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  • Not many takers for ICSE.

    HYDERABAD: Notwithstanding the good show by students in ICSE board examinations, many schools in the city, including reputed ones, are facing an enrolment crunch.

    School managements say only few are opting for the ICSE board syllabus, with a majority preferring CBSE and state boards. They attribute the declining popularity of ICSE to the belief that ICSE is not a supportive syllabus for competitive examinations including Eamcet, IIT-JEE and AIEEE. Others, however, attribute it to the overnight mushrooming of state board and CBSE schools in the city.

    While there were hundreds of ICSE board schools in Andhra Pradesh till 1970s, there are just about 35 now.

    Officials of Hyderabad Public School (HPS), which started offering ICSE syllabus since its inception in 1923, say that the shift to other boards from ICSE started after competitive examinations were introduced. “In the pre-independence period, English language learning was given a lot of importance and ICSE follows this tradition. But after the 1990s when students became more interested in competitive examinations, ICSE began to be considered to be a board where much time is wasted on English,”observes Kirti Chaturvedi, vice-principal, HPS. In ICSE syllabus a detailed study of English language and literature is prescribed.

    Many parents also feel that their children will lose out on the competitive advantage needed to crack an IIT entrance or even an Eamcet test. Even for all India medical entrance tests, students prefer CBSE to ICSE as Medical Council of India ( MCI) recognises CBSE as its syllabus.

    “The parents do not understand that ICSE has the most vast science syllabus for both Class X and Class XII,” said Ram Reddy, director, Oakwood International, an ICSE school. He notes that several students from ICSE streams crack national and state-level entrance tests.

    Coaching centre experts corroborate Ram Reddy’s point. They say many students from ICSE boards do well in state and national entrance examinations. “The students who come from ICSE background are good in both Biology and Mathematics. They have a broader outlook and are good at grabbing basic concepts taught in class. The usual rote learning route is not taken by them,” says D V Rao, vice-chairman, Narayana group of institutions.

    Nevertheless, the ICSE board is not popular in the southern states. “Even now pupils who opt for ICSE (largely) include those who have come to the city from the northern states as they consider the board to have national reputation and standard. ICSE schools in the city have maximum enrolment of students whose parents have transferable jobs,” an official of an ICSE school said.

    Parents say that many opt out of ICSE education as only a handful of schools offer ISC (Class XI and XII). Just about six schools in the city offer till Class XII in ISC board.

    Source : TOI

  • Exam fee penalty earns JNTU massive profits.

    The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad has earned `81 lakh this year by way of penalties levied on students submitting their Eamcet applications after the due date. The overall income from Eamcet has reached Rs 9.49 crore so far. While the application fee for Eamcet is just Rs 250 if submitted within the due date, students are allowed to submit late applications with penalties of Rs 500, Rs 1,000, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 after the due date. The penalty increases with every passing week after the due date. Students still have the provision to submit applications with a penalty of Rs 10,000 till the evening of May 19 for the exam scheduled for May 22.

    While 7,283 students submitted applications by paying a penalty of Rs 500, 2,824 students submitted with a penalty of Rs 1,000. Similarly, 308 students paid a penalty of Rs 5,000 and another 13 students paid a penalty of Rs 10,000. With three days still left for submitting applications with a penalty of `10,000, the Eamcet officials expect to receive around 100 more applications that will result in additional income of Rs 10 lakh.

    However, students who applied by paying a penalty of Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 will be allotted centres only in Hyderabad to appear for Eamcet this year unlike earlier when they had an opportunity to opt for a centre of their choice. The decision was taken to check malpractices, particularly in the medical stream exam, after it was found that some of these students were “repeaters” who were appearing for Eamcet continuously since 2005 with an intention of helping other students copy from their answer sheets.

    Source : DC

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