The National Council of Educational Research Training (NCERT) has cancelled the National Talent Search Exam (NTSE) Exam conducted for 8th Class students. Now the exam is only conducted for the Class X Students.

The National Talent Search Exam (NTSE) Exam is a national-level scholarship program to identify and recognize students with high intellect and academic talent and help them for higher studies by providing scholarship at different stages.

The NTSE Examination is conducted for students studying in Class 10th only.

It is considered as the most prestigious and the most difficult examination at high school level in the country.

NTSE Eligibility

All students of Class X studying in recognized schools are eligible to appear for the Stage - 1 examination, conducted by the State/UT's, in which the schools are located.

NTSE Exam Pattern

Stage I -

NTSE Stage-I examination at State/UT level are advised to follow National pattern which comprise of two parts MAT and SAT.

Part-I: Mental Ability Test (MAT)
Part-II: Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) also includes Language Comprehensive Test.

Stage II –

Paper I : Mental Ability Test (MAT)
No. of Questions: 50
No. of Marks: 50
Duration: 45 Min
Paper II : Language Test (LT) English/Hindi
No. of Questions: 50
No. of Marks: 50
Duration: 45 Min
Paper III : Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
No. of Questions: 100
No. of Marks: 100
Duration: 90 Min

NTSE Syllabus

MAT (Mental Ability Test) shall contain questions from analogies, series, problem solving, reasoning, classification, figures, coding words, etc. The MAT test check the candidate's ability to think, reasoning and problem solving.

SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) shall contain questions from Science, Mathematics, history, geography, political science and economics. There will a Language comprehensive test also.