarh. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
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2 kids bring laurels to city
Chandigarh: Two children from Chandigarh, Kulbir Singh Ahluwalia and Aishna
Vashishtha, have been nominated for the National Bal Shree Award- 2011.
Kulbir, a student of Delhi Public School, Sector 40, will be awarded for creative scientific innovation.
Authorities mark inquiry into incident
Chandigarh, June 1
An inquiry has been marked by the Panjab University authorities into the complaint by certain students of hostel no 5 alleging an attack on them by the rival group on Monday night.
Those who made their mark despite odds
Chandigarh, June 1
She had grown seeing her father buying old books and papers but what was ‘raddi’ for her proved to be inspiration for Rekha Sharma, a daugher of rag picker, who secured a CGPA 9.2.
Rekha, who secured CGPA 9.2 in the CBSE class X examination, celebrates her success with parents in Chandigarh on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Vinay Malik
Token system introduced at PU library
Chandigarh, June 1
In a bid to check increasing thefts of bags and valuables from Panjab University’s AC Joshi Library, a token system has been started by the university authorities here yesterday.
16 students of Satluj school secure CGPA 10
Panchkula, June 1
Satluj Public School while making a mark for itself produced the best
results among the city schools, with its 16 students securing Cumulative Grade Point Average
(CGPA) 10 in the CBSE Class X examination. Principal Krit Serai said more than 70 per cent of the students got A-1 and A-2 grades, while more than 42 students had scored between CGPA 9 and 10.
Girls steal the show
Mohali, June 1
Girls in Mohali stole the show in the CBSE Class X examination, results of which were declared today. Out of a total of 41 students scoring 10 cumulative grade point average
(CGPA), 24 are girls.
What is CGPA
Chandigarh, June 1
The Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) is an evaluation system followed the world over wherein student’s performance in examination and extra-curricular activities is taken into consideration to work out an average grade.
Reason behind good results
While the CBSE claims that its all-round development education plan is the key to this stupendous success, many academicians differ and hold biased and generous formative assessment or internal assessment as the reason.
Maharaja Aggarsain chair at KU demanded
Panchkula, June 1
Akhil Bharatiya Aggarwal Sammelan, Haryana, today demanded that a chair after the name of Maharaja Aggarsain be set up at Kurukshetra University.
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Chandigarh, June 1
A slew of reforms introduced for compiling the Class X results this year that include making the board exams optional, the introduction of continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) system being added to the existing grading, introduction of assessments on soft skills, attitudes and co-curricular activities have left the entire region, including the tricity, beaming over the results, which were declared today.
