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At Chennai, there is an Open School Their website: http://sankalpnet.org/

'Sankalp' in Sanskrit, has many associated meanings - 'will', 'purpose', 'wish', 'intent'. For us at Sankalp all these meanings are true and relevant. Born of a deep concern for the special needs of children with learning difficulties and other development challenges, Sankalp was set up, under the SANKALP TRUST - a non-profit organisation in 1999.

 

The Open school has two streams of education services
- a full time intervention for children facing learning challenges
- Remedial education part time to correct the learning challenges of school childrenSankalp - The Open School
Plot No. 1587, 6th Avenue, (Next to Vijaya Maruthi)
Anna Nagar (West), Chennai - 600 040.
Tel: 044-2618 2588
Off: 044-4273 2947

NIOS - National Institute for Open Schooling

NIOS (National Institute for Open schooling) is one of the three central boards of secondary education in our country , the other two being CBSE and ICSE.
The candidates appear as a private candidate.
NIOS is as well recognised as other central board exam and is ideal one for those who opt for an alternate and do not seek the main stream Stateboard examination.
Admissions to colleges are based on marks and the NIOS scheme offers an examination framework that is more flexible and with possibility for scoring. The exams are held through a National level exam and recognized by most universities.

NIOS
The 10th std. Exam is the NIOS secondary exam
The 12th std. Exam is the NIOS senior secondary exam, equivalent to the PUC exam.
The NIOS exam is recognized by most universities in the country including Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Law School University.

NIOS Examination Details
The NIOS exam syllabus is similar to the CBSE syllabus in terms of content, but the exams include questions which can be answered in a simpler way. The exams are designed to test the extent of knowledge/ information but does not stress on lengthy answers.
The NIOS exam papers include
20% marks for objective type questions
40% marks for one sentence answers and 3 sentence answers
20%marks for home assignments submitted
20%marks for 1 page answers and/or practical
The NIOS is a flexible system and you can choose
Any 5 of the following subjects if you want to do BA, BSc, BCom or BBM
Any 6 of the following subjects including Science or Maths if you want to do
Engineering or Medicine.
The subjects you can choose from are :Compulsory Subjects: English
Optional(4 or 5 of the following) : Science(Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
Social Studies
Mathematics
Home Science (Practical science)
Word Processing
The 5 or 6 exams chosen can be given at the end of 10th std. or in three sittings starting from the end of 9th std in a semester system, with 2 exams being taken in each semester.


I really appreciate their services and hope it will be useful to many slow learners/learning difficulty children.