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Study skills and memoryTextbooks and referenceClassic novels and stories (public domain)Science readingWellness and Swami VivekanandaComputers and coding

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01Study skills and memory

Chart of Intelligence & Memory (PDF)Star Student Builder archiveBrain Facts — Society for Neuroscience (free official PDF)A primer on the brain and nervous systemRetrieval Practice — free guides for studentsResearch-based study strategiesLearning How to Learn (free course)Public Speaking — Dale Carnegie (public domain)The Art of Public Speaking, 1915

02Textbooks and reference

NCERT textbooks — all classes, freeOfficial Government of IndiaMaharashtra State Board e-Balbharati booksSSC textbooks, all standardsCISCE (ICSE/ISC) — official siteNational Digital Library of IndiaMillions of books, papers and videosDIKSHA — national learning platformKhan AcademyWikipediaBritannica Kids

03Classic novels and stories (public domain)

The novels on the original site — Pride and Prejudice, Huckleberry Finn, War and Peace — are free forever on Project Gutenberg, along with 70,000 others.

Project Gutenberg — 70,000 free e-booksPride and Prejudice — Jane AustenAdventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark TwainWar and Peace — Leo TolstoySherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan DoylePanchatantra & Indian talesStoryWeaver — free children's stories in Indian languagesOpen Library — borrow books freeTinkle & Amar Chitra Katha (official)Buy or subscribe legally

04Science reading

Science News for StudentsFree, written for school studentsNASA — for studentsScientific AmericanBBC Science FocusVigyan Prasar (Govt. of India) — free science booksArvind Gupta Toys — science from trash (free books & videos)

05Wellness and Swami Vivekananda

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (all 9 volumes, free)Public domainRaja Yoga — Swami VivekanandaThe Bhagavad Gita (English, free)Mindful — free articlesYoga JournalMinistry of AYUSH — Common Yoga Protocol (PDF)

06Computers and coding

freeCodeCampHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python — free certificatesCS50 — Harvard's free computer science coursePython for Everybody (free book)MDN Web Docs — learn web developmentScratch — coding for kidsCode.org

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