Geography tips

Here are a few last-minute tips for writing your Geography exam:

* Do not overwrite in your maps. Mark the asked things lightly so that you can erase it easily if you feel like changing your answer.
* Make sure you label diagrams (if any) and things in the map in capital/uppercase letters.
* Check your calculation while attempting questions related to annual rainfall in the chapter, ‘Climate of India’.
* Revise frequently asked ‘give reason’ questions.
* Revise the map of India just before your exam begins and attempt the map first thing once your exam starts so that you still remember the markings.
* Write your name and necessary details along with question number and section on the map.
* Read the questions carefully while attempting topography so that you know what is being asked, especially in determining the distance of a place from another or the distance to a place from another. There are also other questions which can be tricky so pay attention to detail.
* Write your answers in points and underline important keywords. Write
to-the-point and don’t elaborate unnecessarily.
* Use a pencil for marking things on the map. Shade the regions required
(if any) with pencil, ex. polka dots, zig-zag, horizontal and vertical lines, checkered, etc. There’s no need to use different-colored pencils for shading.
* Make sure you include a key if required. Or else, mark the shaded area or symbol with the sub-question number, ex. Q1 is about the map of India and (i) to (x) are the sub-questions: draw an arrow next to the symbol and mark it with the respective sub-question from (i) to (x).Hope you do well in your exam! Keep visiting for more such tips! :)

History icse tips raviraghuvanshi84@gmail.com

ICSE Social Science Papers include History, Civics and Geography and the average of the total marks fetched in these two papers are considered to be the total marks fetched in the ICSE Social Science Papers.
Like  English and Science, it is very important for the students to do well in both the papers of Social Science in order to get a good grade in the ICSE Social Science Paper.But it is seen that at times students do have problems in attaining good grades either in the History and Civics Paper or in the Geography Paper.
Hence due to this lack of inconsistency an average student as well as a good student fails to bring about a good percentage in Social Science Paper and hence this affects his entire precentage in his exam. Thus to help examinees taking up the ICSE  Exam achieve good grades in both the Social Science Papers here are some of the golden rules that they need to keep in mind.
1) History & Civics Exam demands not only mugging up the answers but also exaggeration and elaboration of certain points. For this the students must adopt a good and neat flair for writing out and composing the answers with relevant and factual details.
2) Concentrate on the objective type of questions and try to solve as many sample papers as possible. Remember most of the questions are set from the previous years’ sample papers and hence by solving the previous question papers might give the students a hint of the type of questions that might come for this year’s exam.
3) Go through the pictures of the various temples, shrines, monuments, architecture and various other similar artifacts that are given in the lessons. Memorize the names of each monument and shrine and marshal every bit of detail related to these monuments. This will help the students to answer the picture questions easily and would help them to fetch a lot of marks.
4) If need be get photocopies of each diagram and set questions related to that monument yourself and try to answer them. Then check whether the answers are correct or not. This practice will guide the students to detect the areas they need to concentrate and work on.
5) Read the long answer questions thoroughly and plan out what points you need to add in your long answer. Each point must be relevant and related to the question. Try to elaborate on each point by adding facts and relevant information from the lesson. Long Answer doesn’t demand pages and pages of irrelevant points but necessary and informative elaborations on the required points.
6) Try to get as many of the answers to the objective questions correct because it is easier to score in Objectives rather than in Long Answers. Choose your long answer questions confidently and make sure that you are able to elaborate on that particular topic.
7) In the Civics Section try to be as precise as possible and write only the facts. Understand and then write out the answers of the selected questions. Do not waste time in pondering too much on one particular question. Spread your time well so that you can complete the paper within the given span of writing time.
8) Before appearing for a History & Civics Exam make sure to practice writing at home in order to maintain the time. Only by mugging up answers will not help you to get good marks. Try to do a quick brainstorming of the points after you memorize the answers one by one. This will help the students to recall all the points with ease when they sit for the ICSE History & Civics Exam and at the same time will help them to manage the writing time.
9) In order to remember the dates and the events in History, try to use the learning aid named Timeline. Draw a straight line on a sheet of rough paper and write out the dates on it and then list the events beside the concerned date with different colors. The use of this timeline with different colors is a must-to-do before the exam as it will help the students to recall all the dates and the events without any difficulty.
10) Avoid taking extra sheets if not required. Remember it is the quality of your answers that will be marked and not the quantity. So whenever you attempt any question in History & Civics ICSE Exam Paper, make sure to add and elaborate only on what is necessary.History & Civics Paper might be a burden as there is too much to learn and write. But once the students understand the technique to prepare for this subject then everything will fall into its right place.

Tips to top Geography

Geography Paper which is another paper of Social Science and students must have a proper understanding of how to answer the Geography Paper in the coming ICSE Exam
1) In the ICSE Geography Exam two things are very important and will help the students to fetch a lot of marks. They are the topography sheet and the questions related to this section which carries full 20 marks and map work which also carries a good weight age of marks.Hence the first step for the students appearing for this year’s exam is to practice map pointing and working out questions on topographical sheets as many as possible before appearing for the exam.A student who manages to get all the answers correct in these two sections will definitely be able to score well in this exam. So make sure students that you prepare yourselves thoroughly in these two sections.
2) Revise each and every lesson very well and try to remember the names of each forest and their features, dams and their locations, soil and their compositions and so on for objective type of questions. Examinees must target these objective type of questions and must be able to get all the answers correct as these questions are easy and simple to score marks.
3) While answering the questions on differences and similarities make sure to illustrate your answers with examples of places and locations of any other as required. If need be draw a small rough outline of the map of that particular place and point out the areas. This leaves a very positive impact on the examiner.
4) Avoid writing long answers in Geography because it is a subject to understand and not mug up. Write only to the point answers and try to make sub headings wherever necessary. Each answer whether the question demands or not must have examples supporting the content of the answer. Remember like the Science answers Geography answers also require illustration to support the content.
5) Label all your diagrams properly. Without proper labeling the diagrams might not fetch the deserving marks from the examiner no matter how good it might be.
6) Questions demanding explanations must be answered to the point by adding only the relevant reasons. Students are requested not to exaggerate their answers as this might divert them from the relevant information.
7) Always carry colors and compass box as it is often required during the Geography Exam.
Although Geography might sound to be a heavy subject, yet the questions are always easy and interesting to answer, for any examinee, only if they walk on the right track.

TIPS TO TOP ICSE LANGUAGE

Language  comes   with  practice, usually English Language is the subject on the first day of the ICSE Boards Examination. Although some students are under the impression of a Language paper being easy, yet sometimes due to anxiety, nervousness and stress, students land up making silly mistakes and wrong choices even while attempting the simplest questions.

To guide the students and put them on the right track here are a few tips that the examinee needs to follow while attempting English Paper I on the very first day.

1) English Language paper is also called English Paper I. The questions are divided into four segments under the headings like Composition, Letter Writing, Comprehension and Grammar. It is upon the students to spread out their time in a meaningful way so that each segment gets equal weight age as required.
2) Read the question paper very carefully during the Reading Time and make your choices in Composition and Letter Writing. It will be a clever move, when the examinee concentrates more on the descriptive type of essays rather than opting for other genres where too much time will be required to think and plan out. To be on the safe side it is always important to choose the topic that will give a lot of freedom to the examinee to express his views.
3) Avoid counting the words of your composition to check whether you have maintained the work limit or exceeded as it will take a lot of your writing time. You must have this rough idea of the number of pages that you need to include for a certain word limit before appearing for the exam. Remember examiners are not there to count each and every word but they are there to mark you on your meaningful content.
4) If you don’t have a good command over the language and are not confident enough to write out short and formal business letter, avoid taking up a formal letter. As it is time will run out if the examinee has to think and rethink the ideas that he wants to include in the body of the letter. So the examinee must attempt an informal letter to complete answering the second segment on time.
5) Before attempting the third segment which is Comprehension and Precis Writing, the examinee needs to read the unseen passage at least two times. The first reading should be done during the Reading Time when the student needs to have a brief idea of the theme of the passage. During the Reading Time the student also needs to go through the questions set on the passage.
The second reading should be just before the examinee attempts to write out the answers for the unseen passage. While reading for the second time, the student can scan and skim through the passage to find out answers suitable for the questions. Always use a light pencil to bracket and number the paragraphs highlighting the answers. This will help the students to find out the points easily without getting confused and wasting much of the time.
6) While attempting Precis Writing only include the points that are relevant and important. Avoid wasting time in adding unnecessary details. Do not forget to write the number of words used to compose the précis.

7) It is always sensible if the fourth segment on Grammar is attempted first. Grammar fetches a lot of marks and examinees can attempt this segment first, when they are relaxed and the mind is fresh. Keeping it for the end might give the students enough scope to make silly mistakes, as by that time the mind will be under a lot of stress in order to complete the paper on time.
8) Try to use simple language as far as possible while writing out essays or letters. Remember the examiner will not allot marks for flowery language that makes little sense and do not match with the content. Marks are usually based on Content and Expression for Essays and for Format, Content and Expression for Letter Writing. So in order to get good marks make sure that your content matches with the question and your expression must be with correct vocabulary, accurate grammar and simple and precise language.
9) Try making the correct choice and sticking to the same topic when writing an essay. Sometimes it happens that a student makes a wrong choice and begins writing. Half the way he gets stuck and struggles for ideas to continue. When he cannot, he scratches out the entire composition and starts writing again on a new topic. This leads to wastage of time and energy and as a result frustration starts boiling up within the examinee. So it is very important to make the correct choice while writing out a composition.
10) In the third segment of Comprehension, usually the students get stuck with Meanings. In order to find out the meanings of the given words, read the sentence again and again and try to understand the context in which the word has been used. Do not waste much time on this.
If possible complete the paper and if time remains, get back to this question and complete.
English Language might sound as a very simple and easy paper. But when it comes to writing out this paper, an examiner might face a lot of odds as planning and executing has to be decided on the spot.
Hence it is always good to be confident and most importantly be smart enough to make sensible choices from each of the segments.

Tips for icse literature

Dear  ICSE students,  
Hope   you  will   make    best   use   of   the    resources  what   I  always share    with   you,  this    is   just  another  one  which    will   add   feathers   to   your  cap  if    you   follow   my  tips   to   top  for    English Literature  religiously   right   from    the    scratch   of    2014   .

Let's  make  literature learning easy....Read  ..comprehend ,   share and   write for  practice and  confidence....Fundamentals for a successful student

Tips to answer English Literature Paper in ICSE 2015  Board Exam
Gear up  Guys..,

As it is important to adjust time for writing out the English language Paper while appearing for ICSE Boards Examination, it is also mandatory to be very cautious of time as well as the choices made to answer English Paper 2 which is English Literature 80 marks.
While attempting to write out answers for the English Literature Paper the examinees must follow these simple tips that will help them to score good marks in their exams.
1) The first criterion that needs to be followed during the Literature ICSE Exam is to read and understand the question properly so that the examinee must not have any confusion while writing out the answers.
2) All answers should be written to the point which means no more and no less. The examinee must remember that the examiner will mark him on the points that he will be adding to his answer. So he must write to the point answers without adding unnecessary details and wasting time.
3) While attempting the Reference to the Context questions the examinee must use separate paragraphs to answer the part questions. For instance if the first question has four parts, then the examiner must make four paragraphs. Ending line should be drawn after each answer.
4) Avoid writing long sentences while answering the contextualized questions. Remember the examiner has too many answer scripts to correct and hence she will not waste her time reading irrelevant details. So make sure answers are composed in the form of short sentences ,simple language and are to the point.
5) Avoid using too much of flowery language as Literature Paper demands more of the correct content rather than style and vocabulary. If your points are correct then you are bound to get your marks even if your answers are framed in simple language.
6) Avoid repeating the same ideas in all the questions. Even if some of the questions require the same ideas, try to rephrase the ideas in different ways. This will help the examiner to take interest to read the answers.
7) As always said, try to maintain the focus of the question when you begin writing out an answer and also try to end the answer keeping the focus of the question. Maintaining the focus of the question helps the examinee to frame a well written detailed answer.
8) Try to avoid choosing questions demanding character analysis as it requires a lot of examples to shade the character. If confident and well equipped with examples and illustrations, then only the examinee should attempt such questions.
9) Try to time out yourselves while writing out the Literature Paper. Always attempt the Reference to the context questions first as these questions provide enough scope to get marks. Attempt the detailed answers in the end.
10) Finally try to put more emphasis on the content and the points added to the answers rather than concentrating more on grammar, spellings and vocabulary because this is not a Language Paper where the examinee will be marked on grammar and vocabulary.
But here in Literature Paper, examiners concentrate more on content and to the point answers.

Happy  learning  folks,

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Polio was always secular in pain and communal in treatment

  Do   boond    jindgee  kee  ...  salute   to   Indian   govt   and  actor
Amitabh bacchan as an ambassador  for   such  a  big  cause   and   impact   is    Today    India   is   declared    Polio  free nation .80% of  the   world   is   polio   free   baring   three  asian  nations  having   maximum  polio  cases Afghanistan,  Pakistan and Nigeria.
Polio was associated with the iron lung, a large metal tank designed to help polio victims suffering from respiratory paralysis breathe.President Franklin Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio in 1921 at the age of 39 and was left paralyzed from the waist down and forced to use leg braces and a wheelchair for the rest of his life. In 1938, Roosevelt helped found the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, later renamed the March of Dimes. The organization was responsible for funding much of the research concerning the disease, including the Salk vaccine trials.The man behind the original vaccine was New York-born physician and epidemiologist Jonas Salk (1914-95). Salk's work on an anti-influenza vaccine in the 1940s, while at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, led him, in 1952 at the University of Pittsburgh, to develop the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), based on a killed-virus strain of the disease. The 1954 field trials that followed, the largest in U.S. history at the time, were led by Salk's former University of Michigan colleague, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr.In the late 1950s, Polish-born physician and virologist Albert Sabin (1906-1993) tested an oral polio vaccine (OPV) he had created from a weakened live virus. The vaccine, easier to administer and cheaper to produce than Salk's, became available for use in America in the early 1960s and eventually replaced Salk's as the vaccine of choice in most countries.Today, polio has been eliminated throughout much of the world due to the vaccine ; however, there is still no cure for the disease and it persists in a small number of countries in Africa and Asia.  There   are   many   in   India    suffering  from    this  disease  and   cursing  there   fate  as   they   are    declared   handicap by  our   handicapped   governence.

Cruelty towards animals ...PETA

The  greatness   of  any   nation  depends   on   the  way  the  animals  are  treated there.  MK   Gandhi