Jnana Prabodhini Prashala

Admissions

The school admits students to Class 5 on the basis of a two-step entrance test. Prospective students are required to give a test on reasoning ability and mathematics. Selected students have to attend an interview and write an additional test. 40 boys and 40 girls are short-listed for admission.

The admissions process was remarked to be against the RTE Act by the Bombay High Court in October 2013. However, the school appealed to the Supreme Court which cancelled the ban on entrance examinations and allowed the admissions process to continue in February 2014.

Academics

The courses include Mathematics, Science, Social Science, English, Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi. However, apart from academic courses, the school gives special attention to Self-expression arts such as Drama, Sculpture, Painting, Elocution and Speech, Music and Dance.

The school follows a scheme of continuous evaluation, which includes weekly tests, term end examinations, assignments and projects. It was one of the pioneers to introduce project-based learning in India. Student from Class 5 to Class 10, have to do an annual project each year. In class 5, the students have to complete a collection based project. In Class 6, they have to do projects which require model building and practical experiments. In Class 7, students have to complete a list of tasks within the stipulated time period. These tasks include writing book reviews, presenting before a large unknown group, learning and demonstrating new arts such as "Bandhni", weaving, making sculptures, memorizing long texts in four different languages etc. These tasks have been prepared under the banner of "Gunavikas Yojana" or development of life skills. This development helps the student to pursue the greater academic and extra-academic demands in his/her higher classes. In class 8, students are expected to do an open ended project in linguistics or geography. In class 9, they have to conduct a research study in the field of science. In class 10, students have to do futurological studies of various social systems are institutes. The school is perhaps the only one in India to encourage futurology projects in class 10. Jnana Prabodhini began e-learning in July 2011.