BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤ We share some tips on ➤Social media: Is it a ➤ Euro20: England aim to STUDENT EDITION how to put your best boon or a bane? Gen Z end semi-final jinx; WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2021 TODAY’S personality forward while debates on various issues Denmark prepare to Newspaper in Education facing an interview surrounding it outplay opponents EDITION STUDENTS REACT PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 I welcome this decision, as the previous batch of students faced the uncertainty of exams. This new pat- tern provides us with CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 flexibility and a proper schedule. Taking exams in two parts will give us enough time for prepa- ration and the much- CBSE divides academic session for classes X, needed security. Giving equal weightage to both the terms, and an increase in objective questions come as a relief for all the students. Rakshit Dubey, class X, Zebar School XII into two terms; exams at end of each term For Children, Ahmedabad The step taken by the CBSE will provide a level-playing field to the students appearing for their board examinations. The stu- dents can plan well in advance, and score IS IT A GOOD MOVE? marks accordingly. he Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday said that the academ- Pranay Upadhyay, class X, MVN ic session 2021-22 of classes X and XII will be divided into two terms, with School, Sec 17 Faridabad approximately 50 per cent syllabus in each term. Exams will be conducted at the end of each term on the basis of the bifurcated syllabus. The syllabus for the With no overlapping of bifurcated T board examination 2021-22 will be rationalised similar to that of the last academ- syllabus, the new evalu- ic session, and will be notified in July 2021, a CBSE circular said. ation criteria will be beneficial for students. Apart from putting less- er burden on us, it will THE NEW PATTERN make our preparations more focussed. At the end of the first term, the Moreover, evaluation of both, practi- board will organise exams in a flex- The CBSE has decided that in case the situation cal application as well subjective ible schedule between November knowledge, will go a long way in and December 2021, with a win- of the pandemic improves and students are able assessing the true talent of a stu- dow period of 4-8 weeks for to come to schools or centres for taking the dent. Samyuktaa Sivakumar, class schools situated in different parts of the country and abroad. exams, the board would conduct Term I and II XII, Ryan International school, The exams will have multiple examinations at schools or centres, and the Kandivali choice questions (MCQ), includ- ing case-based MCQs and MCQs theory marks will be distributed equally There will be a lot of pressure on on assertion-reasoning type. The between the two exams duration of the test will be 90 min- THE SYLLABUS PATTERN classes X and XII examinations at the end of the students to perform utes, and it will cover only the ra- the academic session well in both the exams. tionalised syllabus of the first ated, and marks obtained will be board. The paper will be of two With inadequate infor- The syllabus for the academic session 2021- Schools will also use alternative academic term. The question papers will be uploaded by the school on the very hours duration and have questions mation on the reduced sent by the CBSE to schools along same day. of different formats (case-based/ 22 will be divided into two terms by following calendar and inputs from the NCERT on trans- syllabus, this decision with the marking scheme. At the end of the second term, situation based, open-ended- short a systematic approach by looking into the acting the curriculum The exams will be conducted un- the board would organise Term II answer/ long-answer type). interconnectivity of concepts and topics by seems unfair, and an der the supervision of the exter- or year-end examination based on In case the situation is not the subject experts Efforts will be made to make internal added burden on the nal centre superintendents and ob- the rationalised syllabus. conducive for normal descriptive assessment, practical, project work more students. Results based on servers appointed by the CBSE. This examination would be held examination, a 90-minute MCQ- The CBSE will conduct the examinations at credible and valid as per the guidelines and evaluation of internal exams and The responses of students will around March-April 2022 at the based exam will be conducted at the end of each term on the basis of the bifur- be captured on the OMR sheets examination centres fixed by the the end of the second term as well. moderation policy to be announced by the yearly activities seemed a cated syllabus. This has been done to increase which, after scanning may be di- board to ensure fair distribution of marks PTI better option. rectly uploaded at the CBSE por- (Share your views at [email protected]) the probability of having a board-conducted V Dharshini, class XII, Lalaji Memorial tal or alternatively may be evalu- Omega International School, Chennai 'LAKES' UNDER MARS SOUTH Amitabh Bachchan pens poem, POLE MAY NOT BE REAL ubsurface lakes found under Mars' south pole, using data urges fans to take precautions from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, FACTOIDFACTOID SIRISHA Smay not really be lakes at all, argue researchers. Two re- search teams in 2018, working on data from the Mars Express against Covid-19 orbiter have announced a surprising discovery: The signals from a radar instrument reflected off the Red planet's south BANDLA ctor Amitabh Bachchan took to social pole appeared to reveal a liquid subsurface lake. However, a media and shared a poem urging his team of scientists at NASA and Arizona State University (ASU) The second Indian-born fans and followers to take precau- found dozens of similar radar reflections around the south A pole after analysing a broader set of Mars Express data. £2k woman to fly to space tions against Covid-19, amid the ongoing pandem- Price of a handwritten letter written by author ic. Big B took to his Twitter handle to share the The radar signals, original- Roald Dahl to a student, which was sold recently poem written in Hindi. It read, 'Suno suno aye ly interpreted as liquid water, at an auction. The 1989 letter was written to duniya walon: yeh virus ghar dhoond raha hai; aur were found in a region of Christine Wotton, now a librarian and housekeep- uska ghar hai insaan ke phepre, lungs! Mars, known as the South er. In it, Dahl tells Christine of Chagford, Devon Khabardar!' The poem further con- Polar Layered Deposits. The tinued, ‘Darwazein khidkiyan sab areas originally hypothesised county in England, "Never shelter children from bandh kar do, ghar mein ghusne to contain liquid water, span the world. The content of any children's book is na do usse! Mask pehno aur about 10 to 20 kilometres in a relatively small region of the of no importance other than it enthrals the child, duree banaye rakkho dusron se, Martian South Polar Layered Deposits and thus it teaches or seduces him or her to 'like' Celeb bhid se, party se! Aur haan, It revealed dozens of additional bright radar reflections over books and to become a fit reader. The book-read- hath-wath dhote rehna a far greater range of area and depth than ever before. In some ing child will always outstrip the non-book-read- talk barabar! Ok!’ places, they were less than a mile from the surface, where tem- peratures are estimated to be minus 63 degrees Celsius ing child in later life.” After Kalpana Chawla, Indian-origin Sirisha Bandla will become the second Indian-born woman to fly into space later this month. Bandla will be one of BEST OUT OF WASTE the six space travellers aboard ‘VSS Unity’ of Virgin Galactic, scheduled to blast off to space on July 11 from New Mexico. AN ARTWORK WITH PLASTIC Sirisha Bandla, astronaut number 4 on the crew, elhi-based artist, working on my 12th piece," he was born in Andhra Manveer Singh, has said. Doing his part in lifting Pradesh, and grew up MANVEER ON HIS JOURNEY... created artwork by the burden of the non- in Houston. She is also In the beginning, I thought that I will using plastic waste biodegradable commodity from the Vice President, D use the plastic, which I am consuming. Government Affairs as a raw material. In fact, he nature, he said, "At present, So, I washed it and started making it and Research has utilised 250 kg of plastic in we are observing that there but it wasn't enough. Therefore, I Operations at the three years, diverting it from are many kinds of pollutants in thought of asking people living in my Virgin Galactic being dumped at landfills. The the environment and plastic is building and nearby areas. Soon, it also artist, who started this innova- on the top of the list. Every got used up. Then, I spoke to rag pick- tive eco-friendly work in April citizen is responsible for it. I ers, but they refused to give it as it was The July 11 mission will be the 2018, has till now sold three noticed that multilayer plastic a loss of money for them. After rag pickers refused to give 22nd flight test for VSS Unity artworks overseas — two in Abu cannot be segregated and peo- plastic to me, I started collecting it door to door.