‘STEPS’ free Science Workshop for Class X
Posted by TCYonline.com on July 25, 2008
LUDHIANA, July 25 – ‘STEPS’, the schools’ division of city’s Top Careers & You (TCY), is organizing a two-day free Science workshop for Class X students on Saturday and Sunday (July 26 & 27).
This annual exercise would focus on the chapter on ‘Electricity’, which remains one of the ‘pain points’ of class X Science students.
The workshop, to be held from 4-6 p.m. each day, will be free for all Class X students who have scored over 80 per cent marks in Science. For others there will be a nominal fee of Rs. 300.
“Thanks to lot many misconceptions generated over the years on the vital chapter of Electricity, most of the students remain a confused lot. I think misleading text-books are mainly responsible for this mess-up,” said Mr. Viji Raj, Project Manager, ‘STEPS’ Sarabha Nagar centre. Even some portions of the NCERT textbook may ‘mislead’ the students.
It is believed that this workshop will give the students a crystal clear idea of the concepts involved while dealing with the topic on Electricity. The four-hour workshop, split into two days, will comprise an exhaustive lectures interspersed with multi-media demonstrations and practicals.
A question-answer session will follow every two hours of exhaustive round. Mr. Viji Raj expressed the hope that this workshop would help bettter prepare the students for their Board exams.
Students can register themselves by calling at 4611411, the ‘STEPS’ Sarabha Nagar centre.
It may be noted that ‘STEPS’ is the premier program for Class IX and X of TCY. It has branches throughout Punjab, and Jammu and Kashmir. In Ludhiana, apart from Sarabha Nagar, it has centres at Civil Lines and Jamalpur.
Hundreds of free tests are available on the website, www.tcyonline.com, for different levels of school students which help supplement their classroom education and improve their grades. These tests help the students in analyzing their progress by benchmarking themselves with other students in the country. Tests are also available for various competitive exams being held from time to time at the school level.
‘STEPS’ also trains students for the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) and other Olympiads being conducted at the all-India level. It prepares students for tenth standard board exams and other talent hunt competitions. This program has been into NTSE training for the last seven years now. Students are being trained through postal, online and physical classrooms. So far, scores of students have passed out with flying colours.
