Monday, 6 August 2012

NTSE Sample Papers & Prep Books


NTSE Exam Sample Papers
NTSE Sample Papers should be your first tool to prepare for NTSE written tests - both at state level as well as at national level. However, from this year onwards (i.e. NTSE 2013), this test is being organised for Class-10 students instead of Class-8 as in previous years. NTSE prep materials (i.e. Sample Papers & Books) currently available both in the market and on the net is still for Class-8.

NCERT has announced exam notification for NTSE 2013 barely few days back and slowly I expect the materials to be available both in the net as well as in book stores. I will be on the lookout for these NTSE exam papers and books for Class-10 and would post them here as and when I spot them.

Meanwhile, I am posting the links below which you can lookout in the future for arrival of the NTSE 2013 (Class-10) sample paper & books. But before that, you should know the exam pattern/format of NTSE - NTSE has two parts:

Part-I: Mental Ability Test (MAT): Questions on analogies, classification, series, pattern perception, hidden figures, coding-decoding, block assembly, problem solving etc. is asked
Part-II: Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT): Questions on Science, Maths & Social Sciences (Class-9 & Class-10) would be asked.


NTSE Sample Papers:
From NCERT:
Look out for most authentic NTSE sample paper from NCERT just like this NTSE exam paper for Class-8.  NCERT is expected to upload a similar "Learn about NTSE" sample exam paper for Class-10 in its website. I will also update this blog when the NTSE exam paper for Class-10 appears.
This NTSE sample paper gives you 15 questions on Mental Ability Test (MAT) and 39 questions on Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) - (15 questions on Social Sciences, 15 questions on Science and 9 questions on Mathematics). From these questions, you can find the question pattern/standard of NTSE exam.

This is the online version of NTSE guide book by TMH. As is with other books by TMH, it is an excellent source for NTSE sample questions. Although this book is meant for Class-8, you can still use the MAT section of the book, which has been lucidly explained.

Online NTSE Sample papers from TCYOnline:
You have to take the tests online, after a free registration. The tests are timed and hence is a good way of measuring how fast and accurately you can answer those NTSE questions.

This is a very good solved sample paper on NTSE exam – giving you total 268 questions 9MAT: 48 & SAT: 220 questions). You can still use the MAT portion, although SAT portion of this paper is no longer useful, as it was for Class-8.

Prep Books for NTSE exam:
Prep Books for NTSE examAs told before, prep books for NTSE Class-10 is still not available on the market. You can however pre-order the book below from Flipkart.com which offers huge discounts upto 25%, apart from free postage if the order exceeds Rs. 200/=. You can choose to pay through Credit Card/Debit Card/Internet Banking. You can also choose to pay through "Cash-on-Delivery" i.e. you pay in cash only when the same is delivered at your doorstep:

Study Guide for NTSE National Talent Search Examination (Class - 10) by Disha Experts
Cover Price: Rs.600, Offer Price: Rs.450, Discount: Rs. 150 (25%)

You can also find the following MAT for NTSE book useful:
Mental Ability For NTSE by Arora Ashish (Publisher: G. K.)
Cover Price: Rs.195, Offer Price: Rs.146, Discount: Rs. 49 (25%)

For the SAT portion of NTSE, if you are studying in a board other than CBSE, than going through the NCERT books (CBSE text books) would be useful. You can click here to download NCERT Class-IX & X Text books for Freely, which should give a good background for NTSE SAT test. You have to choose the Class, than subject and next title as shown below:

NTSE 2013 Exam Syllabus

Hope above study materials for NTSE exam – Online sample papers and books helps you in cracking this prestigious scholarship exam. This blog post has been made as a part of series of following blog post on NTSE exam, which helps you to prepare for the exam:
May be you would find the above blog post useful.

Do keep visiting this blog as I would update these blog posts with newer information!

Best wishes!

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