National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) 2016
National Council of Education and Research has announced National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) 2016, which is a national level examination cum scholarship program. The scholarship programme is conducted by NCERT and students studying in class X are eligible for NTSE 2016 examination and selection procedure.
Scholarships:
About one thousand scholarships are awarded for different stages of education as follows:
(a) Scholarship of Rs.1250/- per month for Class-XI to XII.
(b) Scholarship of Rs. 2000/- PER month for Undergraduates and Post-graduates.
(c) Amount of Scholarship for ph.D. be fixed in accordance with the UGC norms.
Examination Procedure :
The examination is conducted every year at two levels:-
Stage-I (State Level) and Stage-II (Normal Level).
Reservation:
15%
for students belonging to the SC category,
7.5% for students belonging the Stcategory and
3% for Physical Challenged Group of Students.
Selection:
Stage-1,
selection will be done by States/Uts and those who qualify Stage- I, will be eligible to appear for Stage-II examination, conducted by NCERT.
Qualifying Marks :
Qualifying
marks for candidates from General
category is 40% in each paper and for candidates from SC, ST, PH is 35% in each paper.
Language Test
Qualifying in nature and marks obtained for Language Test will not be counted
for final merit.
Important Dates:
Dates
for submission of application form and conduct of examination, are given below:
Stage
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Area
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Tentative dates
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Stage-1
(State)
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Last Date for Submission of Application Form
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To be notified by the respective State and it may vary from state to
state
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Examination in Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Andaman and Nicobar
Islands
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7th November, 2015 (Saturday)
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Examination in All other States and Union Territories
|
8th November, 2015 (Sunday)
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Stage-II
(National)
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Examination in All States and Union Territories
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8th May, 2016 (Sunday)
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Eligibility:
- All students of Class X studying in recognized schools are eligible to apper for the Stage –I examination, conducted by the States/Uts, in whichthe schools are located.
- There will be no domicile restriction.
- Students registered under Open Distance Learning (ODL) will also be eligible for scholarship, provided the student is below the age of 18 years (as on 1* July of the particular year), the student is not employed and s/he is appearing in class X examination for the first time.
Examination Pattern:
The
pattern of Written examination will
be as follows:
·
Stage I
examination at the State/UT level will comprise of two parts (a) Mental Ability
Test (MAT) (b) Language Test (LT) and (c) Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
·
The patteren of stage II will be as
under:
Paper
|
Test
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No of Questions
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NO of Marks
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Duration (in minutes
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Paper–I
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Mental
Ability test(MAT)
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50
|
50
|
45
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Paper-II
|
LanguageTest
(LT)English/Hindi
|
50
|
50
|
45
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Paper-III
|
Scholastic
Aptitude Test(SAT)
|
100
|
100
|
90
|
AT Stage-II (National Level), there will be
nagative marking in each paper, For each wrong answer 1/3 marks will be
deducated. No marks will be deducated for unattempted questions.
Application Form:
You may contain the State /Ut Liaison officer
for procuring application form or download from below links.
Bihar State NTSE Class X
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Maharashtra State NTSE Class X
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Odisha State NTSE Class X
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Daman & Diu State NTSE Class X
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Uttarakhand State NTSE Class X
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Meghalaya State NTSE Class X
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Chandigarh State NTSE Class X
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Jharkhand State NTSE Class X
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West Bengal State NTSE Class X
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Karnataka State NTSE Class X
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Himachal Pradesh State NTSE Class X
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Chhattisgarh State NTSE Class X
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Punjab State NTSE Class X
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Uttar Pradesh State NTSE Class X
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Assam State NTSE Class X
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Delhi State NTSE Class X
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Gujarat State NTSE Class X
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Telengana State NTSE Class X
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Haryana State NTSE Class X
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Rajasthan State NTSE Class X
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- The complited application form should be signed by the principal of the school much before the last date of submission.
- The candidate as well as the principal of the school must adhere to last date for submission of the Application Form.
- Different states may have different last dates for submission.
- Please confirm from the liaison officer of your state,the address at which the completed forms are to be submitted.
- The State wise contact of the liaison officers are given below and arealso available in the NCERT website www.ncert.nic.in.
- All queries related to application form should be directed to the State Liaison Officers (LOs). NO application should be sent to NCERT.
Fees:
- States and Union territories may notify the fee required which will be paid for the Stage examination.
- Therefore, before submitting the applicationform , you may find out the fees charged for Stage-I Examination and also the mode of payment from the respective State Liaison Officers (LOs).
- NCERT does not charge any fee for State-II examination.
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