The students of Class X during the academic year (2021-22) in any Government schools of Kerala/Government Aided/Recognised schools/Kendriya Vidyalaya/Navodaya Vidyalaya in Kerala are eligible to apply for the State-level NTS Examination. Students are registered under Open Distance Learning (ODL) will also be eligible for scholarship provided the student is below the age of 18 years and is appearing in Class X examination for the first time. Pupils who have secured not less than 55% marks (for SC/ST students it is not less than 50%) for all non-language subjects in the last examination of class IX of 2020-21 will be admitted for the examination.

General Instructions for Submitting Online application

Do refer the Information Brochure carefully before the Registration. Before starting to fill up the online application, the candidate should keep at hand the following details/documents:-

• Candidates are required to fill all the required details carefully without making any mistake.
• A valid E-mail ID(Gmail account only) and Mobile Number is mandatory for the registration of your Online Application. The E-mail ID and Mobile number should be kept active till the declaration of Stage I result. The SCERT will sent essential information with regard to your application and examination in this registered E-mail ID/Mobile number. Incase, a candidate does not have a valid personal email ID, he/she should create his/her own new email ID before filling up the online application.
• It is advised that the candidates must proceed to the payment immediately before the registration process. Payment can be done through SB collect by using a Credit Card, ATM-Debit Card, RuPay Card, UPI, NEFT/RTGS, Net Banking and challan mode. Once the payment is successful and application is submitted,no refund of application fee will be done.
• Relevant certificates like Caste Certificate for SC/ST, OBC (Non Creamy Layer as per central list), Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificate from the competent authority , Disability Certificate from Medical Board (Each Certificate must be scanned in pdf format and size should not exceed more than 500 KB).
• Before applying online, the candidate will be required to have a soft copy/scanned (digital) image (in JPG/JPEG format) of his/her recent Passport Size Photograph ((Maximum size : Between 40KB and 60 KB, Image Dimension : 150W X 200H px, Image Type: jpg/jpeg format)).
• Relevant certificates like Caste Certificate for SC/ST, OBC (Non -Creamy Layer as per central list) (Click here for format) , Economically Weaker Section (EWS) certificate from the competent authority ((Click here for format)), Disability Certificate from Medical Board (Each Certificate must be scanned in pdf format and size should not exceed more than 500 KB ).

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