level 2

After the first level the short listed candidates are called for the second level exam that is the National level exam. 4000 candidates are selected all over India for this level. And 2000 are promoted for the interview. We will discuss about it in the Interview section. Now for the national level examination, The MAT syllabus is totally same, in fact it was easier than the MAT paper of state level paper MAHARASHTRA.. The only thing is that you must be able to properly time your paper and be able to solve the 100 mark paper in just 90 minutes. It means that you cannot give more than a minute to each problem. For this, you need a lot of practice. When solving the paper solve the easy questions quickly, don't waste time thinking over them. You have a certain instinct that when you just look over the problem you feel its tough just leave it for later and attempt it afterwards if time permits but don't just give that instinct to all the questions. The MAT paper is very easy. I think it does not test your reasoning skills but your ability to manage time and reach till the end of the paper. The last 10 questions have no options but are really very easy.

Now for the SAT paper. SAT paper is comparatively tough. It tests your applied skills and not your rectified answers. The format of the SAT paper is similar to that of the state level examination. The first 35 questions constitute the Science portion with distribution similar to the state level as discussed in the state level section. Science is totally applied. Physics as I experienced was based on the studies till the eighth standard but was totally reasoning based. There won't be asked the defination of Refraction, but them may ask if the light rays fall on the glass slide perpendicularly then what would happen. One more thing, The format of questions is like for ex. Which of the following statements is correct in the following case, after that 4 statements would be given and then it would finally be asked in options for ex. A. a & b are correct ,
B. a & c are correct ...... It takes an long time to read the question then to understand it and finally to implement it and again the time limit for each question is 0.90 minutes. The next 20 questions constitute the Maths, Maths is very much tough and is of course above the level of an eighth grader. It has some very tough problems on surds. So I suggest you to first finish the other sections and then move on for maths. Now comes the social sciences part. It constitutes the next 35 questions. The social science is totally taken from the VIII & VII standard books by NCERT. I suggest you to thoroughly read those books. Again its a reasoning affair for ex. It won't ever ask you when was Jhansi captured by the Britishers but It can be asked that why did Britishers wanted to capture Jhansi. So I tell you not to put much stress on the dates but on the reasons and assertions.Here's a tip just don't forget to read the elsewhere columns at the end of the lesson of NCERT history books. Some questions are asked from them. In civics particular name of a political personality may not be asked it is again as suggested in history preparation.
Geography is the same as from the NCERT texts and is really easy. I advice you to read the "Do you know!" columns in the NCERT text because 3 to 4 questions in geography are taken from that boxes.
The last 10 questions are not having any options but are very easy. It has 2 to 3 questions from all the subjects namely science, maths and social studies.

There is nothing to worry about it just study hard and use presence of mind to solve the paper. If you manage to get atlest 135 marks you are through to the Interview.