National Yoga Olympiad - NCERT

Ministry of Human Resource Development conceptualized ‘National Online Yoga Quiz’ as a venture with the objective to promote the awareness of yoga and to build up a network of yoga students, teachers and Yoga practitioners at the national level to spread the message of yoga as a science of holistic living.

Theme of Online Yoga Quiz Competition 

Yoga also empowers oneself with increased concentration, calm, peace and contentment at mental level leading to inner and outer harmony, therefore Online Quiz on Yoga has been planned. The theme for the Quiz will be Yoga for Health and Harmony.

The quiz will be conducted online.

Yogic Practices to be covered in Competition 

The Following dimensions of Yoga are embedded into „Yoga Quiz

 Yama and Niymaa

 Shatkarma/Kriya (Cleansing Process)

 Asanas

 Pranayama

 Meditation

 Bandha and Mudra 

Eligibility

Children from class VIth to XIIth of all management types of schools as given below are eligible to participate.

Syllabus 
NCERT has developed a syllabus for Class VI to VIII (Upper Primary Stage) and Class IX & X (Secondary Stage). NCERT has also developed textbooks for Upper Primary and Secondary Stages titled “Yoga: A Healthy Way of Living”. These books are available in Hindi, Urdu and English. These books are also available on e-pathshala and on NCERT website.

School Participating
All government, government-aided schools are eligible to participate. Following organisations will also conduct yoga Olympiad at their organization Level and send teams (four boys and four girls) at the Upper Primary Level and four boys and four girls at the Secondary Level to National level.
• Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
• Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti
• Central Board of Secondary Education (Excluding KVS & NVS).
 • Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE)

 Awards for Yoga Online Quiz

The top 100 children from Class VI-VIII and 100 Children from Class IX-XII will get Merit certificates belonging to each system as given below:-

 Govt. School

 Govt. Aided School

 Central Board of Secondary Education

 Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

 Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti

 CBSE affiliated schools

 Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE)

 Private School affiliate to other boards

 Demonstration Multipurpose School at RIE

. Process of Online Quiz.

 Each question in the Quiz will be in the Multiple Choice Format and with only one correct answer.

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 Each Question carries 1 mark. Students are required to attempt as many questions in 20 minutes.

 The Quiz questions are prepared in both Hindi and English. You may select one medium for answering.

 You are allowed to attempt the Quiz only once and only one option will be accepted for a question. However, you may revise your answer before final submission within 20 minutes duration.

 After responding to a question, click on the “Next Question” button to go to the next question.

 No negative marking will be done.

 After attempting questions, final submission should be clicked. No changes can be made after the final submission.

 For logging into quiz, the participants have to register on DIKSHA portal to take part in the quiz. In details, please provide information like your name, class, date of birth, gender, mobile number (yours parents/guardian) and school name.

 For learners with visual impairment there is a text to speech option in both the medium i.e English and Hindi

 Answer keys will be published after the closure of the Quiz 

Time Schedule of Organization of Online Yoga Quiz

 The quiz will be open for one month, starting on 21st June 2020 and will close on 20 July midnight, 2020.

The online quiz registration is not yet available on the DIKSHA portal. It will be available before the IDY 2020.

Yoga Quiz (Sample Questions) 1

Yoga Quiz (Sample Questions) 2

Yoga Quiz (Sample Questions) 3

Syllabus and other details available at the link given below