National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) conducts National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) for students studying in Class X is meant to identify the nurture talent. The examination is conducted every year at two levels: Stage I (State Level) and Stage II (National Level).

Examination Pattern

Test Questions Marks Time
Mental Ability Test (MAT) 50 50 45 minutes
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
Language Test 50 50 45 minutes
Science, Mathematics & Social Science 100 100 90 minutes

Syllabus

NTSE Mental Ability Test (MAT) Syllabus
This section of the test is given to the reasoning, ability to think, ability to judge, evaluate or discriminate, ability to visualize in the space, spatial orientation, etc. A selection of questions, for example - analogies, classification, series, pattern perception, hidden figures, coding decoding, block assembly, problem solving, etc. are used for this purpose.

NTSE Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) Syllabus (Language Test)
Language Test has been designed such that it assesses your reading comprehension, logical sequencing; interpretative, evaluative, predictive and creative components of language.

NTSE Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) Syllabus (Maths, Science & Social Science)
This section of SAT has been constructed such that one can judge how much of text-book knowledge the student has gained. As India doesn't have one single unified board system thus NCERT has not prescribed any particular syllabus for this State Level Examination or for National Level Examination.