Questionbang App is our latest app for Android phones and tablets. This replaces four other apps we previously offered for the CET, Bank Exams, JEE and NEET. We wanted this learner-led app to be much more versatile and flexible than earlier ones. Hence it offers various…
Questionbang portal version ~ 4
We recently upgraded the Questionbang portal to go along with our new app (Questionbang App) release. There are no structural changes, but we have taken out many of the obsolete contents to make it current. Logo The Questionbang portal and the brand Questionbang will have a…
National Education Policy (NEP 2020) & Future Exams
Recently announced National Education Policy (NEP 2020) is hoping to make drastic changes to the way courses are taught and learnings are assessed. It may take several years to have a pan India adoption of the policy, and many more years to reap the benefits of this change.…
EXAMS POSTPONED AND PROCASTINATION
Hey folks, Vani this side, hope you all are safe and sound. I heard exams got postponed again due to COVID 19, some of you may be sad because of all the plan that was made for the post-exam has to wait a little more…
Spirit of Exams or Spirit of Life?
India, as ever, remains a country of great contrasts – of big economic challenges, but also of indomitable strength of spirit. Few nations around the world have endured as tough a Covid-19 lockdown as India, yet from Karnataka state come two stories that can inspire people…
Future Workplaces and Remembered Online Learning
At some point (maybe fast forward a few months), Covid19 will have become a sharp but receding memory for students all around the world. Their interests and priorities will be much the same as before, but the way they go about achieving them may have altered…
COVID-19 Lockdown ~ Study at Home
The lockdown announced last week is unprecedented. Not just us, many countries are under lockdown. The board exams got postponed, so it is going to offset the next academic season. The new schedules of the JEE and the NEET may depend on the pandemic situation post …
Normalization of Scores in Competitive Exams
Normalization of scores is a widely used methodology to equalize scores from different sessions in competitive exams. When an exam is held through multiple sessions, often for many days (e.g., IBPS exams, JEE), the question papers are going to be different for each session. The challenge…
New Kid on the Block – Can Rishi Sunak Help Both UK and Indian Education?
Mainstream media in the UK have made modest mutterings about the welcome elevation of Indian-origin MPs to senior government posts (for example in The Economist, aside from their families South Asian origins, Sajid Javid, the outgoing Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Rishi Sunak, the incoming one, have…
Workers of the World Unite!
As she often does, Merryn Somerset Webb recently gave us some wise words, about dominant companies around the world (Financial Times 18th May 2019, and https://moneyweek.com/merryns-blog/page/3/ ). Quoting a Barclays study from the US, Merryn noted the more powerful firms are the less they pay, the…
Brand New Exam 360
Exam 360 is a portal for everything about exams – notifications, results and news. The portal was started way back in year 2015. It has undergone two major upgrades in the past – GK/CA was introduced in March 2016, Added more exam categories other than NEET…
Local Education and Tech Partnerships – Best for Students and Parents
Student and parent expectations of education are changing. At root, the assumption remains to gain a competitive advantage when leaving education with job-ready qualifications, skills and competencies. But today, often faced with scarce job opportunities and wide inequalities, students and parents are looking for more. They’re…
Implementing Digital Healthcare
Lessons From India The need for innovation is well understood and much trumpeted – in September 2015 National Health Service England declared “supporting innovation across the healthcare system is more important than ever and will be central to securing transformation and improved patient outcomes”. But innovation…
Millennials Are Changing Workplaces For The Better
Rohan Silva is a very smart guy (well worth following on www.standard.co.uk/author/rohan-silva by the way), with a track record of making things happen and interesting views about the future. Although his recent article in the London Evening Standard was focussed on young professionals in the UK,…
Questionbang welcomes Tim Hamper
We are pleased to announce that Tim Hamper is going to collaborate with Questionbang as a Senior Advisor. Tim carries 35+ years of experience in various management roles – finance, production, purchasing, sales and commercial procurement. He has a degree in management from Henley Business School.…