General Knowledge Questions

1. In which city, now in Iraq , did Alexander the Great die?

Ans: Babylon

2. Who succeded Morarji Desai as Prime Minister of India?

Ans: Charan Singh

3. Which State's capital is Itanagar?

Ans: Arunanchal Pradesh

4. Which State was partitioned in 1960 to create Maharashtra and Gujarat?

Ans: Bombay

5. Which musical instrument is associated with Goddess Saraswati?

Ans: Veena

6. How many players are there in a Basket Ball team?

Ans: Five

7. In which Indian Month is " Ganesh Chaturthi" celebrated

Ans: Bhadrapada

School Education and Resources

Lots of resources on the Internet for todays child
Trying to help my child in the Seventh standard by collecting resources on the net which will be useful for him in the present class and in future;

I am going to use this blog as a storage for various links and sometimes explanations which describe concepts


One Great Maths resource from Primary Section onwards:

http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mep/default.htm

The above contains Course material and worksheets in PDF format which u can print for practice.

Another Resource is http://www.jamit.com.au/worksheets/
Great place from where u can generate Worksheets and make ur child practice; Fractions; HCF, LCM --- Easy, Hard Hardest varieties of problems

NCERT Delhi has started to give its books online; Download from this site the various books that interest u ; can get a feel of what is CBSE syllabus is about even if ur child goes to ICSE or State Board

The link is http://www.ncert.nic.in/textbooks/testing/Index.htm