SSC, HSC supplementary results in August

The results of SSC and HSC (science) and (general) stream supplementary exams will be declared on August 4 and August 6 respectively.

Officials of Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) said the results of SSC supplementary exams will be declared on August 4 while HSC results will out on August 6.

The board had taken supplementary exams of students who had failed up to two papers in SSC and HSC (science) and one paper in HSC (general) stream.

This year, the marksheets will be issued the same day that the result are declared on the board. Earlier, marksheets were issued three to four days later.

Maharashtra HSC results out today

The Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will declare HSC results for the year 2012 on Friday, May 25 at 1 pm. The board chairman Sarjerao Jadhav informed www.myeducationtimes.com that, students can check their results on http://mahresult.nic.in/. Students can enter their seat numberto check their marks. Students can collect marksheets from their respective colleges.

Second semester exam of XI (science) begins in Gujarat

Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) is conducting the second semester examination of Class XI (science) from Monday. Nearly 1.18 lakh students are appearing for the examination.

The board had introduced the semester system in Class XI (science) and this will be extended to Class XII (science) from this year. The students will have to appear for four semester examinations in Class XI and XII, with each examination carrying a weightage of 25 per cent.

On Monday, the students appeared for Mathematics paper, which they claimed was not very difficult but was lengthy and that the questions had been asked from the text book. However, one case of copying was registered in Anand. tnn

"It was an extremely lengthy question paper. I did not even get a single minute to revise. I completed it dot on time. Some of the questions were twisted and I was not able to solve them. I expect to get 70 marks", said Ajay Rawat , a Class XI student.

"I would say it was nice but a lengthy paper. I was not able to attend around 10 mark question. Even some of the MCQs were twisted and called for a lot of thinking", Rohan Sharma, another Class XI student, said.

Applied Hindi to be optional for HSC pupils

Mumbai: The state government has cleared a proposal to introduce Applied Hindi as an optional subject for HSC students from the academic year 2013-14 so that language too becomes a scoring subject.School education minister Rajendra Darda has cleared the file that sought administrative approval for introduction of Applied Hindi as an optional subject for Class XII (HSC) students, a senior education department official said.

The Marathi or Hindi subject syllabus primarily focuses on literature.Finding it difficult to score high in language subjects,most students prefer giving more attention on other subjects to build up the aggregate percentage.Introduction of Applied Marathi and Hindi will change students traditional approach towards the language.Also,the introduction of applied subject will help students acquire job-oriented skills, said Prakash Parab,head of the department,Marathi department,Vaze Kelkar College,Mumbai.

Deepak Pawar,president of Marathi Abhyas Kendra,said,Ideally,Marathi should be first and English should be the second language for the board syllabus.But if the government is insisting on English to be the first language then the state should make Marathi as the second language. However,a senior DF minister said,Religion,caste,community and such issues should not be the parameters while making education-related policies.