NMMS Parixama Qualify Thayel Studentsne Protsahit Karva Babat
NMMS – National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship is a Centrally sponsored scholarship scheme. It is implemented by the Department of School Education & Literacy under the Ministry of Human Resource Development with the objective to financially support the meritorious students of economically weaker sections of the society. NMMS encourages disadvantaged students to continue their studies at the secondary level by offering a scholarship amount of INR 12,000 per annum. Every year, this MCM scholarship is made active during the month of November and almost 100,000 scholarships are disbursed among bright students
Under this scheme, 100,000 scholarships are awarded to the gifted or meritorious
students whose parental income is not more than Rs. 1,50,000/- per annum from
all sources. Each State /UT have fixed quota of scholarship as given at Annexure
of concerned age group of class VII and VIII. The scheme would provide
reservation to different categories of students as per the State/UT norms; as
different States/UTs have their own norms of reservation.
These scholarships will be provided on yearly basis to the students studying as
regular students in class IX in a Government, Government-aided and local body
schools which will be renewed for classes X, XI and XII. Thus the scholarships
will be for a maximum period of four years.
The amount of scholarship will be Rs. 12000/- per annum @ Rs. 1000 per month.
A separate examination shall be conducted by the State Governments/UT
Administrations for selection of students for the award of the National Meanscum-Merit Scholarships in the States/UTs
The students shall have minimum of 55 % marks or equivalent grade in Class VII
examination for appearing in selection test for award of scholarship (relax able by
5% for SC/ST students). The students should be studying as regular student in a
Government, Government-aided and local body schools.
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 figure etc.
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.
