Hi Maninder,
Nursery admission 2010-2011 process will start in month of August in Noida. Noida schools actually don't have set criteria for admission (atleast this year there was no point criteria) . As you mentioned your daughter is very bright and good in solving puzzles and rhymes etc, so you don't need to worry on that part. DPS Noida , Somerville don't call everyone who applied for admission and they also don't call particular category people so they never revealed their criteria for calling candidates for interaction . My suggestion here is whenever they issue forms , try to get it ASAP and submit the filled form ASAP without any mistake . They give preference to candidates who stay in nearby areas then other factors count as parents background, profile , qualification etc etc ..
Somerville is really very very good school in academics and is in top position of my school list also :)
APJ is also good in academics and extra curricular but their student/teacher ratio is quite high as compared to other schools.
I don't feel very strong about Amity for so many reasons so maybe someone else can share their views about Amity.
Don't know much about Mayoor School.
and for millennium you can read reviews in forums
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APS Noida has good reputation but don't know how it is in comparison to Duala kuan .
Generally in interaction following questions are asked from kids (in general)
1. What is your name
2. What is colour of your dress
3. They show some fruit or Vegetable and ask name of it.
4. Give them blocks to play then observe how good they are in assembling them etc etc
(in very famous school they had given beads and thread to child to observe child's creativity)
5. Give picture of ( e.g. apple) and ask child to choose colour to fill in apple.
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PS: They do observe general behav. and manners .
Whether kids say thank you , welcome words on getting some sweet from teacher .
Children get their Basic education from home :) so you don't worry at all as there are sooo many good schools so your daughter will definitely get admission in good school . Only thing is child should be active, healthy and confident then rest of the things can be easily handled.
Thanks
Anjali