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Mental Ability Test or MAT:

The main objective of conducting the Mental Ability Test in NTSE syallabus isto judge and analyze studentspower of evaluation, discrimination, reasoning, the potential to visualize, spatial orientation and space orientation. Questions related to classification, coding-decoding, series, pattern perception, block assembly, hidden figures, analogies and problem solving are asked to the students togauge their mental ability. The questionnaire includesa set of 90 multiple choice questions. Mental Ability Test is an appropriate way to scale a students ability, using rationalized questions.

Scholastic Aptitude Test or SAT:

In this test of NTSE, questions are picked from extreme subjects like Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography, Economics, and Political Science. Further, the SAT also comprises of a Language Comprehensive Test.

The set might also include questions which refer to arrange the sequence, match the correct answer, true and false statements, and last but not the least, the comprehension passage-based questions. This might make the exam more entertaining than the multiple choice questions. Scholastic Aptitude Test being an integrated exam grills the students more than the Mental Ability Test. As students tend to make more mistakes in SAT, it is a good learning experience for the students; it makes them aware of their weak points, as well as their strong topics

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