© Provided by India Today 5 tips and strategies to help students study for board examinations without feeling stressed

We are surely more anxious than ever as we get ready for the board certification or maintenance of certification examination since we have spent our entire lives taking tests with a lot on the line. Unfortunately, students at all levels have erroneous beliefs about how to learn. We frequently use subpart exam preparation strategies since many of us are ignorant of the best study techniques. In order to help you make the most of your limited study time for the boards, we've provided five time-saving strategies from the expert Smt. Raj Rani Goel, Managing Director, Satluj Public School, Ellenabad.

1. DEVELOP STRONG TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Students with good time management skills may do more in less time, leaving more time for intellectual time. Students should stick to the study schedule, fulfil the objectives, and avoid procrastination in order to acquire strong time management skills. Make every effort to spread out your study time over a longer period of time prior to taking the exam. Due to time constraints, you need to make sure that every subject gets an equivalent amount of preparation time. You can prepare more evenly if you divide your time.

1. MAKE CRUCIAL CHAPTERS AND SUBJECTS YOUR TOP PRIORITIES

The students' primary focus should be on the chapters that are really crucial and filled with information. Knowing these chapters will help students do better on exams. They should engage their professors ahead of time with any questions they may have to ensure that they are adequately addressed. Students can divide their study time more efficiently by categorising chapters as challenging, moderate, or easy. provide yourself additional time to work on and revise the chapters that require it.

1. CONDUCT A SELF-EVALUATION

Mock tests are often beneficial to students since they help them recognise their own strengths and flaws. Simulating an exam environment has been demonstrated to significantly reduce students' test-related anxieties. It can also assist to mitigate the detrimental effects of stress on memory by making your brain work harder to recall the correct answers. The test should be taken at the same time as the exam to help one's biological clock sync with the timing of the test. They will gain confidence as they practise in a real-world test scenario.

1. KEEP YOURSELF IN GOOD PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

The last thing you need is to become stressed out as a result of your studies. Taking a break from your studies might be quite useful. To relieve stress, practice balanced eating, enough sleep, music, early walks or mild workouts, being in a cheerful setting, and meditation. If you don't get enough sleep, your health may suffer. Relaxing  the day before the exam has been shown in studies to be more effective than staying up all night studying.   In reality, a nutrient-rich diet aids in your physical and mental development. These are critical for ensuring your physical and mental preparation for testing. When studying for board exams, the most vital necessity is a clear mind.

1. MOCK PAPERS AND PREVIOUS YEAR'S PAPERS

Solving problems improves your conceptual comprehension as well as your speed and accuracy of thought. Your deficiencies may be more readily addressed with its help. Review past exam papers to hone your study abilities. Thus, the most effective outside study materials are past exam papers. You may learn about the test format and the weighting of questions from various chapters by studying several question papers. This makes it one of the best strategies for studying for board examinations. This method may thus allow you to focus more on chapters that are more crucial than others. This time-saving strategy may also allow you to focus on crucial chapters while saving time.

HERE ARE SOME EXTRA POINTERS FOR PERFORMING WELL ON THE BOARD EXAMS:

• Look for a better learning environment
• Your work should be revised each day
• Make Quick Revision Notes
• Take Breaks for Productivity
• Do not multitask.
• Avoid becoming a procrastinator

The most crucial thing is the fear of receiving lower grades or missing out outweighs the real repercussions. Stop calculating the ultimate outcome and start working on the journey. So, start using the proper procedure and quit worrying about grades. Because a good or bad grade is very subjective. The aforementioned are a few important considerations while deciding on the best approach or strategy.

Exams are crucial events in one's life, and being nervous However, there is nothing to be concerned about if you fully prepare. To succeed in test preparation, each student must play to their strengths, maintain your composure while learning. Try hard to overcome procrastination rather than getting nervous. The greatest strategy for doing this is to avoid stress and concentrate on what you can accomplish.

Three Additional Fellows Maintained Certification

MOORESTOWN, N.J., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Knowles Teacher Initiative today announced that four of its Fellows achieved National Board Certification, the highest certification available for K–12 educators, in the 2021–2022 cycle.

National Board Certification was designed to develop, retain and recognize accomplished teachers and to generate ongoing improvement in schools nationwide. Using the National Board Standards and the Five Core Propositions as a foundation, National Board Certification identifies teachers who meet those standards through completion of a performance-based, peer-reviewed series of assessment components. Specifically, candidates are required to complete four components. They must demonstrate content knowledge on a computer-based assessment. Additionally, they must submit classroom-based portfolios containing evidence of differentiation in instruction, their teaching practice and learning environment, and their ability to act as an effective and reflective practitioner.

The following Knowles Fellows achieved National Board Certification:

Additionally, three Knowles Fellows maintained their certification:

Jeff Rozelle, Knowles President and CEO, stated, "Achieving National Board Certification is no small feat. I'm thrilled to extend congratulations to all of the teachers who met the high standards established by NBPTS to achieve or maintain certification. Their commitment to student learning and the teaching profession is truly commendable."

The Knowles Teaching Fellows Program is a five-year program that provides early-career, high school mathematics and science teachers with access to invaluable resources that help them transform into great teachers who make a difference in the lives of students in their classroom, their school and beyond. After completing the five-year program, Teaching Fellows become Senior Fellows who are able to participate in Knowles leadership opportunities throughout the duration of their career. As part of the wide array of benefits available to Fellows, Knowles awards grant funds to pay for expenses related to National Board Certification.

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Nationally, more than 130,000 teachers have achieved National Board Certification, including 52 Knowles Fellows.

About the Knowles Teacher Initiative

The Knowles Teacher Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formerly known as the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF), was established by Janet H. and C. Harry Knowles in 1999 to increase the number of high-quality high school science and mathematics teachers in the United States. Through the Teaching Fellows Program, Senior Fellows Program and the Knowles Academy, the Knowles Teacher Initiative seeks to support a national network of mathematics and science teachers who are collaborative, innovative leaders improving education for all students in the United States. For more information, visit www.knowlesteachers.org.

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In an age when environmental awareness is widespread among investors, board renewal mechanisms that better align investors' and directors' interests can enhance a firm's environmental performance, according to a new study by Hannes Wagner (Bocconi University, Milan). Interestingly, the study also finds a positive relation between the appointment of female directors and environmental performance.

Wagner's investigation with his coauthors Alexander Dyck (University of Toronto), Karl V. Lins (University of Utah), Lukas Roth (University of Alberta), and Mitch Towner (University of Arizona) is titled "Renewable Governance: Good for the Environment?", and it is published in the Journal of Accounting Research.

The authors identified two potential board renewal mechanisms: the adoption of majority voting and the introduction of a female director. Under majority voting, directors must obtain more than half of the votes cast by shareholders to be elected. Without it, directors only need a plurality of the votes cast. Thus, majority voting gives investors the ability to vote against directors, rather than just withhold their votes.

The paper finds that the introduction of majority voting is correlated to a significant increase in a firm's environmental performance. In exact years investors have been pushing for firms to focus on environmental, rather than just financial, performance. Majority voting ensures a greater alignment between the interests of investors and directors.

The findings are even stronger when considering the relation between environmental performance and the appointment of a female director in the board. Most interestingly, the coefficients are still significant when controlling for board member characteristics such as education and experience. This suggests that the improvement in environmental performance is a direct effect of gender itself rather than of characteristics of female directors.

"The key contribution of our work is providing a roadmap for investors," Professor Wagner said. "We show that if they want to increase environmental performance, they should not only monitor sustainability metrics, but also take action 'upstream', at the board level, where changes that produce such improvements are decided."

The authors exploit quasi-exogenous shocks in different countries as a testing field for their hypotheses. These shocks are useful as they cause a change in one of the two variables investigated in the paper (female presence in the board or majority voting) without specifically intending to address firms' environmental performance.

To evaluate the effect of appointing a female director, the authors analyzed countries that introduced compulsory gender quotas for boards. The results show that firms that introduced a female board member for the first time environmentally outperformed firms that did not by 8%, on average.

"Currently, regulatory efforts are aimed at increasing gender equality in boards. As an interesting and welcome side effect, these measures appear to also Improve environmental performance of firms," Prof. Wagner commented.

As for majority voting, the authors exploited the pressure from a campaign conducted by a large investor group in Canada. In this case, too, firms that switched to majority voting after the campaign exhibited a significant improvement in environmental performance measures.

Finally, the link between board renewal mechanism and environmental performance was stronger in countries with better investor protection laws and stricter disclosure requirements. But that is not all. The same (stronger link) was true also for firms having a more "motivated" shareholder base. This result reinforces the hypothesis that investors use board renewal to align the boards' interests with their own.

"As ever more shareholders look for sustainability when making investment choices," Prof. Wagner concluded, "investigating the drivers of environmental performance at the board level is something that can produce meaningful and tangible results. As so often, academic research can help better decision making."

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) is kicking off 2023 with new opportunities for Certified Pharmacy Technicians (CPhTs) to demonstrate their knowledge and earn advanced and specialty certificates. PTCB is relaunching OnVUE, an online proctored testing platform, allowing PTCB CPhTs to earn advanced credentials more conveniently.

PTCB is relaunching OnVUE, allowing PTCB CPhTs to earn advanced credentials more conveniently.

"Following an evaluation period of our initial launch in 2020, we are excited to move forward with this expanded testing option for our certificants," said Khunteang Pa, Senior Director of Certification Operations. "Relaunching online proctored delivery of PTCB's Assessment-Based Certificate Exams empowers pharmacy technicians to pursue career advancement with more flexibility."

Administered on a secure platform using artificial intelligence combined with live virtual proctor supervision and monitoring, online exams are the same as those administered at a test center. To take their exam online, candidates need a computer with a webcam, a reliable internet connection, and a quiet space where they can spend a few uninterrupted hours. In-person testing is still available at Pearson VUE testing centers for all PTCB exams.

PTCB offers a growing suite of advanced and specialty credentials for pharmacy technicians to invest in their careers as their responsibilities expand. With almost 60 percent of PTCB-certified technicians considering the profession their long-term career, technicians must have the opportunity to grow and demonstrate their knowledge and skills. Certified pharmacy technicians reported higher wages than non-certified technicians, according to the 2022 PTCB Workforce Survey, which received responses from over 20,000 technicians.

PTCB currently offers ten Assessment-Based Certificate Programs–such as Regulatory Compliance, Point-of-Care Testing, and Supply Chain and Inventory Management–that open doors for technicians to demonstrate their knowledge, receive recognition, and grow in their careers. For a complete list and more information, please visit ptcb.org/credentials/.

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About PTCB

The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) is the nation's first, most trusted, and only nonprofit pharmacy technician credentialing organization. Founded on the guiding principle that pharmacy technicians play a critical role in advancing medication and patient safety, PTCB has established the universal standard of excellence for those supporting patient care teams by offering the industry's most-recognized credentials, including the PTCB certification for Certified Pharmacy Technicians (CPhT).

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CBSE Board exam 2023: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will begin Class 10 and 12 final exams February 15 onwards. The board has published date sheets and is expected to release admit cards soon on cbse.nic.in.

Class 12 Physics is an important subject for Science stream students. The paper is scheduled for March 6, 2023. There is enough gap between papers so that students can do their revision before the exam. Students should get the Physics sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in and practice solving it. This will help them understand their level of preparation and Improve speed and accuracy.

Surender Puli, PGT- Physics, Vidyagyan School, Sitapur has shared some tips and tricks so that students can study effectively for the upcoming exam:

1) Knowing the weightage of each chapter: Chapters like Electrostatics, Magnetostatics and Optics have more weight. So, students should practice these chapters first, master it and then move on to other topics.

2) Topic-wise Strategy: Generally, courses like Electrostatics, Magnetostatics and A.C circuits are mostly based on numerical. If your strength is with numbers, then start with these chapters.

Alternately, chapters from modern physics like dual nature, atoms, nuclei and semiconductor physics are based on theory, so those who are not as strong with mathematics, can look at these courses at first.

3) Effective ways to learn derivations: Students cannot mug up derivations, especially in physics. Instead, they can understand the Topic first, and then practice those derivations by writing in their notebooks. This will help them to revise quickly at the time of examination.

4) Tips on diagrams: Students need to practice a few diagrams before they take their board exams. For example, in chapters like optics practice the ray diagrams for the final images formed by microscopes, telescopes. Also look at some diagrams in the chapter magnetostatics, like moving coil galvanometer, A.C generator and in modern physics like binding energy per nucleon vs mass number, Rutherford’s atomic model etc. In nuclear physics nuclear reactor. In semiconductors formation of p-n Jn, rectifier ckt.

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Cheese is a truly marvelous food. No matter if it's soft or hard in texture, grated over a bowl of fresh pasta or enjoyed as is atop a salad or sandwich, there's a cheese for everyone. Stinky or fragrant, Italian or French, yellow or off-white.

You might like an ooey, gooey dish with lots and lots of cheese pulls (like this kale and three-cheese pizza), or perhaps you're more of a fan of a bronzed, crisped cheesy dish (such as this red pepper baked chicken parmigiana pasta).

Picking up some shredded cheese for a lasagna or one of our 10 other cheesiest recipes isn't a huge effort, but selecting the best options for a cheese board is a little more of an undertaking. The nuances, flavors and complexities of cheese are deepened when this food is savored on its own, without any application of heat or the inclusion of other ingredients to muddy the waters.

I recently spoke with Craig Gile, a famous cheese judge who is also the northwest regional sales manager at Cabot Creamery Co-operative. He took Salon Food readers behind the scenes of the worlds of cheesemaking and competitive cheese.

Gile is a former Cabot cheese grader who tasted up to 200 cheese samples a day. In addition to judging competitions, he presents "sensory presentations" on how to pick the best cheeses to retailers.

If you've participated in a wine tasting, the experience may sound somewhat familiar.

"I like to get people thinking about what they are tasting first. The vast majority of the time, we're not treating eating like a cognitive exercise," Gile told me. "I get people to look at the cheese, feel the body of the cheese, chew slowly, think about what they are tasting. Just focusing on the basic tastes is a great place to start. How salty do I think this cheese is? How sour or acidic do I think it is?"

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Have you ever shopped for an antipasto or mezze platter or charcuterie or grazing board and wondered how to buy better cheese at the grocery store? If so, you're in luck: Gile also shared his expert recommendations for putting together a cheese platter, pairing tips included.

First and foremost, Gile stresses one thing. Do not — I repeat do not — be intimidated.

"I have seen way too many people overthink and stress about building cheese platters," he said. "Have fun."

Now that you're ready to have some fun, here are Gile's five basic tips for building a better cheese board:

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