Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Three Tips to Help You Choose the Right Education Portal

Joining an education portal is the newest way of studying in modern Indian cities and even in many small towns and rural regions. These are online educational resources that offer the promise of easy accessibility with the help of the Internet, and large databases of educational materials for students of different standards. But like in the case of all other service providers, there are both good and bad education portals out there. You need to choose an education portal with caution, as it can make all the difference to your academic performance.

But how do you decide which education website is useful and which not? Don't worry, as we will list a few tips below to help you find the right portal. Here they are:

Check the question bank: This is a very important criterion for deciding the worth of an education portal. A good website will have a large database of questions and sample papers. It ought to have an extensive question bank for different educational boards in the country, including the CBSE, the ICSE and the State Boards. It should also include questions and sample papers for different medical and engineering tests, like the AIEEE and CBSE- PMT, for instance. The advantage of having a large question bank is that it allows you to practice using the different concepts you have been taught in school. It helps you become thoroughly conversant with all the aspects of a particular academic topic. Moreover, it helps you become aware of your exam taking abilities, which can differ quantitatively from your learning abilities.

Check the type of learning resources: A good website should also use the medium of the Internet to its full potential. Apart from ordinary reading materials and notes, which you can anyway find offline too, it should offer innovative learning resources like video lessons, 2D and 3D animations of important concepts and footage of real life demonstrations. It should also offer the facility of taking real time online tests. All these are indications that some thought has been put into making the website.