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For good or bad, competition is here to stay in Indian Higher Education. The admission cut-offs in colleges are seeing new highs every year. And the examination patterns of both Board exams, as well as entrance tests, are changing constantly to take into account the increasing gap between a number of seats in premier colleges and the number of applicants vying for them. A very big change in the marking system when a student shifts from board exams to entrance tests is there is no fixed concept of “good marks”. While in school exams there are fixed parameters like 80% or A grades which can be treated as good, in entrance exam the selection process is based on Ranks and percentiles and not really percentage scores. Thus the only principle that works is doing as much as you can. However, most of the entrance exam has negative marking for wrong answers and thus accuracy also plays a vital role in the selection process. Quantitative Aptitude is almost an integral part of alm...

Mathematics has always sent shivers down the spines of many students. But it does play a crucial role for the students in higher studies and also after they are out of schools. The subject needs a lot of routine practice and patience. To excel in mathematics, students should go through the last 10-year sample papers to analyze the pattern of the paper, type of questions asked and other important aspects of the exam. Students in class 10th and 12th should put in a lot of efforts in practicing maths daily so that it turns easier for them to solve questions during board exams. One should go through the syllabus of the subject right at the beginning of the session in any board and should practice the questions beforehand so that it turns easier for students to study when the teacher explains in class.  CBSE syllabus of class 10 maths includes topics like trigonometry and algebra wherein pupils should focus more as most of the students tend to get stuck in questions from these c...