SCERT has designed the eligibility criteria for the students who can appear for the exam. The criteria can be summed up as follows:Class 10 students are eligible to sit for the exam with at least 55% in their class 9 final exam. Though this differs for reserved category students.The students who qualify for the exam will get a scholarship only if they study on a full-time basis. They won’t get a scholarship for any part-time courses.If the students have started any sort of jobs or they get any other scholarship or stipend this scholarship will discontinue.If they already get any scholarship while appearing for this exam they won’t get this scholarship even if they qualify both the stages of the exam successfully.NRI students can directly appear for the stage two exam on certain conditions given by the national council (NCERT)