Jntu Kakinada results 2 1 Announced

In the website of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Jntu) Kakinada, I could find a list of results and I am giving you the link before anything: http://www.jntukakinada.edu.in/Result.php

I hope that you can find the results that you are looking for from the website of this university.

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of Independent India and he was a key figure of the independent movement for the country. He was a learned man and his two books The Discovery of India and Glimpses of World History are surely among the best books written in the 20^th Century India.

On the other hand, Nehru Technological University (Jntu) Kakinada was founded in 1946. From the website about its history:

The University grew out of a College that was ‘The College of Engineering, Vizagpatnam’ as was named at the time of its establishment in 1946 by the then Government of the composite Madras State is situated in a sprawling campus of 110 acres filled with mango trees in a fast developing Port city of Kakinada on the east coast of peninsula India and situated in a zone which through generations, contributed significantly to the political literacy and cultural heritage of the country. This college became a constituent of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University w.e.f 02-10-1972 through an act of legislature along with other sister institutions under the control of the then Director of Technical Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh. Earlier, it was affiliated to Andhra University. In the year 2003 the college has become autonomous.

I don’t know why there is no Wikipedia entry about Jntu Kakinada. The teachers and the students should take an initiative in this regard. 

Should the Class X board exam be abolished?

In a bid to reform the Indian education system, Kapil Shibal, HRD Minister of India said that the government is planning to scrap the compulsory secondary board exam at Class X and develop an alternative method to evaluate students’ aptitude. According to Mr. Shibal, the current education system is a “recipe for disaster.” Only 11 students out of every one hundred students in India reach to graduate level. Currently, there are 547 million people in India under twenty years of age and only 11% of them will become graduates.

Mr. Shibal unveiled his one hundred day plan and said that there will be a one single board and under that board, there will be one uniform exam which will determine which knowledge stream a student should chose in future. This new system will reduce the pressure upon students and parents. In addition, the present percentage based evaluation system will be replaced by an alternative system “based on percentiles.”

I live in Bangladesh and we also have board exam system at the secondary and higher secondary levels and students get to apply for colleges and universities based on their marks in these exams. I admit that it is a painful system because it only focuses on “how much number a student gets” not “what he/she knows.” This has led to rote learning and memorization. There are many students who get very good marks but they do not have better understandings of their subjects which creates lots of problem when they reach graduate level. In a sense, the decision of Mr. Shibal makes sense but the most importantly “Will the alternative system make a difference?” “Will it make study and exams less painful and motivate students to study?”

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