NTSE Stage – 1

NTSE STAGE – 1 (State Level National Talent Search Exam)

There are two stages in NTSE, stage -1 and stage – 2. Students need to qualify both the stages of examination for achieving award of this prestigious scholarship scheme.

The first stage of NTSE is the state level examination which has two parts for nominating fixed number of students for the second level examination to be conducted by the NCERT

• Part-I  : Mental Ability Test (MAT), and
• Part-II: Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) (with questions on History, Civics, Geography, Economics, Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.)

Note : The student of any board can prepare for this examination.

NTSE Exam Pattern 

Test Type		Marks	Questions	Duration ( in mins.)
Mental  Ability Test		100	100	120
Scholastic  Ability Test		100	100	120

SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)	MAT (Mental Ability Test)
Duration : 120 Minutes Total Number of Questions: 100 Science               Q.1 to Q.40 (40) Social Science   Q.41 to Q.80 (40) Mathematics     Q.81 to Q.100 (20) Questions type: Multiple choices with 4 options and exactly one correct. Each question carries 1 mark Total marks = 1 x 100 = 100 marks	Duration : 120 mins Total Number of Questions: 100 Mental Ability Q.1 to Q.100 (100) Questions type: Multiple choices with 4 options and exactly one correct. Each question carries 1 mark Total marks = 1 x 100 = 100 marks