Single attendee for Technology Based After School JEE Coaching (Avanti Learning Center, TCV Selakui, Dehradun)

Due to student's own decision of not able to attend Technology Based After School JEE Coaching (Coaching at Avanti Learning Center), there is only one class XII student named Stanzin Khanrab who is attending the extra coaching. Others are making best use of the resources available at the center rather than their actual presence in the learning center.

In case of new class XI students, there will be an entrance based selection for the coaching after their confirmation of Science stream in the end of June. The entrance exam will be conducted after their rejoining of school after summer holiday.

An interactive session with the class XII pass out students who have registered for JEE-2016

On March 28, 2016, an interactive session was held for the class XII pass out students who have already registered for JEE-2016. Though various attempts of invitations were done to the students, only few interested girls have attended the session. The session was found to be productive for them.

The facilitator started session by reminding importance of taking JEE-2016 seriously and highlighted the importance of JEE score to get admitted in IITs, IIITs, NITs, CFTIs, IIScs, etc in addition to consideration of the score by DoE, CTA scholarships as well as scholarships in private institutions. Meanwhile, the facilitator suggested to use the remaining days before the exams by solving the past years question papers with devotion of time for proper rest rather than studying new topics. He also suggested to use any of the resources available at the learning center. Importance of being proactive during the critical time of directing themselves properly to achieve what they wish to become was also discussed.The session was ended by sharing some tips and guidelines of taking admission of colleges in India.

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Started coaching for the class XI students promoted to class XII

The Technology based after school coaching was started from today at 2:30 pm after a brief discussion about timing, syllabus to cover and other issues. The first session was joined by two students namely Master Karma Sherab and Master Stanzin Khenrab. Former fellow wish to continue the coaching for the entire academic year. On the other hand, Master Stanzin Khenrab la wished to continue till the first terminal examination of the school. Other Avanti fellows discontinued the coaching in due of importance of senior secondary examination of CBSE, irrelevance of JEE in their career options and other reasons.

Ms Sonam Dolkar, Ms Stanzin Angmo and Ms Stanzin Zasel will be joining the two fellows in the following days.

The Technology Based After School JEE coaching for new students of class XI will be started once they are admitted to school in April, 2016

Interaction Session with the Avanti fellow-2015

Yesterday, at 2:30 pm all the Avanti Fellows gathered in the Avanti Learning Center, TCV Selakui School. The facilitator briefed about the importance of JEE in addition to the senior secondary board examination of CBSE. He also recommended them to be Avanti fellow for a year more during their +2 grade. Additionally, he discussed about expectations from the Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration. Eventually, the facilitator advised the interested students to join the classes of the learning center in the following days.

Classes hold during one month winter coaching

During Winter coaching-2016 of the school, Avanti Learning Center too had organised JEE coaching for the Avanti fellows. As the school is closed for winter holidays from January 23, 2016, Avanti learning center too have to close, as there will be no students undertaking its JEE coaching.

In the last session of the coaching, feedback from the students are collected and an interaction cum closing gathering was organised.

JEE coaching continues during winter vacation

The JEE coaching is to be continued from December 28, 2015 on wards. On the first day's session, an orientation cum discussion about future sessions and activities were discussed. As the pedagogy is oriented towards child, there was child centered discussion about the coaching program. Various issues and welfare of students are explored. At the end of the session, those students who have keen interest of joining IIT, NIT and IIIT were shown some motivation videos related IIT and job placements offered to IIT graduates.

Detail of the session's discussion can be found by clicking on this link www.tibetaniitians.com

Post Test Result

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Post Test was held on December 17

Post test was held on December 17, 2015. All the regular students who have been attending the Technology Based After School JEE Coaching have taken the test. There were nine students  in total. Among them,  three were female and six were male . The test was designed for maximum of one hour. It was out of 30 marks where each question carries one mark each. There are ten multiple choice questions each from the three subjects viz. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics with equal distribution of marks.

This exam was successfully conducted from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. No cases of malpractice and misconduct were practiced. All of the students have taken the exam seriously.

Examination hall before the examination

The paper of the day

During exam hour

An exam candidate writing exam

Exam preparation starts from December 2, 2015 onwards

Starting from December 2, 2015, all the participating students of Technology Based After School JEE Coaching were given exam preparation time. The summative exams are due to be held from December 11. In view of importance of the forth coming exams of school, students themselves have come forward with an application requesting for exam preparation time. The program facilitator found the issue important to consider. He had approached headmaster and then to school principal with the application written by the students. With consent from school administration, students attending the coaching were given exam preparation time.

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Pre-test Result

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Pre-test held on November 24, 2015

Pre-test was held on November 24, 2015. All the regular students of the Technology Based After School JEE Coaching have taken the test. In total, there were nine students who have taken the test. Among them, there were three female students and other six are male students. All of them have taken the exam seriously. There were no cases of malpractices and misconducts. The pre-test was conducted successfully during the coaching session in the morning from 7:30 am to 8:30 am.

Before the Pre-test.

During the Pre-test.

Mind at work 'Thinking... thinking.... option A is the correct answer'.

From the corner of class, during the Pre-test.

Fourteen eleven grade students are taking part in 'Technology based after school JEE coaching'

On this day, students who have taken re-tests could join the JEE coaching class. Currently, there are thirteen students who are going to continue the 'Technology based after school JEE coaching'. The day's session was devoted for allowing newly joined students to write about their planed career option, reasons for joining the coaching, expectations from the coaching and their knowledge about JEE exam in general. They were given the undertaking letter to sign. A page on do's and don'ts of group discussion along with time table of coaching was distributed. Brief presentation cum interaction time on JEE was devoted for last half an hour.

In addition to the thirdteen students, master Karma Sherab la joined the coaching after taking re-test and clearing all the re-tests. In total, there are fourteen students participating in the Technology Based After School JEE Coaching. Among them, there are three girls and eleven boys.

Students are busy writing a write up

On August 7, 2015, students were given opportunity to ask questions related to their career. Based on facilitator's knowledge and experiences as well as by surfing internet information, their questions related to career were answered. Meanwhile, some educational video clips were shown while they were remembering career based questions. This was followed by an interactive session on career based questions. Finally, once their doubts, questions and inquiries regarding career and life in general the facilitator taught blogging*. Blogging and designing blog to the students was found as an interesting hobby. They voluntarily participated in the designing and blogging in practical approach. 

*Facilitator is an experienced blogger (Click here for the blogs managed or designed by the facilitator)

A session of tips for cracking entrance tests

On the August 6, 2015, a session was held to discuss tips for cracking JEE like entrance exams. Every students actively participated in discussing, asking questions and clearing doubts. The discussion was based on a power point presentation prepared by the facilitator based on information on cracking entrance exams in general collected from reliable internet sources. All the participating students shared their satisfaction and need of such information. A video clip on tips of preparing entrance exams was also shown.

An interactive counselling session for the four eligible students before joining the students taking retest

While interacting with the students in the yesterday's class, the facilitator found it necessary to have a session on career life in general. The day's session was dedicated for informing students about pre-planing and need of self dedication as well as current options in pursuing professional courses, degrees, diploma and certificate scholarships. 

At the beginning of the session, he highlighted on career life and planing in addition to different opportunities in higher studies (click here for ppt.). This session was followed by an interaction session on different overseas and domestic scholarships offered by Department of Education (DoE), Central Tibetan Administration. Other non-governmental organisation scholarships were also introduced (click here for ppt.). All the students actively participated during the interaction session. Questions, inquiries and doubts are discussed during the session about future options in higher studies in context of DoE, CTA and our society in general.

Interaction session on Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) in detail

On August 4, 2015, an interaction session on the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) was held for the three eligible students (Ms Sonam Dolkar wasn't able to attend due to medical leave). It was held with objective of making students aware of JEE main and JEE advanced, their eligibility criteria, important dates and so on. These information are found useful to orient students and plan accordingly to crack JEE. This would have given them clear Idea about JEE. More over, the session would have directed students to be ready with the coming JEE. Indirectly, it will motivate students to prepare JEE strategically and  seriously by joining the 'Technology based after school JEE coaching' regularly.

Initially, the facilitator started the session with a short brainstorming on JEE. After this previous knowledge assessment, he has given an introductory presentation on JEE in general (click here for ppt.). It was followed by comprehensive presentation based on JEE-Main and JEE-advanced brochure of 2015 (click here for ppt.). This presentation was conducted in an interactive learning mode where every students have to read a single slide and explain it to the class one after another with the help of facilitator. The entire session was successfully carried in interactive based along with question and answer session in arbitrarily manner.  

First class of Avanti learning center - Technology based after school JEE Coaching, TCV Selaqui, Deharadun

First class for the four eligible students was held on the August 3, 2015. The class was held for interaction with the students about  their career plan, previous knowledge about JEE and objectives of joining the technology based after school JEE coaching. Each of the students shared thier interests, reasons for joining the coaching and their future plans to their peers. Later, they were given task to write their Ideas shared in the class for half an hour. This was followed by showing a video clip about Avanti fellow program, excerpted from Tibetonline.tv video news broadcasted on July 24, 2013 (Video link). A video clip downloaded from youtube.com on 'Avanti- program overview' prepared by Avanti learning centers was also shown. These videos were shown to make the students aware about the coaching program.

A presentation about the program was done by the facilitator. The presentation was followed by showing a video clip on success stories of Avanti fellows, broadcasted by NDTV Profit under headsup program. All these orientation session was organised with objectives of knowing and motivating the participating students. Additionally, majority of students who are taking retest within this week's duration to be eligible for the coaching program, the actual classes are planed to begin once they join in.

The day's class was productive in surveying the four participant student's future career plan. Among them, two of students named Mr. Tsering Topden and Mr. Stanzin Khenrab were planing to become computer engineering. Other two have vision of becoming MBBS or Biotechnician and Animation professional. In brief, the session was very helpful to know about the four eligible students. The interaction session also necessitated need of a session about JEE. The facilitator finally decided to conduct a in-depth presentation on JEE. 

A video clip about Avanti fellow program, excerpted from Tibetonline.tv

Four eligible students are watching a video clip on 'Avanti- program overview'

Students being inspired by Avanti fellows and their success story

Avanti- program overview

Success stories of Avanti fellows

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Meeting with subject teachers of science stream classes

A meeting with the subject teachers along with school principal, head-master, head-master assistant and facilitator was held inside headmaster's office. During the meeting, various issues regarding the participation of students in technology based after school JEE coaching were discussed. Many of the teachers seriouly raised their concern about continuation of the JEE coaching. During the meeting, students who need to join the coaching was finalised based on the eligibility criteria. Only four students were able to meet the eligibility criteria and were selected.

With due concern for the students who can perform better, respective subject teachers gladly accepted to take re-test to meet eligibility criteria. Subject teachers were given a week duration to take re-test and finalise the result. 

Classes for the four students who are eligible for the coaching will begin from August 1, 2015. For the rest of students, they should score at least  sixty percentage in the respective subjects to be eligible for the coaching. Any student who is interested and has strong will to prepare for the JEE without affecting school's co-curricular activities are always welcome to enjoy learning in the Avanti Learning Center. But, their participation shouldn't disturb the progressing coaching classes.

School Principal Gyen Duke Tsering la interacting with meeting attendees.

Headmaster Gyen Tsultrim Kalsang, his assistant Gyen Tsering Gonpo, Subject teachers and facilitator listening to Gyen Duke Tsering la-The school Principal.

Educators in serious interaction about selection of students for 'Technology based after school JEE coaching 

Entrance test Result

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ENTRANCE TEST CONDUCTED ON JULY 27, 2015

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Answer keys of the entrance test conducted on July 27, 2015 for selection of students for JEE coaching

Meeting with science stream students in their classrooms on July 24, 2015

Facilitator attended all the science stream classes for listing of students who are interested, and are eligible to participate in technology based after school JEE coaching. During those classes, he also briefed about the program in informal and interactive manner. Many students asked questions and clarified their doubt. Though there was repeated motivation by the facilitator, students of class XII non-medical students refrain from their participation in the technology based after school JEE coaching. Reasons for inability to participate in the coaching program were not known* though some students shared their dissatisfaction regarding the program. In contrast to the +2 non-medical students, almost all the students of class XI non-medical students wanted to be part of the coaching except few students who fails to meet the eligibility criteria due to low marks in their internal exams.

As the technology based coaching is mainly focused on JEE preparation, students who are currently studying PCB(Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) shared their concern about need of preparation for common medical entrance tests like AIPMT.

*With due reason of inability of XII non-medical students to join the coaching, facilitator requested counselor of the school to collect feedback from the students regarding reasons for not joining. Among those students, only 8 students were found having aim of becoming Engineers (3 civil engineering, 2 aeronautical engineering and 3 computer engineering) and four were wishing to pursue Architecture. Rest of the students are opting for non-engineering courses and JEE preparation wasn't their plan. Detail of feedback can be found at (Future engineers feedback,  Future non-engineer's feedback).

Interactive session with +1 and +2 students

An interactive session with class XI and XII students was held at 2:30 pm inside school hall on July 22, 2015. It was attended  by the school principal Gyen Duke Tsering, school headmaster Gyen Tsultrim Kalsang and his assistant Gyen Tsering Gonpo. At the beginning of interactive session, school principal briefed about the program. It was followed by presentation on 'Technology based after school JEE coaching' by the center facilitator Mr. Lhakpa Wangyal. He talked about the overall aspects of the JEE coaching program based on the brainstorming session held on the June 30, 2015. After the presentation, attendees were given opportunity to share their doubts, questions and queries regarding the program. There was good participation and interest among students. Some of them inquired about the program. 

Brainstorming session held on June 30, 2015

Brainstorming session for the 'Technology based after school JEE coaching' was held inside Principal's office on June 30, 2015. During the brainstorming session, every aspect of the technology based after school JEE preparation was dealt in accordance with the school curriculum, with broad consideration of the success of the program. The meeting was inspiring and gives hope for the success of the program. It was attended by Mr. Duke Tsering (Principal, TCV Selakui, Dehradun), Mr. Tsultrim Kalsang (Headmaster, TCV Selakui, Dehradun), Mr. Tsering Gonpo (Assistant Headmaster, TCV Selakui, Dehradun), Mrs. Tenzin Woeser (Counselor, TCV Selakui, Dehradun), and Mr. Lhakpa Wangyal (Facilitator, Avanti learning center, TCV Selakui, Dehradun). For details of the session, click here.