- National Talent Search Examination is a flahship activity of the NCERT started in the year 1963.
- The scheme covers areas like Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Law.
- It honours and helps talented students by providing financial assistance in the form of monthly scholarship.
- This assistance is provided up to Ph.D level, for the courses in Basic Sciences, Social Sciences and Commerce.
- For professional courses like Engineering, Medicine, Management and Law this assistance is given only up to Post Graduation.
SCHOLARSHIP :
- On the basis of the examination conducted, 1000 scholarships will be awarded for each group of students appearing for Class X examinations.
- The amount of scholarship will be Rs.500/- per month as per NTS rules.
RESERVATION :
- 15% scholarships will be reserved for students belonging to the SC category,
- 7.5% scholarships for students belonging to the ST category.
- 3% for Physically Challenged Group of Students.
SELECTION :
- There will be two-stage selection process for award of scholarship.
- For Stage-I, selection will be done by States/UTs through a written examination.
- Students who qualify Stage-I will be eligible to appear for Stage-II examination conducted by NCERT.
ELIGIBILITY :
- Students of Class X studying in recognized schools are eligible to appear for the respective Class X Stage-I examination conducted by the States/UTs in which the schools are located.
EXAMINATION :
The pattern of written examination for Class X will be as follows :
- Stage I : Examination at the the State/UT level will comprise of two parts, namely
(a) Mental Ability Test (MAT)
(b) Scholastic Ability Test (SAT) covering Social Sciences, Sciences and Mathematics.
- Stage II : Examination at the National Level will comprise of
(a) Mental Ability Test (MAT)
(b) Scholastic Ability Test (SAT) covering Social Sciences and Mathematics.
SYLLABUS :
- First level NTSE conducted by the State / UT.
- Most questions will be from the State Syllabus of Std. X while fewer questions shall also come from CBSE and ICSE Syllabus.
- The Class X MAT and SAT will consists of 90 questions each.
- SAT will have 35-40 questions for Social Sciences.
- 35-40 for Science and 20-25 for Mathematics.
- Second Level NTSE conducted at the National Level.
- This will include most questions as those that are taken at the CBSE and ICSE, prescribing the NCERT Syllabus.