Rajasthan government has launched an app to help college students with digital academic materials. What is the name of this app?
- (1)MyEducationLo app
- (2)MyClassLo app
- (3)MyBookLo app
- (4)MyCoachingLo app
Answer
Why
Correct — option (3), MyBookLo app.
The Times of India (Jaipur, updated 30 August 2021) reported that the Rajasthan government "has launched MyBookLo app to help students with digital academic materials".
Minister of State for Higher Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati launched MyBookLo in Jaipur on Saturday, 28 August 2021, to make study materials easily available to college students.
Commissioner of College Education Sandesh Nayak said an MoU had been signed between the Commissionerate of College Education and the MyBookLo company to provide curriculum-wise digital study materials. The app works as a digital library where students can get video and PDF notes.
The idea to remember: MyBookLo = the Rajasthan College Education digital library app, launched 28 August 2021.
Why the others are wrong
- (1)MyEducationLo app — The app launched by Rajasthan's higher education minister in August 2021 was reported as MyBookLo, not MyEducationLo.
The word "Education" belongs to the department behind the launch, the Commissionerate of College Education, not to the app's name.
- (2)MyClassLo app — The Times of India report of August 2021 names the app MyBookLo. MyClassLo is not the name in that report.
The report presents the app as a digital library of study materials for college students, with video and PDF notes.
- (4)MyCoachingLo app — This option borrows a word from the app's description. The report says that under the app "different categories of coaching will be given to students", and that it would help them prepare for competitive examinations.
But the app's name was MyBookLo, not MyCoachingLo.
Concept
A digital library app gives students books, notes and videos on a phone or computer instead of in a physical library.
In MyBookLo's case, the Commissionerate of College Education, Rajasthan, signed an MoU with the company that runs the app to supply curriculum-wise material for graduation and postgraduation courses.
The report adds that students would also be able to use it to prepare for competitive examinations, with video and PDF notes.
RPSC's 2021 syllabus lists "Major Current Events and Issues of Rajasthan, India and International Importance." under Current Affairs.
The launch came during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Times of India linked it to uncertainty over whether educational institutes could resume physical classes at 100% capacity.
The same report says the college education department had earlier launched five online courses for students to enhance their skills.
Key facts
- 28 August 2021: Minister of State for Higher Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati launched the MyBookLo app in Jaipur.
- The app is meant to give college students digital academic materials.
- The Commissionerate of College Education signed an MoU with the MyBookLo company for curriculum-wise digital study material.
- The app works as a digital library with video and PDF notes.
- Sandesh Nayak was Commissioner of College Education at the launch.
Study next
Common traps
- Words from the description are not the name: the app offers coaching and education material, but its name is MyBookLo.
- College versus school: MyBookLo was launched for college students by the college education department.
- Four options share the pattern "My…Lo"; only the middle word distinguishes them, so the word to recall is Book.
A question can describe what a new state government app does and ask its name.
A question can also name the app and ask who launched it, for whom it is meant, or which department runs it.
Related PYQs
Recently which app is launched by Jaipur Municipal Corporation, Heritage for citizens to report civic issues and government to analyze, track, manage & solve ?
- (1) Jaipur 300
- (2) Jaipur 301
- (3) Jaipur 311
- (4) Jaipur 315
Answer(3)
Both ask the name of an app launched in Rajasthan. That question is on the Jaipur Municipal Corporation Heritage app for reporting civic issues (RPSC's key: Jaipur 311); this one is on the state's app for college students.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
The MyBookLo app launched by the Rajasthan government in August 2021 is meant mainly for
- (a)College students
- (b)Primary school students
- (c)Farmers
- (d)Industrial training institute trainees
Answer(1) — The Times of India reported that the app was launched to make study materials easily available to college students, through an MoU of the Commissionerate of College Education. Options (2), (3) and (4) are not the users named in the report. - practice — not a real PYQ
Under which Rajasthan government body was an MoU signed with the MyBookLo company to provide curriculum-wise digital study material?
- (a)Commissionerate of College Education
- (b)Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education
- (c)Department of Agriculture
- (d)Rajasthan Public Service Commission
Answer(1) — Commissioner of College Education Sandesh Nayak said the MoU was between the Commissionerate of College Education and the MyBookLo company. Options (2), (3) and (4) are not the body named in the report.