Rajasthan 12th Board Arts results announced, Jaipur girl tops The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Examination (RBSE)on Tuesday declared the results for the Senior Secondary (Arts) 2013 Examinations. Candidates can log on to www.rajresults.nic.in to check their results.

Jaipur girl Bharti Gautam topped the exams while Mahendra Godara from Suratgarh secured the second position.

The total pass percentage is 80.6 per cent in the 12th Board (Arts) exams. Girls outperformed boys this year with a pass percentage of 88.55 per cent. Meanwhile, around 82 per cent boys cleared the exams.

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01:09 PM, May 21, 2013

Assam: 10 held for impersonating at medical entrance exams Guwahati: Ten persons were on Sunday arrested for allegedly impersonating as candidates appearing for the Assam Medical College Entrance examinations and writing answer scripts for them, the police said. The police picked them up acting on a tip-off that a group of people, mostly students from Bihar, have arrived in the state to write the entrance examination for some candidates appearing in the examination after taking money. Assam Health and...  
07:12 PM, May 19, 2013

Girls outshine boys in Punjab Higher Secondary exams Mohali: Girls outshone boys in the class XII examinations conducted by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), the results of which were declared on Saturday. "More than three lakh students took the examinations in March and the total pass percentage was 78.97 per cent. The last year's percentage was 72.31 per cent," state Education minister Sikander Singh Maluka, who was along with PSEB Chairperson, Tejinder Kaur Dhaliwal, told reporters in...  
12:37 AM, May 19, 2013

Girls outperform boys in ICSE Class X and XII exams New Delhi: Girls have once again outperformed boys in this year's ICSE Class-X and ISC Class-XII examinations the results for which were declared on Friday. In all, 98.78 per cent of girls and 97.73 per cent of boys passed the Indian Certificate for Secondary Education (ICSE) exam, while 96.66 per cent of girls and 93.91 per cent of boys passed the Indian School Certificate (ISC) examination. Anika Aggarwal, Simran Khanuja...  
07:47 PM, May 17, 2013

SC tells medical colleges to declare results; NEET voluntary for now New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed medical colleges to declare all pending Post Graduate results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgement will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July. The Supreme Court has also left the option of following the NEET result on the colleges. This means...  
02:45 PM, May 13, 2013

Rahman elated over his daughter's success in board exams New Delhi: Music composer AR Rahman has expressed his happiness over his daughter's mention worthy success in class 12th exams. He tweets, "This is a first in the family. My daughter Khatija excels in studies and scores 94% in her 12th public exams." AR Rahman is married to Saira Banu and has three daughters Khatija, Rahima and Ameen. All of Rahman's daughters are interested in music and two of them...  
06:49 PM, May 10, 2013

MP: Students clear class X, class XII exams without appearing for them Bhopal: Balatant violation of norms of the National Institute of Open School (NIOS) Learning have come up. CNN-IBN has accessed a report by an NIOS flying squad. During spot checks at government schools in Bhind last year it found that at an exam centre in Gohad, 82 students registered for secondary science exam were absent. So were 16 students registered for the senior secondary exam. But later when NIOS declared...  
08:59 AM, Apr 07, 2013

Police busts gang helping students to cheat in exams
by IANS
Chandigarh: A gang helping class 10 and 12 students in Haryana's Rohtak district to cheat in examinations has been busted and five people, including the superintendent of an examination centre, have been arrested, police said on Saturday. "The Haryana Police has busted a gang which used to help students use unfair means during examinations for Class 10 and 12 of National Open School being held at a school in a...  
01:45 AM, Apr 07, 2013

Mumbai: Medical college students say admissions need monitoring

Students of the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College in Sion, Mumbai say that the sale of seats has been a longstanding scam. ...
10:08 AM, Apr 04, 2013

Maharasthra teachers' strike hits scheduled exams Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...  
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013

Bihar: Nearly 1,600 students expelled for cheating in board exams
by IANS
Nearly 1,600 students, caught cheating in Bihar's Class 10 boards, were expelled from the exams and over 100 parents who helped them use unfair means were arrested, an official said on Monday. ...  
03:15 AM, Mar 19, 2013

'Govt considering removing compulsory English test in UPSC mains' The government is mulling doing away with compulsory English language examination at mains level in the prestigious civil services test conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The Centre's move to make English language proficiency mandatory for qualifying the examinations had come under attack from its allies and opponents including SP, RJD, Left parties, Akali Dal, National Conference, AIADMK, DMK and BJP, forcing it on Friday to keep a notification...  
12:40 PM, Mar 17, 2013

China: English no longer compulsory in university exams China's top universities began their annual independent entrance exams on Saturday, with English no longer included among the compulsory subjects. In most of these universities, those who have applied for science and engineering majors will only be required to take math and physics exams, while art students will be required to take Chinese and math exams. ...  
08:18 PM, Mar 16, 2013

Many affected by the new UPSC exam rules, say it's 'unfair'

There is controversy over the change in the UPSC civil services exam. English test marks will now be included and only those who have graduated in a regional language can write the paper in that language. CNN-IBN spoke to those affected. ...
01:11 PM, Mar 13, 2013

Is it right to give English an advantage in the new IAS exams?

Which language should candidates be allowed to take the IAS and IPS exams? Only in English and Hindi or also in their mother tongue and other languages. A new expert commitee of the UPSC has recommended that the civil services examinations be taken only in English and Hindi. Politicians say this will give English and Hindi speakers an unfair advantage. ...
11:52 PM, Mar 11, 2013

No regional language test in UPSC; BJP, Sena protest Union Public Service Commission's decision to scrap regional language test in its exams has led to a controversy and the BJP and the Shiv Sena are calling the decision anti-people. ...  
11:59 AM, Mar 07, 2013

Bhopal: Police nabs gang helping students cheat in exams The Bhopal Police has arrested a gang involved in helping candidates clear the high-level state civil services examinations. ...  
08:30 AM, Mar 07, 2013

CBSE board exams for Class X, XII begin today More than 12 lakh students will be sitting for the CBSE class X examination and nearly ten lakh will appear in class XII test, both beginning March 1. In all, 12,59,202 students will be sitting for the class X examination, an increase of 6.70 per cent over in 2012. ...  
09:21 AM, Mar 01, 2013

SC verdict likely on entrance exams for medical courses The Supreme Court is likely to decide on Tuesday whether state governments and private universities can conduct separate entrance exams for admissions in medical courses. State governments and private universities had objected to a Medical Council of India (MCI) decision for a common entrance test. ...  
08:45 AM, Feb 12, 2013

Ex-IIT students help poor kids prepare for entrances Akshay Saxena and Krishna Ramkumar left high paying corporate jobs to help students from economically weaker families nurture their dreams. Through their organisation Avanti, Krishna and Akshay help economically weaker students from far flung areas prepare for medical and engineering entrance exams absolutely free. ...  
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