Kerala School Sasthrolsavam-Manual, Guidelines and Result

The fair also aims at finding out the inborn abilities of children encouraging them to strengthen it and imparting training to practice in daily life.

The competitions are at the school level, sub-district, revenue district, and state level. The first two place winners at the district level can participate at the revenue district level and the first two winners at the revenue district level would become eligible to participate at the state level.

The manual for Science, Maths, Social Science, Work experience, and IT fair for the LP to Higher Secondary students of the state has been revised. As per the norms in the revised manual, the competitions for the LP and UP sections would culminate at the district level whereas the competitions for the High School And Higher Secondary sections would come to a close at the state level. The number of items that each section can participate in each fair is given below.

The directions for judgments are also made rigorous in the new manual. The judges at the district level cannot retain the same position for the same item at the district level. This rule is applicable to the state level also. Also,   only two contestants should be there from the Sub-district to the district level and from the district to the state level. If any student is given an appeal by the court or the appealing authority, the qualified students' performance would be assessed along with this so as to eliminate one of them and the other two contestants would take part in the next level. The direction has also been given for video recording of the events from the sub-district level.

Those who score 80% of marks or more in an item in the fair would be considered A grade and they would get 5 points and 20 marks as grace marks. 70% - 79% scorers would be given B grade with 3 points and 15 marks would be awarded as grace marks. C grade with one point would be given to those getting 60% -69% and 10 marks would be awarded as grace marks. The first, second, and third-place winners in the state Sasthrolsavam will receive 20, 17, and 14 marks as grace marks in their public exams, respectively.