Ma'am, whether your child will qualify for the next round or not depends on various factors like her class, difficulty level of question paper and her relative performance w.r.t. other students of her class (school, zone as well as national level). We cannot predict it on the basis of last year cutoffs.

According to the official notice by SOF, students fulfilling either of the following 3 criteria will qualify for 2nd level Olympiads exams:

• Top 5% of students, class wise who appear for the 1st level exam. Due priority to marks scored in different sections will be given, in the decreasing order of Achiever's Section, Science and Logical Reasoning for NSO.
• Zone wise top 25 rank holders from each class.
• Class topper from each participating school where at least 10 students from a class appear in the exam & scores 50% qualifying marks.

All the best for the results.

Hello Mahak,

For NSO Level 2, the syllabus is same as level 1. Only, the difficulty level will be higher than level 1. Level 2 is difficult but with regular practice you can score a good rank. Attempt NSO level 2 previous years question papers and mock tests.

Basically syllabus is divided into 4 sections.

• Section 1: Logical reasoning- Patterns, coding decoding, mirror images, geometrical shapes, analogy and classification, water images, embedded figures, ranking test, alphabet test, logical sequence of words,  puzzle test, direction sense test
• Section 2: Science- Human body and health, plants, earth and Universe, matter, natural resources, force, work, energy, Pollution and calamities
• Section 3: Achievers section- same as section 2 but higher order of thinking

Good luck!

Dear aspirant,

If you are facing struggles with any of your main subjects then the first thing you should do is buy a good book of that subject. the type of questions that has been asked in competitive exams and your boards are quite different and required a different methodology to study them. The questions in your board examinations are more concentrated on direct application of the concept on the definition of the concept itself however the questions in competitive examinations are more of application of that concept. if you are in 11th class then you have a plenty of time to first get your basics clear and then I want to prepare for competitive exams in your next year.

Coaching is always a good idea if you are facing a lot of trouble in understanding the concepts you can always join a coaching.

Some of the good institutions for preparation are

RESONANCE, Aakash institute, etc.

Hope this helps. thank you.

• Eligibility criteria for becoming Astronomy scientist is that you have to be a graduate in B.sc or any equivalent examination with 50% score.
• After 10+2, you can do B.sc with mathematics and physics as your subjects.
• If you want to pursue experimental or instrumentation astronomy, then you can go for electrical engineering after 10+2. Then you will have to give an entrance exam called JEST which will make you eligibile for specialisation in astronomy and you can also do Ph.D. To become an astronomer, Ph.D. is compulsory.

Hey,

NSO result will be declared in December 2019.

Qualification criteria for second level is:

top 5% students class wise, who took the first stage. Priority to marks scored in different sections will be given.

State wise 25 rank holder from each class.

Class toppers from each school where at least 10 students from the class have appeared in the exam and have secured more than 50% qualifying marks.

# If registration is received section wise, irrespective of the section the student who scored highest marks qualifies for the 2nd level.

All the Best!

NSO Result is expected to be released in last week of December 2019.

Top 5% students of each class or Top 25 rank holders from each class and zone who qualify the level 1 are eligible for level 2.

Hey Kush,

INPhO is conducted by Homi Bhabha Center of Science Education every year. Its is the second stage of a International Physics Olympiad. So for INPhO you first have to Qualify National Standard Examination in Physics (NSEP). You have must score more than 50% of the average of the top ten scorers in NSEP to qualify for INPhO. Unfortunately you missed the opportunity this year as NSEP is conducted in the month of  November.

For NSO you have 50 questions in total and 3 sections:

1 Physics & Chemistry - 25 questions 1 mark each

2 Achievers Section - 5 questions 3 marks each

3 Maths/ Bio - 20 questions 1 mark each.

The Exam was conducted in the month of November.

You can try for INPhO, RMO, Junior Science Talent Search Examination, IMO etc..

All the Best.

Dear Aspirant,

Following are the important dates:-

NSO 2019 Level 1 Exam dates November 11 & 21, 2019

NSO result 2019 date Level I 1st week of December 2019

NSO 2019 level 2 Exam dates 2nd and 3rd Sunday of February 2020

NSO result 2019 Level II March 2020

You can check more details here:

https://school.careers360.com/articles/nso-result

Hope this helps. Thank you.

Dear Archana, talking about NSO, the level of questions is above average. It's not true for every question. More than 75% questions are from your syllabus. Rest  are the HOT questions which require in depth knowledge of your syllabus.

Understanding the questions of higher level is not that tough, you can borrow or download previous year question papers and check the questions, just mark those questions whose level you think is more than average. Now you have a question bank, start preparing those topics, first clear the basics,next try to solve more questions from other books. You can find many competitive level questions from one topic in books or online.

Practice is the key. If you have enough practice then you will be able to solve the problems more quickly and since you have practiced alot from those topics understanding the concept won't be that tough.

All the best

Hope this helps

Hi Manjusha

It is good that you are looking up to old questions papers for the exam but NSO question papers are not uploaded online this early so I am very sorry to say that you won't be able to get the question paper right now. You will have to wait for a while till they are supplied to the market online or offline.