86-year-old writes undergraduate exam

September 8th, 2009 PATNA - Girls have outperformed boys in both the Class 10 and Class 12 level examinations conducted by the madrassas (Islamic seminaries) in Bihar, officials said Tuesday. "Like the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination results, girls left the boys behind in the madrassa examinations this year," said Bihar Minority Welfare Minister Sahid Ali Khan, who declared the results of the Madrassa Education Board.

July 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - Gokul Chattopadhyay got married at a very young age and could not continue her education after passing out from school. But now, at the age of 86, her dreams of pursuing higher studies have come true as she appears for an undergraduate examination.

July 3rd, 2009 QUETTA - Answer sheets of the high school exam conducted by the Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education were found here being sold as scrap, a media report said. The result of the examinations, held in April, are yet to be announced, Geo news reported.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal mulls over the idea of doing away with the traumatic Class 10 board exams, students, educators and parents gave mixed reactions. They are not sure whether the move would relieve stress or add pressure to Class 12 board exams.

June 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Rush for admission forms for undergraduate courses took an ugly turn in Kolkata on Wednesday. Students belonging to rival political outfits pelted stones at each other in the St.

May 26th, 2009 RANCHI - Two sons of the owner of a small betel shop here cracked the highly competitive examination for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). Vinod Sharma's son Vikki and Vivek got national ranks of 6,649 and 5,160 respectively in the exam whose result was declared Monday.

May 24th, 2009 PATNA - A student committed suicide after he failed in his Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) mathematics examination here, police said Sunday. Mohammad Tabish Imam, 17, hanged himself Saturday in his Manas path residence here after failing in the exam.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unlike the countrywide trend of girls outperforming boys, in Delhi and the neighbouring areas, boys have outshone girls in the class 12 Indian School Certificate (ISC) board exams. In the class 10 exam, however, girls have done better than boys.

May 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It's not just the Common Admission Test (CAT) that will go online this year. Delhi University (DU) will become one of the first central universities in the country to conduct an online examination next month for its undergraduate science students.

May 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) that was scheduled for May 17 is now postponed following fears that questions papers were leaked, officials said Wednesday. Veer Singh, convenor CLAT in a statement issued here, said: 'Two locked and sealed steel boxes containing the CLAT-2009 test material have been tampered with deliberately by breaking the latches and the locks, while these boxes were in transit from Hyderabad to Lucknow.' 'In view of the circumstances, there is no other alternative except to postpone the CLAT-2009 test both for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and now it shall not be held May 17, 2009 as scheduled earlier.' The new date of the CLAT-2009 test shall be announced shortly.

March 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A 65-year-old grocery shop owner in Uttar Pradesh, undeterred by past failures, is appearing for class 10 exams for the 44th time. 'Jabbar is taking the exams in the Adarsh Janta Inter college in Fatehpur district as a private candidate,' District Inspector of Schools Prem Prakash Maurya told IANS over phone.

February 28th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand government postponed Saturday's Class 10 and 12 board examination following a strike by Maoist guerrillas. 'We have postponed the examination.

February 26th, 2009 RANCHI - Twelve blind students are appearing in the ongoing class 10 board examination, an official said here Wednesday. 'This year we have given permission to 12 blind students to appear in the class 10 examination.

February 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Students appearing for the class 10 mathematics examination in Haryana were taken aback Tuesday when they were given a semester I question paper instead of the semester II paper they were expecting. Students at various centres of the Haryana School Education Board were given the wrong question paper, a board official said.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The University of Cambridge Monday announced a new scholarship programme for Indian students in the name of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is also an alumnus of the university. 'Through this initiative we want to emphasise that we want students coming to the university based on academic potential regardless of socio-economic means,' Vice Chancellor Allison Richard told reporters here.