On October 31, Union minister Alphons Kannanthanam said that this year government will conduct the NTSE 2017 exam on a mobile app.
According to the minister, 91,000 students have registered for the exam and it will be conducted on November 26 across 2078 exam centers in the nation.
The minister also said “for the first time in the world, the government is going to have an app based examination with such a large number of people.”
The app for the exam was launched last week and it was inaugurated last week by the Minister of state for electronics and IT, Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam. The name of the app is Vidhyarthi Vigyan Manthan (VVM).
The registrations for the exam began on July 1, 2017 and students will be able to appear for the mock test from November 4 to November 11 which will help the students in getting familiar with the environment of the app.
The results for the NTSE 2017 exams will be declared on December 26, 2017.
The minister said “the children, at present study by heart every word and reproduce the same in examination to get full marks which will not result in making India a country of “young bright and talented children. We want to change all that. We want students to use digital technology, to learn science, about India and famous people who have made science popular. Understand, analyse, use your brains to come to conclusion.
That is why we are having this science talent examination across country”.
The app will be available on Android and iOS platform.
