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Ideas need to be implemented in Mygov.in and Education Portal

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Its just a rough sketch about the Idea Update Aug 25th, 2015 Update: Features like plagiarism checker should be used in every schools and colleges so that projects can't be copied. Moreover projects should be computer typed not hand written. Personalized page for every subscriber. Questions creation section, questions must require critical thinking in order to solve Question analysis section: All the exam questions in schools and colleges must be uploaded in the website after examination and then analysis section would be there, where students and teachers all over the country could analyze it. Analysis can be based upon: 1) Whether the question pattern favors critical thinking or rote learning. 2) How difficult or easy is the question pattern? 3) Is there any mistakes in the questions? etc. Syllabus section: Syllabus section for each subject must be made for different universities or schools, where discussion about the syllabus is made. Following discussions can be made such as: W

Astrology Decoded: Are astrology predictions really correct.

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Here is the difference between science and pesudoscience: In television, we can find many TV programs that talk about astrology i.e. predict your future etc. based upon the date of birth. Most of us even today, especially our parents and family believe in astrology, whenever marriages are fixed, or whenever you plan to build a house etc. Many of intellectuals will argue that astrology is science. I was reading the article such as http://innovativeastrosolutions.com/ where it says astrology is 50% science and 50% mystic and give some scientific explanation to it. But let me define what science is. Oxford Dictionary defines science as “Knowledge about structure and behavior of the natural and physical world, based on the facts that you can prove, for example by experiments” More detailed explanation would be: http://www.sciencecouncil.org/definition So science first relies on observation or collecting the data, same as astrology is doing.  So what is the data in astrolo