THINK

THINK

If you think you can, you can
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t

If you think you will lose, you are lost
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It is all in the state of mind

If you think you are outclassed, you are
You have to think high to rise
You have to be sure of yourself first
Before you can ever win a prize

For life’s battles don’t always go to
Stronger or faster man
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

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THINK BEFORE YOU CHEAT IN EXAMS

THE TRIBUNE
Thursday, November 6, 2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Be hard on cheaters in exams: SC
New Delhi, November 5

Students who cheat during exams better watch out as the Supreme Court has advised the authorities to use an iron hand to check such malpractices that affect the country’s progress and academic standards.
“We are of the firm opinion that in academic matters, there should be strict discipline and malpractices should be severely punished. If our country is to progress, we must maintain high educational standards, and this is only possible if malpractices in examinations in educational institutions are curbed with an iron hand,” the apex court observed.
A Bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and Markandeya Katju also ruled that even if an unauthorised chit is merely found in the possession, it is deemed to be a malpractice, irrespective of the fact whether the student had copied from the said chit.
“All that is relevant is whether the slip of paper found in the possession of the examinee pertained to the examination paper in question. If it does, then it is a malpractice,” the Bench said.
The apex court passed the ruling while upholding the appeal of a college management which challenged the Delhi High Court’s decision to condone a student’s malpractice. In this case, Vaibhav Singh Chauhan, a third year student of Dr Ambedkar Institute of Hotel Management, Nutrition & Catering Technology, was disqualified from attending the course for a one-year period as he was found in possession of a chit during the third year exam in 2004-05. — PTI