Minority Benefits

Author(s): Babita Jain
Publisher: Shrut Samvardhan Samsthan

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2.0 Procedure for Selection of Awardee Students: 2.1 Each State/UT will conduct its own test for selection of students for the award
of the Means-cum-Merit Scholarship. The State Level Examination may consist of the following two tests. (i) Mental Ability Test (MAT)
(ii) Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) 2.2 Mental Ability Test may consist of 90 multiple-choice questions testing verbal
and non-verbal meta-cognitive abilities like reasoning and critical thinking. The questions in the test may be on analogy, classification, numerical series, pattern
perception, hidden figures etc. 2.3 Scholastic Aptitude Test may consist of 90 multiple-choice questions covering
subjects namely, science, social studies and mathematics as taught in classes
VII and VIII. 2.4 Duration of the Test Each test will be of 90 minutes duration. Children with
disability will be given extra time, as applicable. 2.5 NCERT will provide a uniform set of guidelines to all States/UTs for carrying
out the examination and promote evenness of evaluation. 3.0 Declaration of Results 3.1 For selecting the students, the following conditions may apply: (i) The students must pass both the tests i.e. MAT and SAT with at least 40%
marks in each. For the reserved category this cut off will be 32% marks. (ii) The parental income of the students should not be more than Rs. 1.50 lakh
per annum from all sources. (iii) At the time of selection for the award of scholarship the candidate must have
scored at least 55% marks or equivalent grade in Class VIII examination.
There will be 5 % relaxation for SC/ST. (iv) The awardees should satisfy the eligibilities and the conditions mentioned
in the scheme. 4.0 Disbursement of Scholarships
4.1 A student can. avail only one Scholarship under any scheme. 4.2 The awardees will be asked to open Joint account with parents in State Bank of
India, which has core banking facility; 4.3 SBI will ensure that their branches and its associates SBI Indore, Patiala,
Mysore, Hyderabad, Travancore, Saurashtra, Bikaner and Jaipur will open account of such awardees without any initial deposit/minimum deposit charges
and will issue ATM-cum- Debit Cards; 4.4 The state will identify the awardees and hand over the list of beneficiaries to
SBI for;
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