Entrance Test

he Geological Society of India will be conducting an objective-type Entrance Test (ET) to select about 20 students to attend a Training Camp in Earth Sciences during the summer of 2013. Four students will be finally chosen from among the Training Camp participants who will represent India at the 7^th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO), October 2013.

TEST DETAILS:
Date and Time                     : At 11.30 A.M. on Sunday the 20th January 2013.( Tentative)
Duration                               : ~ 2 hours
Language                             : English.
Type of questions                : Multiple-choice questions.
Syllabus available at           : https://sites.google.com/site/ineso555

Centres                                : Ahmedabad, Anantapur, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bhopal,

                                        Bhubhaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Chitradurga, Cochin, Cuttack, Davanagere,

                                        Dharwad, Goa, Guwahati, Hissar, Hyderabad, Jaipur,  Jammu Tawi, Jodhpur

                                        Kachch, Kasargod, Kharagpur, Kolhapur, Kota, Kurukshetra, Lucknow,

                                        Mangalore, Manipal, Mizoram, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagpur, Nanded, New Delhi,

                                        Parbhani, Patna, Ponnani, Pune, Ranchi, Salem, Shillong, Shimla, Shimoga,

                                        Solapur, Thiruchirapally, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati, Udaipur, Vadodara,

                                        Varanasi, Vizag.  

Eligibility                              : Students of X and XI standards who were born between 01^st July 1995 and 01^st                                             July 1998, and who have not won a medal in an earlier IESO.

Application procedure          : will be available soon
Certificates and Awards   : The 20 students selected for the Training Camp will be awarded Certificates of     Participation. The four students selected for the IESO will be awarded Certificates of Merit and Cash Prizes (Rs. 5,000/- each). Olympiad medallists will be felicitated at Mumbai in December, 2013 with cash prizes of Rs. 15,000/- each by Infosys Foundation. The function is organised every year on the birthday of the great mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujam.