Your interests and learning topics

The two kinds side by side

How learning topics are arranged

Sikhami's list has three levels: a category, then a sub-category, then a topic. For example:

• Music & singing › Popular instruments › Guitar
• Dance › Indian classical dance › Kathak
• Competitive exams › Medical & nursing entrance › NEET UG
• Technology & IT › Programming languages › Python

If you pick a category or a sub-category, it covers everything inside it. Topic names show in Hindi when your browser's language is set to Hindi. To browse the whole list, see Categories.

Choose what you want to learn

1. 1Open your profile and choose Edit profile.
2. 2In the Learning part, open What do you want to learn?.
3. 3Type in Search all topics…, or browse: open a category, then a sub-category, then tick a topic.
4. 4You can tick a whole category, a sub-category or a single topic. Ticking a sub-category replaces the topics you ticked inside it. The count at the bottom shows how many you have picked, up to 10.
5. 5On a computer, choose Done. On a phone, tap outside the list to close it. Clear removes all your picks.
6. 6Under Your main goal, choose why you are learning right now: Get a job, Crack an exam, School studies, Grow in my career, Start a business, A hobby, for fun, Personal growth or Teach others.
7. 7Choose Save at the top of the page.

Can't find your topic?

At the bottom of the list, choose Suggest a topic. Type the Topic name (2 to 60 characters) and, if you like, a note under Anything to add? (optional), then choose Send. Your suggestion goes to the Sikhami team for review. Pick the closest topic for now; you can change it once yours is added.

Other places to pick

• Finish setting up, right after you sign up, lets you tap whole categories. See Set up your profile.
• If you have not picked anything yet, My learning shows a What do you want to learn? box. Tap some categories and choose Show my recommendations.

Add interest tags

1. 1Open Edit profile and find Interests ("Subjects, exams, hobbies.").
2. 2Type an interest, for example physics. After two letters, Sikhami suggests interests that people on Sikhami already use. Tap one, or press Enter, or choose the + button.
3. 3To remove a tag, choose the small x on it.
4. 4Choose Save at the top of the page.

Tags are saved in lower-case. You can add up to 30, and the counter under the box shows how many you have. On your profile, each tag is a link: tapping it searches Sikhami for that word.

Where your choices are used

• Recommended for you on the Courses page, and Recommended courses for you in My learning, show courses that match what you want to learn. Courses that match a single topic come before courses that only match its category. See more opens the category page, and Edit opens Edit profile.
• Preparing for tags: when your topics include an exam such as NEET or JEE, the exam shows as a Preparing for tag on your profile.
• New posts: the Topics row of a new post starts with up to three of your topics. You can change them before you post.
• People search: other people can filter People by what they want to learn, by their goal, and by interest tags. See Search filters.
• Sponsored posts: advertisers can choose to show their ads to people with certain topics, interests, exams, languages, class or stage, state, gender or age. Sikhami matches this with your profile. See Sponsored content.

If no courses match yet, you see "No courses for your interests yet." with a link to browse all categories.

Who can see your interests

• Your interest tags show on your profile to anyone who can open it, even if your account is private.
• Your learning topics and your main goal are not listed on your profile. Exams among your topics show as Preparing for tags.
• People search can still find you by your topics, goal and tags when someone uses those filters.

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