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Critical Analysis on NEET Biology Questions, comparison with Campbell Biology Questions

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All entrance exams only test rote memorization of abstract concepts without testing critical thinking and in-depth knowledge. Questions don't let you think, just requires a recall of abstract data that you have memorized. Today I will review few questions of NEET and compare those questions with Campbell book Look at the question, it's very descriptive, and promotes critical thinking, just reading the question itself makes you think even if you don't know the answer But what NEET will ask The equivalent of a structural gene is: 1) Operon 2) Recon 3) Muton 4) Cistron Believe me, students would have just memorized or linked structural gene with cistron by attempting previous years questions. The questions simply don't make you think. Do the questions address the answer to the question why Cistron is called a structural gene? From the internet: A structural gene is a gene that codes for any RNA or protein product other than a regulatory fact...

CBSE and other boards, All about rote memorization of abstract information

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Most questions of CBSE 12th board, all requires rote memorization of abstract information that adds no understanding to the subject. Let us analyze the style of question in CBSE: This is the question from book Nivaldo J Tro: The question gives some background knowledge,  structures are already given and the question really tests your understanding, not how much you have memorized. Answer:  Option Vitamin C and Vitamin B5 are water soluble as it contains many polar groups and others have large nonpolar groups (Vit K3 and Vit A) so its fat soluble. What type of questions you will expect in CBSE? Name the water soluble vitamins and fat soluble vitamins? or Something like is Vitamin C water soluble?  (The structure of Vitamin C will not be given) How are vitamins classified? Name the vitamin which is fat soluble. "All these questions require rote memorization of vitamins:" Fat soluble vitamins are A D E and K Water soluble vitamins are Vitam...

All books that don't meet the learning criteria must be taken off

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Learning About Learning Resources https://github.com/amiyatulu/teacher_resources Textbook must cover six fundamental instructional strategies while presenting the information, defined by rigorous research. 1) Pairing graphics with words 2) Linking abstract concepts with concrete representations Why we face difficulty to remember abstract concepts? http://technoperiod.blogspot.in/2017/03/why-we-face-difficulty-to-remember-non.html 3)  Posing probing questions "What Makes a Great Question?" rubric Why, how, what if, how do you know, what are the evidences What if and why not helps you to find alternatives to a solution 4) Repeatedly alternating problems with their solutions provided and problems that students must solve. Interleaving  and Component Practice  can be used for better transfer of learning with appropriate cognitive load. 5) Distributing practice 6) Assessing to boost retention Detailed explanation of the strategies i...

What are the problems with grades?

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The problem with grades: 1) Grades are an oversimplification of achievements that say very little about it. They are just numbers which say nothing about what you know or about your working skills. 2) Grades are often biased and are done based upon the context of questions . Sometimes questions are not well made, most often they are just repeats of previous year questions. Because of this they really don't check the critical high order thinking of the children. 3) Malpractice . It is also rampant in our education system. 4) Too much of psychological pressure from parents, teachers to score more, that leads them to depression and sometimes even they take drastic steps like suicide. 5)Grades shift the goal from learning to just marks , which can be achieved by many many means with our inefficient education system. 6) No grades are given for effort , grades are given only for solving hypothetical book problems . I have seen many students struggling in our education syste...

Going away with money and making a currency that counts to unity always.

Going to the beginning of the problem and taking a different way to solve it, instead of money and currency. https://goldsilver.com/hidden-secrets/episode-1/ Note: Money Vs Currency The difference is not money (gold and silver) has value, and currency doesn't have. Actually, they both don't have any value, as it doesn't serve our need. The real difference is we can't create money with time and effort. To take the decision now, we need to understand the past and break the reproducible patterns that don't work in the past, to have a better future. Need Require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable Need is something that is required for us to thrive. Our actual needs are the concrete object like food, clothing, mobiles, computers, services like education, electricity, water, air and endless list. Some of it like air and water, which doesn't require any exchange (we do sell purified water), as they are sufficie...

Future of Money: Removing the negative impacts of money

Just got an idea, we have two types of money, one required for short time for doing an exchange and other for storage. Name it: Exchange bitcoin and Storage bitcoin A centralized server (bitcoin bank) to generate bitcoin money who will keep track of money. Exchange bitcoins will come with an expiry date of one/two month. After bitcoins, are expired you have to reactivate your bitcoins from the centralized generator using your valid identity. In this way, money will remain accountable, can't be misused by anyway and money also can't be concentrated. Also, you can get bitcoins for storage (storage bitcoins), which can never be used to buy services or goods, you can get the storage bitcoins from bitcoin bank exchanging your exchange bitcoin. Storage bitcoins will be tagged with your identity, so you can't exchange it with anyone. Only you can exchange it through bitcoin bank to get exchange bitcoin. Also no chance of hacking, freedom of p2p exchange. No problems at ...

How to make India cashless economy in limited time and solve cash crunch?

Some of the steps that need to be taken: 1) First, inform retailers and shops to use eMoney wallets such as SBI Buddy for taking payments. Also, people to pay with these wallets. It's the MOST IMPORTANT step. Informing is not an easy step, it requires the support of media, all politicians, and volunteers . Digital money transfer through IMPS also costs about Rs 24 per transaction. This has to be completely removed. Transfer costs should be same as that of payment gateways. There is another problem: server load. Are our bank servers ready to make such a huge amount of transaction? How many transactions a bank server per minute can make? I think it has the limited capacity now because transaction fails many of the time, also we don't get OTP. So in order to solve the server issue we need to distribute the load among different apps. With a limited number of transactions possible per an hour. A merchant should install all the apps together to get money, just like merch...