Olympiad -VIII Standard

Unified Council

Unified Council Conducts Following Exams

  1. NSTSE - National Level Science Talent Search Examination
  2. UCO - Unified Cyber Olympiad
  3. UIEO - Unified International English Olympiad

NSTSE - National Level Science Talent Search Examination

NSTSE is a diagnostic test which helps students improve their overall learning ability and educational performance.

Unlike other tests which may only find out how much a student knows or has memorised, NSTSE measures how well a student has understood the concepts and provides a detailed feedback on the same, to help him/her improve.

Thus NSTSE helps each student to know early, whether he/she has properly understood a concept, so that immediate action can be taken to correct the aberration and pave a path for improvement. Often, students develop conceptual gaps which increase as the students go to higher classes and turn those into a ‘phobia’ for the subject.

School tests - including board exams - tend to test children superficially, only to the extent what they have memorised. But the important skills like the ability to think independently and reason logically – most critical in today's world - are often not aimed at or tested in school tests.

The focus on fundamentals is very important as when the child finishes studies he/she will have to face the competitive world armed with those fundamentals. Even while opting for higher studies, a student has to go through a complete scan of what he/she knows and how much. Exams like IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AFMC, AIIMS, GRE, GMAT, CAT etc., are designed to test the fundamental strength of a student. Hence the need of the hour is to build the fundamental-base as strong and as early as possible. This exactly is the philosophy behind Unified Council's NSTSE.

In NSTSE, the emphasis for assessment of scholastic skills is mainly on Mathematics and Science.

NSTSE is unlike other tests in many different ways. It

  • Has interesting questions that require thinking, not simply a recall
  • Provides detailed skill-wise feedback highlighting strengths and weaknesses
  • Provides a benchmark of the student's performance and his/her peers.

Thus, NSTSE aims at improvement rather than comparison or grading. It also reduces the stress of exams by checking ‘understanding and reasoning’ rather than just ‘knowing’.

Making the younger generation stronger in fundamentals and Nourishing their minds for a bright and enterprising future

91,00,000 Students have participated in the exams conducted by Unified Council till date.

Important Dates

Date of Examination 07-12-2018 ( Friday )
Time 10:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M.
Last Date for Receipt of Applications 30-09-2018

Date of examination for Individual / Direct applicants: 16-12-2018 ( Sunday )

Exam Pattern

All questions are objective-type with no negative marking for wrong answers.

Number of Questions Total Marks Duration
60 60 1 Hour

Division of Marks

Section Number of Questions Marks Total Marks
Mathematics 25 1 25
Physics 10 1 10
Chemistry 10 1 10
Biology 10 1 10
Critical Thinking 5 1 5

Exam Syllabus

Mathematics

  • Rational Numbers
  • Linear Equations in One Variable
  • Understanding Quadrilaterals and Practical Geometry
  • Data Handling
  • Squares and Square Roots
  • Cubes and Cube Roots
  • Comparing Quantities
  • Algebraic Expressions and Identities
  • Visualising Solid Shapes
  • Mensuration
  • Exponents and Powers
  • Direct and Inverse Proportion
  • Factorisation
  • Introduction to Graphs
  • Playing with Numbers

Science

Physics

  • Force and Pressure
  • Friction
  • Sound
  • Chemical Effects of Electric Current
  • Some Natural Phenomena
  • Light
  • Stars and the Solar System

Chemistry

  • Synthetic Fibres and Plastics
  • Materials : Metals and Non-metals
  • Coal and Petroleum
  • Combustion and Pressure
  • Pollution of Air and Water
  • Food Production and Mangement

Biology

  • Cell
  • Microorganisms
  • Conservation of Plants and Animals
  • Reproduction in Animals
  • Reaching the Age of Adolescence

English

  • Articles
  • Pronouns
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions and Discourse Markers
  • Tenses
  • Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
  • Active and Passive Voice
  • Direct and Indirect speech
  • Interactive English
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Assorts

Reasoning ( Verbal )

  • Logical Sequence of words
  • Jumbled words
  • Simple Letter Codes
  • Logical Venn Diagrams
  • Clock
  • Calender
  • Puzzle Test
  • Which One is Different?
  • Analogy
  • What Comes Next?
  • Direction Sense
  • Mathematical Reasoning

Reasoning ( Non-Verbal )

  • Odd One Out
  • Matching Pairs
  • Series
  • Paper Cutting
  • Mirror Images
  • Cubes and Dice
  • Analytical Reasoning

Exam Fees

Individual Registration

You can register through this site.

Exam Fee: Rs.300 ( The fee includes 2 Past/Model Question Paper, SPR, Success Series Book and Postal charges )

The Past / Model Question Papers, Success Series Book will be provided as downloadable e-books

Registration through School

Examination Fee:

Rs. 150 ( Rupees One Hundred and Fifty Only )

Students Performance Report:

Rs. 15 ( Rupees Fifteen Only )

Note: Student's Performance Report (SPR) is unique & a useful tool for students to know their academic strengths and weaknesses. SPR provides real feedback on real learning. We request you to encourage every student to opt for SPR.

How to Apply

Individual Registration:

We accept direct/individual applications for the NSTSE.

You can register for NSTSE at http://www.unifiedcouncil.com/options.aspx Online payment facility (Net Banking/Debit/Credit Card) is also available.

Registration through School:

Please send a single consolidated Demand Draft for the exam fee of all the students appearing for the NSTSE from your school.

D.D. should be drawn in favour of UNIFIED COUNCIL payable at HYDERABAD.

Frame the list of students in the FORMAT (preferably typed and send it to our address along with the D.D by Courier Service/Register post / Speed Post.

For further details and complete school information brochure please send a E-mail.

Certificates

Merit/Participation Certificates will be issued to all the students who will take NSTSE based on their performance.

Student Performance Report ( SPR )

We are providing Student's performance report (SPR) for individual students, which provides all the details of.

  • His/Her chosen answers for all questions in the NSTSE
  • Correct answers for all questions in the exam
  • Subject wise marks
  • Subject wise and over all ranking in the national level
  • Average marks of all the students in different subjects
  • Group Highest Marks
  • Question wise analysis, Skill wise analysis

SPR provides real feedback on real learning. Allows students to know where he/she stands and pinpoints areas of strength and weakness. 
This exam is for feedback and improvement.

This report will be helpful for each and every student to analyses his/her performance and improve upon it.

Cost of SPR: Rs. 15.

Awards

Prizes for National Achievers

A) NSTSE Topper is awarded Rs. 2,00,000 cash prize*. The student who achieves the highest percentage of marks among all the classes is declared as NSTSE Topper.

B) The top 3 rankers of each class are awarded a Tablet PC + a Memento + a Medal, each

C) The next 22 rankers in each class (Ranks 4 to 25) of each class are awarded a cash prize of Rs. 1000 each.

D) Rankers 26 to 100 of each class are awarded BMA’s Talent & Olympiad Exams Resource Book from M/s. Brain Mapping Academy, each.

All the rankers (1 to 100) will each be awarded a Britannica Concise Encyclopedia and Planet Earth(2 CD Pack) worth Rs. 1690, a Medal and a Certificate of Appreciation.

Participation certificates are offered to all students who appear for the examination.

Prizes for state toppers

Top 3 rankers from each State (minimum of 10,000 students in a particular State) are awarded with a special award for encouragement. He/she is awarded with a Britannica Concise Encyclopedia and Planet Earth(2 CD Pack) worth Rs. 1690 and a Certificate of Appreciation.

Note: State-wise ranks are declared after excluding the top 100 ranks across the country.

Consolation Prizes

Top ranker in each class from selected cities* are awarded a Britannica Concise Encyclopedia and Planet Earth(2 CD Pack) worth Rs. 1690 and a Certificate of Appreciation.

List of Selected Cities:

Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhubaneswar+Cuttack, Chandigarh+Mohali+Panchkula, Chennai, Faridabad+ Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Indore, Jalandhar, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kanpur, Kota, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nasik, Noida+Ghaziabad, Pune, Varanasi, Yamuna nagar+Karnal+Ambala+Kurukshetra, Vadodara and Visakhapatnam.

Note: City-wise topper is declared after the 100 ranks across the country and state toppers.

City Rank (for every Class) is declared for classes having a minimum of 500 students in a particular city.

All National, State & City Rankers of Classes 1 to 9 will each be awarded a voucher worth Rs. 400 from www.mapmySTEP.com – India’s first scientifically designed portal for Olympiad & Talent exams preparation.

NSTSE Topper: A student of any class who achieves 100% marks is awarded a prize money of Rs. 2 Lakh. If no student achieves the same, then the student who achieves the highest percentage of marks among all the classes, is awarded Rs. 1 Lakh. If more than one student achieve the same, the prize money will be distributed equally among them. Each topper will get either this prize or the regular prize.

UCO - Unified Cyber Olympiad

India has seen a spectacular success in IT and computers which is acknowledged around the world. But computer education in our country is highly fragmented and is without any common goal or platform. Realising the huge importance of streamlined and competitive education in computers & IT and with a view to fortifying India's success, Unified Council has forayed into Unified Cyber Olympiad (UCO).

It motivates children to strengthen their knowledge of using mental ability, logical reasoning & computer knowledge. Proficiency in these areas will help them in overcoming problems related to software, management crises, lack of judgement and decision-making.

Unified Cyber Olympiad(UCO), which will be held across the country with the following goals :

  • Streamlining computer education
  • Instilling competitiveness in computer education
  • Including logic, reasoning and mental ability in the learning process
  • Identifying talent and assessing students on a nationwide platform
  • Exposing students to the latest technology and study in computers

UCO will be conducted at two levels. The first level exam will be conducted in respective school premises. 500 students from every class will be selected for the second level exam, which will be conducted at the nearest selected State Head Quarters/Main Towns.

Note: Venue of the UCO will be respective schools only. There is no open center facility this examination. So we do not accept direct/individual applications forms for UCO. Students are requested to apply through respective schools only. For further details, please contact the teacher-in-charge for external competitions at your school.

91,00,000 students have participated in the exams conducted by Unified Council till date.

Important Dates

Date of Examination 05-10-2018
Time 11:00 a.m – 12:00 noon.
Last Date for Receipt of Applications 26-08-2018

Exam Pattern

The medium of the test will be English.

All questions are objective-type with no negative marking for wrong answers.

Number of Questions Total Marks Duration
50 50 1 Hour

Division of Marks

Section Number of Questions Marks Total Marks
Mental Ability 15 1 15
Reasoning 15 1 15
Computers 15 1 15
English 5 1 5

Note: The above pattern is applicable for 2 levels of exam.

Exam Syllabus

Unified Cyber Olympiad question papers are suitable for students following CBSE / ICSE / ISC and various other State Board syllabus.

Mental Ability

  • Identify and use the properties of integers
  • Rational, Irrational and Real numbers
  • Concept of polynomials, add, subtract, multiply and divide monomials and polynomials
  • Basic factoring techniques to second degree polynomials
  • Solve problems that involve discounts
  • Commissions, profit and loss
  • Compute simple and compound interest
  • Exponents and powers
  • Squares and square roots
  • Cubes and cube roots
  • Algebraic identities
  • Linear equations in one variable
  • Data handling
  • Understanding quadrilaterals
  • Symmetry
  • Visualising solid shapes
  • Perimeter and area

Reasoning

  • Analogy
  • Series completion
  • Coding and decoding
  • Alphabet test
  • Mirror images
  • Paper folding
  • Grouping of identical figures
  • Odd one out
  • Analytical reasoning
  • Direction sense test
  • Mathematical reasoning
  • Cubes and dice
  • Locating hidden words
  • Jumbled letters
  • Formation of new words

Computers

  • Review of computer basics
  • Computer Viruses - Types
  • Prevention
  • Antivirus
  • Updating virus definitions
  • Q Basic - Looping statements
  • Graphics and Sound
  • Internet - Searching Information
  • Communication on the Internet
  • Flash - Tools
  • Understanding timeline
  • Frames and Key frames
  • Layers and Animation
  • HTML Basics - Introduction to HTML
  • HTML Elements - Tags and Attributes
  • Structure of an HTML Document
  • Creating an HTML Document
  • Line Break Tag
  • Paragraph Element
  • Horizontal Rule Element
  • Comment Element
  • HTML Text - Text Elements
  • Address Tag
  • Pre Tag
  • Center Tag
  • Heading Tag
  • Font Tag
  • Base Font Tag Structure, Commands, (Tables and Linking)
  • MS Access - Database and Fields
  • Modifying table designs. Fundamentals of computers
  • MS-PowerPoint
  • MS-Excel
  • Memory & Storage Devices
  • Basics of Cyber crimes
  • Cyber Laws
  • Operating Systems

General English

  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar and Correct usage

Exam Fees

Rs. 150 (Rupees One Hundred and Fifty Only)

Students desirous of referring to Model Question Papers should add Rs. 40 for a set Model/Previous Question Papers.

Exam Structure:

This exam will be conducted in two levels.

First level will be conducted in the school premises of the respective schools.

Second level for the top 500 students from each class/grade will be conducted in the nearest selected State Head Quarters/Main Towns.

How to Apply

Please send a single consolidated Demand Draft towards the exam fee of all the students appearing for the UCO from your school.

D.D. should be drawn in favour of UNIFIED COUNCIL payable at Hyderbad.

Frame the list of students in the format (preferably typed) and send it to our address along with the D.D. by Courier Service/Register Post/Speed Post.

For further details and complete school information brochure, please send a mail to support@unifiedcouncil.com.

Detail of Awards

Gold Medals & Cash Awards for the first 3 in each Class (Rank 1-3)

A. UCO-Topper is awarded a cash prize of Rs. 2, 00,000 cash prize*.
The student who achieves the highest percentage of marks in among all the classes is declared as UCO Topper.
B. The top 3 Rankers in each are awarded a Tablet PC + a Memento + a Medal.
C. The next 7 rankers of each class (Ranks 4-10) are awarded with a cash prize of Rs. 1000 each.
D. The next 15 rankers of each class (Ranks 11-25) of classes II-X are awarded a cash prize of Rs. 500 each.
Top 100 rankers in each class are awarded with a Britannica Encyclopedia of India and The Weather - 2 CD Pack worth Rs. 1090.

Top 100 rankers from each class are awarded with Reasoning Trainer Plus Book, from M/s Brain Mapping Academy, a Medal and a certificate of appreciation.

All the National, Zone Rankers of classes 1-9 are offered a voucher worth Rs. 400 from www.mapmySTEP.com – India’s FIRST scientifically designed portal for Olympiad& Talent exams preparation.

All the top rankers from 1-100 are awarded a Medal and a certificate of appreciation.

Certificate and Cyber Diagnostic Report (CDR) for all the participants.

Prizes For Zone Toppers

Top 3 rankers in each Zone are awarded with 2 CD pack of Britannica Encyclopedia of India and The Weather - 2 CD PACK worth Rs. 1090. , a Medal and certificate of appreciation.

Note: Zone wise ranks are declared after excluding the top 100 ranks across the country.

Class Topper

Top 3 rankers in each class of each school are delared as class 1,2 and 3 rankers. Class Toppers are awarded a Medal and a certificate of Appreciation, each.

UCO Topper* The student who achieves 100% marks in any of the classes will be awarded with prize money of Rs.2, 00,000. If none of the students achieves the same, then the student who achieves the highest percentage of marks among all the classes will be awarded with Rs.1, 00,000. If more than one student achieves the same, the prize money will be distributed equally. Each topper will get either this prize or the regular prize (refer B).

Certificates & Reports

For Students

Cyber Diagnostic Reports (CDR)

We provide Cyber Diagnostic Report (CDR) for individual students, which have the following details:

  • Subject wise - Skill wise performance graphical representation
  • Over all ranking in the National level
  • Group Highest mark
  • Group Average mark CDR provides a real feedback on real learning. It allows the students to know where he/she stands and pinpoints areas of strengths and weakness. This report is for feedback and improvement.

This Report is offered FREE of cost to all the students.

For Schools

General School Cyber Diagnostic Report (GSCDR)

An extensive General School Cyber Diagnostic Report (GSCDR) will be forwarded ABSOLUTELY FREE to all participating schools. General School Cyber Diagnostic Reports (GSCDR) analyses the performance of students participating in the examination (subject-wise and class-wise). The report, in a graphical format which will have a Histogram Graph, is a useful tool for marking the areas of weaknesses by schools that wish to improve their students’ performance.
School Cyber Diagnostic Reports (SCDR) analyses the performance of your school students by segregating the questions for different skills (Subject wise and Class wise). This report acts as a tool for the schools to improve their students’ performance in the future by marking the areas of weaknesses. SCDR is also provided free of cost.

Merit/Participation Certificates

Merit/Participation Certificates will be given to all the participants on the basis of their performance.

Interpreting Results

Ranking: When more than one student gets an equal top score, priority for awarding ranks will be according to the marks acquired in the following specified order of subjects : Mental Ability, Reasoning, Computers and English.

Institutional Awards

Best Performance Award – School

One Best Performance School will be presented to the top performing schools in each zone (17 zones). The principal and the teacher in-charge of the respective schools are awarded the Best Contribution in Computer Education

Award and a Cash Prize of Rs.3000 each.

All the co-coordinating Teacher in-charges of the UCO will be awarded a certificate of appreciation.

Zones

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. New Delhi
3. Gujarat
4. Karnataka, Kerala
5. Rajasthan
6. Tamil Nadu
7. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, Punjab
8. Bihar, Jharkhand
9. Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal
10. All Union Territories
11. Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh
12. Maharashtra, Goa
13. West Bengal, Orissa
14. Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Manipur, Arunchal Pradesh
15. Haryana
16. NCR Excluding Delhi,
17. Telangana

* Top Mentor Award

* Best Participation School Award

UIEO - Unified International English Olympiad

English is the language most widely used for communication and the first global lingua franca. In the modern era, English happens to be the most popular and the most spoken language. Children who know English not only excel in exams but are known to do well in practically every aspect of their dealings.

Assessment of one’s language skills is the key to identifying and measuring one’s “educational achievement”. People’s lives around the world are shaped by the outcomes of such assessments, which they receive as part of their education process.

Assessment is used at all the times in every field, for taking decisions. However, the holistic assessment we offer is extremely useful as it helps shape the future of an individual and plays a critical role in the process of laying foundation for his/her career.

Hence UIEO’s effort is to present its students with an all-encompassing assessment that will place them at the threshold of easier learning and mastering the language of the world, in the easiest and the quickest way.

Note: Venue of the UIEO will be respective schools only. There is no open centre facility for this examination. So we do not accept individual applications forms for UIEO. Students are requested to apply through respective schools only.

For further details, please contact the Teacher-in-Charge at your school.

91,00,000 students have participated in the exams conducted by Unified Council till date.

Important Dates

Date of Examination 30-10-2018
Time 11:00 a.m – 12:00 noon.
Last Date for Receipt of Applications 25-09-2018

Exam Pattern

All questions are objective-type with no negative marking for wrong answers.

Number of Questions Total Marks Duration
35 50 1 Hour

Division of Marks

Section Number of Questions Marks Total Marks
Vocabulary A Functional Grammer 35 1 35
Reading Comprehension 10 1 10
Interactive English 5 1 5

Exam Syllabus

Unified Cyber Olympiad question papers are suitable for students following CBSE / ICSE / ISC and various other State Board syllabus.

Vocabulary and Functional Grammar

  • Prepositional phrases
  • Participle phrases
  • Tenses
  • Question tags
  • Conditionals
  • Reported speech
  • Quotation marks
  • Spellings
  • Collocations
  • Phrasal verbs
  • Idioms
  • Homonyms and homophones
  • Modals
  • Cloze text
  • Clauses
  • Subject-verb Agreement
  • Parallelism
  • Determiners
  • One word for many words related to the general environment

Reading Comprehension

  • Understanding and locating information from various text types like News reports
  • Blurbs
  • Dictionaries
  • Notices
  • Editorials
  • Essays
  • News paper articles
  • Interviews

Interactive English

Spoken English and Telephonic Conversation

Responding to situations in functions like request, giving information, politely expressing disagreement, giving advice, asking for permission, giving ads, writing to the editor, etc

Exam Fees

Rs. 150/- (Rupees Hundred and Twenty only)

Students desirous of referring to Model Question Papers should add Rs.40 for a set of  Question papers

How to Apply

Please send a single consolidated Demand Draft towards the exam fee of all the students appearing for the UIEO from your school.

D.D. should be drawn in favour of UNIFIED COUNCIL payable at HYDERABAD.

Frame the list of students in the given format (preferably typed) and send it to our address along with the D.D by Courier Service/Register post / Speed Post.

For further details please send a mail support@unifiedcouncil.com / write a letter for complete information brochure of Unified International English Olympiad.

Awards

A. The top 3 rankers in each class are awarded a Tablet PC + Memento + Medal.

B. The next 7 rankers of each class (Ranks 4-10) are awarded a cash prize of Rs. 1000 each.

C. The next 15 rankers of each class (Ranks 11-25) are awarded a cash prize of Rs. 500 each.

Top 100 rankers in each class are awarded Britannica – Explorers & Innovators and Britannica Word Search (2 CD Pack) worth Rs. 1094.

Top 100 rankers from each class (2-4) will be awarded Hand Book of Science - Junior and from classes (5-10) will be awarded Awesome English , a Medal and a Certificate of Appreciation.

Prizes For Zone Toppers

Top 3 rankers in each Zone are awarded a Britannica – Explorers & Innovators and Britannica Word Search (2 CD Pack) worth Rs. 1094, a Medal and Certificate of Appreciation.

Note: Zone-wise ranks are declared after excluding the top 100 ranks across the country.

Class Topper

We declare 3 Class Toppers per class in each School.Class Toppers are awarded a medal and a Certificate of Appreciation.

Certificate and Student’s Performance Report (SPR) for all the participants.

Interpreting Results

Ranking: When more than one student gets an equal top score, priority for awarding ranks will be according to the marks acquired in the specified order of sections in the question paper.

Institutional Awards

Best Performance Award – School

One Best Performance School Award in each zone (17 zones) will be presented to the top performing school. The Principal and Teacher in-Charge of the respective schools will be awarded with Best Contribution in Computer Education Award and a Cash Prize of Rs.3000 each.

Top Mentor - Zone Awards

Best Participation School

Certificate of Appreciation will be presented to all the schools which forward more than 100 applications.

All the co-ordinating Teachers in-charge of the UIEO will be awarded a Certificate of Appreciation.

Zones

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. New Delhi
3. Gujarat
4. Karnataka, Kerala
5. Rajasthan
6. Tamil Nadu
7. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, Punjab
8. Bihar, Jharkhand
9. Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal
10. All Union Territories
11. Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh
12. Maharashtra, Goa
13. West Bengal, Orissa
14. Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Manipur, Arunchal Pradesh
15. Haryana
16. NCR Excluding Delhi,
17. Telangana

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