Soaring tuition and coaching fees can add ₹1.5–2 lakh a year to an Intermediate student’s bill. The good news? More than a dozen government, corporate and college-run schemes now cover anywhere from 25 % to 100 % of those costs. This one-stop 2025 guide lists each option, the money on the table, deadlines and smart application tips.
Quick-glance Table
| Scheme / Test | Who can apply | Support (₹) | 2025 deadline* |
| Telangana ePASS Post-Matric Scholarship | SC, ST, BC, EBC, Minority & PH students with family income ≤ ₹2 L (SC/ST) or ≤ ₹1.5 L (others) | 100 % tuition fee + maintenance allowance | 30 Jun 2025 telanganaepass.cgg.gov.in |
| PM YASASVI (Class XI level) | OBC, EBC & DNT students scoring > 60 % in Class 10 | ₹75,000 per year | Sept 2025 exam window yet.nta.ac.in |
| INSPIRE – Scholarship for Higher Edu. (SHE) | Top 1 % scorers in Class 12 Science boards | ₹80 k/yr (₹60 k cash + ₹20 k summer project) | Nov 2025 dst.gov.in |
| Kotak Kanya Scholarship | Girls scoring ≥ 75 % in Class 12; income < ₹6 L | Up to ₹1.5 L / yr for professional studies | 19 Jan 2025 buddy4study.com |
| Vidyasaarathi CSR Scholarships | Need-cum-merit; varies by corporate partner | ₹10 k – ₹60 k | Rolling calls vidyasaarathi.co.in |
*Deadlines are based on last-released notifications; always reconfirm on the official portals.
1. Government Scholarships: Zero-tuition Options
Telangana ePASS Post-Matric Scholarship
Covers full college tuition and pays a monthly maintenance allowance (₹5,500 hostel / ₹2,200 day-scholar for most groups). Aadhaar-based eKYC and biometric attendance are now mandatory. telanganaepass.cgg.gov.inbuddy4study.com
Pro-tip: Upload fee receipts semester-wise; incomplete renewal is why 18 % of 2024 forms were rejected.
PM YASASVI (Young Achievers)
A national test conducted by NTA for Class XI entrants. Rank within your state quota and you lock in ₹75,000 every year for Inter. Keep your OBC/EBC/DNT certificate handy during counselling. yet.nta.ac.in
INSPIRE-SHE
If you’re a Science topper, INSPIRE pays ₹60 k cash each year plus a ₹20 k summer research grant—ideal for students eyeing IISc or IIT research tracks. Only the top 1 % of each board qualify, so aim for ≥ 480/500 in SSC. dst.gov.in
2. Corporate & CSR Scholarships: Hidden Gems
| Scheme | Eligibility quirks | Typical pay-out |
| Kotak Kanya | Girls must enter professional courses after Inter—think CA, Engineering, Design | Up to ₹1.5 L/year for 4 yrs buddy4study.com |
| Vidyasaarathi portal | Dozens of corporate calls—e.g., Thyssenkrupp gives MBA kids ₹6 L; for Inter, expect ₹10–20 k | Varies; check monthly vidyasaarathi.co.in |
Checklist: PDF scan of Class 10 mark-sheet, income cert, bank passbook, and a 150-word “career goal” essay usually suffice.
Why attempt them even if you prefer Ignite? They benchmark your level, and a high rank can be leveraged during fee-negotiation at any college.
4. Application Timeline (Save or Screenshot)
| Month | What opens | Action |
| June | Telangana ePASS fresh & renewals | Collect caste/income certs before SSC marks memo upload. |
| July | Kotak Kanya (girl students) | Draft 300-word SOP; need 75 %+ in Class 10. |
| Aug | NSAT registrations | Pick online slot early for better centre choice. |
| Sept | PM YASASVI form & admit card | Mock the OMR pattern—no negative marking. |
| Oct | SCORE exam | Solve last 3 years’ papers; cut-off ~50 %. |
| Nov | INSPIRE-SHE portal opens | Keep board percentile letter ready. |
| Dec | Vidyasaarathi CSR calls peak | Set portal alerts for new corporates. |
FAQs
Do I need to repay any of these scholarships?
No—unlike education loans, the schemes listed here are grants, not credit.
Can I stack multiple scholarships?
Government rules prevent double funding of the same fee component. You can combine a state fee reimbursement with a private CSR stipend covering books or hostel.
What if my family income is just above the limit?
Aim for merit-based tests (Ignite, NSAT, SCORE) or CSR schemes which have higher income ceilings (₹6–8 L).
Final Word
A smart scholarship strategy can slash your Intermediate bill to near-zero and free up cash for JEE/CLAT/IPMAT coaching. Start early—June and July are crunch months—and treat applications like an exam: draft essays, rehearse talent-search papers, and keep documents in a single cloud folder.
Looking for personalised guidance? Book a free counselling slot at Ignite Junior College, Kompally or call +91 799 799 2482 today.
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How to Crack CLAT in Two Years with a CEC Background: a Hyderabad-Focused Roadmap
If you are a Class 10 graduate in Telangana who has just opted for CEC (Civics, Economics, Commerce) at Ignite Junior College, Kompally, you already possess the perfect subject blend for law: civics sharpens your understanding of the Constitution, economics builds data sense for policy, and commerce trains you in numbers every lawyer must interpret. What you need now is a disciplined, two-year strategy that lets you finish Intermediate with flying colours and enter the December 2026 CLAT hall in Hyderabad knowing the paper inside out. This 800-word roadmap—grounded in the 120-question CLAT pattern that the Consortium of NLUs introduced from 2025 onwards —shows how to do exactly that while leveraging Ignite’s integrated CEC + CLAT timetable.
Year 1 (June 2025 – March 2026): Lay the Legal & Reading Bedrock
Master the pattern early. Many aspirants wait until second year to open a CLAT syllabus PDF; don’t. Download the official 2026 syllabus today and pin a print-out on your study wall. Five sections—English language, Current Affairs & GK, Logical Reasoning, Legal Reasoning, Quantitative Techniques—share 120 marks, negative 0.25 for each error, and a 120-minute window.
Synchronise CEC topics with CLAT reading. When your civics teacher at Ignite discusses “Directive Principles,” read the corresponding chapter in Introduction to the Constitution of India. When economics moves to “Fiscal Policy,” skim budget editorials in The Hindu the same evening. This habit converts Board revision into CLAT passage familiarity, saving dozens of hours later.
Build a reading hour—daily. Allocate 30 minutes of uninterrupted reading before college—start with Indian Express explainers, graduate to EPW or long-form narrative journalism by January. Your goal is 280–300 words per minute with 80 percent retention; that pace lets you finish CLAT’s 450-word passages comfortably.
Quant basics every Sunday. CEC maths is optional, yet CLAT still throws ten quantitative technique questions. Dedicate one Sunday morning a week to ratios, averages, and data interpretation from NCERT Class VIII–X books. Consistency beats cramming.
Ignite’s Term-I legal starter module. From August to October, Ignite’s CEC + CLAT batch runs three after-college sessions a week: landmark judgments, legal maxims, and passage drills. Faculty break down recent Supreme Court verdicts into IRAC (Issue–Rule–Application–Conclusion) format so that, by Diwali, you can distil any 300-word case extract into its principle in under 60 seconds.
Mock test initiation in February. Sit for your first 120-minute mock right after your First-Year final exams. Ignore the score—track how often you guessed, where time leaked, and how your eyes tired. Feed that data to your Ignite mentor; they will tweak your March-April break plan.
Summer Interlude (April – May 2026): Skill Boot-Camp
Hyderabad’s heatwave months are ideal for a skills sprint. Ignite hosts a 15-day live boot-camp—7 a.m. to 10 a.m.—that alternates between vocabulary flashcards, GK timeline mapping, and reasoning puzzles. By the end, you aim to:
- add 1 500 high-frequency GRE/CLAT words to Anki decks,
- annotate a Times of India front page in 12 minutes,
- finish a logical reasoning set in 20 seconds per question.
Evenings remain free for second-year CEC bridge chapters, keeping Board work on schedule.
Year 2 (June 2026 – October 2026): Intensify & Integrate
Section-wise weekly focus. Ignite’s integrated timetable now shifts to five post-college sessions a week, each mirroring a CLAT section: Monday English, Tuesday GK, Wednesday Logic, Thursday Legal, Friday Quant. Saturday is a proctored mini-mock (60 questions, 60 minutes) whose analytics dashboard—accuracy %, percentile, error heat-map—lands in your inbox before dinner.
Current-affairs cadence. Your GK weightage is 25 percent of the paper. Use the “Hyderabad connect” to remember facts: e.g., link COP-30 outcomes to Telangana’s Electric Vehicle policy. Local associations stick better than rote monthly compendiums. Maintained daily, your personal GK journal becomes a goldmine for last-week revision.
Two-level legal reasoning drills. Level 1: principle-fact MCQs from past papers (2017–2024). Level 2: Ignite’s faculty curate passages on AI-ethics or privacy—topics likely to dominate CLAT 2026. The idea is to practise application over memory; CLAT rewards how you use the law, not how many Latin phrases you quote.
Timed reading sprints. Alternate day newspapers with monthly magazines. Read a 1 200-word Frontline article, write a 50-word précis under three minutes. This both raises comprehension speed and polishes answer articulation—handy for counselling interviews at NLUs.
The 90-Day Countdown (September – November 2026): Simulate & Sharpen
Full-length mock regimen. From the first Sunday in September, Ignite runs a Sunday-Wednesday-Friday mock cycle: 15 full papers by mid-October. Replicate the CLAT slot—pen-and-paper, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., no phone till analysis ends. Average on these mocks should be 90+ to eye NALSAR-Hyderabad; 80+ keeps NLU-Jodhpur feasible.
Error-log surgery. Maintain an Excel sheet of every wrong answer with column tags—section, topic, error type (knowledge, inference, time, silly). Patterns emerge: perhaps you miss inference questions in GK after 90 minutes—signal to reshuffle section order.
Quant flash-revise. Re-work the 50 Ignite quant handouts you solved over two years, not new material. Speed, not novelty, is the goal now.
Mind & body check. Hyderabad’s December is pleasant but dry; acclimatise by taking mocks in classrooms without fans. Sleep cycles matter more than last-minute micro topics.
D-Day & Beyond
CLAT 2026 will likely fall on the first Sunday of December, continuing the Consortium’s three-year pattern. Reach your centre—ideally within Hyderabad city limits—by 12 p.m., carry two blue pens, photo ID, and the confidence that comes from 100+ timed papers.
Post-exam, don’t burn your preparation notes. Ignite’s counselling team conducts three sessions: rank predictor, preference filling, and NRI-quota pros-&-cons. Your CEC background will shine in interviews for five-year BBA-LLB programmes that value economics insight.
Why the Ignite CEC + CLAT Track Gives You an Edge
- Curriculum harmony: 80 percent of CLAT GK overlaps with CEC economics and civics lectures, reducing workload duplication.
- Mentor ratio 1:20: Every student gets a weekly one-on-one review—rare in large Hyderabad coaching chains.
- Built-in papers: 50 sectionals, 30 full mocks, seven All-India open mocks—no extra subscription fees.
- Scholarship window: Score above 90 percentile in Ignite’s in-house CLAT diagnostic on 30 June 2025 and your two-year CLAT coaching fee is waived. Seats are limited to the first 40 qualifiers.
CEC already primes you for legal studies; a structured two-year plan converts that potential into an NLU admit. Start now, stick to the timeline above, and let Hyderabad’s own Ignite Junior College turn your Intermediate years into the launch-pad for a top CLAT rank. For a personalised study map, call +91 799 799 2482 or drop by the Kompally campus this weekend—because future Supreme Court lawyers don’t leave their preparation to chance.
