Over 17,000 students secure middle school scholarship in Maharashtra

A total of 17,552 students have secured the middle school scholarship in the state, exam for which was held by the Maharashtra State Council of Examinations on March 18.

A statement issued by the council here on Wednesday said the result of the middle school scholarship for std IV was announced online on May 1.

The scholarship examinations for middle and high schools in the state went hi-tech from this year, with the introduction of Optical Mark Readable (OMR) answer sheets for objective type papers, as is done in common entrance tests for engineering and medical courses. The compilation of results was done by way of a computerised data entry process. The OMR sheets, which can be read by a computer, ensured an even faster processing of the results, the statement said.

About 7.43 lakh students had registered for the exam of which 6.99 lakh appeared. About 3.62 lakh students cleared the examination and 17,552 students were selected for an award of scholarship. The statement said that each district has been awarded 10 scholarships on line of national general scholarships besides the quota for rural and urban students, those from the scheduled caste, children of landless farm labourers, rural tribal students and those from the Vidarbha region.

The merit list for rural areas containing 116 names and merit list for urban areas containing 106 names, plus a merit list of 50 students from CBSE/ICSE boards have been put up on the exam council website www.mscepune.in

School students win NASA & Singapore tours

The Resonance's Scholarship and Talent Reward Test (STaRT-2012), which was open to students from classes VI to XII across India, was declared recently.

More than 80,000 students across cities had participated in the stage-I test conducted in December 2011; 9399 students made their way to stage-II and 6628 finally appeared in stage-II test conducted on February 5 at test centres across 28 cities.

Seven national first position prizes consisting of 11-day tour of NASA, US, a gold medal and a merit certificate, respectively, has been won by Shauryasikt Jena of class VI of Gautam Budh Nagar (Uttar Pradesh), Himanshi Mehta, class VII of Udaipur (Rajasthan), Divyanshu Mittal, class VIII of Kota (Rajasthan), Shrishti Asthana, class IX of Chandigarh, Swati Gupta, class X of Jaipur (Rajasthan), Shudhatma Jain, class XI of Kota (Rajasthan) and Pankaj Goyal, class XII of Agra (Uttar Pradesh). 

Seven national second position prizes consisting of a six-day tour of Singapore, a silver medal and a merit certificate, respectively, has been won by Parth Anil Shimpi, class VI of Nasik (Maharashtra), Lakshay Sharma, class VII of Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Puranjan Dev, class VIII of Khurda (Orissa), Sheshansh Agarwal, class IX of Jaipur (Rajasthan), Parth Sharma, class X of Kota (Rajasthan), Yash Gupta, class XI of Udaipur (Rajasthan) and Jain Shubham Anil Kumar of class XII of Thane (Maharashtra).

Seven national third position prizes consisting of branded laptops, a bronze medal (2gm. gold) & a merit certificate, respectively, has been won by Chinmay SI, class VI of Bengaluru (Karnataka), Disha Rawal, class VII of Gurgaon (Haryana), Suraj Dash, class VIII of Khurda (Orissa), Bhavya Choudhary, class IX of Kota (Rajasthan), Diksha Agarwal, class X of Kota (Rajasthan), Palak Jain, class XI of Udaipur (Rajasthan) and Twinkle Parekh, class XII of Ajmer (Rajasthan).

RK Verma, managing director, Resonance, said, "It will be heartening to see young talented students going on NASA, and Singapore Science Centre, tours and also winning other prizes based on their talent."

The result of STaRT-2012 is available on www.resostart.in