#mightbels

🍏I have 10,000 followers! Oh my god! I am so delighted with all of you. I started this blog back in June and I never thought it would get anywhere. I am so inspired by all of you, and I am working so hard to make sure I have decent content. I’m so ecstatic, I love you all.

In response to this crazy turn of events, I am going to host blog awards fot my followers! There will be one winner of each category, and two runners up.

The winners will get:

- 3 promos to 10k whenever they want

- a new friend!

- whatever they want lettered

- a spot on my follow forever

- a bunch of reblogs in the next few days

The runners up will win:

- 1 promo to 10k whenever they want

- a new friend!

- a bunch of reblogs in the next few days

The categories are:

Best Icon

Best URL

Best Theme

Best Small Blog (<1k followers)

Best Medium Blog (1-5k followers)

Best Big Blog (>5k followers)

Best Original Content

These are just my opinions, of course not definitive! All of you are amazing and all of you must keep working hard and inspiring everyone else!

These will go until Valentine’s Day, enter by reblogging this, following me, and sending me an ask with anything that makes you happy and the 🍏 emoji! Cause apples. I like apples. Tell me what your original content is tagged under and your url if your studyblr isn’t your main! And I cannot tell your number of followers, so if you want to enter for best small, medium, or big blog, tell me!

I’ve not really seen anyone discuss how to get through the CBSE system, and as someone who studies in India, it’s kind of hard when none of the resources available really apply to the way you have to study. So today, I’ve decided to talk about the way CBSE works so that you can maximize your grades! :) maybe I’ll make this a series idk.

CBSE (The Central Board of Secondary Education) is one of the two most popular boards in India. It is certified by the National Council of Educational Research Training. Up until last year, the pattern being followed was called the CCE pattern. However, the pattern has been switched this year, making everything very confusing, so I’m going to explain.

(CBSE as a board has a lot of issues which I’m not going to get into but um yeah)

Firstly, let’s talk about board examinations. Board exams are public exams that occur simultaneously across the country. They are NOT exclusive to CBSE, but are an integral part of it. Board exams in CBSE are held in class 10 and class 12 and the marks acquired in those exams directly impact a student’s future. Here’s the link to the Wikipedia article. 

As I have not given my boards yet, I don’t really have experience with this. However, I might do a post with tips for the boards later, with advice my seniors have given me.

Now, I’m going to talk about how marks will be given when boards are not in the equation and how they will add up to get the final percentage. So, marks are distributed in the following ways:

Subject Enrichment - 5 marks                                                                              Notebook - 5 marks                                                                                                Periodic Evaluation - 10 marks                                                                            Finals - 80 marks

Subject Enrichment:                                                                                    Subject enrichment refers to the activities conducted in classes. This means ASL (Assessment of speaking and listening skills) for English and Hindi, the lab work for the sciences, proving properties in geometry for Maths and a presentation for Social Science. It’s pretty easy to score in these and you can honestly get full marks with some effort.

Notebooks:                                                                                                  Yes, you are given marks for the notebooks. (The notebooks are basically questions and answers given by the teachers) It’s slightly harder to get full marks in this but as long as your notebook is complete, you’ll probably be able to get at least a 3.5 out of 5. To get full marks, your notes have to be pretty, decorated and all of that shebang. 

Periodic Evaluation:                                                                                    Throughout the year, you are evaluated four times. One of those four times is the final exams, which I’m going to talk about later. The remaining three evaluations are Unit Test - 1, Midterms and Unit Test - 2. The Unit Tests are 40 marks each and the Midterms are 80 marks. The two tests in which you perform the best are the ones that count. Their average is taken and then it’s converted into marks out of ten. The good thing is that if you don’t do particularly well on any one test, that grade can always be dropped if you work super hard. 

Finals:                                                                                                           Finals are 80 mark papers which have questions from the WHOLE syllabus which are held at the end of the year. It is IMPERATIVE to get good marks in the finals if you want a great grade. It might be stressful, but the periodic evaluations should have covered at least 3/4 of the syllabus.

So, this was just a breakdown of how the new system works. I might talk abut how to optimize your performance soon, but i feel like this is important information, as many people STILL don’t know how this works.

I’m going to tag some studyblrs because I really want this to reach people because it’s very hard to find resources for CBSE. 

27/JUL/2017

I made myself a vanilla frappe this morning, while I organised my day in my BuJo and started writing. Hadn’t I woken up almost at noon, it would have felt like a really productive morning!

finding out all the meeting times for my first week of uni is so exciting!

some whap notes from last week on greece and alexander the great ft. this weeks spread