Learnsmart launches online academic tool

Released on: September 6, 2007, 6:14 am

Press Release Author: Webmaster

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: 4x7guru.com is an online assessment platform that allows
students between classes 3 and 10 the opportunity to strengthen their academic
foundation by identifying their strengths & weaknesses in subjects such as
Mathematics & Science.

Press Release Body: Learnsmart India Private Limited on Wednesday launched an online
diagnostic and self-assessment tool for students of Std III-X.

Learnsmart is a joint venture initiative by Hyderabad-based service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and web services integration provider BodhTree Consulting, and
Unified Council, a provider of educational assessment services.

Christened 24X7guru.com, the tool combines Unified Council's education content and
BodhTree's online diagnostic and assessment engine. The portal allows students to
take tests at their own convenience.

Students can evaluate their learning proficiency by answering questions about the
subjects they study in school. The portal then scores those answers and demonstrates
to students their strengths and weaknesses.

It also offers the flexibility to pause - in case of power failure etc - and
complete their tests later, besides tracking their performance and serving them with
a fresh batch of questions each successive time, depending upon their level of
comprehension.

A student can take as many as 45 such tests per year by paying Rs 3 to Rs 5 per day,
depending on the class.

"Initially, 24X7guru.com will offer student's online assessment services for
CBSE-based science and mathematics. We are gearing up to launch the Indian
Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) curriculum next month, and introduce the
International Baccalaureate (IB)-based courses in the next two months," Srinivas
Kalluri, director of Learnsmart, told mediapersons here.

Learnsmart aims at enrolling one million subscribers by the end of the academic year
2009 and add another million by 2010.

"We have tied up with around 3,500 schools in India and abroad, and are currently
working with the educational departments of countries like Africa, Malaysia and West
Asia for creating syllabi for them," Kalluri added.

According to Sanjiv Gupta, chief executive of BodhTree, the joint venture, has
invested Rs 4 crore in the initiative so far, expects to garner revenues of around
Rs 60 crore in the next 24 months.

"We propose to invest Rs 30 crore, which will be raised through internal accruals,
in developing the portal, besides working on offering it via the mobile delivery and
video learning platforms," he said.

The company plans to offer the services through mobile within a month, and via video
teaching sometime next year.

Web Site: http://www.24x7guru.com/

Contact Details: LEARNSMART INDIA PVT LTD.
1-8-617/2, Prakasham Nagar
Begumpet, Hyd - 16, AP
INDIA
Tel.: +91 1800 425 2425
Fax: +91 40 27762050
webiste:http://www.24x7guru.com

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