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Time of India
2 hours ago
- General
- Time of India
SSC CGL ASO syllabus 2025: Complete tier 1 & tier 2 exam syllabus for SSC Assistant Section Officer
SSC CGL ASO syllabus 2025: The SSC CGL Assistant Section Officer (ASO) Exam 2025 Tier 1 will be held from August 13 to August 30, 2025. The syllabus includes both Tier 1 and Tier 2 exams. Tier 1 covers General Intelligence, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, and English Language. Tier 2 includes Mathematical Abilities, Reasoning, English Language, General Awareness, and Computer Knowledge. It also has a Data Entry Speed Test (DEST) to check typing skills. Hence, students to prepare well, focus on key topics like number systems, algebra, geometry, statistics, reasoning, English comprehension, current affairs, and computer basics. Cover each subject properly to score well in both tiers. SSC CGL ASO Syllabus 2025 Highlights The SSC CGL ASO exam consists of two tiers: Tier 1: Qualifying exam covering General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, and English Comprehension. Tier 2: Includes Mathematics, Reasoning, English Language, General Awareness, and Computer Knowledge. The syllabus tests candidate's aptitude, reasoning skills, general knowledge, and computer proficiency relevant to the Assistant Section Officer role. SSC CGL ASO Tier 1 Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2025 Tier 1 is a computer-based test with 100 questions divided equally among four sections. The exam duration is 60 minutes with negative marking of 0.5 marks for each wrong answer. SSC CGL ASO 2025: Key Topics in Tier 1 Syllabus General Intelligence: Analogies, coding-decoding, series, puzzles General Awareness: Current affairs, environment, science, history, geography Quantitative Aptitude: Number systems, fractions, decimals, profit & loss, ratio, percentage English Comprehension: Grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, synonyms, antonyms SSC CGL ASO Tier 2 Syllabus 2025 Tier 2 is more specialised and includes the following subjects: Important SSC CGL ASO Exam Dates 2025 Below are the Important SSC CGL ASO Exam Dates 2025 listed: Preparation Tips for SSC CGL ASO Syllabus 2025 Students to prepare well for SSC CGL ASO Syllabus 2025, follow a smart and structured plan. Start by understanding the syllabus clearly. It includes Maths, Reasoning, English, General Awareness, and Computer Proficiency, along with DEST for Tier 1 and Tier 2 exams. Use the right books like R.S. Aggarwal for Quant and Reasoning, Wren & Martin for English, and Lucent's GK for awareness. Focus first on high-weightage topics. Break your study plan into daily targets. Include revisions and mock tests to check progress and manage time. In Maths, focus on number systems, algebra, geometry, and data interpretation. For Reasoning, practice analogies, coding-decoding, syllogisms, and puzzles. In English, work on comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, and sentence correction. Stay updated with current affairs, Indian history, geography, and government schemes for General Awareness. For Computer Proficiency, practice typing and basic computer knowledge regularly.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Morris Motors boss may have inspired Tolkien villain
The fascist-sympathising founder of Morris Motors was demonised as a soulless industrialist in an unknown story by JRR Tolkien that is to be published for the first time. William Morris, Viscount Nuffield, is thought to have inspired the Lord of the Rings author to create a villain for a satirical fantasy in which he vented his loathing for the motor car and its devastating impact on his beloved Oxford. Morris made his fortune by mass-producing small cars at affordable prices and, although he donated millions to worthy causes, he also supported Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Morris Motors became the major employer in the region during Tolkien's lifetime, providing a pull for workers and businesses supporting the car industry. A dramatic rise in Oxford's population between the wars was driven partly by the growth of the industry, which in turn had a dramatic impact on traffic. The businessman is thought to be the inspiration for a character known as the Daemon of Vaccipratum in the never before published story, called The Bovadium Fragments. It is thought Tolkien also took inspiration from a planning controversy that erupted in the 1940s, when he was the University of Oxford's Professor of English Language and Literature at Merton College. A bid to alleviate clogged-up traffic by building a dual carriageway across Christ Church Meadow, an ancient open space in the heart of Oxford, sparked a protracted public debate well into the 1960s, when the plan was eventually aborted. The Bovadium Fragments reflects his mastery of Latin. Bovadium was the Latinised name for the village of Oxford, and the Daemon of Vaccipratum translates as 'the demon of the cow pasture', or Cowley, which was where Morris had established his motor manufacturing plant. In one passage of the unearthed story, Tolkien writes: 'But it came to pass that a Daemon (as popular opinion supposed) in his secret workshops devised certain abominable machines, to which he gave the name Motores.' The Bovadium Fragments was among Tolkien manuscripts that were either donated or deposited posthumously by his estate to Oxford's Bodleian Library. It will be published in October by Harper Collins. Chris Smith, the Harper Collins publishing director, described it as 'a sharply satirical account of the perils of allowing car production and machine-worship to take over your town, where things ultimately all go to hell, in a very literal sense'. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher, had edited the text before his death in 2020. The book will include an essay by Richard Ovenden, Bodley's librarian, who has conducted extensive research into the planning controversy, having established its inspiration for Tolkien's story. He said that it is about a scholar in the future looking at evidence of a society that is now lost, having 'worshipped the motor car', adding: 'Tolkien was deeply affected by the way that the motor industry was changing his city, and that shines through.' Asked why The Bovadium Fragments had not been published before, Mr Ovenden said: 'Christopher's priority in publishing his father's unpublished works was on the Middle Earth-related material. This material didn't really fit with that or with his father's more scholarly pieces, and so it got left. 'I would visit Christopher and his wife Baillie in France every year. On one of those visits, he drew this to my attention and said, 'What's all this about, what do you think the background of this was?'' Mr Ovenden described it as 'a contribution to environmental literature and the conservation of historic cities'. 'It was written in the late 1950s and 1960s, but it has this extraordinary contemporary resonance,' he said. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Associated Press
4 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
The National Geographic Society and Cengage Group Celebrate Expanded Partnership with the Announcement of a New Interactive Student Experience at the Museum of Exploration
$15 million gift from Cengage Group will fund the National Geographic Learning Launchpad, a new educational experience at the National Geographic Museum of Exploration WASHINGTON, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Geographic Society and Cengage Group have expanded their long-term partnership with a $15 million gift in support of the National Geographic Museum of Exploration, opening in 2026. The National Geographic Learning Launchpad, powered by the Cengage Group, is an extraordinary interactive space that will inspire young people to connect with the concept of geographic thinking and to apply what they learn to their own lives. The National Geographic Learning Launchpad will be the first stop for the student groups visiting the Museum of Exploration at National Geographic Base Camp in Washington, D.C., setting the scene for their experience at the museum. The space — which includes an introductory corridor, interactive activity room and immersive projection room — presents geography as a way of thinking, understanding and interacting with the world. Visitors will learn to ask questions and seek knowledge, think critically and creatively to solve the world's most pressing problems and to understand the Explorer Mindset — a series of attributes, shared values and commitments that define what it means to be a National Geographic Explorer. 'Curiosity is at the heart of exploration, and education is how we nurture that spark,' said Jill Tiefenthaler, chief executive officer of the National Geographic Society. 'Thanks to the generosity of our partners at Cengage, we're able to create innovative, hands-on learning experiences like the National Geographic Learning Launchpad — bringing the fieldwork and projects of Explorers straight to students and inspiring the Explorer in everyone.' The dynamic partnership between National Geographic Society and Cengage launched in 2011, when the organizations came together to establish the National Geographic Learning brand and business. This strategic partnership provides Cengage the exclusive rights to develop and deliver National Geographic-branded learning products that engage tens of millions of learners around the world each year. National Geographic Learning products, which support learners and educators in both the English Language Teaching and Secondary education markets worldwide, immerse students in a range of subject areas, including science, social studies, language arts and math, featuring information from the unique viewpoint of Explorers and their multifaceted work. National Geographic Learning content reaches approximately 20 million students each year with Explorer-centered educational content across 109 countries, with over 600 individual Explorers featured in materials. These learning products highlight the Explorer's work in connection to the subject matter in ways that uniquely engage students and provide cross-cultural connections to other subject areas in an authentic, relevant way. In 2024, National Geographic and Cengage extended their National Geographic Learning partnership through 2040 to continue bringing the world to the classroom and the classroom to life with rich content and experiences. 'We are proud that our partnership with the National Geographic Society is expanding further as we explore all the ways we can change the typical classroom experience together and provide a window to the world for students,' said Michael Hansen, chief executive officer of Cengage Group. 'Our mission at Cengage Group is to provide education for employment – empowering learners with the skills and experiences they need to achieve their education and career goals. Our partnership with National Geographic helps us realize this ambition; by leveraging the insights, experiences and imagery of National Geographic Explorers we are able to better develop engaging and impactful educational experiences that prepare students to lead fulfilling lives in the real world. The opportunity to get students out of the classroom and into the world of an Explorer through the National Geographic Learning Launchpad is a remarkable next step for this collaboration.' The National Geographic Museum of Exploration, where the National Geographic Learning Launchpad will be housed, is currently under construction and will open in 2026. To find out more information and updates on Base Camp, visit us here. PRESS KIT About National Geographic Society The National Geographic Society is a global nonprofit organization that uses the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world. Since 1888, National Geographic has pushed the boundaries of exploration, investing in bold people and transformative ideas, providing more than 15,000 grants for work across all seven continents, reaching 3 million students each year through education offerings, and engaging audiences around the globe through signature experiences, stories and content. To learn more, visit or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. About Cengage Group Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education. Visit us at or find us on LinkedIn or X. About National Geographic Learning National Geographic Learning (NGL), part of Cengage Group, provides quality learning products for the K-12 and English Language Teaching education markets worldwide. NGL seeks to transform teaching and learning by bringing the world to the classroom and the classroom to life. We provide relevant content to inspire teachers and impact learners, including exclusive access to the insights, experiences and imagery of more than 600 National Geographic Explorers through our close partnership with the National Geographic Society. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE National Geographic Society
Hans India
26-05-2025
- Science
- Hans India
GGU students present papers at int'l summit
Rajamahendravaram: Engineering and Computer Science first-year students from Godavari Global University (GGU) earned praise for presenting research papers at the English Language Teaching Summit – 2025, an international online conference held on May 23 and 24. GGU Pro Vice-Chancellor Dr KVB Raju announced the achievement, noting the university's active involvement in global academic platforms. The summit was jointly organised by the International Society for Educational Leadership (ISEL – USA, Australia, and India) and MIT Art, Design and Technology University, Pune, with support from Cambridge University Press and Assessment (UK). Themed 'English Language Teaching in the Age of AI', the event featured participants from across the globe. GGU students K Yashwanth Reddy, M Snehith Babu, Harsh Srivastava, and Manish presented analytical papers during the summit. Their work drew appreciation for its depth and insight. Prof Aditi Abhisikta from GGU's English department served as the chairperson for the student paper presentation session. She stated that the participating scholars and experts at the summit commended the students for their analytical skills and hard work.
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Amorous Or Loving? by Rupert Gavin: Who really invented Twitter? A) Jack Dorsey B) Jeff Bezoz C) Geoffrey Chaucer D) Elon Musk E) Mark Zuckerberg
Amorous Or Loving? by Rupert Gavin (Unicorn £25, 224pp) Spoken today by 1.6billion souls, English is a mongrel language, words flung together down the millennia from Latin (Saturday, amorous), Anglo-Saxon (writing, laughter, riddle, ask), Norse (slaughter, berserk, fog, mire) and Norman French (park, beef, govern, duke, commence). In more recent epochs, Native Americans gave us skunk and moose. Hindus provided bungalow, chintz and juggernaut. It is Rupert Gavin's contention, in this properly scholarly yet highly accessible study, that our language evolved and came about through invasion and conquest. The Romans, Vikings and Normans were 'all attracted by the relative wealth of these islands', exploiting the natives and bequeathing vocabulary. The Romans were here for 400 years, leaving behind roads, cities, fortifications – and their Latin continued to be used in religious services and on legal documents for centuries. The first court case was not conducted in English until 1363. Meanwhile, the Vikings were busy sacking holy places, preying upon the weak and the helpless, raping and pillaging generally. Ravens learned to follow their armies, aware there'd be plenty of dead bodies to feast upon. From this period, English developed many words for arrows, bows, archers and fletchers. The Norsemen were 'the stuff of collective nightmares', and there were still hundreds of years to go until the Normans turned up – enough time for an anonymous scribe to set down the 3,182 alliterative Anglo-Saxon or Old English lines of Beowulf. Talk about collective nightmares. Back in the Eighties, when I sat my Finals, I had to translate and memorise the nonsense. It's all about heroic deeds, gods and monsters, and much influenced Tolkien, let alone nerdy teens devoted to Game Of Thrones. Gavin gives us plenty of information about battles, assemblies, treaties and 'inter-tribal squabbling', each mob babbling away in Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian dialects. When he says, 'the position of women merits consideration', he must be conjectural, as nothing much was said about them, save praise for embroidery skills. My theory is that, as their names were unpronounceable and impossible to spell – Aethelwynn, Aethelflaed, Eadburgh, Leoba and Berhtgyth – it was easier to ignore them altogether. I hadn't realised the Normans were such immense brutes, starting with William's arrival at Hastings in 1066. Anglo-Saxon lords were killed, their families stripped of lands. Castles went up, to oppress the population. Executions, branding and the severing of noses were common punishments. Nevertheless, in the credit column, London was developed, to concentrate 'our language and culture' in a single place. The Normans also had a mania for building cathedrals, which ultimately gave jobs to little old ladies to work in the gift shops. Though Gavin has an interesting chapter on Chaucer – who in 1389 deployed 2,000 new English words in The Canterbury Tales, including twitter, femininity, narcotic, erect and plumage – his chief interest is in the industrious translations of the Bible. Wycliffe in 1384 brought in the words excellent, problem, ambitious and wrinkle, as well as graven image, keys of the kingdom and root of all evil. Tyndale, a century and a half later, gave us coat of many colours, eye for an eye, suffer fools gladly and the skin of my teeth. Behind these enlightened tasks of translation lay much bloodshed, the whole Catholic-Protestant divide and the upheaval of the Reformation. Theologians and politicians, such as Sir Thomas More, were for some reason dead against 'making the scriptures intelligible to the common man'. Possessing a Bible in English rather than ornate, ritualistic Latin was a heresy punishable by death. Thomas Cranmer, for example, was burnt at the stake – yet the simple beauty of his Book of Common Prayer, dating from 1549, was to last for more than 400 years, until shamefully replaced by the ugly nonsense of the Alternative Services pamphlet. When I wanted the old-style liturgy used at my father's funeral, the trendy vicar said, 'Oh, these days people prefer a chorus from The Lion King.' In 1611, the King James Bible was published. Fifty scholars had been kept busy for seven years, 'agonising over the original texts', the Hebrew and the Greek. There was a hysterical misprint in an early edition: 'Thou shalt commit adultery.' They'd missed out the 'not'. Gavin is correct to say that the Authorised Version, as it became known, was English at its most 'poetic, vivid, direct, rhythmic, fluent'. It is a crime that it has fallen into disuse – and perhaps no surprise that churches are empty. Gavin omits to mention a fascinating puzzle. In Psalm 46, the 46th word from the start is 'shake' and the 46th word from the end is 'spear'. In 1611, Shakespeare was 46. Spooky – and did Shakespeare have a hand in the enterprise, polishing the text, I wonder? Apart from the pulpit, what Gavin calls the other 'prime user of language' was the theatre. Hence a marvellous discussion of Shakespeare, who used 31,534 different words, coining 2,000 new ones, such as bedroom, barefaced, dewdrops and leapfrog. He is matched in ingenuity only by Dickens, who invented 1,600 words, including flummox, dustbin and fairy story. Wondering how 'a single language would create a single and unifying identity', Gavin explains that mass printing and education made works accessible, and made English 'increasingly uniform across the nation', regularising spelling, ironing out regional accents and dialects. Don't get me started on Welsh, brought in during my lifetime by Welsh nationalists to cut my native Wales off. Finally, we must not underestimate how English was spread around the world by our 'military prowess, maritime power, mercantile strength and industrial development', ie by our colonial expansion, which made Britain globally pre-eminent, the map painted patriotic pink. People are meant to feel guilty about all this. I don't myself. Gavin must follow up this first-class book with others on the compilation of dictionaries, the mysteries of pronunciation, the uses of slang and swearing, the power of jokes and wordplay, the censoriousness of wokery, and finally the language of the internet, where words are fast disappearing in a blizzard of acronyms and emojis. Who needs literacy (and literature) now?
