All India Sainik School Entrance Exam (AISSEE)
is conducted every year in the first/second Sunday of January. This
entrance exam is conducted for admissions to Class-VI & Class-IX of
the twenty four Sainik Schools, which are located throughout the
length and breadth of the country. Approximately 70-100 students
in Class-VI & about 20-30 student in Class-IX are admitted in each
of the Sainik School.
Like every year, All India Sainik School Entrance
Exam (AISSEE)-2013 is expected to be conducted on 6th January, 2013.
This blog article is being made to help those of you parents to know about the admission process of Sainik Schools, so that you can make an informed choice while deciding to send your son to Sainik Schools. In a follow-up blog post titled: AISSEE Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Papers & Books, I would provide you the prep materials to help your children prepare for the same.
What are Sainik Schools and why should your Son study in a Sainik School?
Concept of Sainik Schools evolved from the need to homogenize regional
and class imbalance amongst the officer cadre of the
Indian defense forces and were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon,
the then Defence Minister of India. With this objective, five Sainik
school were established for the first time in 1961: Sainik
school Satara, Kunjpura, Kapurthala, Balachadi, Chittorgarh. Remaining
schools were established thereafter.
Sainik Schools have been set up to prepare students for joining the defense forces of India - Army, Navy & Air Force. So far, more than 7000 of pass outs from Sainik Schools have joined as officers in the three defence services, rising up to the rank of of Generals in the Army and equivalent ranks in the Navy and Air Force. Approximately 40% of cadets who joined NDA (National Defence Academy) from 2006 to 2010 were from Sainik Schools. Source: Sainik School Society.
Although primary purpose of Sainik school is to send its student to NDA, its student have excelled in all walks of life - Administrative services, Engineers, Doctors, Management, Lawyers and even politics (two Chief ministers - Neiphiu Rio, Chief minister of Nagaland was from Sainik School Purulia while Jarbom Gamlin, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh was from Sainik School Goalpara)!
The success of students from Sainik Schools arises from the fact that the students are not only schooled for academic learning, but are also trained for all facets of life - sports & games, extra-curricular activities like NCC, debating, extempore speech etc. As a result, students develops a well-rounded personality and hence can cope up with any challenges in life.
All Sainik School are affiliated to CBSE board and are also members of the prestigious Indian Public Schools Conference.The academic session starts on 1st April and ends on 31st March.
You can find more about Sainik Schools from this Sainik School Society webpage as well as in Wiki. You can find the location of all the Sainik Schools in this Map
With above introduction on Sainik Schools, let us find what are the eligibility required to appear for All India Sainik School Entrance Exam.
AISSEE Eligibility:
Sainik Schools have been set up to prepare students for joining the defense forces of India - Army, Navy & Air Force. So far, more than 7000 of pass outs from Sainik Schools have joined as officers in the three defence services, rising up to the rank of of Generals in the Army and equivalent ranks in the Navy and Air Force. Approximately 40% of cadets who joined NDA (National Defence Academy) from 2006 to 2010 were from Sainik Schools. Source: Sainik School Society.
Although primary purpose of Sainik school is to send its student to NDA, its student have excelled in all walks of life - Administrative services, Engineers, Doctors, Management, Lawyers and even politics (two Chief ministers - Neiphiu Rio, Chief minister of Nagaland was from Sainik School Purulia while Jarbom Gamlin, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh was from Sainik School Goalpara)!
The success of students from Sainik Schools arises from the fact that the students are not only schooled for academic learning, but are also trained for all facets of life - sports & games, extra-curricular activities like NCC, debating, extempore speech etc. As a result, students develops a well-rounded personality and hence can cope up with any challenges in life.
All Sainik School are affiliated to CBSE board and are also members of the prestigious Indian Public Schools Conference.The academic session starts on 1st April and ends on 31st March.
You can find more about Sainik Schools from this Sainik School Society webpage as well as in Wiki. You can find the location of all the Sainik Schools in this Map
With above introduction on Sainik Schools, let us find what are the eligibility required to appear for All India Sainik School Entrance Exam.
AISSEE Eligibility:
Eligibility required for AISSEE is simple:
Admission for class VI:
Age 10 to 11 years as on 1st July of the year of admission. Boys only, studying in class VI.
Admission for class IX:
Age 13 to 14 years as on 1st July of the year of admission. Boys only, studying in class IX.
AISSEE Admission Process:
AISSEE Admission Process:
Admission to Sainik Schools are done through written exam i.e. AISSEE
followed by Interview and Medical tests. AISSEE for Class-VI admission
consists of Maths, Language Ability & Intelligence Test sections,
each weighing 100 marks while for Class-IX consists of Maths (200),
Science (75), English (100) & Social Studies (75) test
sections. Interview consists of 50 marks.
Students can appear more than once in the Entrance Examination. More about this in my blog article titled:
AISSEE Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Papers & Books.
Students can appear more than once in the Entrance Examination. More about this in my blog article titled:
AISSEE Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Papers & Books.
AISSEE Prospectus/Application Form:
Notification for AISSEE comes out every year in the month of
October/November and the application forms are made available online as
well as through select locations from October to December. So during
this period, please visit the admission websites of the Sainik Schools
given below - say for AISSEE 2013 Prospectus-cum-Application Form, start
looking for the notification and form from 2nd week of October.
Zone-wise State-wise List of Sainik Schools Admission Websites:
You can find below the list of websites of all 24 Sainik Schools, which I
have arranged State-wise & Zone-wise. Why have I grouped them
zone-wise? Because this way you can find the other Sainik schools which
are nearest to your preferred Sainik School.
In the application form of All India Sainik School Entrance
Exam (AISSEE), when you apply for any of the school, you can give
preference for two other Sainik Schools. So I have grouped the list of
admission websites zone-wise for you to make a quick choice:
East Zone Sainik Schools:
Nagaland: Sainik School Punglwa Admission Website
West Bengal: Sainik School Purulia Admission Website
Central Zone Sainik Schools:
Jharkhand: Sainik School Tilaiya Admission Website
West Zone Sainik Schools:
Rajasthan: Sainik School Chittorgarh Admission Website
Madhya Pradesh: Sainik School Rewa Admission Website
Maharastra: Sainik School Satara Admission Website
Chhattisgarh: Sainik School Ambikapur Admission Website.
North Zone Sainik Schools:
Uttarakhand: Sainik School Ghorakhal Admission Website
Jammu & Kashmir: Sainik School Nagrota Admission Website
Himachal Pradesh: Sainik School Sujanpur Tira Admission Website
Tamil Nadu: Sainik School Amaravathinagar Admission Website
Andhra Pradesh: Sainik School Korukonda Admission Website
Karnataka: Sainik School Bijapur Admission Website
Karnataka: Sainik School Kudage: No Official Website. You can try this.
Although all of above 24 Sainik Schools are part of Sainik School Society, Sainik School Lucknow is not. This School is run by the U P Sainik School Society with the Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh as its Chairperson and is fully financed by the state government. You can use the link below to know more about it:
Uttar Pradesh: Sainik School Lucknow Admission Website
Hope with above info on All India Sainik School Entrance Exam (AISSEE) Notification, Form & Eligibility you have come to know about what is the admission process and how to apply for the same. Please visit my blog post titled: AISSEE Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Papers & Books to know how to prepare for this exam.
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