KYPY or Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana is one of the prestigious initiatives for providing scholarships on national level. It is organized by the Indian Institute of Science. This initiative of scholarship helps students in getting monthly scholarships up to pre Ph. D. Level. As the registrations for the KVPY exam were in between 8^th July to fourth week of August, the exam is expected to be in November 2019.

The major advantage of this exam is that students become eligible for direct admission in India’s top institutes such as IISc and various other IISERs. Here is some general information about the KVPY exam.

KVPY 2019 General Information:

KVPY (Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana) is conducted for the streams SA, SB, and SX. There are almost 54 centers in India. Students who can apply for the exam must have Indian nationality. For regular updates for exam, students must visit the official website regularly.

Schedule of KVPY exam

• Start of online application: 8^th July 2019
• Closing of online application: 31th August 2019
• Admit Card Release: 3^rd November 2019
• Answer key release: End of November 2019
• KVPY Result Declaration: December 2019
• Interview Phase: January 2020
• Final Result Declaration: April 2020

Eligibility criteria (Stream Wise)

1. Stream SA: Students must complete their secondary standard or 10^th class which must include science and mathematics. They must secure at least 75% (for SC/PWD/ST – 65%) or more in the same. For this scholarship, students must have to join undergraduate courses having specialization in basic science. This includes (B.Sc./B.S./B.Stat./B.Math./Int. M.Sc./M.S.) after class XIIth.
2. Stream SX: Students must complete their secondary standard or 10^th class with at least 75% (for SC/PWD/ST – 65%) or more. In addition to it, students must also pass 10+2 examination with the subject science and also have marks at-least 60% marks and for SC/PWD/ST 50%.
3. Stream SB: This stream includes the category for students who have enrolled for the 1^st year (undergraduate program) having specialization in basic science (Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics & Biology leading to B.Sc./ B.S./B.Stat./ B.Math./Int. M.Sc./M.S).

Steps of registration for KVPY:

Students can apply for KVPY from the official website. The first student has to click on the application link from the website and follow the following steps for the registration.

• Go to the official website and click on Apply for KVPY
• Now fill the personal details which include name, number, email id, date of birth and then finally fill the Captcha and hit submit button
• Now the student has to login with the details received in email id or your personal number includes user id and password.
• Now it is time to enter remaining personal details which includes residential and educational details.
• In the next step, student have to upload the scanned photograph and signature
• Next stage is to proceed for payment of the exam fees
• Now click the submit button and download/print for need in the exam

KVPY Exam pattern

The pattern consists of two-phase of exam. Both the exam section includes four sections: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biology. The marking scheme of the exam is such that each correct answer award 1 mark and each wrong answer deduct 0.25 marks. Then next phase of exam has 2 marks for each correct answer and 0.5 marks will be deducted for each incorrect answer.

For Stream SA:

For Stream SB/SX:

Syllabus of KVPY (Streamwise)

• SA: Analytical Skills, Syllabus of class 11th subjects (Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology)
• SB: Analytical Skills, Syllabus of class 12th (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology).
• SX: Analytical Skills, Syllabus of their respective classes. Syllabus of class 12th(Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics). 1st year of B.Sc. / B.S. / B.Stat. / B.Math. / Int. M.Sc. / M.S. syllabus is also applicable.

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