Cuttack: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha on Thursday announced the dates of the annual Matriculation examination for the 2023-24 academic session.

The Annual High School Certificate, Madhyama and State Open School Certificate Examination for 2024 will be simultaneously conducted from 20 February 2024 to 4 March 2024.

The detailed programme of the examination will be notified later while the filling up of forms for appearing in the examination will be taken up during October, 2023, the notification read.

The evaluation of answer sheets will be conducted from March 12 for a period of at least 12 days.

The BSE declared the date for the Half Yearly Examination of Class 10 and Madhyama. As per the notification, the Class 10 Half Yearly Exam will be conducted from September 13 to 16, 2023.

The questions for the Half Yearly Examination will be prepared by the BSE. The question papers will be delivered to District Education Officers (DEOs) by September 6, 2023.

The Half Yearly Exam will be conducted under the supervision of DEOs and evaluation will be made by the concerned schools.

The National Testing Agency, NTA, has declared the results of the Common University Entrance Test -CUET (PG)-2023. Candidates who have appeared for the exam can check their results on the official website. In a tweet, the Chairman of the University Grants Commission, M Jagadesh Kumar advised the candidates to be in touch with the respective universities and Institutions where they had applied for further details. The NTA said that around 4.5 lakh unique registered candidates applied for 4,597 courses in 197 universities for Post Graduate Programmes.

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20th November to 27th November, 2022, and the interviews for Personality Test held in June, 2023, following is the list, in order of merit, of candidates who have been recommended for appointment to the posts in Indian Forest Service.

2. A total of 147 candidates have been recommended for appointment under different categories as per the following break-up:-

# Due to non-availability of 02 PwBD-1 & 01 PwBD-3 candidates, 03 General vacancies have been kept vacant.

3.  Appointments shall be made in accordance with the extant rules and the number of vacancies available.  The number of vacancies reported by the Government are as under :-

$ including 07 PwBD vacancies (03 PwBD-1, 02 PwBD-2 & 02 PwBD-3)

4.  The candidature of 12 recommended candidates with following Roll Nos. is provisional:

5.  The candidature of 02 Candidates (Roll No.6311307 & 7816484) have been withheld.

6. Union Public Service Commission has a ‘Facilitation Counter’ near Examination Hall Building in its Campus.  Candidates may obtain any information/ clarification regarding their Examination/ Recruitments on working days between 10:00 A.M. and 05:00 P.M. in person or over Telephone Nos.
011-23385271, 011-23098543 and 011-23381125 from this counter.  The result will also be available on Commission’s Website, i.e., www.upsc.gov.in.  Marks of the candidates will be made available on the Commission’s website soon.

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The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2023 result has been declared. Vavilala Chidvilas Reddy from the IIT Hyderabad Zone has topped the examination. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, which conducted the exam this year, today announced the result and candidates can check their scores on the website
jeeadv.ac.in
. Successful candidates can participate in the counseling process to secure engineering seats. The entrance test for IIT admissions was held early this month.

Changes to the test include:

• Removal of the “Analyze an Argument” task in the Analytical Writing section.
• Reduced number of questions in the Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning sections
• Removal of the unscored section

In addition to test changes, test takers can expect to receive their official scores much faster, in just 8-10 days. These changes mark the first of several planned future updates to the GRE General Test, all of which are intended to provide test takers with a better experience that values their time and reduces anxiety and fatigue.

“The changes we’re announcing today underscore the emphasis we place on keeping our customers at the center of all that we do,” said ETS CEO Amit Sevak. “As we continue to introduce product innovations, we’re committed to balancing two things – maintaining rigor and validity, while improving the test-taker experience.”

“At IIM Bangalore, GRE is one of the assessments for consideration. Look forward to the new version, which proposes a reduced test duration that reflect ETS’s commitment to prioritizing the needs of test takers,” said Prof. Kunal Dasgupta, Admissions & Financial Aid, IIM Bangalore. “We congratulate ETS for adapting the GRE General Test to the current times while ensuring that it remains as reliable as ever for institutions and test takers alike.”

Beginning in September, test takers can access official GRE test prep resources and practice tests designed for the newer streamlined test. Since the shorter test has the same question types (except for the removal of the Analytical Writing “Analyze an Argument” essay), test takers can continue to use the existing Official GRE Prep materials.

“GRE test was always known for its rigour and reliability. However, especially in current times, a long format assessment test is extremely stressful for students. A shortened GRE test will hopefully take away the stress on the students while maintaining the rigour and reliability associated with the GRE test.” said Mahesh Peri, Founder & CEO, Careers360. He added “India is a large and growing market for study abroad aspirants and this change will only encourage more students to apply for graduate programs across STEM, Management, and streams at international universities of their choice. I am happy that ETS is making this change to the GRE General Test. These improvements will help students in their education journey.”

The GRE will continue to be the most valid, reliable, and secure assessment of graduate readiness in the world, just in less time. The score scales will also remain the same, allowing graduate programs to easily compare performance across individuals who test before and after September 2023.

To learn more about these changes, visit www.ets.org/gre/shorter. To create an account, register for a test, access test prep resources and more, visit www.ets.org/mygre.

The Common University Entrance Test -CUET (UG)-2023 is set to begin across the country from today. CUET is being conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) in Computer Based Test Mode for about 14 lakh 99 thousand candidates at various Examination Centres located in 295 cities across India.

The CUET admit card for exams scheduled from 21st to 24th of May 2023 has already been issued by NTA on the official website, cuet.samarth.ac.in.

Applicants can download their CUET UG admit card using the application number and date of birth.

CUET 2023 has been postponed to the 29th of May in Manipur due to law and order situation there.

National Testing Agency also decided to conduct the Entrance Test in Jammu and Kashmir from the 26th of May onwards due to the phenomenal increase in the number of registered candidates as compared to last year.

Bhubaneswar: Higher Education department today announced the schedule for Common PG Entrance Test (CPET-2023) and e-Admission to universities and colleges in Odisha with PG Courses under Student Academic Management System (SAMS), for the Session 2023-24.

The tests will be held from June 23 to July 4 except June 28 and June 30, a notification said.

As per the CPET-2023 schedule, the online Common Application Form (CAF) will be available on the website www.samsodisha.gov.in on May 1, 2023 (02:00 PM).

The other important dates to be noted are as follows:

– The last date for applying online CAF through www.samsodisha.gov.in is May 10, 2023 (11:45 PM).

– Editing of the CAF (if required) for the CAF submitted earlier (No fresh CAF will be allowed during this period) is May 11, 2023 and May 12, 2023.

– Submission of the applicant’s data to the State Selection Board (SSB) is May 16, 2023.

– Availability of Hall Tickets on the website of the State Selection Board (SSB) i.e. https://ssbodisha.ac.in as well as on the SAMS website and admit card download is Jun 9, 2023 (02:00 PM onwards).

– Handing over the entrance marks to OCAC by SSB, Odisha is July 16, 2023.

– Updation of Graduation/Equivalent marks by the applicant is July 8, 2023 (10:00 AM) to July 15, 2023 (11:45 PM).

Aligarh: After the Eid festivities, the Aligarh Muslim University is all geared up for its entrance and semester examinations. From the month of May, most of the examinations are lined up and preparations for their smooth conduct are in full swing.

Over 1.5 lakh aspirants have applied for admission to various courses in the University, this is the highest in the past three years.

The entrance test will be conducted at AMU Aligarh and also in other cities like Lucknow, Srinagar, Patna, Kolkata, Kozhikode etc. University has made elaborate arrangements for conducting various admission tests. Faculty members will be deputed as Observers for different admission test centres across the country.

Besides this, University will also be conducting the Semester Examinations for all undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the session 2022-23 beginning on 29 April.

The official spokesperson informed that post-pandemic and after a hiatus of nearly two academic sessions, the semester examinations are being conducted as per schedule. The step has been taken to safeguard the academic interest of the students and timely declaration of the result. The examination schedule has been uploaded on the website for the information of students.

AMU has also adopted the Four Year Undergraduate Program from the session 2022-23 and has successfully conducted the first semester examinations of this batch. Their second-semester examinations will be conducted shortly.

Keeping in view of some Covid-19 cases being reported, the University is also taking all steps to safeguard the interest of the students. Regular disinfecting of public areas is being undertaken in accordance with prescribed norms. Awareness and sensitization programs are also being held while students are being encouraged to follow Covid-19 behaviour.

Vice-Chancellor Prof. Mohammad Gulrez has sought the cooperation of Faculty members, staff, and students for the smooth conduct of various examinations.