Hai 

The form is available for states and uts through their official website or through the liaison officer of each state.you can get it through any source but it can be submitted in offline mode only.you need to pay fee along with your form submission. no need to separately apply for ntse stage 2 exam and no need to send the application form to the official address of ncert.

Thank you and good luck

Hello Ishika,

Thanks for reaching us. The first round of NTSE takes place in the month of November every year. For the complete schedule, you can view the following table. The application begins in August 2018

• Students can download the application form of NTSE 2017-18 for different states and Union territories from the respective official websites where it is available, or through the liaison officer of each state.
• Candidates can either download the application form from the official website or obtain it from the listed liaison officer. However, the NTSE application form 2017-18 has to be submitted in offline mode only.
• During completion of the form, candidates are required to remit an application fee for NTSE 2017-18 along with the application form.
• Candidates must make sure that they need not send any NTSE 2017-18 application form to the official address of NCERT. It is to be submitted to the liaison officer of the respective state.

Hyy Rajam 

For Ntse preparation and specifically stage 1, follow these guidelines 

• A - Just buy your State Board Social Sciences book and read History and Geography very seriously. Moreover start practicing MAT on daily basis. Solve previous year MAT papers of other states. That's all. No need of RS Aggarwal (MAT one) as of now. Just make sure you are not overconfident and maintain at least 16/20 marks in Maths and 35/40 marks in science.              
• B - You now may have realised that you have really awesome competitors (A) and it would be a challenge to beat them. The State Board Social Sciences book and MAT strategy is the same for all (even C). However you should work on your Maths and Science part. For this you should start by clearing your basics. For Science, read books by MTGand solve them. For Maths, solve the good questions of RD Sharma(normally the solved examples and HOTS. The Exercises usually don't involve new concept).                                                              
• C - Just forget about A and B. Get the State Board Social Sciences books and read. Just read. Highlight important points. Solve back exercises. You must have realised that beating A and B for Science and Maths is difficult. Wreck those A guys with your SST knowledge. Give extreme emphasis on MAT. Target at least 45+/50 in MAT. Follow the same strategy for Maths and Science as B and make sure you are scoring at least 13/20 in Maths and 30–33/40 in Science.

The NTSE cutoff marks for Stage 2 for general category students last year was 77. It is expected to rise this year. You can check other details related to NTSE cut off by visiting the link below:

https://school.careers360.com/articles/ntse-cutoff