Category: General Knowledge

  • Why List Your School on Yellow Slate?

    Why List Your School on Yellow Slate?

    What is Yellow Slate?

    Yellow Slate is a school search engine that has been built for the benefit of parents to help them tackle the biggest confusion ever: Which school?  If you are a school, you can get yourself registered to get visibility to a large number of parents.. It gives you an opportunity to increase awareness about your school and get more leads.  It will also help parents understand more about the school and various facilities that make you different from any other school.

    How to add your school to Yellow Slate?

    Step 1: Go to the link – https://yellowslate.com/

    Step 2: Choose your city from the list of cities pop-up.

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    Step 3: The home page opens upon city selection. Click on the “Add School” button (highlighted in yellow colour) on the top right-hand side. 

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    Step 4: “Sign Up” pop-up opens.  Continue to sign up/Sign in with Google. 

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    Step 5: Once signed in, the home page opens again. Click on the “Add School” button on the top right-hand side corner once again. 

    Step 6: Search for your school name and in case it is not already published, click on the “I can’t find my school. Let me add.” hyperlink.  

    Step 7: Fill out all the school information in detail. The information has been divided into five tabs namely –

    • General
    • About
    • Brand
    • Contact Info
    • Verification

    Step 8: You will receive an approval email within 30 minutes of adding the details. Kindly note for verification, we need confirmation from an email id or phone number that is on google my business page or the website.

    Step 9:  Go back to the main website at https://yellowslate.com/ and you can see your school listing. The school addition is now complete. You can visit the dashboard through the “Yellow Slate Admin Portal”. The link to this admin portal can be found in the approval mail. 

    The dashboard shows various parameters like Leads, Reviews, etc. The school page profile can also be handled here. 

    What to do if my school is already listed on the Yellow slate?

    You might find the “Claim the school” banner beside your school listing. This happens because your school’s page has already been created on Yellow Slate either by the Yellow Slate Team or by some individual. The existence of the page also means that the page is being visited by hundreds of parents every day. It is a good idea to claim the school as claiming it confirms the ownership of the page. 

    How to claim your school? Once the school appears in the search box, Tap/click on it. You will now see a “Claim this School” link beside the listing. Click on this “Claim this School” link.

    Why should you list your school on Yellow Slate?

    • The Yellow Slate website is visited by hundreds of parents and students every day to seek information about the school, hence by creating your profile on Yellow Slate you can reach out to this wide base without spending anything thus building brand awareness.
    • Access to leads/ inquiries on your school. We will send you the details of all the inquiries made on your school listing. We will directly send these leads to you and you can access the same on the dashboard. You can then have transparent communication with parents and students through the dashboard and answer their queries and concerns.
    • Once your account is verified, we will give you access to the yellow slate dashboard where you can monitor and engage with the leads available and provide you the analytics to improve the visibility.
    • Lastly, creating a profile does not cost you anything, it is absolutely free of cost.

    So go ahead, create your profile on Yellow Slate and get access to hundreds of leads without spending anything. The platform helps you in getting visibility amongst the target audiences. For example, if you have a school in Bangalore, a student seeking admission in Bangalore will come to the yellow slate website and put a filter and your school name comes on the 1st page, the student goes through the information and ends up taking admission in the school.

  • Free Basic GK Questions & Answers for Kids

    Free Basic GK Questions & Answers for Kids

    Whether we want to accept it or not, our children are leading a very fast-paced, technologically driven life. At toddler age, they know about YouTube. In 1st grade, they start operating the iPad, and soon they learn how to use the phone better than us!

    Children pick up and learn things exceptionally quickly, especially from their surroundings. Today, thanks to technology, we find them occupied with their gadgets, discovering new things every day. But, amidst all this, are we forgetting about general knowledge? Are we forgetting to teach them about relationships, history, sports, and heritage? Probably.

    Did we get you thinking? Are you now worried about your 8-year-old’s general knowledge? Time to test! Here are a few questions we compiled so that you run a quick test for your cherished little one.

    1. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
    • 26
    1. Your paternal grandfather is your _________
    • Father’s father
    1. Which is the tallest mountain in the world?
    • Mount Everest
    1. Whose birthday do we celebrate on Children’s Day?
    • Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
    1. Which is the hottest planet?
    • Venus
    1. Name an amphibian.
    • Frog
    1. What is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh?
    • Itanagar
    1. Which is our national animal?
    • Tiger
    1. 5 x 8 = ________
    • 40
    1. How many oceans are there in the world?
    • 5
    1. What is a baby goat called?
    • Kid
    1. Which sport does P. V. Sindhu play?
    • Badminton
    1. Who is the President of India?
    • Ram Nath Kovind
    1. Where is the Red Fort situated?
    • Delhi
    1. Which is the closest star to Earth?
    • The sun
    1. How many planets are there in the solar system?
    • 8
    1. How many spokes does the Chakra in the national flag have?
    • 24
    1. Who invented the telephone?
    • Alexander Graham Bell
    1. Who wrote the national anthem?
    • Rabindranath Tagore
    1. How many consonants are there in the English alphabet
    • 21
    1. How many months are there in a year?
    • 12
    1. How many colours are there in a rainbow?
    • 7
    1. How many elephants are there in this picture?

    • 5
    1. Which day comes after Friday?
    • Saturday
    1. Which animal is known as the ‘Ship of the Desert?
    • Camel
    1. How many days we have in a week?
    • 7
    1. What is the capital of India?
    • New Delhi
    1. How many continents are in there in the world?
    • 7
    1. Which is the longest river in the world?
    • Nile
    1. How many colors are there in our National Flag?
    • 3

    Don’t forget to tell us how well your child did through comments.

    If you think any of these are too difficult or too easy for 8-year-olds, please feel free to let us know. We will update our list accordingly.