A brand new lecture series from NPTEL by experts! Today's Topic - FILM SENSE
Dear Learners
Join us for a brand new lecture series from NPTEL!
Today's session:
Topic : Film Sense
Speaker : Mr. Badri Venkatesh
Profession : Film Director
Time : 6:00pm
Link to watch : https://youtu.be/loBJPhlh4vA
Feedback for Language and Mind
Dear student
We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.
We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.
In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.
The link to give your feedback is :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WRDoJuj6QRrCUnjHR7IjthqmEhol7wgw_LOn5BH4crc
We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Assessment scores : Word documents
Dear Students,
This is for those of you who have mailed us your assessments in word documents. We have evaluated your answers. Please find herewith the assessment scores
Assessment One
1. Vidya Satish - 81%
2. Vinitha - 67%
Assessment Two
1. Abhishek Thakur - 87 %
2. Satya Phani kumari - 93%
Assessment Three
1. Krishna Prasad - 100 %
2. Abhishek Thakur - 87 %
3. Vinod Kumar - 93 %
4. Shwetha Prakash - 73 %
Assessment Six
1. Rajini - 60%
2. Swetha Prakash - 100%
3. Shama Kulkarni - 80%
4. Abhishek Thakur - 93%
5. Ritika Malhotra - 87%
Assessment 8
1. Mandvi Singh - 93%
2. Kaivalya - 80%
3. Shama Kulkarni - 93%
Please let us know if the word documents that you have sent us have not been evaluated. You may forward the mail that was sent to us earlier (in such a case).
Clarifications : Please note
Dear Students
This is based on the queries that you have posted on the forum. Please note the following:
1. We hope that all of you have got your admit cards downloaded. Does anyone face issues with regard to downloading the hall tickets? Please write to us if you have queries about the same.
2. It seems to us that few students have had issues in submitting assessment six. Those of you who could not submit assessment 6, please send us your answers in a word document by tomorrow.
3. Answers keys of assessment 6, 7 and 8 will be released tomorrow (in the evening around 5). Please note that once the answer keys are out, no more assessments (sent out in word format) will be considered for evaluation. This also means that assessments sent out to us after 17th will not be considered for evaluation. Hence we request you to submit your assessments before 17th (4:00 pm)
4. We will consider 30% of assessment weightage (best 6 out of 8 assessments) to be considered for final grading.
5. Those of you who have submitted your assessments in word format will get an update of their marks in a couple of days. Your scores will not be updated in the progress tab. However, we'll share it with you in the discussion forum (plus we'll sent it out as an announcement). You can check your marks and get back to us
if you need any clarifications about the same.
Please feel free to post your queries on the forum. Or you may write to us as well. We'll try to respond to your queries as early as possible.
All the best for your exams
Exam pattern
Dear Students
This is with regard to the question pattern
SET A (March 20th)
The question paper will have three sections - A, B and C.
Section A - Fill in the blanks from the options given (10 marks)
Section B - True or False questions (10 marks)
Section C - Subjective short answer questions (Answer any of the 8 questions out of the 10 questions given) - 80 marks
SET B (March 27th)
The question paper will have three sections - A, B and C
Section A - Fill in the blanks from the options given (10 marks)
Section B - Fill in the blanks from the options given in the table (10 marks)
Section C - Subjective short answer questions (Answer any of the 8 questions out of the 10 questions given) - 80 marks
Please make a note of the following while answering the short answer/subjective questions.
1. Read and understand the question. Depending on what the question is, whether one is asked to "discuss", "elucidate", "explain", "critically examine" or "give reasons for and against", the answer should be written.
2. Please note that there are no wrong answers for a subjective question as long as the answer is well substantiated.
3. Clarity and precision of explanations/arguments is important. Avoid contradictions in your arguments.
4. Think critically and connect concepts.
5. Validate your opinions/responses.
RE: Refund amount for failed transactions
Dear Student
We have refunded the money from our side for failed transactions, if the
money is not credited to your account you can check with your bank with
the reference number which has been generated during your payment.
Refunds are not being processed for successful registrations.
If the bank confirms that your amount is not refunded, then please write to us at nptel@iitm.ac.in
NPTEL Certification exam: Hall tickets available for download
Dear candidate:
Hall tickets have been published for the courses that have exams on March 20 and 27. The link for the same is
https://www3.digialm.com:443//EForms/configuredHtml/885/2759/login.html
Instructions for candidates to access the hall ticket:
- Please login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access and download the hall ticket(s) for the March 20th/ 27th exams, from the link.
- Note that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on March 20th/ 27th 2016.
- Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a valid ID card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the hall ticket).
- Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.
- Note1:- If you are writing 2 exams - 1 on March 20th and another on March 27th, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets.
- Note2: Exam time : 2 PM to 5 PM.
- In case of issues - contact us at nptel@iitm.ac.in.
Thanks
NPTEL team
Clarifications: Please note
Dear Students
We wish to make a couple of clarifications about text materials, exams, hall tickets and assessment scores. (This is based on the queries that you have posted on the forum)
1. First of all, please read the announcements properly. We had already made an announcement that hall tickets/admit cards will be made available for download on the second/third week of March. We will sent out a mail regarding the same when the hall tickets are ready for download.
2. About the text materials: Please understand that video lectures ought to be your primary learning resource. This is the only NPTEL online course where the text materials are made available (for the students) along with the videos. The team has been working really hard in transcribing and uploading the text materials. NPTEL has so far uploaded 33 out of 40 lectures and is currently working on lectures 33-40. The team is trying their best to make it available to you (as and when they are ready).
3. Those of you who have mailed us your assessment answers in word documents will get an update of the marks only after the closing of all the eight assessments. It becomes extremely difficult for the TA to manually correct your answers, convert them to percentage and upload them immediately after you send us your answers (This course has an enrollment of 3200 students). However we will ensure that there is complete transparency and will update you with individual scores of the assessments (that you have attempted) before publishing the final score.
4. Having talked about the difficulties we face with regard to delayed submission of assessments, we request your good self to kindly submit assessments 7 & 8 before the due date. Please avoid working on your assessments on the last day of submission.
5. Answer keys of the first two assessments have been uploaded. You can find them at the bottom of the assessment page. Write to us if you have any queries about the same. We shall soon be sharing the answer keys of the remaining assessments.
6. Instructions with regard to final exam (the pattern and questions for the exam) will be announced tomorrow.
Assessment Six : Due date extended.
Dear All,
Quite a few students had requested us to extend the due date for assessment six. We have extended the submission due date to the 11th March 2016.
Unit 8: Language and cognition
Dear All,
The video lectures, reading materials and assessment of unit eight titled "Language and cognition " has been released. The due date for the submission of the assessment is 16th March 2016. The assessment cannot be submitted after the due date. Hence, kindly ensure that your assessments are submitted on time. Please note that assessments are mandatory for the successful completion of this course.
PS: The text versions of the same shall be made available at the earliest. We are working on that. Sample questions and question patterns for the final exam will be discussed soon (in a couple of days) soon after we release the answer keys for the first five assessments.
About the submission of assessments
Dear All ,
We shall no more accept assessments mailed to us in word documents. Please make sure that all of you submit assessments six, seven and eight before the due dates. Please don't mail us your answers. They will not be evaluated.
Assessment Seven
Dear All !
Language and mind: Video release : Unit 7
Dear All !
The video lectures of unit seven titled "Levels of representation and principles of grammar " has been released today. After logging into the portal, please click on the tab "Levels of representation and principles of grammar " to view the video lectures and the reading materials.The text versions of week five videos will be made available very soon.
-NPTEL Team
REMINDER: Registration closes on 1st MAR 2016 5 PM (Tuesday) - Register today!!!
Dear students
Hope you are doing the course and are enjoying the learning process.
Already 5766 students have registered for the exams, are you one of it? If not Please register for the exam today!!
The certification exam registration URL is : http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
(Only if you are enrolled in a 10 hr / 20 hr course that started on Jan 18th, you will be able to login here)
If
you have any payment issue and internet connectivity problem, please
try to register earlier instead of trying out in the last minute.
Exam registrations close on 1st MAR 2016 5 PM (Tuesday)!! The last date will not be extended!
Dates of exam: 20th March 2016 (or) 27 March 2016
Exam Session time: 2 PM - 5 PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
Mode of payment: Only online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking
The hall ticket will be available for download from 2nd/3rd week of March 2016.
Certificate
will be awarded to candidates who register and attend the certificate
examination. The scores obtained by the student in the assignments and
in the proctored exam will be used to compute the final score printed on
the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL
website, where on logging in, your assignment scores and your score in
the proctored certification exam will be displayed. Please do regularly
submit assignments to get a good final score.
IMPORTANT NOTES
1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:-
Once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like
adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. So,
if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and
make the payment. Its not possible to pay later for the second course.
Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable.
Courses with exam on March 20th/ 27th : http://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/Assets/pdf/Courses%20with%20exams%20on%20March%2020-27%202016.pdf
2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE GOT SCHOLARSHIP VIA YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER: -
Students who have got scholarship via NPTEL local chapter can opt to
pay individually using the above form. While doing so the reduced fee
will automatically apply.
3) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:-
If you are paying fee via Local chapter of your college using the DD
option, ONLY After the SPOC of your college has finished uploading the
Bulk-Payment details for the March exam, please come to this form and
add your signature, photo and certificate (in case of SC/ST). This step
is mandatory fr generating the hall ticket.
Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team
Video release : Unit 5
Dear All !
The video lectures of unit five titled "Grammar" has been released today. After logging into the portal,
please click on
the tab "Grammar" to view the video lectures and
the reading
materials. Assessment five will be released tomorrow. The text
versions of week five videos will be made available very
soon.
Announcement regarding exam and certificate format.
Final score on certificate =
30% of assignment(6 best out of 8 assessments) and 70% of exam.
Legend for certificate:
1. The certificate for a student scoring lesser than 35% get the tag "certificate of participation"
2. A student who scores above 35% -59% gets the Certificate for "successfully completing the course"
3. A student who scores above 60% -89% gets the tag "Elite" printed at the top of the certificate.
3. A student who scores above 90% will have "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.
The new formats are attached here for your reference:
Photos of Toppers in every course are published on the website http://nptel.ac.in/noc website along with the name of the college/organization you belong to". Click here to take a look at a sample page:
Registration open for certification exam
Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the March 2016 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is only open to students who have enrolled in the course.
Registration is open from 10th FEB 2016 (Wednesday) until 1st MAR 2016 5 PM (Tuesday).
The certification exam registration URL is : http://nptelonlinecourses.
Exam Session time: 2 PM - 5 PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
Mode of payment: Only online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking
The hall ticket will be available for download from 2nd/3rd week of March 2016.
Certificate will be awarded to candidates who register and attend the certificate examination. The scores obtained by the student in the assignments and in the proctored exam will be used to compute the final score printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website, where on logging in, your assignment scores and your score in the proctored certification exam will be displayed. Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.
IMPORTANT NOTES
1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- Once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment. Its not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable.
Courses with exam on March 20th/ 27th : http://nptel.ac.in/
Assessment Four: Important instructions to be followed.
Dear All !
The fourth weekly assessment (based on the five video lectures of unit four titled
'Words and sentences') has been released today. The due date for the
submission of this assessment is 28th February 2016. The assessments cannot be
submitted after the due dates. Hence, kindly ensure that your assessments are
submitted on time. Please note that assessments are mandatory for the
successful completion of this course. Your scores will be displayed only
after the due date. (28th Feb 2016). We have newly included fill up type questions for this assessment. Before you attempt to answer the questions, kindly ensure that you follow the instructions given below.
The text (the answers that you are going to type in the spaces provided against the fill up question is highly case sensitive. Hence please follow the instructions while attempting the fill up type questions. Eg. If the expected answer is Ray Jackendoff
1. Type your answers without spelling errors
Ray Jackendoff (Right)
Ray Jackandoff (Wrong. Spelling error)
2. Do not use punctuations (such as full stops, comma etc)Ray Jackendoff (Right)
Ray Jackendoff. (Wrong. Full stop after the word Jackendoff will be detected wrong)
3. Kindly add one space between two words. Between two words, do not use the space bar more than once. Also, unnecessary spaces need to be avoided before/after the typed answer.Ray Jackendoff (Right.)
Ray Jackendoff (Wrong. Extra space between the words Ray and Jackendoff)
RayJackendoff (Wrong. Additional spaces before the word Ray/ No space between Jacendoff and Ray).
RAY JACKENDOFF/Ray Jackendoff/ray jackendoff (All the given versions will be detected correct)
Video release : Unit Four
Dear All !
The video lectures of unit four titled "Words and sentences" has been released today. After logging into this portal,
please click on
the tab "Words and sentences" to view the video lectures and
the reading
materials. Assessment four will be released tomorrow. The text versions of final two lectures of week four will be made available very soon.
Reminder about the due date for the submission of Aseesment One: 10th Feb 2016
Dear All !
This is for the students who are yet to submit assessment One.The due date for the submission of assessment one is 10th February
2016. The assessments cannot be submitted after the due dates. Hence,
kindly ensure that your assessments are submitted on time. Please note
that assessments are mandatory for the successful completion of this course. Your scores will be displayed only after the due date. (10th Feb 2016).
Assessment three
Dear All!
The third weekly assessment (based on the five video lectures of unit three titled 'Patterns in sounds and words') has been released today. The due date for the submission of this assessment is 21st February 2016.The assessments cannot be submitted after the due dates. Hence, kindly ensure that your assessments are submitted on time. Please note that assessments are mandatory for the successful completion of this course. Your scores will be displayed only after the due date. (21st Feb 2016).
Good luck
TA
Language and Mind
Video release : Unit Three
Dear All !
The video lectures of unit three titled "Patterns in sounds and words" has been released. After logging into this portal, please click on
the tab "Patterns in sounds and words" to view the video lectures and the reading
materials for this week.
TA
Language and mind
PS: Assessment three will be released tomorrow.
The text versions of week three lectures will be made available very soon.
Active particiption requested
Hi All !
We hope that the first week lectures of this course have helped you in grasping the basics of language and its learning. Based on the topics taught in the video lectures released so far, we will hold discussions once a week. Let us use the discussion forum to share our ideas, views, criticisms and doubts. We request your active participation in the forum.
Topic for discussion (based on unit one lectures)
Discuss the various stages of language acquisition and learning among children.
Best
TA
Language and Mind
PS: Post your views on the discussion forum.
Assessment Two
Dear All!
The second weekly assessment (based on the five video lectures of unit two titled 'Language in Mind') has been
released today. The due date for the submission of this assessment is 13th February 2016.The assessments cannot be submitted after the due dates. Hence, kindly ensure that your assessments are submitted on time. Please
note that assessments are mandatory for the successful completion of
this course. Your scores will be displayed only after the due date. (13th Feb 2016).
Good luck
TA
Language and Mind
Reading materials for the week
Dear All !
The reading material (for this week) has been released. Enjoy reading.
TA
Language and Mind
Video release - Unit two
Dear All !
The video lectures of unit two titled "Language in mind" has been released. After logging into this portal, please click on the tab "Language in mind" to view the video lectures and reading materials for the week.
TA
Language and mind
PS: Assessment two will be released tomorrow.
The text versions of week two lectures will be made available very soon.
Text version
Dear All!
The text version of the lectures one and two have been uploaded. Enjoy learning.
TA
Language and Mind
Clarifications regarding viewing text version/assessment one
Dear All
This is for those students who face issues with regard to viewing and downloading the text version/assessment of the video lectures. The videos available on the site http://nptel.ac.in/courses/
Step 1: Log into your registered mail id for this course.
Step 2: Open a new tab and copy paste the following link
https://onlinecourses.nptel.
Step 3: Once you get to the site, please click on the login button on the right hand corner.
Step 4: Click on the tab "On Language" to view the modules.
You will see a list of modules, reading material and assessment in unit one titled "On language" (as shown in the images given below)
Step 5: Click on Module Three (as we are still working on the text versions of module one and module two) to find the text version of the video lecture displayed on the right hand corner of the video. Click on the same to download it. (as shown in the image given below).
NOTE: Please find the options "Reading materials" and "Quiz: Assessment One" in the same thread below the modules. 
Hope this clarifies. Please let us know if you still face issues viewing or downloading the text/video/assessments.
Best
TA
Language and Mind
Reading materials
Dear All !
The reading materials (week one) has been released. Kindly go through them for an elaborate and detailed understanding of the topics discussed so far in video lectures . Please note that the video lectures are your primary text (based on which most of the weekly assessment questions are framed). The additional reading materials will help you in answering subjective questions in the final exams.
Best
TA
Language and Mind
Assessment One
Dear All !
The first weekly assessment (based on the five video lectures) has been released today. The due date for the submission of this assessment is 10th February 2016.The assessments cannot be submitted after the due dates. Hence, kindly ensure that your assessments are submitted on time. Please note that assessments are mandatory for the successful completion of this course. Your scores will be displayed only after the due date. (10th Feb 2016).
Goodluck
TA
Language and Mind
Video download
Hello All !
Greetings of the day
In order to download the videos of this course, please visit the website http://nptel.ac.in/courses/
TA
Language and Mind
Text version of videos now available in the portal for "Language and mind"
Dear Students
Text version for lecture 3, 4, and 5 are now available in the portal. You can see the tab "Text version" above the video, there you can download the document.
Text version for Lecture 1 and 2 will be available soon.
-NPTEL TEAM
Enjoy learning: Release of unit one videos.
Dear Students!
Greetings for the day. Unit one videos have been released. Enjoy learning.
TA
Language and Mind
PS: We will soon get back to you with the details of evaluation.
About logging in
Dear All !
Seems like some of you have had issues logging in. To log into the site and watch the videos please note the following
1. Log into your registered mail id for this course.
2. Open a new tab and copy paste the following link.
https://onlinecourses.nptel.
3. Once you get to this site, please click on the login button on the rightmost corner.
Enjoy learning
TA
Language and Mind
PS: Please feel free to post your queries on the discussion forum.
Welcome to NPTEL Online Certification Course: Language and Mind
Dear student
Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!
Thank you for signing up for our online course " LANGUAGE AND MIND". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.
The course will begin on January 18 2016. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.
We will open registration for the exam 2 weeks after the course starts. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.
There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections:
• The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.
• The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.
Details regarding the course:
Name of the course:LANGUAGE AND MIND(8 weeks : 20 hrs)
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.
Course duration : January 18 2016 - 11 March 2016
Dates of exams : 20 March 2016 and 27 March 2016
Time of exam : 2pm - 5pm
Tentative list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly
Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.
- NPTEL team
