Editorial desk
How our guides are checked
Guides and articles in the One Young India resource library that carry the line "checked by the One Young India editorial desk" were checked by our editorial desk before they went up. This page says how that check works, how our older articles were made, and how to report an error on any of our pages.
Who checks the pages
The editorial desk is part of One Young India. A page it has checked carries a line near the top that says how it was made: drafted with AI help from the sources listed on the page, and checked by the desk on the date shown.
The checks are AI-assisted and reviewed by the editorial desk at One Young India. AI tools help draft a page and compare each claim with its saved source; the desk reviews what they find before the page goes up.
AI tools never supply a fact: every number, date, fee, rule, name and quote on a checked page comes from a source the desk has read.
We are not counsellors or a coaching centre. The guides explain how things work and where to look; they never make a plan for one child, and we never write or edit applications.
Where a guide covers something we also offer, such as MUN, research, holiday programmes or entrepreneurship, its first paragraph says so, and our own programme is judged by the same questions as any other.
How every fact is checked
A page that carries the line goes through the same steps every time.
- Sources first. The desk reads official pages: universities, exam boards, government bodies and the organisers of a competition or programme. Each source is saved with its address and the date it was read.
- A fact sheet. Every number, date, fee, rule, name and quote the article will use is checked against the saved source and written down with it.
- Written from the sheet only. Nothing specific goes into the article unless it is on the fact sheet.
- A number check. Every number, date and amount in the draft is compared with the fact sheet, and anything that does not match is fixed or taken out.
- A second, independent check. A separate AI-assisted review opens each source again, checks every claim and how it is worded, and marks anything it cannot find. The desk reviews what it marks, and the article is fixed before it is published.
A checked page with dates, fees or deadlines also says when its facts were last checked against the sources, in a line near the top. That date changes only when the facts have been checked again.
Editorials we published in October 2026, before the line was added, do not carry it. They were written from a fact sheet checked against its sources, and a separate check went through their claims against the sources before they went up.
Most editorials from September 2026 were made before this process and were not checked this way. Some of them are being rebuilt to it, and a rebuilt editorial carries the line.
What a checked page never does
- It never invents a student, a quote, an outcome or a figure. An example that is not a real case is short, labelled as an illustration and names no one.
- It never names a student. Where it shows published student work, it shows the paper’s title.
- It never promises an outcome, such as an admission, a prize or a publication. Wherever publishing comes up, it says that publication depends on review and is not guaranteed.
- It never ranks programmes or conferences we compete with. Lists show facts, such as dates, fees and what a student makes, chosen by a rule the page states.
Corrections
If something on one of our pages is wrong or out of date, email info@oneyoungindia.com with the page’s address and what you think is wrong, and a source if you have one.
The desk checks it against the source. A confirmed error is corrected within one working day, and the change is recorded. If a fact has changed since the page was checked, the page is updated and its "Facts checked on" date moves only once the new fact has been checked.