IGSC SCHOLARSHIP EXAM

IGSC, the Institute of General Studies for Children, is conducting Scholarship Examinations for school children successfully since the year 1993. It is a nonprofit venture promoted by a group of elite educationalists, Kochi, India. More than 55,000 school children from all over India had been presented with scholarships and useful books in the last 19 years of its fruitful existence. Other activities of IGSC include seminars, study tours and painting, essay and speech competitions to create environmental concern and ecological awareness in school children.

IGSC Scholarship Examination improves the general knowledge of school children and trains them in the lifelong process of acquiring and updating it. It familiarizes them with the basic tenets of various future competitive exams like medical and engineering entrance, Indian Civil Service, Bank Recruitment, Defense Service etc. It gives them the necessary exposure to various types of intelligence and aptitude tests and tests of creativity and E.Q. It creates environmental concern and ecological insight in school children.

Entries for the IGSC Scholarship Exam are open in the month of July every year and close towards the end of August. The Scholarship exam is being conducted at various centers in India in the month of December. Results are usually announced in the month of February. The first three ranks with scholarship money and medals and a large number of scholarships for other toppers, useful books for runner-ups and CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE to all candidates will be distributed subsequently.

The scholarship money amounts to Rs.10,000/-, Rs.5000/- and Rs. 2500/- for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rank holders respectively in the last exam in each class / group. The net worth of scholarship including that for the other toppers earmarked for the last year is Rs.11,1000/- and the books for presentation among the runner-ups cover a value of Rs.2,22,500/- baring the institutional discount factor on bulk purchases.