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  • Educational startup helps fulfil underprivileged Bihar students’ dream

    By Express News Service

    GUWAHATI: National Level Common Entrance Examination (NLCEE), owned and administered by the educational startup Edvizo, has helped realise the dream of 30 unprivileged students from Bihar.

    They had dreamt of visiting the campus of an Indian Institute of Technology and the NLCEE took them to the IIT, Guwahati on a four-day educational trip.

    These students, mostly belonging to families of farmers and daily wagers, were selected after a talent hunt exam conducted across Bihar on August 21. More than 1.3 lakh students from Class 9 to graduation had sat for it.

    Organised by IITians, NITians, and IIM graduates, the NLCEE searches for talented candidates, provide exposure and extends maximum support to the unprivileged through scholarships so that they can fulfil their dream of getting a better education.

    The 30 students, whose score was in the top 1 per cent of the total participation in the NLCEE, 2022, received the chance to visit the IIT, Guwahati.

    “We are very proud of our students who have been shortlisted for this trip. The journey will be path-breaking as it will give them a high level of exposure. Such experiences will encourage students in the holistic development of their careers and personalities and motivate them to pursue careers in science and technology,” Suman Kumar Gunjan, central coordinator of NLCEE, said.

    The tour will give the students an enriching experience of how this engineering college of repute functions. There will be projects, department and lab visits, live demonstrations and simulations, group discussions and other activities which will further help the students to dig deeper into the concepts, the NLCEE said in a statement.

    GUWAHATI: National Level Common Entrance Examination (NLCEE), owned and administered by the educational startup Edvizo, has helped realise the dream of 30 unprivileged students from Bihar.

    They had dreamt of visiting the campus of an Indian Institute of Technology and the NLCEE took them to the IIT, Guwahati on a four-day educational trip.

    These students, mostly belonging to families of farmers and daily wagers, were selected after a talent hunt exam conducted across Bihar on August 21. More than 1.3 lakh students from Class 9 to graduation had sat for it.

    Organised by IITians, NITians, and IIM graduates, the NLCEE searches for talented candidates, provide exposure and extends maximum support to the unprivileged through scholarships so that they can fulfil their dream of getting a better education.

    The 30 students, whose score was in the top 1 per cent of the total participation in the NLCEE, 2022, received the chance to visit the IIT, Guwahati.

    “We are very proud of our students who have been shortlisted for this trip. The journey will be path-breaking as it will give them a high level of exposure. Such experiences will encourage students in the holistic development of their careers and personalities and motivate them to pursue careers in science and technology,” Suman Kumar Gunjan, central coordinator of NLCEE, said.

    The tour will give the students an enriching experience of how this engineering college of repute functions. There will be projects, department and lab visits, live demonstrations and simulations, group discussions and other activities which will further help the students to dig deeper into the concepts, the NLCEE said in a statement.

  • Start-up comes to rescue of underprivileged students with free coaching

    By Express News Service

    GUWAHATI: Edvizo, an education start-up, has offered free coaching to 100 “talented and underprivileged” students across India.

    The start-up conducts the National Level Common Entrance Examination (NLCEE) to help the aspirants for competitive exams including JEE, NEET and UPSC. The exam is organised by the alumnus of IITs, NITs and IIMs.

    Through NLCEE, Edvizo searches for talented candidates and provides maximum support to the underprivileged, so that many students can fulfil their dream of a better education. “Students are inundated with information, thanks to the explosion of digital media, but they are also highly confused about their future,” Edvizo said.

    “One hundred meritorious students will get an opportunity for admission in the coaching of their choice across India for various competitive exams like IIT, NEET, UPSC etc. Students can apply directly via the website www.nlcee.org or the mobile app. NLCEE is completely free of charge,” the start-up said in a statement.

    Those preparing for JEE, NEET, state engineering, UPSC, banking, railways, defence and other exams can also apply for the free coaching. Students in grades 9 through 12, as well as graduates, are eligible to take the exam.

    “The exam will be conducted in offline mode on July 31. This will be a three-hour exam with 90 questions to answer. Each correct answer is worth four points, while each incorrect answer is worth one point less. There will be no deduction of marks for questions that are not attempted,” the statement said.

    IPS officer Vikas Vaibhav said, “I am very happy to know about the NLCEE as envisaged by Edvizo established by Ravi Nishantji and his associates as many students are likely to be benefitted under this scheme. I would like to extend my heartiest congratulations to them for this noble work.”

    The organisers of the exam said there is no need for extra preparation for this exam as it is not designed to test one’s technical competency in maths or science, but meant to test one’s aptitude, creativity in problem-solving, logical reasoning and out of the box thinking.