AISSEE

Admission is offered at two levels only: Class VI and Class IX. It is decided by a candidate's performance in AISSEE, not by a separate school-level test. Confirm the age and class-eligibility conditions for your target level in the Information Bulletin before applying, because those conditions decide whether the form is accepted at all.

No official difficulty rating or cut-off is published, so treat rankings you see elsewhere as opinion. The paper is set at Class VI or Class IX level and the real pressure comes from applicants per seat, not from obscure syllabus content. Accuracy under time pressure in arithmetic and reasoning separates candidates far more than unusually hard topics do.

Four areas: Mathematics, Intelligence/Reasoning, English and General Knowledge. The official pages do not publish item counts, section order or duration, so any such figure circulating online is unverified; the scheme of exam sits in the Information Bulletin. Practically, Mathematics and Reasoning reward daily drilling, while English and General Knowledge respond better to short, repeated revision than to last-week cramming.

NTA published a notice dated 3 November 2026 inviting online applications for AISSEE-2027, and that is the current registration cycle. Apply through the official NTA portal linked from the notice and download the Information Bulletin from the same source before filling anything in. Registration agents and coaching pages cannot submit a valid form for you, and their dates should never be trusted.

The official source pages do not state a duration or shift timing, so no reliable number can be given here. Duration, reporting time and shift schedule appear in the Information Bulletin and on the admit card. Plan travel around the reporting time printed on your own admit card, not around a rumoured paper length.

Neither the Society nor NTA pages state an attempt limit. What actually restricts repeat attempts is the age and class-eligibility rule for Class VI and Class IX, which is defined in the Information Bulletin. A candidate who misses one cycle may apply in a later cycle only while still eligible for that level, so read the age clause first.

No passing score, cut-off or minimum-percentage figure appears on the official pages, so any qualifying-marks claim you meet is unverified. Selection rests on performance in AISSEE together with seat availability, and allotment happens through counselling on the AISAC portal. Aim for a high score rather than a rumoured threshold; any official qualifying condition would be printed in the bulletin.

Shortlisted candidates go through online counselling on the AISAC portal. For the 2026 cycle the Society extended that registration window from 30 March 2026, 0500 hrs to 1 April 2026, 2350 hrs, and its homepage states that online counselling rounds for admissions have commenced. That window has closed, so follow the current cycle's counselling dates on the official site.

Start with Mathematics: thirty to forty minutes daily on arithmetic and number work, because accuracy there moves slowest. Add a short timed reasoning set every day covering series, patterns, coding and relations. For English, read one passage and revise about ten grammar items. Keep General Knowledge cumulative with ten minutes of current affairs plus static facts, and take one timed full mock each week.

Reasoning speed, where answers are correct but time runs out; arithmetic slips in fractions, percentages and unit conversion; and blank General Knowledge answers from ignoring current affairs completely. A quieter failure is administrative: not reading the Information Bulletin, missing a counselling window, or uploading documents that do not match. Fix the administrative risk first, because it disqualifies fastest.