IT@School is all set to launch Public Entrance Examination Coaching Scheme (PEECS), a project aimed at imparting free entrance coaching classes to students of government and aided higher secondary schools, in all 14 Assembly constituencies in the district from January 3.
Though the higher secondary department had introduced the project across the State last year, it failed to take off mainly owing to the reluctance of higher secondary school teachers to work on weekends during which PEECS classes were scheduled. Even IT@School, is finding it hard to secure the cooperation of teachers.
IT@School has now approached the higher secondary department director for a list of teachers willing to cooperate with the weekend classes of one hour duration for which they would be paid Rs. 750 a day.
The idea behind holding classes on weekends is to reach out to genuine beneficiaries as private coaching classes that charge hefty fees are mostly held on Saturdays and Sundays. Students from families who cannot afford private coaching are likely to enrol for PEECS, sources told The Hindu.
One centre each will be opened in Perumbavur, Angamaly, Aluva, Kalamassery, Paravur, Vypeen, Kochi, Tripunithura, Ernakulam, Thrikkakara, Kunnathunadu, Piravom, Muvattupuzha, and Kothamangalam Assembly constituencies.
Interested students may enrol for the scheme by registering online in the website www.peecs.kerala.gov.in. Forty classes will be held as part of the scheme through the VICTERS Channel in the presence of a higher secondary teacher of the subject being dealt with in each class.
Each class will be followed by a 30-question model entrance exam of 30-minute duration based on the portion covered in class. The answer sheets will be valuated right away and marks will be uploaded online.
These exams will be a replica of the entrance exams and students will be given OMR sheets to mark their answers.
Students would have appeared for 40 model exams by the end of the scheme, which would be an invaluable experience to them bolstering their confidence considerably ahead of the real entrance exams, sources said. A representative of IT@School will be present during the classes to attend to technical hitches.
