Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA) — a movement for Science — is organising Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan (VVM), the National Science Talent Search Examination through digital media on November 26. The aim behind this search is to select students with scientific temperament from Class VI to Class XI, across the country. Vigyan Prasar (VP), an autonomous organisation under Department of Science and Technology and National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) of Ministry of Human Resource Development have joined hands in organising this competition.
Mobile phones
Chief Scientist in DRDO and Vignan Barathi state president G.N. Rao said for the first time around five lakh students will be appearing for the exam through mobile phones at nearly 5,000 centres spread across the country. The VVM will be multi-level competition and the students can register through their respective schools. The schools will have to sign up for the registration by assigning a person in-charge to coordinate the examination.
The school login ID will be created and schools can register as many students as they like and the last date for registration is September 20. Student can change his or her login ID 48 hours before the day of the competitive examination.
So far 5000 students and 152 schools have registered, according to Telangana State Coordinator Perugu Shyam.
NCERT syllabus
The syllabus for this competition includes NCERT books of science and mathematics of respective classes, Indian Contribution to Science (articles published by VIBHA), biographies of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, General Knowledge and Logic and Reasoning. The examination will be conducted for two sections: junior classes (VI – VIII) and senior classes (IX – XI).
The students from respective classes will be compared separately for the purpose of evaluation. Registered students can also appear in series of mock examinations from October 1, 2017 to November 20, 2017. For details, participants are advised to visit the VVM website, said science communicator V.Gurunadha Rao.