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Multiple choice questions lend themselves to the development of objective assessment items, but without author training, questions can be subjective in nature. Because this style of test does not require a teacher to interpret answers, test-takers are graded purely on their selections, creating a lower likelihood of teacher bias in the results. [8]
The Hindu Young World Quiz is a quiz competition in India. It is a live quiz contest held for students of classes 3 - 9, consisting of a Junior Quiz (classes 3-6) and a Senior Quiz (classes 7-9). It is part of The Hindu's 'Newspapers in Education' initiative. According to The Hindu Young World, it is the biggest live quiz show for middle and ...
Sentence completion tests are a class of semi-structured projective techniques.Sentence completion tests typically provide respondents with beginnings of sentences, referred to as "stems", and respondents then complete the sentences in ways that are meaningful to them.
A truly wise person [...] is known as Prajna - who has attained Brahmanhood itself; thus, testifying to the Vedic Maha Vakya (great saying or words of wisdom): Prajnanam iti Brahman. [41] And according to David Loy, The knowledge of Brahman [...] is not intuition of Brahman but itself is Brahman. [42]
Hinduism identifies six pramanas as correct means of accurate knowledge and to truths: Pratyakṣa (evidence/ perception), Anumāna (inference), Upamāna (comparison and analogy), Arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), Anupalabdhi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and Śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts).
Vakya Vritti is a Vedantic textbook, a small treatise, that concerns itself with the detailed and elaborate explanation of two Mahāvākyas – aham brahmāsmi and tat tvam asi which great Sruti sentences are intended to give a direct perception of Brahman. [1] The Laghu vakya vritti deals with the former vakya only. [2]
The 7th century text Bhaṭṭikāvya in verses 10.28 through 10.63 discusses many types of comparisons and analogies, identifying when this epistemic method is more useful and reliable, and when it is not. [51] In various ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism, 32 types of Upamāna and their value in epistemology are debated. [citation needed]
A 1999 stamp dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the National Defence Academy, featuring its Sudan Block. At the end of World War II, Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, then Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, drawing on experiences of the army during the war, led a committee around the world and submitted a report to the Government of India in December 1946.