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  2. Indira Gandhi National Open University - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .ignou .ac .in. Indira Gandhi National Open University, known as IGNOU, is a public distance learning university located in New Delhi, India. Named after the former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, the university was established in 1985 with a budget of ₹ 20 million, after the Parliament of India passed the Indira Gandhi ...

  3. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Wikipedia

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    Tess Durbeyfield, a country girl of 16, is the eldest child of John Durbeyfield, a haggler, and his wife Joan. When the local parson tells John that "Durbeyfield" is a corruption of "D'Urberville" and that he is descended from an ancient Norman family, John celebrates by getting drunk. Tess drives to market in her father's place, but falls ...

  4. A House for Mr Biswas - Wikipedia

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    A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide.It is the story of Mohun Biswas, a Hindu Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries into the influential Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it, and who finally sets the goal of owning his own house.

  5. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Papua New Guinea. v. t. e. In the United States, academic grading commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−, B+, B, B−, C+, C, C−, D+, D, D− and F, with A+ being the highest and F being lowest. In some cases, grades can also be numerical. Numeric-to-letter-grade conversions ...

  6. Five laws of library science - Wikipedia

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    Overview. First Law: Books are for use. Second Law: Every person his or her book. Third Law: Every book its reader. Fourth Law: Save the time of the reader. Fifth Law: A library is a growing organism. Variants. The Law of Parsimony. By other individuals.

  7. History of Kashmir - Wikipedia

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    The history of Kashmir is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent in South Asia with influences from the surrounding regions of Central, and East Asia. Historically, Kashmir referred to only the Kashmir Valley of the western Himalayas. [1] Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered union ...

  8. Reflective writing - Wikipedia

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    Reflective writing is regularly used in academic settings, as it helps students think about how they think and allows students to think beyond the scope of the literal meaning of their writing or thinking. [8] In other words, it is a form of metacognition. Proper reflective writing is heavily influenced by metacognition.

  9. Eklavya Technology Channel - Wikipedia

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    Eklavya Technology Channel. Eklavya Technology Channel is a distant learning joint initiative between the IIT and IGNOU. It was inaugurated by Prof. Murli Manohar Joshi, Honourable Minister, HRD, S&T and Ocean Development on 26 January 2003. The objective of this initiative is to bring to the audience the actual IIT classrooms virtually at ...