Online or Offline Lectures!

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ONLINE OR OFFLINE?

After Coursera, Udemy and various online teaching platforms, our prestigious colleges started to think of taking online classes which ended a long summer- rainy break for every student who was eating, sleeping, Netflix the whole day.

Now, this schedule has been shifted to lecture-eat-sleep-Lecture. 

After the arrival of these online platforms to study, the demand for online teaching increased after youtube, Coursera, Udemy and various other platforms started to reach to students for different courses or small, simple topics. 

Why students preferred these online lectures? They could do it anywhere, anytime, pause, see it at 2x and many other options were opened up. The students wanted to learn at their convenience so they chose this. 

While being in a school or in a college, 

The big question here is, Are online Lectures the same as offline teaching?

Taking up the similarities we come up to the point that we sleep (toppers aside) and yeah! we are fed up of assignments in both of them. Just sitting and listening without any response has been one of the best parts of any class. Be it offline or online we always sleep late and wake up late w.r.t faculty of the 1st class. 

 

These all points were for against the classes but in favour of the classes, I would like to say that "WE DO STUDY" let it be only for our tests and exams and lately, the number of these assignments and tests have increased soo much that you can assume our amount of study.

Talking about the mischiefs we do in both the type of classes were different.

In the normal classes, we used to shift to the last benches and start humming, making various noises or just quietly ignoring the teachers.

In these online classes, it has been on different levels. Starting from keeping your mics on, and inviting our friends in the classes to do some unique stuff with the video cam on. Everyone would have seen many instances of these kinds of stuff in memes.

Students in the first class

EXAMS!

Yes! They are going too well with small preparations and lots of cheating via our famous WhatsApp university which has helped a lot no. of students to excel in exams and so we are thankful to our Online classes and its methods.

If we get a little serious here for attending these classes with great concentration, it has been tough for us. There have been instances where teachers take classes more than 1.5 hrs also(guidelines have been given by the government to not take a class for more than 45 mins). 

Various problems have also come up with students related to poor connectivity or unavailability of gadgets(There have been funds collected for these purposes and the facility has been provided to students which is rather a very good initiative taken by our college). Apart from this, teachers have been also cooperating with students by giving buffer days for tests and giving more days for assignments. Some of our teachers record their lectures so that students can watch them if there is less connectivity. So, we are really thankful to these teachers for their efforts for cooperating with students.

Yes, both Teachers and the Students have been frustrated by these online ways in some or the other way and from our students. But, on behalf of the students, we want our colleges to be opened and live our normal life rather than being in front of laptops the whole day.

The offline classes are far way better than these online classes and I am too waiting for colleges to reopen and be in the hostel and enjoy with friends and learning from the offline classes is something different and I hope everyone agrees to it!

Hoping to return to our college soon.

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JEE Mains NTA Results- UNFAIR?

JEE Mains - One of the renowned examinations for getting into prestigious Institutions in India.

2020 made everything difficult in the world and so for this examination too. All the aspirants waiting to appear for the April attempt were stalled and stalled from April and then it was this September month they had to give this examination.

 Not long ago the results of the examination were published in which we found many students discontent with their results. This isn't the first time that this happened. Every year, thousands of students feel this way because of many reasons which makes them really sad and feeling too much concerned about their future. Many cases have come up related to suicides committed by this young generation due to a lot of pressure during these exams or due to fewer marks or rank. 

The JEE Mains 2020 April attempt had some unpredicted and unsatisfied results which created hatred for NTA(National Testing Agency) among students. Let's just talk about the reasons why the students felt disheartened after the results.

During the pandemic, students were stalled too much and which gradually increased the competition (We might also consider the fact that many also just left studying considering that the exams wouldn't just be conducted soon enough) but at last we were with an increased amount of competition. It might be one of the reasons.

We have heard a lot about the students complaining about the exam conducted in various shifts (this time 8) and the unfair point in the exam comes to us that the difficulty of the exam varies. 

Also, relatively 26% of students didn't appear for the April attempt due to various reasons of safety while writing exam. Due to this, students appearing for exam on different shifts varies in large amount and which is actually unfair because the percentile of students gets affected and as they had done so much hard work, they weren't able to score good percentile. Students have been complaining about this since the start of online exams.

This all increases the inaccuracy of the results.

One of the main point we would like to mention that the transparency in the result evaluation process of NTA. Since students have every right to know how their rank and percentile got affected, so this is a must that NTA's Officials should take care of.

What now?

As the results have been declared and there is suppose nothing we can do. The students who have qualified for JEE advanced must prepare for it and take the college they get with their marks.

 If you still have chances left and you are unsatisfied with your results, you can think of taking drop and study for the next whole year with full enthusiasm as this is the question of your career.

Many say that they don't want to take a drop. What for them? 

See, if you get any normal college then it is totally fine. It is the study you do in the college and excel in your branch that will determine what package and what value you will have in your life. There have been many examples of students graduating from an average college and working in big companies.

So, It isn't about taking your life or getting depressed for such an exam but to learn from the mistakes and excel in your life.

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Pros and Cons of PUBG

PUBG  - The sensation which stormed the internet with unbelievable speed has become one of the most played game on mobile and it is still looking forward to bring in new updates to make people more fascinated towards it.

Nevertheless, there have been my instances which say that playing this game has become harmful for people of different age groups.

Thus, coming directly to the point -also here we have  Pros and cons of playing PUBG as we discuss here

 Pros-

• We can increase our focusing power as your attentivity increases in the game at each level.
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• Our teamwork increases, as we get to know what is good for the team.
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• Connecting with many random people as we meet in our life so that we know how to talk to them.
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• If you play good enough you can also earn money by playing competitions in regional and national levels. 

Cons-

• Health issues-Eye strain if played for long hours, affected sleep cycle, headaches and may even lead to wearing spectacles, many people even skip meals for the game.
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• Misspending, unwanted use of money for in-game purchases.
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• Takes you into the virtual world and you keep losing offline friends and family.
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• The concentration which is required for doing your work is reduced, as we think of the game more often.

At last, it is recommended to play this game for a limited time in your leisure time so that you stay connected with the real world!

Disclaimer- Here we have no offences against the game.

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