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CBSE Board Exam Pressure in Dubai Kills A Teenage

Written By Madhurie Singh Last Modified Date: May 22, 2014

Pathetic!

A boy aged 16 hanged himself to death and left his suicide note as the answer sheet of his Chemistry paper.

DUBAI // The parents of a 16-year-old pupil who hanged himself were finally shown a copy of the exam paper that he wrote his suicide note on.

Abhimanyu Sadasivan on February 25 wrote his Chemistry exam paper but was more of a suicide letter,  five days before he hanged himself.

He was telling of the pressures of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) system at the Indian High School Dubai.

 Abhimanyu hoped that his death will force CBSE to ensure that hte pressure of rote learning would be changed!

“It was his farewell to us and told how he loved us,” said his mother, Ambika Sadasivan. “He said the paper was only for us parents to see.

“I do feel really sad that he did not approach us or speak to us about what he went through. Ours was a happy home. He was a lovely boy.

“It was a very bad decision on his part but a mother cannot be angry with her son.”

The school has so far not given the family a copy of the note, said Mrs Sadasivan, but said it would do so at a later date.

“We believe they will live up to the promise,” she said.

“They told us that they could give a copy only to the police or the KHDA [Knowledge and Human Development Authority],” Mrs Sadasivan said. “We wanted to know the reasons why he took this step. We hold nothing against the school for what happened.”

She said reading the full, seven-page note.

“My son had written: ‘The CBSE system is based on mugging [rote]. Education should be about understanding and applying your knowledge. My death should be a lesson and a reason for the system to change’,” Mrs Sadasivan said.

“My son had a pretty high IQ but he could never learn by mugging. He had to understand what he was studying. He liked reading and writing a lot.

“They are so young when they have to choose whether to opt for the commerce or science stream. They don’t know what pressures they could face later.”

The boy’s parents had been called to the school on the day of their son’s death, three hours after he failed to turn up for a maths exam, to be shown his note.

The principal told them that they were waiting for Abhimanyu to come to school to question him about the note!

He had written: “This is not my chemistry paper but the last exam I am writing. I am so bored of my life. I don’t want to live any more. When I am dead, I do not want my body to be taken to India.”

Lesson for all the parents and schools.

Do not force the children into these kind of schools that encourage only rote learning and seek marks as the only way to gauge the children.

Why blame the schools? I get close to 50% parents who seek schools that is only academic and want admission into such schools at any cost. Sometimes the cost is the life of an innocent child!

Source: http://www.thenational.ae/uae/education/parents-of-suicide-teenager-get-to-see-sons-final-words-on-chemistry-exam-paper#ixzz32RZF3h8C

 

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Read if you lack ideas or words, while guiding your child?

Written By Madhurie Singh Last Modified Date: May 7, 2014

A Letter to a Junior Designer
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I admit it: you intimidate me. Your work is vivid and imaginative, far superior to my woeful scratchings at a similar age. The things I struggle to learn barely make you sweat. One day, you’ll be a better designer than me.

But for now, I can cling to my sole advantage, the one thing that makes me more valuable: I get results. I can put a dent in cast-iron CEO arguments. I can spot risks and complications months in advance. In the wager that is design, I usually bet on the right color. People trust me with their stake.

So, if you’ll humor me, maybe I can offer a few suggestions to speed you toward the inevitable.

Slow down.

You’re damn talented. But in your eagerness to prove it, you sometimes rush toward a solution. You pluck an idea from the branch and throw it onto the plate before it has time to ripen. Don’t mistake speed for precocity: the world doesn’t need wrong answers in record time.

Perhaps your teachers exalted The Idea as the gem of creative work; taught you The Idea is the hard part. I disagree. Ideas aren’t to be trusted. They need to be wrung dry, ripped apart. We have the rare luxury that our professional diligence often equates to playfulness: to do our job properly, we must disassemble our promising ideas and make them into something better.

The process feels mechanical and awkward initially. In time, the distinction between idea and iteration will blur. Eventually, the two become one.

So go deeper. Squander loose time on expanding your ideas, even if you’re sure they’re perfect or useless. Look closely at decisions you think are trivial. I guarantee you’ll find better solutions around the corner.

Think it through.

We’d love to believe design speaks for itself, but a large part of the job is helping others hear its voice. Persuasive rationale—the why to your work—is what turns a great document into a great product.

If you haven’t already, sometime in your career you’ll meet an awkward sonofabitch who wants to know why every pixel is where you put it. You should be able to articulate an answer for that person—yes, for every pixel. What does this line do? Well, it defines. It distinguishes. But why here? Why that color? Why that thickness? “It looks better” won’t suffice. You’ll need a rationale that explains hierarchy, balance, gestalt—in other words, esoteric ways to say “it looks better,” but ways that reassure stakeholders that you understand the foundations of your craft. Similarly, be sure you can explain which alternatives you rejected, and why. (Working this through will also help you see if you have been diligent or if you’ve been clinging to a pet idea.) This might sound political. It is. Politics is just the complex art of navigating teams and people, and the more senior you get, the more time you’ll spend with people.

Temper your passion.

Your words matter: be careful not to get carried away. Passion is useful, but you’ll be more effective when you demonstrate the evidence behind your beliefs, rather than the strength of those beliefs. Softer language earns fewer retweets but better results. If you have a hunch, call it a hunch; it shows honesty, and it leaves you headroom to be unequivocal about the things you’re sure of.

Similarly, your approach to your work will change. Right now design is an ache. You see all the brokenness in the world: stupid products, trivial mistakes, bad designs propped up with scribbled corrections. That stupidity never goes away, but in time you learn how to live with it. What matters is your ability to change things. Anyone can complain about the world, but only a good few can fix it.

That fury, that energy, fades with time, until the question becomes one of choosing which battles to arm yourself for, and which to surrender. Often this means gravitating toward the biggest problems. As you progress in the field, your attention may turn from tools and techniques to values and ethics. The history of the industry is instructive: give it proper attention. After all, all our futures shrink with time, until finally the past becomes all we have.

You’ll come to appreciate that it can be better to help others reach the right outcomes themselves than do it yourself. That, of course, is what we call leadership.

Finally, there may come a point when you realize you’re better served by thinking less about design. Work and life should always be partially separate, but there’s no doubt that the experiences you have in your life shape your work too. So please remember to be a broad, wise human being. Travel (thoughtfully) as much as you can. Read literature: a good novel will sometimes teach you more than another design book can. Remind yourself the sea exists. You’ll notice the empathy, sensitivity, cunning, and understanding you develop make your working life better too.

But you’re smart, and of course you realize this is really a letter to the younger me. And, alongside, it’s a lament at my nagging sense of obsolescence; the angst of a few grey hairs and the emerging trends I don’t quite understand. Which is mildly ridiculous at my age—but this is a mildly ridiculous industry. And you’ll inherit it all, in time. Good luck.

via – Cennydd Bowles

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Open letter to all the schools in Pune by Madhurie Singh

Written By Madhurie Singh Last Modified Date: November 1, 2014

Dear Schools in Pune

New academic session will be starting soon in June 2014.

I am a  parent with loads of dreams. Dreams where in a majority part is devoted to the welfare of my children. Today, I will let you into my dreams and may be you will understand my needs are very basic versus the projection of the dreams in the media, advertisement around the globe.

My dreams about the future of my children

I think as an educated parent, I am pretty capable of passing on any knowledge about any subject to my children even to the extent of most of the subjects taught in any graduation courses. So I am seeking a school that will educate my children not mere make them literate.

I am looking for a school that provides them the simple explanation of the concepts that they learn in Math, Science and Languages. I do not wish them to know the definitions so well that even the Wikipedia is begging for more.

My needs are very basic. I don’t care about the branding, AC, sprawling infrastructure. I do care about the child friendly curriculum, enthusiastic teachers, safe and hygienic environment.

Just let my children understand the following of which most I have managed to teach on my own, marked as DONE 🙂

  • What is the need to add or multiply and so on? DONE
  • Why was Prime number created? DONE
  • Where in real life situation LCM or HCF can be applied ? DONE
  • How to fight and make up with their classmates? DOING
  • How to compete without being mean? DOING
  • How to respect teachers and elders? DONE
  • What is the meaning of each and every word in our National Anthem? Ashamed to have not DONE BY NOW
  • What is Democracy and what are the rights and duties of the children, adults and senior citizens in a way that they can enjoy the freedom in the true sense. DOING
  • How to think of several solutions of one problem and then pick the most apt one DONE
  • Why to believe in self study more than depend on the teachers, parents, tutors or coaches as once they are on their own, they have to surf on their own DONE
  • Why to believe more in the power of knowledge than the power of marks DONE
  • How and Why to  have compassion for everyone as that is the one and only quality that can change the world to a better place DONE
  • How to be known as good human beings and not by how much they are earning? DONE
  • What is the meaning of true happiness? DOING

My dreams of the future of my country via my children that they can learn in the School, though I am trying my best too

  • To teach them the sense of ownership and duty towards the society they live DOING
  • Teach them how to keep their neighborhood clean and safe DONE
  • To discover and invent by taking risks and not fear failure or superiors DOING
  • To have courage and guts to stand up to question, to do the right thing and not follow that has been always followed! DONE
  • To help people irrespective of any known discrimination DONE

My dreams of my own self , again via school and of course the onus is more on me

  • To be a proud parent who can hold the head high to see the children of today, become responsible citizens tomorrow who know their rights and the power of their individual votes
  • To have the in-depth pride that my children are capable of making right decisions, of choosing the right path and following their heart.
  • To watch my children flourish independently on their own, based on their hard-work and talent
  • The most important, they both create something for the welfare of the people in the world, even if its a small idea

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Sample Paper for Class 12 CBSE Board Accountancy Exam

Written By Madhurie Singh Last Modified Date: May 5, 2016

class10exam

Paper pattern:

PART A:

Accounting for Partnership Firms and Companies

1. Accounting for Partnership Firms – Fundamentals: 10 marks

2. Accounting for Partnership Firms – Reconstitution and Dissolution: 25 marks

3. Accounting for Share Capital: 18 marks

4. Accounting for Debuntures: 7 marks AND PART B: Financial Statement Analysis

1. Analysis of Financial Statements: 12 marks

2. Cash Flow Statement: 8 marks

3. Project work: 20 marks

OR PART C:

Computerized Accounting

1. Overview of Computerized Accounting System: 4 marks

2. Accounting Applications of Electronic Spreadsheet: 6 marks

3. Using Computerized Accounting System: 4 marks

4. Data Base Management System: 6 marks

5. Practical Work: 20 marks Please check out the following links for previous year question papers:

ACCOUNTANCY_1_X11_2012-1

ACCOUNTANCY_2_X11_2012

ACCOUNTANCY_3_X11_2012 (1)

ACCOUNTANCY_3_X11_2012

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