Middle - to - High School Students

Introduction

If you're a 8th, 9th, and 10th student already thinking ahead to college and career, then bravo! Good for you! Outstanding! You're well on your way to success already. Most students wait too long and never adequately plan out their educational and career goals. You’ve beaten the odds already by just being here and investigating your options. The next step is for you to lay out an academic path that best compliments who you are and best prepares you for what you want to be. You can take control of future success today by simply deciding to make it your plan.

A Time for Exploring

The 8th, 9th and 10th class are a great time to begin exploring. Start by learning about what interests you. Make it a point to start taking lots of different courses so that you can explore the various subjects that might one day lead to a career. Pay attention to what subjects you like the most and which ones you're good at. Try lots of extracurriculars – they'll not only help you expand the scope of your exploration into different activities, but they'll also help you in building up a personal portfolio for future major  subject in 12th and then college applications. Finally, this is a great time for you to begin taking career assessment tests. These assessments help you understand what careers best match based on your interests and aptitude.

Course-stream Planning

CBSE- SGAI (Students Global Aptitude Index) can be taken in class X to know the students preference for subjects after class X. However, it should be taken only as an indicator or a facilitator. The test will help the larger population including parents, teachers and students to initiate a dialogue on subject choices leading to careers ahead in life .However, the results of SGAI taken together with the student’s assessment from SkillGapfinder Aptitude Test will ultimately help students and parents in making informed choices. Mental preparedness and sincere responses are the pre- requisites for this test. SGAI scores may depend upon child’s environmental stimulus and motivation level.

Take SkillGapfinder Aptitude Test (SGFAT)

SkillGapfinder’s Aptitude Test (SGFAT)  is a battery of Aptitude Tests which also combines Interest profile of a student. This coincides with the onset of adolescence and beginning of career concepts. It is therefore crucial to give a road map to the child which is realistic and favorable. SGFAT is aimed to empower a child with “self knowledge” in terms of the Aptitude and Interest, to enable the child in making informed subjects choices. Students cant take this test either  online of using paper and pencil , which requires approximately 1 – 11/2 hours. The assessment broadly indicates: •Scientific Aptitude •Numerical Aptitude •Social Aptitude •Behavioral Science Aptitude •Art Aptitude and •Interests

Technical / Industrial Training Planning
If college is not in your interest and you would like to hands-on on technical or industrial training  institute, get understanding their admissions requirements will help give you  technical  direction and practical goals for the next few years.

Explore Institute.

Technical / Industrial Training Institute Database offers detailed profiles and articles on over  8000 graduate colleges in India. You can search for schools by name, browse by category, or even use the query tool to create a customized search based on dozens of specific criteria. Chat with others. Visit our discussion forums and chat with others about any number of technical / industrial training institute-related issues. Chat with others who are attending or have attended schools you might one day want to go to. Ask questions and meet people! Career Planning It's never too early to start thinking about a career. At the very least, you should begin exploring different occupations so that you get a sense for what interests you. This will allow you to plan out your coursework according or simply give you ideas for classes you might want to take just to explore potential interests. Below, you will find an introduction to just some of the career-related resources available to you on our site. Take a career assessment test We provides 2 online career assessment tests professionally designed to match your  aptitude and interests to our database of careers. Each assessment comes with a detailed online report and use of our unique OccuMatch™ system which scores and rank-orders 900+ different careers based on your assessment responses! Chat with others. Visit our career Discussion Forums and chat with others who are in various careers. Ask questions, get advice and learn more about various occupations directly from people who are in them. There are forums for over 900 different careers as well as general topic forums for discussing things like Internships and Apprenticeships. Linking core subjects to career exploration. Acquire a basic understanding of the importance of English, math, and science skills to an array of careers. Read through career profiles. Each career in our database has a detailed, multiple-page profile that includes a job description, job requirements, college/training center and forums for user discussion. Most career profiles even have brief videos that provide quick introductions to each career! We have a database of over 900 different careers that you can search or browse through.