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  2. Indian Certificate of Secondary Education - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) is a certificate awarded upon satisfactory result in an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private board designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 2020 (), through the medium of English.

  3. Central Board of Secondary Education - Wikipedia

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    However, the Term-I examination was criticised by many for having wrong answer keys, tough question papers and wrong or controversial questions, with a question being dropped in Sociology exam of class 12 and a paragraph in the English Language and Literature exam for class 10 by CBSE following which CBSE dropped the experts who set the ...

  4. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    The poem Sabse Khatarnak by the Hindi poet Pash was included in the NCERT textbook for 11th standard Hindi students in 2006. In 2017, the BJP government affiliated RSS tried to remove it but failed. [25] [26] The NCERT made two controversial changes to the class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence’ in 2017.

  5. Education in India - Wikipedia

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    As a part of the tenth Five-year Plan (2002–2007), the central government of India outlined an expenditure of 65.6% of its total education budget of ₹ 438 billion (US$5.1 billion) i.e. ₹ 288 billion (US$3.3 billion) on elementary education; 9.9% i.e. ₹ 43.25 billion (US$500 million) on secondary education; 2.9% i.e. ₹ 12.5 billion (US ...

  6. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    Textbooks written in Pashto distributed to Afghan school children. A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions, but also of learners (who could be independent learners ...

  7. United Nations geoscheme - Wikipedia

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    22 geographical subregions as defined by the UNSD. Antarctica is not shown.. The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1]

  8. Qutb Minar - Wikipedia

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    [2] [27] The tower tapers, and has a 14.3 metres (47 feet) base diameter, reducing to 2.7 metres (9 feet) at the top of the peak. [28] It contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps. [29] [1] At the foot of the tower is the Quwat Ul Islam Mosque. The Minar tilts just over 65 cm from the vertical, which is considered to be within safe limits. [30]

  9. Amazon basin - Wikipedia

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    The largest, the arapaima and piraiba can reach 3 m (9.8 ft) or more in length and up to 200 kg (440 lb) in weight, making them some of the largest strict freshwater fish in the world. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The bull shark and common sawfish , which have been recorded far up the Amazon, may reach even greater sizes, but they are euryhaline and often ...