S. Vishnu Sharma
Gujarat state board has happy news in store for aspirants of JEE Mains 2020, NEET 2020 and Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET) 2020. Question bank has been released by Gujarat state board (Education Department, Government of Gujarat) to help the aspirants prepare for the exams.
Question bank of Gujarat state board is made available in Gujarati and English medium. And, it can be accessed on the official website of Gujarat state board ‘http://gujarat-education.gov.in/education/who_are_you/Students/e-questionbank.htm’
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The question bank formed by Gujarat state board contains questions related to various subjects taught at H.S.C. level and S.S.C. level and they can be accessed in English and Gujarati mediums.
Question bank by Gujarat state board for HSC english medium comprises question papers and question bank on each subject namely Biology, Chemistry, Maths-1, Maths-2, Physics. Apart from that, top 2003 question bank is also made available on the same subjects.
The question bank for HSC in Gujarati medium comprises the same except for biology subject which has a practise paper. The effort of Gujarat state board has come in for a praise from various sections.
Similarly, question bank by Gujarat state board for SSC in english medium contains subect index and question papers of English, Maths, Science and Social Studies.
The question bank for SSC Gujarati medium contains index and question bank each for subjects English, Gujarati, Hindi, Maths, Science and Social Studies.
Motive behind making the question bank available is to ensure students can prepare for the exams even though they do not have access to the tutorials, teachers physically owing to lock down caused by corona virus.
The question bank can be accessed by clicking the url ‘http://gujarat-education.gov.in/education/who_are_you/Students/e-questionbank.htm’ and once the website of Gujarat state board for the question bank downloads, students can see ‘e-Question Bank’ title.
Below that there are two links namely ‘HSC (Gujarati/English)’ and ‘SSC (Gujarati/English)’ and students can two links each below these two. While one says ‘Gujarati Medium’ the other link says ‘English Medium.’
Students can click the link as per their medium of instruction to obtain question bank from the website of Gujarat state board.
Measures like providing question bank by Gujarat state board is welcome feel many students. Credit for such measures go to technology. Development of technology in a way has ensured students continue learning during difficult times, say educationists.
About Gujarat state board
On formation of Gujarat state on 1st may, 1960, a department named Education and labour department came into existence.
Social welfare, labour, prohibition, excise and employment were included in Education department. Latter subjects were gradually taken away from education and Labour Department on administrative grounds.
Since August, 1976 Education department came into existence as separate secretariat department, which looks after education including primary education, continuous education, literacy education, secondary education, higher education, technical education, pharmacy education.
A few of the focus areas for the Gujarat state board are continuous education and literacy and universalization of primary education for children in age group 6 to 14.
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In view of wide objectives, education department forms policies on education, supervises implementation and issues orders in the form of guide lines and orders. Thus, the board looks after all matters concerning education. Subjects entrusted to the department under rules of business.
There are two secretaries as heads of Education Department, in which one is Principal Secretary (Education) and another is Secretary (Primary Education). There are seven deputy secretaries and eight under-secretaries. There are various branches dealing in various subjects.
There are 18 section officer (Gazetted class 2). They are heads of the branches. There are 8 Heads of Departments and one statutory board under administrative control of education department. One of the achievements of the Gujarat state board is the Festival of Admission programme, this has been implemented in primary schools of entire Gujarat since 1998-99.