Can I lose an IOE scholarship once I have it?
Yes. Scholarships are reassessed on each semester's results, none are given to a student who fails a semester examination, and you cannot hold two at once.
An IOE scholarship is not awarded once for four years. It is reassessed every semester, on the results of the one immediately before, so there are seven further assessments after the one that first gave it to you. Failing a semester examination removes you from consideration outright, and holding one type of award bars you from another rather than adding to it. Nothing about the award is automatic even when your results hold, because every provision in the section is granted on the recommendation of the scholarship committee. First year is the exception that catches people: with no preceding semester to read, first year first part is decided on your entrance examination score.
The three conditions
- Awards are made on the results of the immediately preceding semester examination, so the assessment repeats every semester.
- No scholarship is given to a student who fails the semester examination.
- A student enjoying one type of scholarship or facility is not given another type, so they do not combine.
What counts as failing?
The booklet withholds the scholarship from a student who does not pass the semester examination, and it sets separate rules that can stop you sitting one at all. You need at least 70% attendance, and you must pass the Internal Assessment in every subject — failing the internal assessment in a subject bars you from that subject's semester examination. So an attendance problem can cost a scholarship without a single examination being failed.
Why does first year run on your entrance score?
Because there is no preceding semester to read. That makes the entrance rank worth more than it appears at admission: it sets your seat category, and at a constituent campus it also decides your first-year scholarship position before you have sat a single university paper.
A bad semester costs more than the scholarship
Two clauses sitting just before section 13 do the heavier damage, and neither is about money. A student who does not sit at least one subject in the regular semester examination of any year and part is not allowed into the class of the year and part above it, so a missed paper stops progression rather than only the award. And after sitting the examination of any year and part, you have to be admitted for the part that follows; a student who does not fill that enrolment form is not admitted to the higher level at all. Both are written as consequences rather than as penalties, which is to say nobody applies them to you and nothing arrives in the post.
And the outer limit is doing quiet work behind all of it
A four-year programme has to be completed inside eight academic years, and the five-year Architecture programme inside ten. The booklet adds one sentence about what happens to anyone who has not passed by then: there is no arrangement for taking the examination again. So the semesters a scholarship is lost in are also semesters spent against a budget that does not renew, and the two costs compound rather than sitting side by side. A student weighing whether to repeat a part should be counting years against that limit, not only rupees against the award.
There is no appeal route in the text
Worth saying plainly, because the absence is the useful information. Every award in the section is granted on the recommendation of the scholarship committee, and the booklet names no threshold that entitles a student to one, no published list, and no mechanism for contesting a decision. That makes the practical question a different one from "did I qualify". Ask your campus who sits on the scholarship committee, when it meets after results, and what it publishes; those are answerable questions, and the entitlement one is not.
What should you ask before counting on one?
The percentages are of each programme's regular student count, so the number of awards depends on cohort size rather than on hitting a fixed mark. Ask your campus how many awards were actually made in your programme last year, and what the lowest result that received one was. A percentage of an unknown denominator is not a plan.
Sections 13.1 to 13.6 of the booklet, page 22, read off a rendered page image. The attendance and internal-assessment conditions are section 11.1, page 21, and are a separate rule set that this answer connects rather than a clause of section 13; the progression clauses are section 12, page 22, and the time limit is 11.2.2 on the same page. Awards are made on the recommendation of the scholarship committee.
Sources
- IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083published 7 August 2026 · read 31 August 2026
Last reviewed by Ram Raj Thapa, Admissions Officer, Imperial College of Engineering. Every figure on this page is cited to the document it came from.
