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NTSE & Pvt. Olympiad

By : - Bhawana GuptaResonance PCCP

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Index

IntroductionHistorical backgroundDetails Regarding NTSENTSE V/S RTI V/s ResonanceNTSE in 2010NTSE in 2011How to write RTINTSE courses @ ResonanceBeyond the call of Duty

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National Council of Education And Training

NTSE is a scheme to identify talented students. It’s the oldest & most prestigious scholarship exam in India. Being conducted by NCERT (National Council of Education Research and Training) which was started in 1963.

Advantage: Through NTSE, talented students are honoured and helped by providing financial assistance in the form of monthly scholarship.

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Earlier This programme took up the shape of a scheme called National Science Talent Search Scheme (NSTSS) in the year 1963.

It was renamed as National Talent Search Scheme (NTSS) in 1976

the scheme was made open to the students of Classes X, XI and XII

A major change in the scheme came in 2006, The following modifications have been made in the scheme.

* The scheme has been brought down from Class X to Class VIII.

* The National Talent Search examination will be held at the end of Class VIII from the year 2007 onwards.

* The Class VIII MAT and SAT will consist of 90 questions each.

* SAT will have 35 questions for Social Science, 35 for Science and 20 for Mathematics.

* Quota for a state will be computed proportionally on the basis of student enrolment in Classes VII and VIII.

* The amount of scholarship has been enhanced to Rs 500/- per month for all the students studying in Class IX onwards.

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Eligibility : Student Studying in class- VIII

Syllabus : NCERT

Medium : English & Hindi both.

Scholarship: On the basis of the examination conducted, 1000 scholarships are awarded throughout the nation. Awardees receive a sum of Rs. 500/- per month.

Assistance up to Ph. D. level – for courses in Social Sc., Basic Sc. & Commerce

Assistance up to Post Graduation – for courses in Engg., Management & Law

Details Regarding NTSE

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Stage-1 is held at state / UT level

The state level examination has two parts for nominating the required

number of candidates for the second level test to be conducted by the

NCERT.

Part-I: Mental Ability Test (MAT), - Total 90 questions

Part-II: Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) - Total 90 questions

(S.St – 35, Science -35 & Maths 20)

Stage-2 is held at National level

Candidates acquiring more than the required percentage in the state level examination are eligible to appear for the national level examination.

Part-I: Mental Ability Test (MAT), - Total 100 questions.

Part-II: Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) – Total 100 questions

(Maths 20, Science 40 & S.St- 40)

Objective Type - Single Choice

Examination levels:-

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Reservations : 15% for SC, 7.5 % for ST & 3% for Physically Challenged Students

Negative marking : Normally there is No negative marking in this exam.

Syllabus : Normally upto VIII standard NCERT. It is made available with the Application Form.

Month of stage -1 : 3rd Sunday of November

Month of stage -2 : 2nd Sunday of May

Result of Stage -1 : will be announced by respective State Board / Union Territories.

Result of Stage -2 : will be declared by NCERT.

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Difference between Stage-1 & stage-2 ?

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NCERT Website : - ncert.nic.in

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NTSE V/s

Right to Information(RTI) ActV/s

Resonance

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NTSE in 2010

Earlier Only Qualified students's result was uses to declare with

their Roll No. !!!

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NTSE 2011

For the students welfare it was necessary to bring transparency in the system (as they were not able to judge themselves properly due to incomplete information). So to make this task accomplish our HOD Mr. Nilesh gupta took initiative by using RTI & after the lots of efforts of him we got victory in bringing transparency in NTS Examination. With the effect of RTI there were lots of changes that have been made in NTS Examination.

Like : -

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NTSE 2011

* Marks & Rank were declared* paper back to the students* Able to access ORS & answer key* No. of students appeared & selected for the

examination were declared* Cutoff were declared

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How to write RTI

Dated: 12 Feb 2011PIOSIERT, 111 Saheli MargUdaipur-313001, Rajasthan

File Ref No: RTI/NCERT/SIERT/1

Sub: Information seeking under Right to Information Act.

Dear Sir,I am submitting this request exercising my RIGHT TO INFORMATION to provide me following information regarding result of National Talent Search Examination stage-1 ( for class VIII students) declared by your directorate on 11 Feb 2011 for the state of Rajasthan.

1. Please provide the marks of all the selected students along with the Roll No ( no need to mention the names ) 2. Please provide the details of the number of students appeared and selected from each centre. 3. Please provide the zerox copy of Ors of the below mentioned students whose roll no is as follows:

1. Name : NTSE Roll No:

Please also find attached Rs 10/ postal order with this application towards payment seeking the information. Do let me know the required fee for want of the information under RTI.

Thanking you

Encl: 1. An Rs 10/ postal order.

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NTSE Courses @ Resonance

Workshops : - 5 days workshopCrash Course : - One month crash courseTest Series :- 3 or 4 tests in Live, online &

postal mode through which students get AIR

Study Material :- NTSE Pre-foundation, NTSE Plus

Test Papers :- Last 5 years' papers of NTSE stage-1

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We conduct Crash course & worskshops for both NTSE stage-1 & stage-2. NTSE stage-1 is conducted at State level. Every state has his own criteria & syallabus for NTSE stage-1 examinaiton. Still many outsiders come here to attend the workshop for the preparation of NTSE stage-1!!!

Why???

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Beyond the call of duty

Student Name - Adarsh GuptaStudy centre - PCCP BhopalClass - VIIIHave a brief : - > He appeared for NTSE-Stage-I conducted by M.P. State.> We filled RTI-1 about answer key of question paper and his OMR and marks obtained in

exam.>After getting reply, We filed RTI-2 to know the no. of seats in MP state and rules for filling

the seats and reservation quota, copy of rules to give weightage of wrong question and taking the correct answer of Q.80 from Hindi version (MAT) instead of English version.

>From the reply of RTI-2 we got to know that result was not according to the NCERT instruction. They give 16% for SC and 20% for ST in reservation quota.

> We again filed RTI-3 to ask explanation of not following the instruction given by NCERT & why consider Hindi version instead of English..

> Finally NCERT Delhi declared the cutoff of MP State at 140.78 and on basis of this result Adarsh Gupta and two other student selected for NTSE stage-2."

This all became possible only with the efforts of Bhopal Resonance team.

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Do you remember the incident of the student who has become NTSE scholar in

2009 & didn't getting his scholarship amount since then??

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