Youth Festival · University
University of Kerala’s official inter-collegiate youth festival: 102 items across Music, Dance, Literary, Theatre and Fine Arts, open to bonafide college students, with the real average-of-3-judges scoring formula.
Sets up an inter-collegiate youth festival from a Kerala university’s published rules – five sections across music, dance, literary, theatre and fine arts, with 61 distinct items and 102 item entries open to degree and diploma students – so a college or university coordinator starts from the real programme instead of a blank page.
A Kerala university youth festival is an inter-collegiate arts competition in which students from a university’s affiliated colleges perform and compete in a ladder of rounds, usually college level first and then the university final. This template reproduces the programme from a Kerala university’s published youth festival rules: five sections – Music, Dance, Literary events, Theatre events and Fine Arts – holding 61 distinct competition items that expand to 102 item entries once the gender splits are counted. It runs from Light Music, Classical Music and Veena through Bharathanatyam, Kathakali and Thiruvathira to Debate, Short Story Writing, Mono Act, Mime, Painting and Spot Photography.
Eligibility is by enrolment, not by age band. Entrants are bonafide full-time students on a degree, postgraduate degree or diploma course, so the template carries a single Students group with a representative age range of 17 to 25 rather than a set of age categories. Roughly four entries in five are individual and the remainder are team items such as Group Song, Group Dance, Western Vocal Group, Ganamela, Debate and Kerala Nadanam Group. Many solo music and dance items are published separately for male and female entrants, while the rules state a single gender explicitly for a few traditional items: Oppana, Thiruvathira and Margamkali for girls, and Vattapattu, Arabanamuttu, Dufmutt and Kolkali for boys. Everything else is open to both.
Each entry has its own performing time limit, from a few minutes for a light music or recitation turn up to a half-hour stage item, and every entry is marked out of 100. Literary and fine-arts items such as essay, poetry, painting and poster making are sitting-based and run to a set writing or drawing time rather than a stage slot. Language-split items – for example the written literary events – are run as separate competitions per language where the source allows, so a coordinator can add or remove languages to suit the round.
Results follow the rules’ own scheme. First, Second and Third places are decided on the average of the three judges’ marks, and the rules discard an outlier judge whose mark differs from the other two by more than 20 per cent. That averaging formula is not a template field, so a coordinator applies it when entering the panel’s marks. What the template does install is the rank points: 5, 3 and 1 for First, Second and Third in an individual item, and 10, 6 and 2 for a team item, which add up into a college-wise points table across the whole festival. Judging criteria are installed only where the rules print a set that adds up correctly; items without a printed set ship without criteria and need the panel’s own added before marking begins.
Where this event comes from
Kerala university youth festivals are a long-running tradition of inter-collegiate arts competition in the state, and this template follows one university’s currently published youth festival rules rather than a generic format.
Where this event is run
Kerala, India, where universities hold youth festivals for the students of their affiliated colleges, usually with college-level rounds feeding a university final. The item list also suits any college, student union or alumni group elsewhere that wants a collegiate programme built on the Kerala style of items, including the classical and folk Kerala arts alongside Western music and contemporary literary and fine-arts events.
- Kerala, India (college and university rounds)
- Student and alumni groups elsewhere that run festivals on the Kerala collegiate item list
Key facts
- 61 distinct competition items in five sections: Music, Dance, Literary events, Theatre events and Fine Arts – 102 item entries once male and female splits are counted
- One Students group (representative ages 17 to 25): eligibility is enrolment on a degree, postgraduate or diploma course, not a numeric age band
- About four entries in five are individual; the rest are team items such as Group Song, Group Dance, Ganamela and Debate
- Oppana, Thiruvathira and Margamkali are girls-only; Vattapattu, Arabanamuttu, Dufmutt and Kolkali are boys-only; other items are open to both genders or split male and female
- Every entry is marked out of 100, each with its own time limit
- Rank points: 5, 3 and 1 for individual items; 10, 6 and 2 for team items
- First, Second and Third are decided on the average of three judges’ marks, with an outlier judge discarded if more than 20 per cent apart – applied at result entry, not a template field
- Age groups
- 1
- Competition items
- 61
- Competitions
- 102
- Grade bands
- 0
- Rank awards
- 6
Age groups
Every candidate is placed into one of these groups by age, and competitions are run per group.
Students
Candidates aged 17 to 25 compete in this group
Competition items
The events themselves — each with the category it belongs to and how judges score it.
Light Music
Classical Music
Hindustani Classical Vocal
Gazal
Mappilappattu
Veena
Stringed Instrument (Eastern Style)
Stringed Instrument (Western Style)
Guitar
Wind Instrument (Eastern Style)
Wind Instrument (Western Style)
Tabala
Percussion Instrument (Eastern Style)
Percussion Instrument (Western Style)
Chenda
Western Vocal Solo
Group Song
Western Vocal Group
Ganamela
Vrindavadyam
Folk Song
Vanchipattu
Bharathanatyam
Kuchipudi
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Folk Dance
Kathakali
Mohiniyattam
Ottam Thullal
Group Dance
Thiruvathira
Oppana
Margamkali
Kerala Nadanam
Kerala Nadanam Group
Dufmutt
Kolkali
Chakyarkoothu
Nangyarkoothu
Vattapattu
Arabanamuttu
Debate
Elocution
Recitation
Essay Writing
Short Story Writing
Poetry Writing
Aksharaslokam
Quiz
Kathaprasangam
Mono Act
Mimicry
Fancy Dress
Mime
Skit
Painting
Clay Modelling
Cartooning
Rangoli
Collage
Spot Photography
Poster Making
Competitions by group
The full schedule matrix, sectioned by age group then category — which item runs for whom, and for how long.
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students | |||||
| Music | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Light Music | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Light Music | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Classical Music | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Classical Music | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Hindustani Classical Vocal | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Hindustani Classical Vocal | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Gazal | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Gazal | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Mappilappattu | Individual | Male | Malayalam | 100 | 5 min |
| Mappilappattu | Individual | Female | Malayalam | 100 | 5 min |
| Veena | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Stringed Instrument (Eastern Style) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Stringed Instrument (Western Style) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Guitar | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Wind Instrument (Eastern Style) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Wind Instrument (Western Style) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Tabala | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Percussion Instrument (Eastern Style) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Percussion Instrument (Western Style) | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Chenda | Individual | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Western Vocal Solo | Individual | — | English | 100 | 6 min |
| Group Song | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Western Vocal Group | Team | — | English | 100 | 10 min |
| Ganamela | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Vrindavadyam | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Folk Song | Team | — | Malayalam | 100 | 10 min |
| Vanchipattu | Team | — | Malayalam | 100 | 10 min |
| Classical Dance | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Bharathanatyam | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Bharathanatyam | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Kuchipudi | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Kuchipudi | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Kathakali | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Kathakali | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Mohiniyattam | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Ottam Thullal | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Ottam Thullal | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Kerala Nadanam | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Kerala Nadanam | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 15 min |
| Kerala Nadanam Group | Team | — | — | 100 | 30 min |
| Chakyarkoothu | Individual | — | Samskritham | 100 | 20 min |
| Nangyarkoothu | Individual | — | Samskritham | 100 | 20 min |
| Dance | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Folk Dance | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Folk Dance | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Group Dance | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Thiruvathira | Team | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Oppana | Team | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Margamkali | Team | Female | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Dufmutt | Team | Male | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Kolkali | Team | Male | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Vattapattu | Team | Male | Malayalam | 100 | 10 min |
| Arabanamuttu | Team | Male | Malayalam | 100 | 10 min |
| Literary | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Debate | Team | — | English | 100 | — |
| Debate | Team | — | Malayalam | 100 | — |
| Debate | Team | — | Hindi | 100 | — |
| Elocution | Individual | — | Malayalam | 100 | 5 min |
| Elocution | Individual | — | English | 100 | 5 min |
| Elocution | Individual | — | Hindi | 100 | 5 min |
| Elocution | Individual | — | Samskritham | 100 | 5 min |
| Elocution | Individual | — | Arabic | 100 | 5 min |
| Elocution | Individual | — | Tamil | 100 | 5 min |
| Recitation | Individual | — | Malayalam | 100 | 5 min |
| Recitation | Individual | — | English | 100 | 5 min |
| Recitation | Individual | — | Hindi | 100 | 5 min |
| Recitation | Individual | — | Samskritham | 100 | 5 min |
| Recitation | Individual | — | Arabic | 100 | 5 min |
| Recitation | Individual | — | Tamil | 100 | 5 min |
| Aksharaslokam | Individual | — | Malayalam | 100 | — |
| Aksharaslokam | Individual | — | Samskritham | 100 | — |
| Aksharaslokam | Individual | — | Arabic | 100 | — |
| Quiz | Team | — | — | 100 | — |
| Literacy | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Essay Writing | Individual | — | Malayalam | 100 | 60 min |
| Essay Writing | Individual | — | English | 100 | 60 min |
| Essay Writing | Individual | — | Hindi | 100 | 60 min |
| Essay Writing | Individual | — | Tamil | 100 | 60 min |
| Short Story Writing | Individual | — | Malayalam | 100 | 60 min |
| Short Story Writing | Individual | — | English | 100 | 60 min |
| Short Story Writing | Individual | — | Hindi | 100 | 60 min |
| Short Story Writing | Individual | — | Samskritham | 100 | 60 min |
| Short Story Writing | Individual | — | Arabic | 100 | 60 min |
| Short Story Writing | Individual | — | Tamil | 100 | 60 min |
| Poetry Writing | Individual | — | Malayalam | 100 | 60 min |
| Poetry Writing | Individual | — | English | 100 | 60 min |
| Poetry Writing | Individual | — | Hindi | 100 | 60 min |
| Poetry Writing | Individual | — | Samskritham | 100 | 60 min |
| Poetry Writing | Individual | — | Arabic | 100 | 60 min |
| Poetry Writing | Individual | — | Tamil | 100 | 60 min |
| Action | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Kathaprasangam | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 20 min |
| Kathaprasangam | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 20 min |
| Mono Act | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Mono Act | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Mimicry | Individual | Male | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Mimicry | Individual | Female | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Fancy Dress | Individual | — | — | 100 | 3 min |
| Mime | Team | — | — | 100 | 5 min |
| Skit | Team | — | — | 100 | 10 min |
| Art | |||||
| Item | Type | Gender | Language | Max score | Time limit |
| Painting | Individual | — | — | 100 | 120 min |
| Clay Modelling | Individual | — | — | 100 | 180 min |
| Cartooning | Individual | — | — | 100 | 120 min |
| Rangoli | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
| Collage | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
| Spot Photography | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
| Poster Making | Individual | — | — | 100 | 150 min |
Grades and ranks
How scores turn into grade bands, and how many points each placing is worth.
| Rank | For | Points |
|---|---|---|
| First | Individual | 5 |
| Second | Individual | 3 |
| Third | Individual | 1 |
| First | Team | 10 |
| Second | Team | 6 |
| Third | Team | 2 |
Frequently asked questions
Can I change this template after installing it?
Yes — installing it creates a fully configured, live event, not a locked package. Every age group, competition item, rule and scoring setting can be edited afterwards to match exactly what your event actually needs.
Do I need technical knowledge to set this up?
No. Installing a template does the setup work for you; you only need to review the details (dates, unit or house names) and open registration.
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