RFC for "Super 30" Program

Title: Super 30

Mission: Crack the NTSE and NMMS

Background:

I came across these 2 scholarship programmes by Central and State Government for merit students to help them in their education.

1] National Talent Search Examination [NTSE]

2] National Means cum Merit Scholarship [NMMS]

Examination Details

1] NTSE:

Conducting Authority: Central Government

Scholarship Amount: `500 per month

Duration: 8^th Standard to PHD, as long as the student continues to study

Qualification: 8^th Standard student studying in any school [state/CBSE/ICSE syllabus], with a minimum 55% [General Merit students] or 45%[SC/ST] total percentage in 7^th Standard Exam

Examination Fee: `25 for GM, free for SC/ST

Schedule: Usually in the month of October - November

Examination Details:

The selection round consists of 3 levels:

- Level 1 [State level]

- Level 2 [All India level]

- Level 3 [Personal Interview round]

- Level 1 and Level 2:

Duration: 90 mins each

Type: Multiple choice objective type questions

Syllabus:

Question paper 1] General Mental Ability Test [GMAT]:

Tests the basic problem solving, aptitude, reasoning skills of the students

[This is more or less same as that of the Aptitude tests that are conducted during Interviews, but with lesser level of difficulty]

Question Paper 2] Scholastic Aptitude Test [SAT]

Consists of

- 35 questions covering Social Science [History, Geography, Economics, Civics]

- 35 questions covering Science [Physics, Chemistry, Biology]

- 20 questions covering Mathematics

Syllabus for this exam is based on 7^th Standard [full] and 8^th Standard [first semester].

Also for those students clearing Level 1, and not making it to the next levels, Karnataka State Government will give a scholarship amount of `200/ per month for 2 years.

2] NMMS

Conducting Authority: Human Resources Department, Central Government

Scholarship Amount: `500 per month

Duration: 9^th Standard to 2^nd PUC

Qualification:

- 8^th Standard student studying in any school [state syllabus], with a minimum 55% [General Merit students] or 50%[SC/ST] total percentage in 7^th Standard Exam

- Annual income of parents should not exceed `1,50,000/-

Examination Fee: Free

Schedule: Usually in the month of August-September

Examination Details:

Only one level of selection round.

Rest same as NTSE

[more details @ http://dsert.kar.nic.in/html/ntsenmms.html , http://www.scholarshipsinindia.com/national_talent_search_examination_NCERT.html]

Role of SuDhee

The above scholarship programmes provide a very good amount to enable students to pursue their education further. From SuDhee, we can do:

To Whom?

- Select around 30 merit students [totally], from different Schools [Garden City School, Basaveshwarnagar Govt School, Saneguruvanahalli Govt School]

Where?

- Facilitate a class room in any of the above schools or any other venues.

By Whom?

- Request a full time teacher to conduct tuitions to the students only for these 2 scholarship programmes.

When?

June till the exams

Duration?

4 hours/ every Saturday

What is expected of you?

Co-ordinate and arrange the weekly classes

Cost estimation:

Suitable fee to the Teacher and application form fee for each of the candidates

We are planning to start this from next year: 2011-2012. We need to start identifying the teacher, class rooms, students from now on.

I have ABK sir [Seshadripuram High School Science Teacher, also in the State Govt Text Book Committee] , in mind. But other suggestions are also welcome.

MoM :: 31st July

Hi All,

The SuDhee Activity conducted on 31st-July in Garden City Public School was a very successful one with the students all excited and wanting more of it.
It was a good way to start our venture. Commend each one of you for your effort and continue doing the same.

The schedule for the coming months were also discussed during the Meet.

The MoM :

For the month AUG/SEPT
 - Provide boards to Devanahalli School on 7th-Aug
- Events to be conducted in Garden City Public School on 21st- August--> Pick and speak, Presentation skills and Essay writing. (Pramod to co-ordinate this event. )

For the month OCT/NOV
- Events to be conducted in Garden city Public School on 11th-Sept--> Group Activity, Jigsaw Puzzle, Presentation Skills and Group Discussion. (Divya and Jana to co-ordinate Group Activity. Pramod to co-ordinate Presentation skills and GD )

For the month of DEC
- Career talk ( for class 10th )
- Science experiments ( Only for class 9th )- Pavana to co-ordinate this event.


Pavan,
Get the dimensions of the board inorder to provide the boards by 7th Aug.

Ravi,
Get the list of number of notebooks required by the Basaweshwar School by 7th Aug.

Others please contact Pramod and Jana and lend your helping hand .
The next SuDhee meet would be announced shortly.

SuDhee : MoM, July 25

·         MoM :: 25/07

1.       Gandhi Nagar Govt School : Pavan will co-ordinate on the next set of activities. 

2.       Link Road Govt School : Pavan/Pramod will co-ordinate on the next set of activities.

3.       Baswesvara School : Pramod/Ravi to come on the budget plan and which will further be approved/2010

4.       Devanahalli Govt School : Three Green Boards  :: Jana and Pramod will check on the Price.

5.       Garden city public school -> Pavan to check for Basic English Class

6.       Activity leaders to come up with the Agenda and plan for their respective activities

7.       Saneguruvanahalli school -> Pramod to check with the principal for Quiz

Next  Week Programs:                                                                             

1] Saneguruvanahalli govt school :: Conduct Quiz

Backup : Garden city shool :: Basic English Activity

Program activities :

1] Basic English: 9^th Standard : 1 hour

- Simple story reading: Ravi and Priya to prepare the education material

Others to assist Ravi and Priya in the education material preparation school

Goodies : chocolates

 2] General Quiz : 9^th Standard : 1 Hour

- Pavan, Pramod and Ravichandra to prepare quiz questions

- others to assist them

Topics:

History, Science, Who’s who, Ancient India, Independence Movement, Astrophysics, Geography, General Knowledge

Goodies: Chocolates

SuDhee Applicant Profile for 2009-2010

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgA6X3jX2kfrdDlFdG1mempHOUN3UnNkc0hxQUdlenc&hl=en

The Sparrow and the Crow

A short story before the next update .

As all stories begin, this also begins as "Once upon a time ,there was a beautiful Palace on the banks of a small river. The entire Palace was constructed using the finest quality of the woods - Sandalwood, teak wood ,etc. There was a small garden in front of the palace where the two main characters of this story - sparrow and crow lived on a tree. One day, a fire accident happened in the palace and the entire palace was set on fire. People were trying their level best to put off the fire. They used the river water for putting off the fire. The sparrow also started to collect water from the river in its small beak and tried to put off the fire. In spite of all these efforts, the fire could not be controlled. Villagers gathered people from neighboring villages and increased their efforts to put off the fire. The sparrow also stressed itself to put off the fire. Meanwhile, the crow was happily perched on the tree and was seeing the whole  drama unfold in front of its eyes. It was relaxed and was behaving as nothing happened .The crow was observing the sparrow's plight to put off the fire.
Following is the conversation that happened between them:

Crow : Hello Mr.Sparrow, I see that you are trying to put off the fire. Do you think that you alone can bring the fire under control? Look at all these humans. They themselves are not able to control it. Let alone, you with such a small beak, hoping to put off the fire. Don't you know your limitations? Aren't you trying for something which is beyond your reach? You are just wasting your time. Look at your kids. They haven't been fed since morning. The best thing for you to is to shift your house to another tree. The flames are getting bigger and it might spread to our tree also.

Sparrow : Mr.Crow, I am fully aware of my limitations. I know that I neither cant put this fire off nor am hoping that I can control this fire. I am just doing my part of the duty. If I am able to put off a single small spark from the water collected in my beak, I consider my efforts not to be in vain.  One thing is for sure : When People talk about this incident later , when this event gets jotted in the history, my name will be mentioned in the list who tried to put off this fire and not in the list of who lit the fire.

I leave the readers to interpret the moral of this story.

And coming back to Sudhee,  I have now opened a new account in SBI to manage the funds.

Here are the details :
1] You can send your monetary contributions to this account :

Bank : State Bank of India
A/C : 20021433022
Branch : RT Nagar Branch [code # : 07982) 
IFSC CODE : SBIN0007982

You can [in the order of the preference]:
1] Initiate a e-transfer to the above account
2] Draw a cheque/D.D in the name of "Pramod B Nagaraja" payable at Bangalore and hand over the cheque personally to me.
3] Personally handover the cash to me.

Here are few steps to be completed once you contribute:
1] Send a mail personally to me[mail id given below] once you have contributed, with subject line being in the following format :

[name]:[name as it should appear in the donor's list in the blog]:[amount]:[mode]
Where [mode] : E-Transfer/Cheque/DD/Cash

ex: pramod:pramod:1000:cheque

Mail Id : pramodbms@gmail.com 

2] Please check the Contributor's list in this blog to get your entry reflected. [Maximum turn around time is 7 working days from the day you have initiated the transfer]. This is to ensure transparency and genuinty.