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Transweb Educational Services, founded in 2007 by Aditya Singhal and Nishant Sinha, is an online tutoring and educational website.[1][2] The website provides educational resources to students from grade 4 to university level, through its five websites.[3]

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Overview

Transweb comprises five websites: askIITians, eMedicalPrep, Transtutors, Transwebtutors and Mycollegeabroad.

  • askIITians caters primarily to students in India and the Middle East when preparing for engineering entrance exams like the IIT-JEE or AIEEE.[4]
  • eMedicalPrep cater to medical students taking entrance exams such as the AIPMT or AIIMS.[5]
  • Transtutors is a question-and-answer format website for homework help.
  • Transwebtutors offers paid online tutoring in mostly technical subjects.[6][7]
  • Mycollegeabroad is for students living abroad that needing college admission consulting.

Technology

A number of these websites provide services such as virtual classrooms, with text chat, audio chat and shared whiteboards.[8][9][10]

Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya, Dehradun

AskIITians is in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand to provide "three-month free coaching for preparing engineering and medical examinations" to students, utilising an "online base [with] live, interactive classrooms by the institute."[11][12][13] Rural students of RGNV get free education, boarding and lodging facility and around 150 students get online assistance in evening after the school is over.[14]

References

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    Sanjeev Kumar (29 August 2011). "Engineering & Civil Services HUB – Delhi". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 24 November 2011.
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    Shereen Bhan. "Changing Future Education of India". Young Turks – CNBC-TV18.
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    Naghma Sahar (3 August 2008). "Young Entrepreneurs of India – Salaam Zindagi". NDTV India.
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    "About Askiitians". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011.
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    "Ex-IITians offer help". Financial Express.
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    Isabel Hayes. "Indian tutors help Irish pupils online". Sunday Tribune.
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    "Research Paper on A Theoretical Framework for the Software Testing » Full Grade". 31 May 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
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    Shabina Akhtar (22 April 2010). "Help on the web". Telegraph India Tribune. Calcutta. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
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    "A virtual solution to homework problems". Telegraph. London. 22 May 2007.
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    Isabel Hayes (3 June 2007). "Indian tutors help Irish pupils online". Sunday Tribune.
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    "Naithani launches edu schemes for Govt. Schools". The Pioneer. 26 October 2013.
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    "AskIITians: IIT-JEE/PMT Preparation Specialist, Now in Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dehradun".
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    "Students will get ready for Engineering and Medical Exams" (PDF). Jagran. 26 October 2013. (in Hindi)
  14. [14]
    "EX-IITIANS IMPART ONLINE LESSONS TO NAVODAYA STUDENTS". The Pioneer. 14 February 2014.

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