UPSC Daily Prelims General Studies Quiz – 11

GKToday’s Daily General Studies Quiz – 11 for Civil Services (IAS, IFoS) and other UPSC Examinations of 2017 and 2018 . This quiz has 10 questions on food chain, rainforests, algal bloom, post-retirement jobs for supreme court judges, SENSEX, State Finance Commissions in India, stocks in climate change negotiations, tides frequency, arm’s length principle. Questions of this quiz are from archives of Integrated IAS General Studies Programme.

Choice Based Credit System

Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) allows the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses comprising core, elective/minor or skill based courses. The courses will be evaluated by following the grading system, which is regarded to be better than the ..

Public Expenditure in Education Sector

As per the norms of National policy on education (1986), at least 6% of the GDP must be spent on education. However, successive governments have failed to achieve this target and remained at around 4%. The Union Budget has allocated ..

What are obstacles in Girls’ Education in India?

It is rightly stated that “Educating a boy is educating a person… Educating a girl is educating a nation”. Some of the major barriers which stand for girls education are as follows- Lack of consciousness amongst the female members to ..

Education: National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Issue

The Supreme Court has recently restored the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) examination for students who wish take under graduate and post-graduate studies in medical science, dental or PG medical education. NEET Advantages The NEET basically frees the students ..

How No Detention Policy backfired?

Recently, the Subramanian committee observed that the no detention policy in schools should be applicable till Class V and exams be held from Class VI onwards. Prior to this, the Vasudev Devnani committee had also recommended for its revocation. Information ..

Community Schooling in India

The concept of community schooling can be traced back to ancient India. Social institutions like Ashram, Gurukula, Pathasala, Vihara,Vidyapeeth, etc. existed and still do exist which promote community schooling. In community schooling, besides education, the all-round cultural development of the ..

Education: Issues Related to Minorities

Article 46 of the Constitution states that, “The State shall promote, with special care, the education and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and, in particular of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them ..