Importance of Meditation In a Student's Life

A student’s life is one among the busiest lives of human beings. Getting up early in the morning, staying active all-time in school, attending coaching and tuition, spending some time on sports activities and the devoting some time to self-study is a daily routine of most of the students. Being a student, you all might also get tired by the end of the day and would look for alternatives to relax your mind and soul.  Well! The solution is on the tips of your fingers. Not able to figure it out? Let me help you. Meditation. Mediation is the remedy to all your stress.

Meditation has from ancient times been the sole solution to your pain and problems. They contribute directly to your mental focus and concentration. To own flexibility of mind and thoughts, one should always go for meditation. Proven through research and studies, meditation has a biochemical effect on the human body and helps in relieving mental tension. Decreased production of neurotransmitter dopamine along with an increase in the oxytocin hormone results in an overall feeling of well-being and trust. Listed below are some of the major benefits of meditation I a student’s life.

Regaining Strength

Being students, you have to toggle between various activities and so strength and endurance are very important for you. Meditation helps you regain that strength. Breathing techniques improve your air intake and therefore you tend to get less tired. You gain calmness of mind and soul and can carry out your day to day activities very smoothly. Meditation helps you in gaining your mental, physical and spiritual strength. All you have to do is to sit in a quiet place and think nothing about the future or the past. Just be in the present!

Flexibility of Mind

With meditation comes a greater flexibility of mind. 15 minutes of meditation can lead your mind to work more efficiently.  You would be able to imbibe your lessons thoroughly and also be able to develop newer ideas in your mind. And most importantly, you would be able to feel the difference yourself. The functioning of your mind would improve significantly and you would be able to study for longer hours. Meditating for 15-20 minutes is equal to 1 hour of sleep and hence it is a short way to refresh your mind and start working again.

Relieving Stress

Meditation focuses on your inner peace and relieves your mind of any mental stress. Clear away the unnecessary thoughts overload that your mind is indulged into and get into a state of relaxation and tranquil mind. Increasing self-awareness is one of the key roles of meditation and it eliminates negative thoughts thus resulting in reduced stress levels.

Fighting Diseases

Meditation is a cure to many diseases like insomnia, high blood pressure, various heart problems and cancer. Regular meditation can increase your threshold of pain and relieve you of all kinds of diseases. Chronic diseases in students like arthritis, obesity and other respiratory diseases can also be cured through meditation. A significant balance is achieved in the circulatory system during meditation, as it cleanses the body of pathogens. Thus meditation causes a day by day strengthening of the body.

So, take a step towards a healthy life and include meditation in your day to day activity. This is not only recommended specifically for students but for people of all age groups. Because meditation is the “mantra” to a healthy and successful life.  

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Online Education with Volte

Technology is playing a vital role in our day to day life, whether we take its involvement into our household works or we take its contributions in our education. Technology reduced the physical exhaustion and made our life more comfortable. Technology revolutionized the system of education as now one can learn anything of his or her own interest without actually being physically present at the Centre of learning. Earlier the introduction of technology to the education system was highly debatable but improvisation of the technology changed the scenario.

Here, the most important thing to note is that 95% of the technology is totally dependable over the speed of the internet. Therefore, it became necessary to improvise the speed of internet from 2G to VOLTE. This change from 2G internet to 4G internet has given a boom to learning. Voice over long-term evolution or simply VOLTE technology which supports 4G internet provided the students with 3x and 4x speed as compared to 2G and 3G internet.

As VOLTE technology enabled our mobile handset to run over advanced internet facility therefore with the help of 4G network majority of students and even teachers got the variety of learning tools at their fingertips. This learning through the internet and VOLTE technology is called as Online learning which is much more comfortable compared to the traditional regular classes.

Here are some advantages of VOLTE technology in online education, which would eventually benefit a learner.

Teacher-Teacher-Student communication

The advanced technology of the fast internet has given a wide scope of skill improvement on both the ends. It allowed a teacher to communicate and learn from the other teachers across the globe which ultimately helped in the elimination of the shortcomings in the teaching methods and providing a student with the best available solutions. Students also got the benefit as they could now, using the online education, get in touch with other students as well as with the best teachers in the world at any point of time.

Development of research skills

VOLTE technology and its application to the online education, has provided a student with a link to a huge expanse of knowledge available online. A student can do research on their favorite topic and make the best notes. This linked opportunity enabled a student to practice research which would ultimately give advantageous skills of researching needed if a student goes for higher studies.

Comfort + Online education = Better results

It’s observed that a huge number of students do not give a satisfactory result when they are opting for face to face learning, but the same student is much more productive when learning online. Online education with a VOLTE technology could be a treasure for such students who promise a better result in their own pace.

There are numerous examples available online, if one does the research, that when education is mixed up with the latest technology it provides better outcomes. I will give you some outstanding ones to provide you with the realistic picture of the benefits of online education.

The Flipped Classrooms

This is a new method of making a student more interactive and productive. This is a kind of gift to those students who can learn better at home watching and be listening to videos and audios provided by their teachers. The next day, the same teacher calls for a group discussion between the students where they can share their knowledge and develop a new set of understanding to the concept, a more realistic and applicable one.

Self-Assessments

Apps like Self-enabler allows you to assess yourself using your mobile. It allows a student to solve questions of the classes and chapters of their own choice which acts like a mirror in which students can judge his/her knowledge on his/her own. A student can use these apps to check their everyday understanding of the concepts taught in their classes on a very particular day. This also enables a student to ask questions in the classroom, which is obviously making a student more interactive, and no doubt in the improvement in marks.

I encourage you to think more ways in which technology has improved education and give your valuable comment.

Written By : Shoryabh Srivastava

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The Ultimate Guide is NCERT Sample Papers

Students are very sensitive when it comes to their examinations. They consider these exams as life maker or life breaker situation/task. It is a societal made fact that exams play an important role in shaping one’s career and deciding the type of opportunity that a student can grab. Whatever we study in our student life is obviously going to help us in cracking other competitive or scholarship exams.

 In today’s market, on one hand, where there is a huge competition for achieving high grades, on the other hand, the same market is flooded with N number of sample papers. Many of them are copied also. All these situations ultimately leave a student into a chaos when it comes to choosing in between all these components of the education system.

 In order to help students out from this chaos of choosing, I tried to find out which sample paper is best suited and can provide an ultimate solution to almost all the queries of a student. I found that NCERT sample papers are the best available solution to the difficulties faced by a student and could play an important role in acting as a guide to a student in achieving high grades in their exams.

 I have put the list of benefits a student would get from NCERT sample papers. So, read the following below-

Elimination of fear

Worst feeling that haunts anyone is the feeling of what strange things could come in their way. The worst feeling one faces in his/her entire student life is having a blank idea of what’s going to come in the exam in which /he/she is going to appear. The NCERT sample papers are designed to make a student familiar with the pattern and type of questions that he/she could face during the exam in the examination hall. Practicing from these sample papers could help a student in overcoming his/her fear, stress and anxiety evolved due to the unknown pattern of the exam.

Authentic and reliable

These NCERT sample papers are tested and prepared by keeping in mind the syllabus and psychology of the student studying in a particular class. Therefore, they are both authentic and reliable. These papers are totally based upon the CBSE pattern of the syllabus which a student is studying every day and even provides a detailed solution to the toughest possible question asked.

 Self Enabling

Just by solving NCERT sample papers a student can make his/her knowledge and understanding enabled enough to participate in any competition whether that competition is in the attire of school examination or in the face of scholarship test. These sample papers are designed in such a way that practicing from it on a regular basis gets a student more clarity in the understanding of the concept and makes him/her more speedy and accurate with solving the problems.

 Time management

As these sample papers are designed to make students familiar with the pattern of examination, therefore, a student could learn to manage time by practicing from these papers which could ultimately help him/her in the exams in which he/she is going to appear. These papers could provide them with the environment same as the examination hall if the student is honest regarding the self-assessment.

 Boosts confidence level

We cannot underestimate the importance of confidence a student has if, he has prepared well for the examination. Preparation comes from practice and NCERT sample papers are the ultimate guide to confidence which would be useful for the exam.

Do comment if you have something to share which I forgot in my blog. See you soon with some other topic.

                      Have a nice and wonderful life. Keep :-)

 Written By: Shoryabh Srivastava

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Online Tutor: A Guru on Internet

Struggling with last minute doubts while revising certain topics before exams? Need a guide who is all time ready to help you? If your head nods a yes, then my dear friend, I think I know the best solution for your problem. The best solution, I am talking about, is that one person who is with you 24*7 to solve your problems, that person, who you can always confide in during your exam days. This person is none other than your tutor. When we talk of tutor, the very first image which comes to our mind is of a person who gives lectures and takes classes in personal using a real time platform. If you really visualize a tutor like this, then answer a question. When you feel stuck at any point just the last night before exam, how will you consult your tutor? How will you convey your queries to him and how will he solve your problems? Obviously, no one will text or call his tutor at 12 in the night. It is at this point, a friend comes at your service. He is the ‘ONLINE TUTOR’ who will be ready to help you at any time.

Who is an Online Tutor?

An online tutor is a person who will help you with your studies at any time. He provides us the lectures and notes using a completely virtual environment. The sessions are done using the internet and this virtual environment is nothing but your personal computer or smart-phone. Unlike your personal home tutor who gives you lessons at your home, online tutor provides you the lessons at your fingertips anytime when you need them.

His Way of Teaching

This online friend of ours does this smart work by the technique called online tutoring. Online tutoring is the way of providing education with a blend of technology. In this process, the student consults the tutor for any type of queries or doubts. Productive video lectures and more precise notes are provided. Online tutoring helps a student to keep up the pace with the class if he is lagging behind in classroom topics. This platform gives a supportive personal approach rather than an impersonal classroom environment.

Benefits of Consulting an Online Guru

Having an online guru has its own benefits. Different sessions like online classes, discussions, and doubt classes are just a click away. You can actively take part in them without being present there physically. One of the many advantages of an online tutor is that a student can consult him anytime. Whether it be 8 in the morning or 7 in the evening or be it the midnight, he can be asked the question at any time and anywhere in the world.

With this trend of online tutoring, the line “Tutor is out of town” is outdated. Now, the availability of your tutor is not an issue to think upon. 

So, next time when your tutor is home away and you are stuck in a topic, prefer an online guru on the internet. This will help you resolve your problem in no time and give you a better supportive experience. 

Written by: Shalini Chauhan

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Is Ragging an Essential Part of College Life?

Ragging is the biggest fear of college life in a student. When freshers enter the college, they make themselves prepared for the different kinds of tasks and absurd activities that their seniors would make them do. Parents also recommend their children to do as they are directed by their seniors and avoid any kind of argument with them as that may lead to even harsher consequences. But is this the way it is meant to be? Are things heading in the right direction? If you would ask me, my answer would be in the negative. Bulling freshers in a way that has a negative impact on their persona and mental health is not what “Ragging” is meant for. College ragging has to have that fun element in it. It should be interactive and involving and in a way should bridge the gap between the seniors and juniors of an institution.

But such is not the case! Recently, in IIT Kanpur, 22 students of second year have been suspended from college. Freshers had filed complaints against them saying that they were made to do formidable tasks, were abused and bullied. Some of the freshers had even complained that they were forced to strip by their seniors which had left them embarrassed and humiliated. Some accusations of sexual harassment were also found to be true. Such cases of ragging in colleges have been seen since many years but for the first time it is being noticed that strict actions are being against those accused.

This is just a small step towards the unjust act of ragging. It is high time that we take strict actions against those committing such crime. Ragging does both physical and mental torture to students. Forcing students to do bizarre tasks that involve their humiliation is not an activity that should be supported by the universities and colleges. Regular torture affects the confidence of the students and imposes a negative effect on them for a life time. In many cases, the students are not able to overcome the mental torture and it stays with them forever. This even leads to isolation and depression for many students.

A survey conducted in 2016 showed that 164 students committed suicide because of intense ragging activities in colleges in India and this rate has been considerably increasing with time. To control this number, anti-ragging affidavit has been passed in colleges that prohibit any such kind of activity to be carried out in the college premises. An anti-ragging helpline number has also been allotted to colleges where any student who is a victim of ragging can call for help.

Freshers are meant to be welcomed in a new college or university. Seniors should lend a helping hand to them and not play serious pranks that could threaten their life. Every coin has two faces. And so has “Ragging”. If conducted in a playful manner, ragging can be fun and create a friendly atmosphere in an organization but the reverse can have a severe effect on the life of students. 

Let us all stand together against brutal ragging so that the lives of blameless students are saved from exploitation

Written By: Anamika Jakhmola

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How National Scholarship Will Help You Get a Better Grip On Your Studies

Mr. Rajat Gupta was never sure how he could become a mechanical engineer, which was his lifelong dream. The financial burden and prices of books seemed to be unbearable for him. As soon as he got to know about the national scholarship program which existed to overcome those hurdles created by the financial crisis in a student’s life.

Because of these scholarship programs, there are hundreds of students out there who get admissions for higher studies and are able to take a step forward to achieve their dreams. These scholarships help them conquer the financial setbacks which act like a wall between student and his/her dreams.

In a student’s life, the main motto should be focusing on his or her studies rather than paying the bills. Here, scholarships play an important role. I remember a survey conducted by the U.S Board of Labor Statistics in 2009 it was recorded that there are 45 percent of the students who are working for wages while attending the schools/colleges which ultimately leave him or her with less time to focus on the studies. If a student is aware of any National Scholarship program then he or she could take the benefit from it and make himself/herself enabled to just focus on the primary duty of his or her as a student.

The funds that a student could win from taking part in a scholarship program would not only provide a grip on the subjects during the course but also cover the costs of accommodation, tuition and travel.

There is also a myth that exists in regard to the scholarships which is that many of us think that scholarships are designed for those students who are suffering from a great financial crisis and are living in the search of financial assistance to fulfill the demands of their course. But the truth is that applying for the scholarship and winning it would be beneficial for a student in many other ways with the recipient of the award. A student could compete to get the scholarship funds as well as he would also get the recognition and prestige which could add up to the student’s educational transcript.

Just winning a scholarship will definitely boost the self-esteem of a student. It is also true that applying for the scholarship does not mean that you would win it also. Doesn’t matter one can try to win it next time.   

Written By: Shoryabh Srivastava

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Why You Should Stop Pursuing Stereotype Courses

What!! Are you planning to pursue the same B.Tech, MBBS, B.Ed and other such stereotypical courses after completing your school? Well then! You will only become yet another engineer, doctor and teacher who would then spend ample time to find a decent job for yourself. But is it that you really want to do! Do you not think of stepping out of the league and pursuing something different? Something unusual and not so common! If so, then I would say that you are thinking in the right direction. It is time that you pursue something distinctive that would open doors of career opportunities for you. Here’s why you should stop pursuing just another stereotypical course.

Diverse Variety of Courses

Times have gone when every household either had one doctor or one engineer. Today there are a series of courses for students to choose from. All you need to know is your field of interest and you can pick up your desired course. Fashion Designing, Bachelors in game design, Bachelors degree in Ecotechnology and other such fascinating courses exist that hold a great career prospect for you in the future. So, there is no need for you to pursue the same stereotypical course.

Better Ways to Explore Yourself

With a series of different courses comes a series of opportunities to explore oneself. You can go for anything you like. For instance, if you love clicking pictures you can pursue a course in photography, if you enjoy traveling you can pursue a course to become a travel guide, if you want to become a journalist you can pursue journalism and so on and so forth. Hence, as I told you earlier, you will get a clearer gist of what you are actually meant to be.

Reduces Career Prospects

Following the same monotonous affair of becoming the same old Jane and doing the same old study sounds too boring. With every second child pursuing the same degree, the value of the course also decreases and so does the value of the student doing the course. As more and more students pile on the same course, it gives birth to more and more universities offering the same course and this reduces the significance of the degree. Whereas, if you pursue a different course there is not much traffic and your chances of learning and becoming successful are more.

Increases Competition

As a maximum number of the population is running behind the stereotypical degrees, it becomes important to excel in the field to gain some prominence. That is a little difficult as with more people comes more competition. So, why not choose a path less trodden by to shape your destiny. A new path would, of course, have more difficulties but these difficulties will help you achieve success.

So, what are you still thinking! Just break the line and choose a career or filed that interests you. For success will only come your way when you enjoy the work you have chosen for yourself!

 Written By: Anamika Jakhmola

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