Resonance concluded the stage-I of STaRT (Scholarship and Talent Reward Test) 2015 on October 12, 2014. Asheesh Sharma, vice president of Resonance said that approximately two lakh students from Class X to Class XII of all streams appeared for the Stage-I of STaRT-2015. Around 1,735 schools from all over India participated in stage-I which was conducted both online and offline across 60 study centers of Resonance.
The result for this stage-I will be declared on November 30. Those students who get selected in stage-I will be eligible to appear for stage-II of the competition. Students securing first position in All India Ranking (AIR) from each Class will be awarded a gold medal and nine-days trip to USA (NASA). AIR-2 students will be awarded silver medal and 7-days Europe (CERN) trip.
AIR-3 students will be awarded bronze medal and 6-days Singapore trip. Apart from this, AIR-4 and 5 will win branded laptops, AIR-6 to 10 will win high-end tablet PCs, AIR 11 to 25 students will win digital camera and AIR 26 to 200 will win sports watches. A total of 2,400 prizes worth Rs 1 crore will be awarded and around 6,000 deserving students will be given scholarship of Rs 5 crores through this exam.
RK Verma, MD and CEO Resonance said that the main objective of STaRT-2015 is to provide a nationwide, transparent platform to the talented students wherein they not only get an adequate evaluation of their performance but could also rectify their mistakes.