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A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is being prepared before the Supreme Court of India against Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) over the widespread failure of of the the CBSE re-evaluation portal and lack of transparency.

For days, students across the country have been unable to properly access the re-evaluation process due to:

1. broken payment gateways

2. failed submissions

3. login/session errors

4. inaccessible marksheets and documents 5. REPEATED crashes and technical failures

Despite thousands of complaints, the re-evaluation window continues closing while students are left stuck refreshing pages, retrying payments, and losing valuable preparation time for other major entrance exams and admission processes.

This issue affects lakhs of students whose:

• college admissions

• eligibility criteria

• improvement exam decisions

• academic futures

depend on timely access to re-evaluation.

The PIL will seek directions regarding:

1. Immediate extension of the re-evaluation deadline

2. Restoration of a properly functioning portal

3.Alternative mechanisms for submission/ payment

4. Transparency and accountability regarding the technical failures

5. Protection of students from academic loss caused by administrative negligence

We are currently collecting:

1. screenshots/videos of errors

2. timestamps

3. failed payment records

4. student testimonies and support on the matter 5. proof of inaccessible applications/documents

If you or someone you know has been affected, preserve all evidence and share your experience. A national-level academic process cannot be allowed to fail students like this without ACCOUNTABILITY.

NOTE: A Supreme Court advocate has already been notified to handle the matter, and all legal expenses will be borne by us.

On behalf of u/Key-Resolve-3260

Lately I’ve noticed that many students get scared of math before they even try solving the problem. Once your brain decides “I’m bad at math,” confidence disappears really fast and even simple questions start feeling impossible.

What actually helped me wasn’t studying harder, but changing how I approach problems.

A few things that genuinely made a difference for me:

• Translate word problems into simple language first. Half of the struggle is understanding what the question even wants from you. I started rewriting problems in my own words before solving them.
• Write every small step down. Trying to do everything mentally only made me confused faster. Once I started writing every tiny step, mistakes became way easier to catch.
• Use AI tools for explanations, not just answers. Step by step breakdowns helped me way more than seeing the final result immediately. Sometimes one simpler explanation changes everything.
• Check if the answer actually makes sense. Sometimes math gives you a number, but common sense tells you it’s wrong. That habit alone saved me during exams.
• Practice one problem type repeatedly instead of random topics. Jumping between completely different exercises made my brain tired. Repetition helped more than I expected.
• Pause solution videos and continue yourself. Watching math videos passively feels productive, but it’s not. Stopping before the solution and trying it yourself helped way more.

I also realized speed matters less than understanding at first. Once the logic clicks, solving gets faster naturally.

Which math topic do people struggle with the most now? For me it was always word problems.

not looking for the obvious stuff like "wake up early" or "drink water." i mean something that genuinely shifted things for you, and you can actually explain why it worked, not just that it did.

for me, it was cutting my phone off for the first hour of the day. felt pointless at first, but something about it changed how the rest of the day went. still not 100% sure why it works, but it does.

what's yours?

Hi everyone. I’m an international student in my second year at university, and English is not my first language. I spend a lot of time writing my essays carefully, then revising them multiple times on my own. After that, I usually use Grammarly to help fix small grammar mistakes like verb tense errors, missing articles, awkward wording, or punctuation. Sometimes I also ask a friend to read my paper and tell me if any sentence sounds confusing.

I do not use ChatGPT or AI tools to generate ideas, paragraphs, or entire essays. I write everything myself. The only thing I use is grammar correction because I’m still learning academic English and I don’t want simple language mistakes to affect my grades.

Today my professor said all assignments will be checked by Turnitin for both plagiarism and AI-generated writing. Now I’m honestly panicking a little. I’m worried that even normal grammar corrections could make my paper look “AI-written,” especially because the corrected version sounds cleaner than my original draft.

For example, Grammarly changes things like:

• “in my opinion, it show” → “in my opinion, it shows”
• “students has many stress” → “students have a lot of stress”

These are small fixes, but now I’m scared to even use them.

The syllabus says AI-generated writing is prohibited, but it doesn’t clearly mention grammar tools. I emailed my professor for clarification, but the deadline is tomorrow night and I still haven’t gotten a response.

Has anyone here used Grammarly or similar grammar checkers and still submitted safely through Turnitin? Have you ever had problems with false AI flags because of editing tools? I’m trying very hard to follow the rules and avoid any academic misconduct issues.

Any advice would really help. Thank you.

Let's just mass tag everyone from foreign leaders like Putin, to BRICS official handle, it's being held at Delhi atm, mass international beizzati would prompt action. We can't sit back and see these institutions screw us, the state media wouldn't listen.

Edit: This is for the ones who cant attend protests, we have to combine our efforts regardless of everyone's marks, paper leaks, website issues, random experiments in the middle of the sessions, no accountability, this is not the nation that's cares for its citizens! We can atleast combine our efforts in online reporting.

i swear every new student productivity app now tries to do fifty different things at once instead of just helping you finish assignments faster, half of them throw dashboards, streak systems, and random gamification at you when all I need is something that helps me organize research and actually understand what I’m working on

i’ve been testing a few different tools this semester because my university workload got brutal around finals, some were decent for summaries but terrible for explanations, others sounded robotic enough, natural way compared to some of the bigger ai platforms

still curious what people here actually use though because I feel like everyone has completely different workflows now. Are people mostly using ai for brainstorming, research, editing, or just speeding through assignments at this point?

The main reason most of us look at Germany is because German public universities have zero tuition fees. You only pay a minor semester contribution. But if you walk into a typical agent's office, they will tell you:

1. "Your profile/GPA is too low for public universities."
2. "Public university admission takes 6–8 months, you will waste a year."
3. "Public universities require advanced German language, but this private English-medium university is better."

This is 90% pure lies. They push you toward private business schools or private tech universities in Berlin or Bad Honnef because those private colleges pay the agents a massive 15% to 20% commission on your tuition fees. They are literally tricking you into paying ₹15 Lakhs a year for a degree that German employers don't even respect, when you could have studied for free.

The Second Trap: Hiding the APS and Blocked Account Nightmare

Agents love to sign you up, take their initial "service fee," and then leave you completely stranded when the hard bureaucracy hits:

• The APS Ghosting: To study in Germany, Indian students legally require an APS certificate (academic verification). The digital verification process takes weeks, and if your agent messes up your uploaded documents or your university isn't properly registered, your application gets stuck indefinitely. Agents have no clue how to handle the new digital API/DigiLocker system and give outdated advice.
• The Blocked Account Misinformation: You need to deposit exactly €11,904 into a German Blocked Account (Sperrkonto) to get your student visa. I’ve seen agents push specific third-party financial apps just because they get a kickback, even if those apps have terrible activation delays once you actually land in Frankfurt or Munich.

How I know this: My cousin went through this nightmare last year, paid a local agency ₹50k for "premium consulting," and ended up trapped in a low-tier private college. After helping him dig through the mess, I connected with a couple of student influencers who actually study at top public universities (like TU Munich and RWTH Aachen). They shared the exact internal guidelines on how public universities actually screen international profiles, how the APS system can be fast-tracked via DigiLocker, and how to apply directly through Uni-Assist without paying a middleman a single rupee.

I have a list of private universities that are absolute "degree mills" to avoid at all costs, along with a step-by-step roadmap for checking if your profile can actually make it into a tuition-free public university.

I can’t name the shady agencies here because they threaten legal notices to the sub, but if you want to double-check the university your agent is "strongly recommending" to see if it's a private commission trap, or if you need the actual public university application checklist, just slide into my DMs. Let’s stop giving these agents our parents' life savings for something that is supposed to be free.

Must be a COLLEGE student with a .EDU Email.

Dm me, I love helping people out especially with these gas prices!

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Need some money rn so I’m open to doing any work online to get some money, without depending on my parents

Research, typing, notes, presentations, tutoring, editing, writing, data entry, Canva stuff, managing DMs, assignments, making PDFs/slides, anything.

not to mention, Im really good at making posters and presentation.

I learn fast and will genuinely do menial tasks too if needed. Student based in cambodia(from India), flexible timings. DM me with whatever you need + your budget.

who is worried about uploading ipu internal marks late like last time ?