Hey folks, Vani this side, hope you all are safe and sound. I heard exams got postponed again due to COVID 19, some of you may be sad because of all the plan that was made for the post-exam has to wait a little more…
Category: Case studies
Future Workplaces and Remembered Online Learning
At some point (maybe fast forward a few months), Covid19 will have become a sharp but receding memory for students all around the world. Their interests and priorities will be much the same as before, but the way they go about achieving them may have altered…
COVID-19 season: For a change, exams are looking less of a worry
By now, with almost 50 days locked inside our homes, I am sure your world has been turned upside down by the unprecedented crisis. Being a student myself, I can empathize with the anxiety you are feeling because of the uncertainty of the situation. But if…
Normalization of Scores in Competitive Exams
Normalization of scores is a widely used methodology to equalize scores from different sessions in competitive exams. When an exam is held through multiple sessions, often for many days (e.g., IBPS exams, JEE), the question papers are going to be different for each session. The challenge…
New Kid on the Block – Can Rishi Sunak Help Both UK and Indian Education?
Mainstream media in the UK have made modest mutterings about the welcome elevation of Indian-origin MPs to senior government posts (for example in The Economist, aside from their families South Asian origins, Sajid Javid, the outgoing Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rishi Sunak, the incoming one, have…
Understanding A NEET Success Story
Every year, 1.5+ million students appear for NEET exam, only 10% of them qualify for admission. The mock-set-plus receives only a few users, we decided to investigate who among mock-set-plus users qualified NEET 2019, and their study pattern. One of our popular products is chapterwise mock exam…
Workers of the World Unite!
As she often does, Merryn Somerset Webb recently gave us some wise words, about dominant companies around the world (Financial Times 18th May 2019, and https://moneyweek.com/merryns-blog/page/3/ ). Quoting a Barclays study from the US, Merryn noted the more powerful firms are the less they pay, the…
Local Education and Tech Partnerships – Best for Students and Parents
Student and parent expectations of education are changing. At root, the assumption remains to gain a competitive advantage when leaving education with job-ready qualifications, skills and competencies. But today, often faced with scarce job opportunities and wide inequalities, students and parents are looking for more. They’re…
Implementing Digital Healthcare
Lessons From India The need for innovation is well understood and much trumpeted – in September 2015 National Health Service England declared “supporting innovation across the healthcare system is more important than ever and will be central to securing transformation and improved patient outcomes”. But innovation…
Millennials Are Changing Workplaces For The Better
Rohan Silva is a very smart guy (well worth following on www.standard.co.uk/author/rohan-silva by the way), with a track record of making things happen and interesting views about the future. Although his recent article in the London Evening Standard was focussed on young professionals in the UK,…
Moving On From Lagaan
In the 2001 epic film Lagaan, villagers from a small Indian community pull together to inflict a symbolic defeat on the cruel and greedy British Raj. Today taxation and cricket are still alive and well in both countries, and to a lesser extent so is trade.…
Mock-set-plus mobile (Version 3)
We recently upgraded mock-set-plus to improve mobile user experience. Improvements to product gallery for making titles and descriptions more legible, Re-positioning some of the controls in test session and review screens to have larger share of screen space for the Q/A content. Following are…