NSO Exam Pattern and Selection Process
FAQs on NSO 2024 Exam Pattern - Details
1. What is the application process for the NSO exam?
The application form is filled offline and exams happen offline too. All schools registered with SOF receive a prospectus for SOF NSO 2024-25, which includes registration materials. To fill out the NSO application form, students should contact their particular institutions.
The schools will subsequently send the completed registration forms, along with the application costs, to SOF within the deadlines provided. The coordinating teacher assigned to each school will produce the pupils' roll numbers. They will also submit a copy of the students' roll numbers. It is required that each school enrol at least 10 students for the NSO exam 2024-25.
2. Why should a student be part of the National Science Olympiad?
Students that take Olympiad examinations are graded based on their performance. Students can evaluate themselves academically at four different levels after taking the first level of the test: within the school, at the local level, at the Zonal level, and, most importantly, at the international level. Each student receives a Student Performance Report (SPR), which analyses the student's strong and weak areas. There is also a review of the student's previous years' performance. Students are also recognised based on their global, zonal, and school rankings. Annually, cash awards, medals, presents, certificates, and other prizes are announced. A total of Rs 18 crores was spent on prizes, felicitations, scholarships, and other expenses in the fiscal year 2024-25.
3. How does Vedantu help in preparing for the NSO exam?
Vedantu has the best collection of study material one needs to prepare for exams. The study materials are present on the website as well as a mobile app and they can be downloaded from elsewhere. The format is PDF and the study material is free of cost. Vedantu also provides live sessions by experts from around the world on its platform. All the students can have easy access to all the sessions. This makes it easy for a student to directly interact with experts and clear their doubts.
4. What is level 1 of the NSO exam?
Level 1: During school hours, the first level of the test is held in the participants' schools. The level 1 competition is a 60-minute objective-type test with 35 objective-type (Multiple Choice) questions for grades 1 to 4 and 50 objective-type (Multiple Choice) questions for grades 5 to 12.
There are three components to the question paper:
For students in Class 1 to 10
Section 1- Logical Reasoning
Section 2- Science
Section 3- Achievers Section
For students in grades 11 and 12,
Section 1- Physics and Chemistry
Section 2- Achiever section
Section 3- Biology/Mathematics
Each Exam date has its own set of question papers. The test is conducted in English. Syllabus from the CBSE, ICSE/ISC, and State Boards are used to create the exam papers. The exam is held throughout the school day.
5. How can students proceed to Level 2 of NSO?
Students in classes 3 to 12 participate in level 2. The following would be the qualifiers for the second round:
The top 5% of candidates in each class that takes the 1st level exam. In the event of a tie, the marks earned in various parts will be given equal weight. Each section is given its weighting. Top 25 rank holders in each class and zone. When at least ten students from a class take the exam and score 50% or higher, they are considered the class topper. If registration is received by section, the highest rank holder, regardless of section, will be eligible for the second level. For sectional registrations, the winner(s) of the gold medal may or may not be eligible for the second level.
