TIPS FOR PHYSICS EXAM
Gyan Bharati School, Saket, shared with students tips to help them prepare for the Physics exams. Accordingly, the teachers suggested that since Physics is an applied subject and that the general trend in previous years’ papers is that of application-based questions. Questions that seek definition of the quantities as well as those on derivations are very few. Suggestions were given to help the students during last-minute preparations. They were advised to thoroughly practice circuit, ray and block diagrams.
The students were told to prepare a list of all the formulae and to revise them. While reading any quantity or deriving an expression, all possible cases should be studied and the particular factors on which that quantity depends identified. For example, when completing the formula for the focal length of a lens, students should find out how the focal length would depend on the radii of curvatures, wavelength of light and the refractive index of the lens material as well as of the medium. If one reads the definition of susceptibility, find out what difference it would make if it is negative or positive and how does it change? A similar approach should be used for all quantities covered in the book. Students have to master all the factors on which each and every quantity depends.
The students were also advised to reach the centre well in time, read the questions carefully, write legibly only as much as has been asked and to use the scale and pencil to draw ray diagrams.
Lala highlighted the chief guest’s achievements during his tenure with the IT department.
The school report was read out by presidents of the school cabinet, Sandeed Farooq and Manya Nagarajan. Then awards and certificates were presented to students for inter-house competitions and overall excellence. The programme was anchored by senior school headmistress Shivani Gupta.
The event began with awards being given to winners of the inter-house competitions like Fusion Dance, Laghu Natika, Hasya Kavi Sammelan, Prime Time, to name a few. The programme ended with the chief guest thanking principal Rina Singh and the school’s director Madhulika Sen, for giving him an opportunity to attend the ceremony and travel down memory lane. He congratulated all the prize winners, shared learnings from his own life and urged students to balance their academics with sports and co-curricular activities. He urged teachers and parents to encourage children to balance the use of technology with life skills and emotions. The chief guest also said it was imperative to sustain the human factor in a world driven by AI and machine learning.
Of special mention during the cultural programme was a Sanskrit song set to a western tune composed by the