Exams, be it at the entrance level, university level or even at the school level, can be big causes of stress. The key to performing well in the exams, apart from, studying hard, grasping everything and retaining everything, is, being able to study smart and in a proper manner, so that your efforts translate into performance.


Follow a proper schedule: Sleep early the night before, get up early the next morning, have a proper breakfast and then study. Do not stay up late or waste time doing something that is counter productive like worrying about what might happen. Take out an hour or two to relax and not think about the exams. Read, sleep, play or do whatever you think diverts your attention away from exams.

Don’t have too much on your plate: Exercise you brain in a constructive way, and do not clutter it with a lot of thoughts. Be clear in your mind and do not pressure yourself to cover things that are beyond your reach. Make realistic targets for a day. Even Rome was not built in a day.Do not overdo things. Do not try and study everything in a single day. Of the 5 or 6 subjects, pick up 2 or a maximum of 3 subjects and pick up a topic or two from each and go into the depths of the topics, instead of skimming 8-10 topics.

Mix and match: Plan your day well. Like a good meal, it is important to have all the essential ingredients while studying as well. Do not have all easy subjects/topics in a day or do not over burden yourself with topics that you find difficult. To maximize your output, start your “study day” with a light subject for an hour or so, once you get warmed up, take up a heavy subject or a topic. Study that for 2 hours or so and gradually increase the level of preparation. For example, if you find Mathematics tough and English easy, start your study day by reading a chapter or 2 from your NCERT literature textbook for English. After you are done with English, solve a topic from Mathematics for 2 hours. Gradually increase the level of difficultyof the questions you attempt. Once you are through with this exercise, take a break for a while and resume with a topic you are relatively comfortable with.

Solve papers: It is often said that there is no better practice than match practice. Solve one paper each day, preferably from 10 AM to 1 PM, in an environment as close to the one you expect at your examination centre. After you have solved the paper, mark yourself as per the CBSE marking scheme. Pick a different subject for eachof the five/six days. Assess yourself at the end of the week, look at your weak areas and try to rectify them in the weeks to follow. While solving sample papers, make a point to solve the ones provided by the CBSE. The papers provided by the CBSE are the closest possible papers to the real thing available to you.

• Secondary School Examination Result 2010 has been Published on 22/May/2010 3:00 PM
• Intermediate Exam. Result of Science has been Published on 04/June/2010 at 3:30 PM. and Result of Art, Commerce and Vocational Stream has been published on 10/June/2010 10:00 AM

ELIGIBILITY

10^th Class students who have secured Grade B2 in aggregate and Grade B1 in mathematics in 9^th Class examination.

SYLLABUS

There is no fixed syllabus. Sound knowledge of Mathematics up to class 9^th and Algebra of class 10^th will be normally covered for KVS Jr. MATHEMATICS Olympiad. No routine problems are asked in Olympiad to asses the ability of students in Mathematics.

REGISTRATION FEE

Rs.40/- (Rupees forty only) per student (To be sent along with Format for Registration (Annexure-I). Fee for SC/ST students will be paid out of Vidyalaya Vikas Nidhi of the KV concerned.

PROCEDURE FOR REGISTRATION:

The eligible & willing candidate has to register herself/himself on prescribed form. (Annexure-I) . The school as well as the Regional Offices concerned will retain one copy of the Filled in Registration Forms for their record. However, a consolidated list of students, registered Vidyalaya-wise for the Olympiad should be sent to the undersigned in the format given in Annexure-VIII along with a single draft for the total amount collected as registration fee from all the students of the KVs of the Region concerned. The draft should be made in favour of “KVS, New Delhi” payable at New Delhi.

NOTE: No K.V will send it’s single draft to KV (H.Q,) directly. One copy of registration form (annexure II) will be sent to Principal KV IIT Powai Mumbai — 400076.

LAST DATE:

Last Date for Submission of list of registered Students to the Regional Office will be 16^th July-2010

ADMIT CARD

The admit card to the students will be issued by the Principal after allotting the Roll Number and the Examination Center. However, the roll number on the admit card should remain the same as allotted in registration form of the candidate. The format of the Admit card is enclosed at An n ex u re-III .

EXAMINATION CENTER

The Assistant Commissioner of the Region concerned will identify the Examination Center and intimate the same to the Principals. The same will be intimated by the Principal to the students through Admit Card.

DATE & TIME OF EXAMINATION

5th September 2010  Sunday  Time : 10:00 AM  to 1:00  P.M.

QUESTION PAPERS:

The question paper for the Olympiad will be directly dispatched from Assistant Commissioner, Mumbai Region to examination centers identified by the Assistant Commissioners concerned.

ANSWER BOOKS

Answer book with 28 pages (A-4 size with the title page as shown in the ANNEXURE-IV) are to be provided by the examination centre.

RESULTS:

Result is likely to be declared in the month of November -2010.

CERTIFICATES AND PRIZES CASH AWARDS:

KVS (HQ) will confer the following Cash Awards and certificates as per the laid down criteria:

(a)   Cash awards of Rs.10,000/-, Rs.8000/- and Rs.5000/- for securing first, second and third position respectively at KVS State Level.

(b)   Cash awards of Rs.5000/-, Rs.4000/- and Rs.3000/- respectively for securing first, second and third position at Regional Level.

(c)   Students eligible for State as well as Regional level awards shall be conferred the higher one alone.

Stages

The Junior Science Olympiad program will follow the following 5 stages:

• Stage I: National Standard Examinationin Junior Science (NSEJS).
• Stage II: Indian National Junior Science Olympiad (INJSO),
• Stage III: Orientation cum Selection Camp (OCSC) in junior science,
• Stage IV: Pre-departure TrainingCamp (PDT) for IJSO,
• Stage V: Participation in International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO).

Stage- It will be entirely the responsibility of IAPT. All the remaining stages are organized by the HBCSE.

The detailed informationabout eligibilityand structure of the stages is given below:

Stage I: National Standard Examination in Junior Science (NSEJS)

NSEJS is the first stage of selection of students in the Junior Science Olympiad Programme. NSEJS is organised by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers(IAPT). Every student aspiring to go through successive stages of the programme must enroll for NSEJS.  NSEJS is held at a large number of centres in the country.

• Date and Time of NSEJS 2010:    November 2010 (Tentative)
• Last Date for Enrollment for NSEJS:     15^th September 2010

Eligibility (NSEJS):

All Indian studentswho are born on or after January 1, 1996 and, in addition, are in Class X or lower as of November 30, 2010, are eligible to appear in NSEJS 2010 – 2011. If they qualify in the NSEJS, they will be eligible for subsequent stages leading to participation in International Junior Science Olympiad 2011.

It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that the eligibility criteria are satisfied. In case at any stage of the program it is found that the student does not satisfy the eligibility criteria, he/she may be disqualified from the program.

Syllabus:

The syllabus for NSEJS is broadly equivalent to the secondary school level (upto Class X) of CBSE. The different basic subjects of science (physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics) will have roughly equal emphasis.

This is only a broad guideline, and there is no detailed syllabus given for NSEJS.

Question Paper:

NSEJS emphasize comprehension of the subject, not rote memory.  Its format is as under:

The Olympiad will follow the following two stages:

• Stage I: KVS Junior Science Olympiad (KVS-JSO)

• Stage II: Orientation cum training Camp for top 100 performers in order of merit based on their proformance in KVS-JSO for National Standard Examination in Junior Science (NSEJS) conducted by Indian Association for Physics Teachers (IAPT)

• Initially the first 100 students shortlisted from stage-I will be registered to participate in National Standard Examination in Junior Science (NSEJS) as per attached guidelines .After one year, KVS may conduct its own National Level Examination like Maths Olympiad .

• The students selected from stage I will be given rigorous training for their participation in Indian National Junior Science Olympiad (INJSO)

The detailed information about eligibility and structure of the stages is given below:

Stage I: KVS Junior Science Olympiad (KVS -JSO) This is the first stage of selection of students. KVS-JSO will be conducted by the KVS regional office on a rotation basis. The first KVS- JSO will be conducted by KVS regional office Delhi ( Coordinated by Principal, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sector-2 R. K Puram , Near Saint Thomas Church , New Delhi- 110022 )

Eligibility (KVS-JSO):

All the regular students of Kendriya Vidyalayas who have passed Class IX with Grade_C1 in Science subject in the examination are eligible to appear in KVS-JSO 2010. The first 100 students in the order of merit) will qualify for second stage.

It will be the responsibility of the Vidyalaya and students to ensure that they fulfill eligibility criteria. In case at any stage of the program it is found that the student does not satisfy the eligibility criteria, he/she may be disqualified from the Scheme.

Registration Fee

Rs.100/- (Rupees One Hundred only) per student.. Fee for SC/ST students will be paid out of Vidyalaya Vikas Nidhi of the KV concerned.

Procedure for Registration:

The eligible & willing candidate has to register herself/himself on prescribed form. (Annexure-I). The school as well as in the Regional Office concerned will retain one copy of the filled in Registration Forms for their record. However, a consolidated list of students, registered Vidyalaya-wise for the KVS-JSO Olympiad should be sent to the undersigned in the proforna given in Annexure-II along with single draft for the total amount collected as registration fee from all the students of the KVs of the Region concerned. The draft should be made in favour of “KVS, New Delhi” payable at New Delhi.

Allocation of Roll No:

The Principal of KV concerned will allocate the Roll No. on registration form of each candidate. The same Roll No. should be mentioned on the admit card. The Roll Numbers will be allocated strictly in the following manner.

Each student will be allotted nine-digit roll number with prefix KVS-JSO. The first two digits on the left will show the region code, next four digits will show the Vidyalaya code and last three digits will show the serial number of the candidate.

Coding Procedure for allocating Roll Number:

Example: The roll Number of Master Rajesh of KV NTPC Badarpur (KV Code-1406) of Delhi region (Code No.09) and having serial number 005 in the list of student registered for Olympiad will be written as:

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SYLLABUS

Importance of Physics as a subject of study

Physics is the most fundamental science. Knowledge of physics forms the base for all the branches of science and engineering. So for a science student it is very important to gain a basic knowledge of physics. That is why physics is a compulsory subject for science students in 11th and 12th class in India.

What is Physics?

It is very easy to define chemistry or biology. Chemistry is the science that studies material transformations which occur in nature. Biology is the science that studies about Life and Processes related to Life. Chemistry and Biology have therefore a very well defined area of interest.

But if we consider physics, we see, in physics we study about motion, force, energy, light, heat, gravitation, electricity, atoms, nucleus of atoms, molecules, planets, stars, universe….etc. the list is endless. Thus we see, in physics we study about atoms, nucleus, electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks... at one extreme, and we study about galaxies and universe at the other extreme. And in physics we also study about everything that comes in between these two extremes. So what is left? Nothing frankly! So we can say in physics we study about everything that is part of nature. That is why it is very difficult to define the scope of physics. But still if we like to define physics we can say “ Physics is that branch of science in which we try to understand the rules by which the nature works at every level of its existence (from microscopic to the mega macroscopic)”.

Corporal Punishment

HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said tough guidelines will be issued to check corporal punishment in schools in the backdrop of a 13-year-old student in Kolkata allegedly ending his life after being caned by his principal.

Sibal has asked chairperson of National Commission Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Shantha Sinha to frame and issue tough guidelines to get rid of corporal punishment in schools.

“The children are very precious to us. They are the future of our country. No child should be subjected to harassment and thereby get demotivated and be pushed out of the system,” he told reporters here.