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Improve English reading skills- Reading Club at American Center

Sep 20, 2011 1 Comment by

Children between 6-15 years with at least Intermediate level of English can join the “Readers are Leaders” Reading Club at American Center Colombo. You can improve your reading skills, oral communication and meet new friends who love books. Discover the wonders of reading at American (USA) Center. // // // ]]> When  : Saturday, September 24th 2011 at [...]

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Vidyodaya Sinhala Literature awards for poetry, lyrics, short story, novel and news articles

Sep 07, 2011 2 Comments by

Vidyodaya Sahithya Sammana’, the early bird show of Sri Lankan Literature awards, held recently at University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Six Sri Lankan authors form five different literature genres were awarded in this evening. Best poetry collection- Rathna Sri Wijesinghe – Sandya Theerthaya Best lyrics collection- Darmasiri Gamage- Kalak ewemen Perum Pura Best short story collection- [...]

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Daya Rohana Atukorala and his work on Positive Thinking

Sep 02, 2011 2 Comments by

New world is achievers not losers This is a new world, which uses the achievers as its investors. Losers, backward thinkers might miss the shield. Therefore it is important to step forward with a great positive approach for achieving the utmost goals. Then the need of guidance will arise more than any time in your [...]

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Greatest Sri Lankan books (Novels) of all time

Aug 24, 2011 8 Comments

Do you love reading Sri Lankan novels? Then for your inspiration, studentlanka contributor, Achinthya Bandara researched and selected all time best books ever written by Sri Lankan Authors. When it comes to literature there are books that you should never miss. ‘The mother’ by Maxim Gorky, ‘The Cherry Orchard’ by Anton Chekov, War and Peace [...]

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Top 10 Greatest Novels of Martin Wickramasinghe

Aug 13, 2011 9 Comments

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree….” Ezra pound- How to read I remember, when I was in my childhood when people ask me, ‘Who is your favorite writer and what is the book you love the most’. Then the answer was simple. It was Martin Wickramasinghe and the [...]

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Text books for A/L Physics students

Jun 15, 2011 3 Comments

Some of the useful Physics text books you can read for GCE Advanced Level A/L are given here. There are other posts here on this web site on free text books published by educational publications department, English medium text books on Physics and books for school children on other subjects: Biology, Chemistry. // Physics: Dr P [...]

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Download Protype Model Papers for G.C.E. A/L Examination

Mar 15, 2011 25 Comments

Department of Examinations published Model Papers (Protype Questions) and structure of the question papers and for G.C.E.(A.L) Examination from 2011 Onwards. These papers can be download from Examination Department web site. These are available as different volumes (pdf books). Volume 1 – Science Subjects Physics, Chmistry, Mathematics, Agricultural Science, Biology, Combined Mathematics and Higher Mathematics [...]

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A/L Year 13 Teacher’s Instructional Manuals are now available to download

Oct 12, 2010 6 Comments

NIE (National Institute of Education) published GCE Advanced Level Teacher’s Instructional Manuals (Teacher’s Guides) for year 13, and now you can download them from their web site. These are available in Sinhala, Tamil an English mediums. Earlier they published syllabuses for A/L examination. Sinhala Medium: Accountancy Agricultural Science Agro Technology Bio Resource Technology Biology Buddhism [...]

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What books to buy @ BMICH Colombo International Book fair 2011

Sep 07, 2010 18 Comments

Update: Colombo International Book Fair 2011 will be held at the BMICH from Saturday, September 17 at 9:30am – September 25 at 9:00pm. Organizers of this popular book exhibition, Sri Lanka Book Publishers Association said that there will be around 300 – 400 local and foreign book stalls. Many people buy school text books and even [...]

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Download school text books free

Jun 02, 2010 60 Comments

Some Text books of government schools along with other educational institutions (such as Pirivena, semi-governmental schools, private schools, International schools) published by Educational Publications Department can be downloaded free in pdf format. According to Mr W.M.N.J. Pushpakumara, Commissioner General of Educational Publications, textbooks under 351 titles in three media was produced for the year 2009. [...]

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