The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Cell planned for question bank

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Thursday, Jan 11, 2007
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Cell planned for question bank

TO COORDINATE the introduction of multiple choice questions in undergraduate examinations, Bangalore University will set up a separate cell, headed by a professor as coordinator and comprising professors from different university departments.

The coordinator will procure the question-bank books available in the market in different subjects to create a library. Besides, the University Registrar will soon write to the heads of all affiliated colleges to contribute to the question database. The questions will have to be prepared by teachers who take the respective chapters in a particular subject.

According to the university Vice-Chancellor H.A. Ranganath, the cell would conduct a series of workshops and meetings of various Boards of Studies. The answer books for the Multiple Choice Questions will be in the form of OMR sheets.

Mr. Ranganath said some private agencies had offered to prepare a question bank, but the university decided against it as the charges quoted were exorbitant. Meanwhile, the University Syndicate at its meeting on Wednesday decided to formulate new uniform guidelines for the appointment of 16 positions. The fresh guidelines would be finalised by the next Syndicate meeting, Mr. Ranganath said.

Science journals

The Bangalore University has offered its 280 affiliated colleges teaching Science, the science journal "Resonance" at a subsidised cost of Rs. 200 for one year. The journal, published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, will benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students of science, Mr. Ranganath said. The usual annual subscription cost of the journal was Rs. 400.

The university, in its new regulations for Ph. D., had made it mandatory for all Ph.D. students to get at least two papers from their subject published in reputed journals.

Revelations 2007

The St. Joseph's College of Commerce recently organised an inter-collegiate cultural fest "Revelations 2007" on "Empowering the socially marginalised." Winning most of the competitions were the teams from St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science, Mount Carmel College, Kristu Jayanthi College and Jyothi Nivas College.

Scholarship test

To evaluate students' understanding of the basic concepts in Mathematics and Science, the Aspire Learning Company has announced the "Aspire Admission Cum Scholarship Test," a one-hour objective type examination. The test is designed to identify potential talent to crack competitive examinations such as the IIT-JEE, AIEEE and JMPD/BITSAT.

Think India convention

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has organised "Think India," a mega convention of professional students from premier institutions such as Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institute of Science, besides other prominent engineering, medical, law and management institutes of South India.

The convention, to be held from January 11 to 13, intends to bring students of various institutes to a platform to discuss the issues of spirituality and its role in national development.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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