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Sainik Schools- Everything you need to know!

Sainik Schools, as we know it, are purely meant for young men who wish to serve the nation. My knowledge was limited to this single statement. However, there is a lot more as we shall see in this article. Sainik when translated means ‘Soldier’; these are a system of schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society under the Ministry of Defence. They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the imbalance caused by religion, class, and creed among the Officer cadre of the Indian Military and to prepare students for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA) and the Indian Naval Academy (INA). Today there are 25 such schools across India. These schools come under the purview of the respective state governments and Ministry of Defence. These schools admit only boys and as the name suggests, they are groomed into little soldiers who will, later on, grow to serve the Nation.

History of Sainik Schools

Sainik Schools draw inspiration from the Rashtriya Indian Military College or RIMC. The objective of the Sainik Schools is to prepare the students to lead as officers in the Defence Services of the country. The schools select smart and promising students through a national entrance examination and mold their personality in order for them to become leaders of the Nation. Seats are reserved for children of serving Defence personnel and concessions are given to children of Government officials.

Organizational Setup

The Sainik Schools are managed by a Society which is registered under the Societies Registration Act (XXI of 1860). The Chief Executive Body of the Sainik Schools Society is a Board of Governors functioning under the Chairmanship of the Defence Minister. For exercising closer control and supervision over the affairs of Sainik Schools there is an Executive Committee under the Chairmanship of Defence Secretary. The day to day work of the Society is managed by Dir (Trg) & Hony Secy who is assisted by Inspecting Officers, Under Secretary, Sainik Schools Society and SO(Sainik School Cell). The local administration of the school is looked after by a Local Board of Administration where the Sainik School is located.

Admission Procedure

Admission to all Sainik Schools is only meant for boys and the entrance examination is organized for admission to class VI & IX. Students who are between the age of 10-11 years and 13-14 years respectively on 1st July of the year in which they wish to take the admission are entitled to take the examination. For getting admission into class IX, boys need to be studying in class VIII in a recognized school. Please note that admissions are done strictly on the basis of merit only in classes VI and IX.

Sainik Schools are fully residential schools run on public school lines. All the schools are members of All India Public Schools Conference. They offer a common curriculum and are affiliated to the CBSE, New Delhi. Each school has extensive infrastructure and land to cater to needs of comprehensive training so that boys are brought up in a conducive environment.

Reservation Policy of Sainik Schools

15% of the available seats are reserved for Schedule Caste candidates and 7.5% for Schedule Tribe candidates. 25% of the remaining seats are specifically reserved for the children of serving and retired defense personnel. The balance seats are occupied by open category candidates based on the order of their merit.

Generally, the application form, sample question papers, and prospectus are made available by Sainik Schools in the months of October and November.

Sainik Schools Entrance Exams Details

WRITTEN TEST

CLASS VI:
i. Mathematical Knowledge Test & Language Ability Test (2 hr)
ii. Intelligence Test (1hr)
The test can be taken in English, Malayalam or Hindi.

CLASS IX:
i. Mathematics and Science (2 hr)
ii. English and Social Studies (2 hr)

The Question papers for class IX will be in English only.
The syllabus and question pattern is subject to changes from time to time.

All the candidates who get selected as per merit from the qualified candidates need to appear before an Interview Board at school and a Medical Board for various tests in the Government Civil Hospital. The final merit list is announced on the basis of the marks acquired by the candidates in the written test and interview. Admissions are given on the basis of the final merit list and reservation form.

Sainik School Entrance Exam Syllabus 

Class 9th Syllabus:

  1. History:
Sr.no. Chapters
1. Modern Indian History & World History
2. Persons in History of India
3. Places of Importance in Indian History
4. Wars and Battles in Indian History
5. Dates and Events in Indian History
6. Events of Indian National Movement
7. Revolutions in the World (17 to 19 Century AD)
8. Industrial Revolution
9. Revolt of 1857
10. Heritage sites of India & World

2. Civics:

Sr.no. Chapters
1. Indian Constitution
2. About United Nations
3. Globalization, Human Rights, Rights of the Child
4. Dance & Music
5. Location of prominent Institutions in India
6. General Information on Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force (basics)
7. Indian Railways

3. Geography:

Sr.no. Chapters
1. Physical Geography
2. India’s Geography
3. World Geography

4. English:

Sr.no. Chapters
1. Letter Writing
2. Guided Writing
3. Essay Writing
4. Vocabulary and Usage
5. Prepositions
6. Antonyms
7. Synonyms
8. Direct / Indirect Speech
9. Voice
10. Sentence types
11. Tenses
12. Clauses
13. Question Tags
14. Future time reference
15. Rearranging words to make meaningful sentences
16. Use of grammatical structures
17. One word substitutes

5. Science:

Sr.no. Chapters
1. The Universe
2. Soil
3. Air
4. Transformation of Substances
5. Structure of atom
6. Metals and non-metals
7. Carbon
8. Cell Structure and Functions
9. Micro-organisms
10. Refraction of Light
11. Electricity and Magnetism
12. Sources of Energy
13. Common Diseases
14. Food Production and Management

6. Mathematics:

Sr.no. Chapters
1. Squares and square roots of large numbers
2. Cubes and Cube roots of large numbers
3. Rational exponents and radicals including negative powers
4. Profit, loss and discount with percentages
5. Compound Interest
6. Algebraic identities
7. Factorisation of algebraic expressions
8. Division of Polynomials
9. Linear equations in one variable including word problems
10. Parallel lines and its properties
11. Quadrilaterals
12. Circle
13. Perimeter and areas of triangle
14. Surface areas and volumes of cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, sphere, and hemisphere
15. Statistics

Class 6th Syllabus

1. English:

Sr.no. Chapters
1. Essay Writing
2. Comprehension
3. Vocabulary and Usage
4. Gender
5. Antonyms
6. Synonyms
7. Homophone
8. Sentence types
9. One word substitute
10. Re-arranging words to make meaningful sentences
11. Verb Forms
12. Adjective
13. Nouns
14. Adverbs
15. Grammatical Structures

2. Mathematics:

Sr.no. Chapters
1. Number System
2. Fractions and Decimals
3. Commercial Mathematics
4. Mensuration
5. Geometry

List of Sainik Schools in India

The Sainik Schools Society is an organization under the Ministry of Defence. The Chief Executive Body of the Sainik Schools Society is a Board of Governors functioning under the Chairmanship of the Defence Minister. There are 25 Sainik Schools spread across the Country. Let us briefly look at each.

Sainik School, Satara the first Sainik School of the country was founded through the visionary efforts of Shri Yashwantrao Chavan, the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra State. It was inaugurated by the then Defence Minister of India, Shri V K Krishna Menon on 23 Jun 1961. The school is authorized for 620 borders. All boarders from Class VI to Class XII reside in 6 houses (two juniors and four seniors’ houses).

The school is established over a sprawling campus of 115 acres. The school has a well-established infrastructure which includes well-equipped Dormitories, Cadets’ Mess, MI Room, and all sports facilities. The is among the few Sainik Schools which boost to have a Horse Riding facility, Swimming pool, and a Squash Court.

The school had secured the 2nd position among all the boys’ residential schools in Maharashtra, awarded by “Education World India” – The Human Development Magazine in India School Ranking Awards – 2013 on 14 Sep 2013.

It was on 24 July 1961, that the huge and pelf of bygone days was converted into a temple of learning by the then Defence Minister of India, Sh V.K. Krishna Menon and Sainik mansion of Nawab of Kunjpura, the symbol of power School Kunjpura was born. The school is situated off the G.T. Road, 8 km away from Karnal Town. It stands majestically sprawled over 276 acres land amidst nature’s beauty surrounded by lush green trees and grasslands.

The School has a state-of-the-art infrastructure which includes Main Block christened as Bhupinder Hooda Main Block after the Hon’ble Chief-Minister of Haryana, Sh. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a proud alumnus of Sainik School Kunjpura. In addition, the school also has Deepak Kapoor NDA Block which houses 15 Classrooms, 2 wi-fi equipped Computer Laboratories, one fully equipped multi-media room, an impressive Lecture Hall, an Adventure Room, NDA cell and Neurobic Lab. The School has the proud privilege of having a majestic 40 ft tall Artificial Climbing Wall, only one of its kind in the entire State.

Established on 08 Jul 1961, Sainik School, Kapurthala is a pioneer in the comity of twenty-four Sainik Schools running under the Sainik Schools Society, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi. Nestled in the grand palace of the erstwhile Maharaja of Kapurthala in the lush green regal surroundings, the School sprawls over a vast area of around 200 acres and is equipped with a rich infrastructure to ensure an all-round personality development of the cadets.

The School has well-maintained, sprawling playfields for all the major games like Football, Hockey, Basketball, Volleyball and Lawn Tennis. Regular PT, NCC, Yoga, and Swimming are held to build up the stamina and endurance of the young cadets. The cadets have brought laurels to various sporting events organized by the Sahodaya Complex, CBSE Cluster, IPSC and Sainik Schools Society. The successful participation of the School Band Contingent in Republic Day Camps for many times in succession has brought a singular honor to the School.

Sainik School of Gujarat was established in the year 1961 in Jamnagar. The School is located in the Balachadi Estate which is 32 km away from Jamnagar. The Balachadi Estate was formerly a seaside summer resort that belonged to the rulers of Nawanagar. The estate comprises of 426 acres of land in the mangrove-rich coastal belt of Saurashtra. Sprawling across a wide campus along the golden sands of the Gulf of Kutch, lies a patch of land, beautiful in its rare wealth of flora and fauna.Late Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Prime Minister of India, presented the school its color on 07 Mar 1965.

Sainik School, Chittorgarh (Rajasthan) was established on 07 Aug 1961. It is one of the first five Sainik Schools started in various states by the Ministry of Defence, in association with respective State Governments under the aegis of Sainik School Society. The first batch of Class XI students of this School appeared for Indian School Certificate Examination during Nov-Dec 1961. Later, during 1978 the school changed over to CBSE and now offers only Science stream at the Senior Secondary level being a feeder institution to NDA. It is also a member of the All India Public Schools Conference (IPSC).

The Sainik School, Korukonda spread over a sprawling area of 206 acres, has a beautiful campus with well-laid out roads and buildings. There are around 1000 mango trees along with the plantation of cashew nut, Coconuts, sweet lime, sapota and guava trees. This adds scenic beauty to the School Campus. The instructional block of the School is a two-storied building with modern classrooms housed with fully equipped IT facilities along with a projector and educational software consisting of relevant classroom modules for all the subjects which are connected via LAN, well-equipped laboratories for Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, an art and craft gallery and various academic departments. The administrative wing of the school is housed in the Maharaja’s Palace. The school has an auditorium with a seating capacity of 650, eight spacious Houses for the cadets, a capacious Cadets’ Mess and two open parks for children. A sprawling sports complex with all the major games facilities such as football, hockey, volleyball, basketball and many more outdoor games can be played simultaneously.

Sainik School, Kazhakootam was established on Jan 1962 in the military barracks Pangode, Thiruvananthapuram. The CM of Kerala, late Shri Pattum Thanu Pillai choose the location for the school 18Km away from Thiruvananthapuram on NH-47 near Kazhakootam

The sprawling campus of 225 acres nestled between the slender strands of the Western Ghats and the Arabian sea situated on a hillock blended with vegetation, is an ideal location for a military biased residential institution

Over 4500 students have passed out of the portals of this school and have made their mark in various walks of life. The school has won the “Defence Ministers Trophy” for the highest intake to the NDA five times. It also has the consistent record of achieving excellent performance in CBSE Board Examinations. The School has achieved 100% results in class XII and class X board exams in the recent years and is always ranked among the top Sainik Schools.

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