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Scouts and Guides  are asked  to be in proper uniform and attend the All Faith Prayer meeting conducted at National Headquarters.It will be telecasted via BSG You Tube Channel link https://www.youtube.com/bsgindia 

Scouts and Guides are expected to take a photo when they view / attend the All Faith Prayer and send it to the cl Tr who in turn will send it to us for compilation and updating .

 Date: 13.9.20

 Time: 8.00am

10 best children's books by Enid Blyton 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/world-book-day-enid-blyton-books-best-series-famous-five-secret-seven-a8810566.html

8 easy steps to boost your self confidence

Self-confidence is believing or trusting in one’s own capabilities regardless of how others think of you or your own imperfections.

By Taniya Choudhury

• Published on 29.6.2020

Being confident will help you get noticed among friends, perform better, and is good for your emotional health and personal well-being. Illustration: Shutterstock

Confidence is one of the key factors that determine success in life. It doesn’t matter whether you are a high-school student, a fresher in college, or a newly passed out hoping to land your dream job, your self-confidence level will help you achieve your educational goals as well as your career growth.

College life is one of the most important phases in a student’s life. It is much more competitive and can be very challenging for young adults who leave the comfort of their school life and enter into a completely new environment in college. 

Some students who are extremely shy or hesitant often fail to interact or connect with other fellow students and find it difficult to settle in the new environment. On the other hand, being confident will help you get noticed among friends, perform better, and is good for your emotional health and personal well-being. 

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Having said that, one must remember that building self-confidence is a gradual process and takes time. Let us now explore a few ways that will help you believe in yourself and be more productive in your life. 

What is Self-Confidence?

Self-confidence is believing or trusting in one’s own capabilities regardless of how others think of you or your own imperfections.

Self-confidence and self-esteem compliment each other and the latter happens when you start to respect yourself and are ready to take on new challenges, accept setbacks or rejection, and stand up for your dignity and rights. 

8 Easy Tips to Boost your Confidence:

People who suffer from low self-worth or confidence are constantly judging their capabilities and fail to achieve success in their lives. On the contrary, confident people are not only successful, but are happier, make positive choices, are good leaders, and encourage others around them. Let us now have a look into some of the ways to boost our confidence level.

• Accept Your Flaws

The first step in building a positive image is to accept your strengths as well as the weaknesses. Nobody is born perfect. Self-acceptance will help you embrace your flaws and overcome your fear. It will also help you to understand the nature of your weakness and overcome it. For example, you want to pursue a career in singing but the mere thought of performing on stage makes you anxious. Well, you definitely do not want to give up your dreams. To control nervousness, start performing in small groups or family gatherings. This will help you overcome your fear in no time.

• Practice Self-Praise

Now that you know about your flaws, it's time to focus on your achievements. Review your past awards and achievements. Stop comparing yourself with others and focus less on what others think of you. Motivate yourself with positive affirmations. Every morning once you wake up, take a piece of paper and write down a few of your achievements or positive statements about you. We all are born with some natural gifts. Embrace them and your uniqueness will be your greatest strength. 

• Work on your Body Language

Your body language can speak a million words even if you don’t. Stop branding yourself as a shy and awkward person. Believe that you are a confident person and start acting like one. Always take an open posture, stand straight, and do not slouch while you are talking to someone. Wear a smile. It gives out positive vibes and makes you look more composed and confident. If you are an introvert and shy away from face-to-face communication, it's time to take action. Engage more with people and do not avoid eye contact. You may be hesitant in the beginning but will gradually gain confidence.

• Dress Up

Confidence comes with physical care. Some people are too conscious about their body especially those who are suffering from obesity or any physical deformity. Smart outfits and accessories will boost your inner confidence and give you a sense of authority. For students who are going for campus placements or job interviews, you must work on your self-image and dress up professionally. Do regular exercises. They are great stress busters and will help to tone your body muscles and make you look more confident.

• Set Goals

It is important to set goals. Try out new things that you are passionate about like music, dance, art classes, etc. Make personal changes that make you feel better. Attend seminars and workshops and learn about new things. Try to meet challenges that you have never tried before or been afraid to do like rock climbing or horse riding. This will make you believe that nothing is impossible.

• Be Assertive

Shy people often speak in a very low voice. Speak out loudly, take a seat in the front row, and make yourself visible to others. If you are being bullied in school, college, or at your workplace, it's time to take action. Confront them and talk to them and make them believe that their actions are harmful. Set personal boundaries. Take charge of your life. Do not let others harm your mental peace and well-being.

• Surround Yourself with Like-minded People

Surround yourself with friends that make you feel comfortable and happy about yourself. You are not here to please everyone. Spend time with people who appreciate and encourage you. Distance yourself from toxic people who harm your mental peace. Join social groups or activity clubs and indulge yourself in programs and events which will bring the best out of you.

• Learn to Take Rejections

You must learn to take rejections and criticisms. Sometimes your professor may point out a mistake or a friend may make a harsh comment. Try to take criticism constructively and use it to improve yourself. Avoid missing lectures simply because you are not good on that subject or you are afraid of the faculty. This will only worsen the situation and make you more nervous.

Let confidence do the talking for you!

Common mistakes in an entrance examination and how to avoid

Even the mention of college entrance examination is enough to stress many students out these days. Extreme competition and the pressure to perform well to secure admission to a good college are to be blamed for this. However, these are required to be dealt with as getting into a good college and preferred course is the first step towards a successful career. 

But the sheer stress that comes along with the preparations often lead to some uncalled-for mistakes in the entrance exam, thereby narrowing down the chances of getting selected. This is the reason why the students need to be extra careful and avoid making those mistakes.  

Here we list out some common mistakes that students tend to make during an entrance examination and need to be avoided at any cost for a better future.

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Not Reading Questions Properly

Often students don’t read the question paper correctly, majorly due to stress and in the hurry to complete all the questions. This can lead to misunderstanding or misinterpreting a question and consequently a wrong answer, thereby jeopardising your chances to score well.

Stay calm, take time to read all the questions carefully before you start answering. This would help prevent unnecessary mistakes and ensure a higher probability of doing well in the entrance test. 

Unplanned answering

A very basic step to do well in your entrance test or any other exam is to have a well-planned strategy. Without that, often students tend to get scared in the examination hall, fail to complete all the questions and fare badly. 

Learn some time saving tactics during your preparations and mock tests. This would be extremely helpful in choosing which questions to answer first and completing the entire paper on time. 

Panicking Too Much

Another common mistake that students tend to make during the entrance test is to panic. Agreed, it is obvious to get stressed; but panicking too much wouldn’t do any good either. Rather, panic would lead to wrong answers or slowing down the pace of answering, both of which can ruin your chances of faring well.   

So, take hold of your mind, stay positive, believe in your strength and preparations, let go of unnecessary panic. Answering the questions will be much easier. 

Not Keeping Time for Revision

In an entrance exam, not only do you have to answer each question correctly, but avoid silly mistakes too. This is necessary because silly mistakes can cost you some marks unnecessarily. This is where revision of the answer script comes handy, to identify and correct those mistakes, Despite the obvious pressure to perform well, therefore, keeping aside some time for revision is needed. So, plan well beforehand, follow a strategy in attempting and answering the questions in a way that you have some time left in hand. This would surely be helpful. 

Lack of Sleep

Often students don’t sleep well on the night before the entrance test, due to the pressure they deal with and in an attempt to use the time to study further. But in turn, not having proper sleep and rest can affect you mentally and physically as well. That creates more stress and panic, leading to unnecessary mistakes and irrational thought processes, ruining your chances of scoring well. 

Here you need to remember that adequate sleep is important for improved brain functioning and stronger memory. So, make sure to rest well on the night before the exam. 

Final Note

All of these mistakes are common, yet avoidable. So, make sure you are not making them. Wish you a good performance and a bright future!  

Top 21 Competitive Exams to appear in after your board exams

Passing the class XII board exams marks the beginning of a fresh lease of academic journey - higher studies. With a plethora of choices available, in terms of courses, streams and subject options, students need to pick their desired career path and secure admission to them. That requires cracking various national level competitive exams too. Alongside, there are few such exams for joining a certain govt. sector jobs and national services also. 

These national level competitive exams are entrance tests, designed to pick eligible candidates for the desired courses. Government sector jobs and national services also rely on the same. Most of the science stream students are familiar with the idea of All India exams for entry to the engineering and medical courses. But there are other national level exams too, meant for the arts and commerce students as well as for those seeking offbeat career options.

Here's a list of the top competitive exams at a glance:

MEDICAL

• National Eligibility Entrance Exam for UnderGraduate (NEET UG): Entrance cum eligibility test for MBBS/BDS courses.

• Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) Entrance Exam: The All India entrance exam for admission in this premier medical institute that offers career opportunities in the Indian Defence services medical branch. 

• All India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT): This CBSE-conducted exam is the entrance test for government medical/dental colleges under Delhi University, AFMC, BHU, Jamia Hamdard and also for medical colleges in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh.

• AIIMS Entrance Exam: This is meant for admission into MBBS programs in AIIMS Institutes of New Delhi, Rishikesh, Jodhpur, Bhopal, Nagpur, Guntur, Patna, Raipur, and Bhubaneswar. 

Other than these, there are more All India Entrance Exams like CMC-Vellore, CMC-Ludhiana, COMED-K, JIPMER, Manipal (MBBS), AMU(MBBS), BHU Medical.

ENGINEERING

• Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main: Meant for admissions in premier engineering colleges like the NITs, IITs and centrally funded technical institutions like IIST.

• JEE Advanced: Scoring qualifying marks in JEE Mains makes a candidate eligible for this final screening entrance for the IITs, State and Central engineering institutes and NIIT and ISM Dhanbad.

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test (BITSAT) entrance exam: This test is for bachelor degree engineering courses in Technology, Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Pharmacy, and Management courses at Birla Institute of Technology & Science.

• National Aptitude Test (NATA): Entrance exam for the Bachelor of Architecture courses in India in Government and private colleges of Architecture.

Private institutes and state level engineering courses also have entrances like JEE West Bengal, COMED-K, Manipal (B. Tech), IPU-CET (B. Tech), IISC-Bangalore, VITEEE, AMU (B. Tech), KIIT, Assam CEE etc.

LAW AND CHARTERED ACCOUNTANCY

• Common Law Admission Test (CLAT): All-India entrance exam for admission in undergraduate and postgraduate courses of Law (L.L.B and L.L.M), offered by 14 National Law universities (NLUs).

• Law School Admission Test (LSAT) India: Meant for admission in B.A. L.L.B (Hons) in participating colleges like Amity, ITM Gurgaon, Faculty of Law Dehradun, RGSOIPL, UPES Dehradun.

• All India Law Entrance Test (AILET): This is for entry into B.A., LL.B. (Hons.)

• CPT for Chartered Accountancy: Common Proficiency Test (CPT) is conducted by the Council of the Institute Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

HOTEL MANAGEMENT

• National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology (NCHMCT) Entrance Exam: The entrance test after class 12 for the regular full time 3 years B.Sc Degree course in Hospitality and Hotel Administration, jointly with National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology and Indira Gandhi National Open University.

FASHION

• National Institute of Fashion Technology Entrance Exam (NIFT): An entrance exam for courses in fashion design, technology, and management at NIFT, that has a network of 15 centres across India.

• National Institutes of Design Entrance Exam (NID): Meant for admission to professional education in Industrial, Textile, IT and Communication design at NID, an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GOI.

• All India Entrance Examination for Design (AIEED): Entrance test for admission in 4 years’ undergraduate level program in design.

Private institutes offering fashion and design courses after class 12 also conduct their separate entrance exams.

AVIATION

• Candidates seeking a career as an air hostess or flight steward can appear in entrance exams of various private institutes for the training courses.

Entrance test for Government jobs and National Services

Students who prefer joining the national services or Government sector jobs right after class 12, need to appear in and crack the respective entrance exams. 

MARINE, NAVY, DEFENCE

• National Defence Academy (NDA) and Naval Academy (NA) Exams:  NDA and NA entrance exams are selection processes for Army, Air Force, and Navy.

• Indian Maritime University Common Entrance Test: This All India entrance for science stream students offer admission in Diploma in Nautical Science (DNS) with a BSc. (Nautical Science) degree.

• Indian Navy B.Tech Entry Scheme: This test is meant for the Indian Navy B.Tech course.

• Indian Navy Sailors Recruitment: A competitive exam for science background students to enter basic training at INS Chilka, followed by professional training.

• Indian Army Technical Entry Scheme (TES): Class 12 students with PCM background can appear for this.

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