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Business News/ Education / News/  CBSE Class X, XII board exams begin today
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CBSE Class X, XII board exams begin today

886,506 students will appear for CBSE's Class X board exams and 1,098,981 for Class XII exams amid a three-tier security set up to prevent foul play

CBSE has also come up with a mobile application to help students locate their examination centre using their phone numbers. Photo: HTPremium
CBSE has also come up with a mobile application to help students locate their examination centre using their phone numbers. Photo: HT

New Delhi: The board examinations for Class X and XII students of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) begin Thursday with the CBSE finalizing arrangements for the annual exercise.

While 886,506 students have registered for Class X examination, 15.73% more than last year’s figure, 1,098,981 students have enrolled for Class XII exams—a 2.82% increase from the previous year.

The number of students registering for Class X exams is likely to go further up from the next session as CBSE has decided to make the board exams mandatory again.

The examination for Class X will be conducted at 16,363 centres across India; Class XII board exams will be conducted at 10,678 centres. Fifty-eight examination centres have also been set up in Gulf countries and six in various other countries.

“The exam material has been dispatched to all the examination centres. Admit cards have been downloaded by all schools. Full-time observers will be appointed at sensitive centres by the board," said a senior official with the CBSE.

The official said arrangements with the state authorities and local police have been finalised to ensure trouble-free examinations throughout the country. “The sealed question paper packets will be opened in the presence of at least four assistant superintendents—one of them would be from a school other than the examination centre, as a witness," the official added.

CBSE has a three-tier arrangement for surprise checking: flying squads from the board itself, Delhi’s Directorate of Education (DoE) and those from outside Delhi.

“Centre superintendents have been asked to approach the local police authorities for ensuring that adequate police force is made available at the place of custody of the question papers and the examination centres," the official quoted above said. “The state law-enforcing agencies have also been requested to provide adequate police force at the place of custody of question papers and the examination centres."

CBSE has also come up with a mobile application to help students locate their examination centre using their phone numbers.

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Published: 08 Mar 2017, 07:52 PM IST
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