Which of the following is NOT a service the SETU NSP App offers to students?

The correct answer is Scholarship for Education Transformation and Upliftment. The app carries this name together with the National Scholarship Portal and belongs to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, serving beneficiaries of the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. Option A is wrong because the first word is scholarship and not scheme, and nothing in the name refers to transfer or upgradation. Option C is wrong because, although the department does stress transparency as an aim of the app, that word does not appear in the expansion at all. Option D is wrong because tracking is only one of the services the app provides, alongside registration, biometric authentication and submission of applications, and it does not form part of the full form. Expansions of such names are standard one-mark questions.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, which launched the app in April 2026. Option A is wrong because the Ministry of Education runs its own scholarship schemes, and this app is tied specifically to the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. Option B is wrong because scholarships for Scheduled Tribes fall under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, a distinction that exams test often, whereas the categories covered here are Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes. Option D is wrong on the same principle, since minority scholarships sit with a different ministry altogether. Along with the ministry, remember that the app also serves Institutional, District and State Nodal Officers.

The correct answer is Rs 3.50 lakh per annum. The scheme is built for meritorious children of economically weaker households, so an income test applies along with the marks test, and the parental income of an applicant must not cross that figure. Options A and B name lower ceilings; they are plausible because several welfare schemes use limits of that size, but neither is the limit set for this scholarship. Option D names a far higher ceiling of the kind used for some reservation and fee-waiver categories, which makes it attractive to a candidate who mixes up schemes, yet it is well above what this scheme allows. Along with the income condition, the applicant needs at least fifty-five per cent in Class VII, relaxed by five percentage points for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students, and must study in a state government, government-aided or local body school.

The correct answer is Class IX. Fresh scholarships under the scheme go to Class IX students who qualify in the selection examination conducted by the respective State or Union Territory government, and one lakh such awards are made every year. Option A is wrong, though it is the trickiest choice, because Class VII is the class whose marks decide eligibility: a candidate must have at least fifty-five per cent or the equivalent grade in Class VII, with a relaxation of five percentage points for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students. Option B is wrong because Class VIII is the stage beyond which the scheme is meant to keep weaker-section students in school, not the class in which the award is given. Option D is wrong because by Class XI a scholar is continuing through renewal, not entering afresh.

The correct answer is Rs 12,000. A student selected under the scheme receives that amount every year, and the money is credited straight into the student's own bank account through Direct Benefit Transfer, which removes middlemen from the payment chain. The benefit begins in Class IX and can run up to Class XII through renewal, subject to the academic conditions the scheme lays down. Options A, C and D name amounts that the scheme does not pay. They look believable because different central and state scholarships pay sums of this order, and a candidate who has only a vague memory of the figure may be tempted by them. The ministry's own statement on the extended deadline is clear on the point: eligible students studying in state government, government-aided and local body schools get Rs 12,000 per annum, so only option B is right.