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Feedback on NTS Commonwealth Scholarship Test 2009

Rashid — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:20:56 +0000

I’ve just got this comment from a reader, related to NTS Commonwealth scholarship test 2009, to be held on October 5, 2009. So, thought to publish it separately, here is comment by Mr. Omer Bin Sohail:

It’s very ridiculous, that there is no worth of genius and loyal people in Pakistan. I have got 85.68% marks in BSc Chemical Engineering and I have applied for HEC South Korea Scholarship 7th batch, approximate cost for applying for scholarship was:
400 for verification of original Certificate by HEC per result card + provisional certificate (400×5)= 2000
200 for single photocopy and that I have submitted(200×5)=1000
HEC scholarship application applying fee through HBL online (300+350(HBL online fee)=650
through total is Rs. 3650
AFTER taking all other pains I successfully submitted my application well ahead of time, I still got no response, not even the intimation of rejection.
This all felt very much like that we now are living in frustrating situation but you can say me I am mad because I am, now, once again going to take common wealth scholarship test on 4th October 2009.
Let’s see what happens this time around.

Original comment can be seen here

PS: The comment is a personal view of Mr. Omer Bin Sohail and in no way presents my personal opinion as I have no experience of NTS Commonwealth Scholarship Test 2009.

NTS Commonwealth Scholarship Result 2009

Rashid — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:06:06 +0000

There have been repeated queries about result of NTS Commonwealth Scholarship Program test beside the “clear” notice by NTS saying that they’ll only be responsible for holding the test, which they painfully did, somehow . As per the information, there will be NO result announcement for the test as there’s no document related to result of the test, neither on NTS website nor on that of Ministry of Education. However “successful candidates” are supposed be contacted by concerned authorities based on their academic record and performance in the test.

I wish the process was transparent enough which unfortunately is NOT. At least there should have been a press release indicating the successful jewels but rather a personal contact intimiating success in “wealthy” commonwealth scholarship was preferred. Ministry of Education website has nothing related to NTS Scholarship but an old link from 2005 Scholarship program, it was when they had not passed the responsibility over to NTS. Here’s the link:

http://www.moe.gov.pk/CommonwlSCh2.htm

So all of you guys who had appeared in the test and are awaiting result, give up the vigil and be at peace.

PS: If a successful candidate gets chance to read this, we’d love to get some tips Cheers!

NTS Commonwealth Scholarship Test 2009… Credibility?

Rashid — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:12:27 +0000

Got this email regarding NTS Commonwealth Scholarship Test held on Sunday September 21, 2008 from a friend of mine who attended the test and shares his bitter experiences:

It is indeed a regret to say that the standard of NTS has fallen down to the worse. In the “Blue Book” which I took in Common Wealth Scholarship 2009, there were questions wrongly written in the book especially the choices given were blunders especially in Analytical portion.

For instance the reprinting of same choice more than once in the same question and in another question all choices negates the fundamental clause of arguments thus making whole question unanswerable. In Math portion one question states that “If there are 50 students in class, 28 are female and 27 are male…….”

This defies the credibility of NTS of such responsible job. If possible award full marks for all wrongly placed questions/choices in exam sheet.

This addresses one of(many) minor issues that NTS has always found to be incapable of combating with.