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Download CBSE Class XII Projects

It’s that time of the year when in schools across the country teachers have started pestering students to submit their class 12th Board practical projects. Since I need to do a few good deeds before Christmas, I decided to put my computer science and chemistry projects. OK, not completely mine. Naman made a major portion of the computer project; as for chemistry, I never really did that one – simply ‘slurped’ off projects from others, smacked on my own formatting to make it looks loads cooler than their Comic Sans riff-raff, and submitted the thing somewhere around the very last days before the practicals.

CBSE Class 12 Computer Science Project (ZIP, ~619 KB):
1. In the root folder of the archive you’ll find my ‘quizzing software’ (named Jabberwocky). Included is the source code for the text-only and ‘graphics’ version of the software (using graphics.h). I suggest people to show the former, because if you’re unable to answer questions about the Turbo C++ graphics library you’re screwed. I also included the project report cover and body (needed along with the project when you submit it) as a demo on what is to be written. However, I did not include editable versions since, well, you’ve the source code anyway. Also included is the final end-user package of the software which contains a library of quiz questions with the software can use.
2. In the folder Rach’s Project, you’ll find…Rach’s project. I had no role to play in the making of that except for putting it up here. Contrary to popular belief, Rach says that he was not jacking off when creating the project (this rumor started because of the filenames he used). He says it’s because he’s a big fan of Jack Sparrow.
CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Project (ZIP, ~131 KB): I’ve included DOC and ODT versions of three different computer projects. The one on conductivity was what I eventually submitted. The one on rayon fibres is Rach’s.

Hope people find this useful. There are some other older posts of mine too which you may find useful.

Organic Chemistry Test Flowchart
Chemistry Salt Analysis Cheatsheet (mobile version of the same for viewing on cellphones): A perennial favorite. After all, salt analysis is a bitch when it comes to chemistry practicals. I hear that students in loads of schools are using this. I also heard that in our school the teachers themselves are distributing this to the students. (I think I should ask my ‘share’ from the school, out of the money it collects from the students for ‘study material’.) Heck, it’s even among the top results on Google for ‘qualitative salt analysis’. Yay me!
CBSE Physics Practical data: Missing practical classes is a national sport in schools. This page has data from the demonstration experiments which students are supposed to have done.

Exun 2008 Archive Downloads

Exun 2008 got over around a week back (check out some posts on it by other people) and one of the most asked-for things has been the quiz / crossword archives. Gursartaj was kind enough to hand over the printed copies of the material to Vivek, but unfortunately he hasn’t been able to put those up yet because of practical exams and problems with his computer. Vishesh was nice enought to later send over a copy if the archives. So here you go: download the Exun 2008 Quiz and Crossword Archive (ZIP, ~4.1 MB), which contains all the questions papers of the quiz (both senior & junior) and the crossword event prelims and finals. Exun 2008 papers were good and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did watching it.

Another thing which people have been asking me a lot about lately is on how to prepare for the TCS IT Wiz Quiz to be held on 11th December at IIT Delhi. (I’d have loved to come down and see this one too, but I won’t be in town at that time.) For starters, it’s essential to know the basics. There isn’t much time until the day of the event however, so the method described earlier simply cannot work within this short space of time. Instead, what you can do is go through Trivial.net’s archive of computer quizzes. Doing that should give you an idea of some of the most basic computer history stuff. Once that is done, spend your remaining time reading up news articles from either of these two sources – PC World or Ars Technica. Go for the former if you aren’t that highly experienced with tech quizzing, since it provides its articles with background perspective required for a beginner. Go for the latter if you already have a base in tech quizzing. Point to note is, Ars Technica will be overkill for the TCS IT Wiz standards, but when you already know a bit of tech then reading through PC World kind of stuff aimed at laymen will quickly induce boredom.

TCS IT Wiz is a quiz which has damn simple questions. Your task is NOT to get the maximum number of questions right, but to get the minimum number of questions wrong. It’s about making the least number of slip-ups. Be nice folks. Click pictures and compile a few questions so that I can come back and have a look at ’em.