Exam

The West Bengal Board of higher secondary education has announced its examination schedule for Class 10, in 2024. Madhyamik examination for 2023-2024 will be held from February 4, held on only one paper each day. Speaking about timings, it will start from 11:45 am to 3 pm on the scheduled days. The first 15 minutes will be allowed for reading question, following which answer sheets will be given.

The Telangana Engineering Common Entrance Test, TS ECET 2022, has been rescheduled by the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) because of the state's severe rainfall. The TS ECET 2022 was slated to take place on July 12. The new dates for the TS ECET-2022 will be announced later. Due to severe rainfall, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao recently issued three-day school holidays beginning July 11.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has extended the last date to apply for NEET UG 2022 from May 6 till May 15. The entrance test is slated for July 17 this year. The interested candidates can apply for the entrance test at neet.nta.nic.in. The NTA notification notes, “the scores of NEET (UG) will be used for the selection of FEMALE Candidates Only for admission to the B.Sc. (Nursing) Course."

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has declared the results of 10th and 12th standard, on January 14. The examinations were conducted from November 12 to December 15, 2021. Almost 51,000 students had appeared in the course and 80,000 for the senior secondary course. However, the candidates who appeared in the exam can check their results through the official website of NIOS or from… read-more

Derek Muller, who owns the ''Veritasium'' YouTube channel, chartered a legitimate helicopter to answer how a uniform cable beneath a helicopter hangs. The question was given in the physics paper of a US Physics Olympiad exam in 2014. Muller chose to rent a helicopter instead of using basic stationery items such as books and pencils. After his research, he concluded that option D is the correct answer.