The students who have given CAT (Common Admission Test) exam in November 2008 will be able to access their results on the website: http://results.catiim.in from today.

CAT applicants can also access their results by sending an ‘SMS’ through their mobile phone.

In order to access the results, users can type ‘CAT’ together with their ‘test registration number’ followed by their application number, and SMS it to ‘57333’.

New Delhi, Jan 2 : The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved the implementation of a centrally sponsored scheme to universalise access to and improve quality of education at secondary stage, called Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) during the 11th Five Year Plan.

As regards the financing pattern and fund flow, Union Government shall bear 75 per cent of the project expenditure during the 11th Five Year Plan, with 25 per cent of the cost to be borne by State Governments.

Here’s great news for the engineering students.

Noted US software developer, Richard M Stallman is in Hyderabad to oversee the migration of thousands of computers from proprietary to free software.

Stallman, popularly known as the ‘Father of free software’, on Wednesday will launch the process of installation of an indigenous operating system (OS) called e-Swecha on 21,000 computers across Andhra Pradesh starting Tuesday in TRR College.

With the aim to attract students towards science by the next few years, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has made announcement about the launching of ‘INSPIRE’ (Innovation In Science Pursuit for Inspired Research), a scholarship programme of the Department of Science & Technology in New Delhi. 

London, Dec 13: Increased usage of "text message speak" and street slang in essays has left UK teachers baffled, according to a study.

The study found that four-in-10 teachers couldn’t understand some pupils'' writing as it was laden with obscure language.

It was revealed that phrases like "innit" and Gr8 have become a regular sight in schoolwork.

In fact, one teacher actually claimed that how an essay contained the sentence "i noe u dnt noee mii, i donno huu u r" - I know you do not know me, I do not know who you are.

There was another student who wrote "ma m8s wnt ova" - my mates went over.

Washington, Dec 10 : For most students, thinking about the next day''s math exam makes them so anxious that they face difficulties while solving arithmetic problems. Now, a new study has explored why the stress related to the ''dreaded'' subject leads to poor performance in tests.

The study has been conducted by University of Chicago psychologist Sian L. Beilock and her colleagues.

Much Beilock''s her work suggests that working memory is a key component of math anxiety. Working memory (also known as short term memory), helps to maintain a limited amount of information at one time, just what is necessary to solve the problem at hand.