Q1: What are the advantages of the ICSE Board followed by the school?
a. The students get an in-depth knowledge of all subjects especially the languages. ICSE lays great emphasis on English language. Its English curriculum is far better than other boards with Shakespeare, Milton, Shaw, Tennyson and Shelley forming in intrinsic part and there is also a separate paper for English Language.

b. The students get a benefit of 5% as compared to CBSE students during admission to competitive colleges.

c. It provides an option to choose the stream right from class IX, which helps the students to be better prepared for their future careers.

d. 20 marks out of 100 are based on the skills of the students such as behaviour, interpersonal, creative thinking and decision making.

Q3: What is the school’s goal and vision?
a. The school aims at making quality education affordable to the general masses.

b. JPS has been broadening its horizons by giving opportunities to students for cross-country cultural exchange.

c. People from around the world visit the school to interact and conduct projects with the students. Eg. Gangukai Project, Jiva-Java Project, Opportunity Education and Schlumberger

d. JPS aims at optimum use of technology to develop various skills.

e. We visualize a ‘healthy, wealthy and fearless society’ where all citizens can enjoy a happy and respectable existence.

Q4: What makes Jiva different from other schools?
a. Jiva has a unique concept of making the students sit in circles and involving them in a variety of activities (at least 15 different kinds of activities are a part of their curriculum) conducted every day to teach the subjects.

b. Edulinks is another useful concept which integrates education with technology.

c. JPS provides the teachers with world class teaching aids.

d. We offer all possible opportunities to both students and teachers to learn, progress and develop their multiple intelligences through their natures and unique activities every month viz. mirror dancing competition, forensic workshop, sanskar mela etc.

e. At JPS even the routine activities are conducted and judged in a unique style.

f. We do not believe in the ‘bell culture’. There are no bells in JPS, which emphasises the stress we lay on freedom, self-discipline and punctuality.

Q5: How has Jiva contributed to the society?
JPS has its own fleet of CNG buses and parking area for students inside the school premises. We encourage students to wear helmets while riding bicycles and impart a value-based education in tune with the latest trends in technology.

Q6: How is Jiva’s style of teaching different from others?
a. Jiva’s concept of activity based learning is way ahead of the contemporary systems of education in India. We teach the students to have a real life experience through the learning acquired, think creatively and critically, and then carry out experiments or implement their ideas to construct something new for the society.

b. JPS has successfully been using HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) since its inception.

c. At JPS we maintain the students’ portfolios to ensure individual treatment and the best possible growth of each student.

Q7: What are the different ways in which Jiva helps its students, apart from academic support?
We have varied resources Jiva Learning Kit, Career Master Kit, Academic and Career Counseling exclusively developed for the children so as to enable them to test their body constitution, capabilities and interests and develop self-concept leading to self-management.

Q7. What are the different ways in which Jiva teaches its students to use technology?
JPS holds the distinction of being awarded for the first documentary made by students to get awarded apart from using the Internet and projectors for online activities and interactive learning respectively.

Q8: What are the timings of the school?
The school timings are from 8am-2pm throughout the year.

Q9: When does the admission process start?
The admission process starts in September for the Kindergarten wing and in October for Classes I to IX.

Q10: What are the criteria of admission?
Admission to JPS is subject to an entrance test followed by an interview. Please refer to the Admission menu and school prospectus.

Q11: What is the age for admission to Kindergarten?
We accept children of more than 3+ years for admission at Kindergarten level.