Education+in+India


 * Education in **** India **

- Education is divided into preprimary, primary, middle (or intermediate), secondary (or high school), and higher levels. - Primary school includes children of ages six to eleven, organized into classes one through five. - Middle school is aged eleven to fourteen are organized into classes six through eight. - High school students ages fourteen through seventeen are enrolled in classes nine through twelve. - Higher education include technical schools, colleges, and universities. [|://www.indiaedu.com/]

- There are public schools and formal schools in India. Formal schools are private religious based schools which are more expensive than the public schools.

- Wealthy schools such as the formal schools are able to provide classrooms with desks and other resources, while the schools in the more poor part of the country cannot. In the poor parts of India known as the "slums" children who attend school often have to sit on the ground.



- The grading scale is organized as follows: Below 35% - Fail Between 35% to 49%-Third divison Between 50% to 60% - Second Divison Above 60%- First divison All good schools and colleges in India have students with score ranging from 80% to 97.

Official Grading System
 * **Percentage** || **RangeGradeU.S.** || **Grade** || **(Unofficial)Class/Division** ||
 * 60-100% || A || 3.5-3.7 || First Class/Division ||
 * 55-59% || B+ || 3.3-3.5 || Second Class/Division ||
 * 50-54% || B/B- || 3.0-3.3 || Second Class/Division ||
 * 45-49% || C+ || 2.1-2.7 || Third Class/Division ||
 * 35-44% || C/C- || 1.5-2.0 ||  ||
 * Less than 40% || F || 0 || Fail ||


 * ** Scale ** || ** U.S. **** Grade Equivalents ** ||
 * 60-100 || A  ||
 * 55-59 || B+  ||
 * 50-54 || B  ||
 * 43-49 || C+  ||
 * 35*-42 || C  ||
 * 0-34 || F  ||

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-State governments provide most educational funding, although since independence the central government increasingly has assumed the cost of educational development as outlined under the five-year plans. India spends an average 3 percent of its GNP on education. Spending for education ranged between 4.6 and 7.7 percent of total central government expenditures. -80% of all recognized schools at the Elementary Stage are government run or supported, making it the largest provider of education in the Country. - With the shortage of resources and lack of political will, the system suffers from massive gaps which includes poor level of teacher training.

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- Both genders are allowed to go to school in India. - Because of the expenses some people do not get the opportunity to get an education. - Compared to boys, far fewer girls are enrolled in the schools, and many of them drop out. Women have much lower literacy rate than men in India because of this. []

- There use to be very low literacy rates in India. - When India was independent, there were only about 12% of literate Indians. - Now about half the population of India is literate. - Literacy and educated people in India has impressively increased within the last few decades thanks to the effort of creating more schools to solve this problem. - Every ten years the literate population of India goes up by about 10%. -To improve national literacy, the central government launched a wide-reaching literacy campaign in July 1993. - India now has numerous formal schools with numerous qualified teachers and universities that offer a number of under graduate and post graduate courses.

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