12 lakh students to sit for HSC, equivalent exams Thursday

This year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will begin on Thursday, June 26, with 12,51,111 students under 11 educational boards taking part.

Of the examinees, 6,18,015 are male students and 6,33,096 females.

The first exam will begin at 10:00am and continue till 1:00pm at 2,797 centres across the country.

To preventing question paper leak and rumour, the Ministry of Education asked all coaching centres to close from Wednesday (June 25) midnight to August 15.

Several instructions have been issued for the exams:

Students must enter the exam halls at least 30 minutes before the exam starts. If a student arrives late for any valid reason, the cause of delay, along with the student's name, roll number, and entry time, must be recorded and reported to the respective education board on the same day.

The question paper code will be sent to authorised officials via SMS 25 minutes before the exam begins.

No one except the centre-in-charge can carry mobile phones or electronic devices inside the exam centre. The centre-in-charge may carry a mobile phone, but it must be a non-camera device.

The Inter-Education Board has also issued the following instructions:

• Students must be present at the centre at least 30 minutes before the exam begins.
• Information on the OMR sheet must be filled out correctly.
• Answer scripts must not be folded.
• Mobile phones are not allowed inside the exam centres.
• The multiple-choice and creative sections will be held one after another without a break.
• Students must pass both theory and practical parts separately.
• Students can only sit for the subjects listed on their admit cards and cannot take exams at their own institutions.
• Attendance sheets must be signed.

Law enforcement agencies, intelligence services, and local administrations have been asked to stay alert during the exams. Monitoring of social media platforms will also be increased to prevent irregularities.

UNB contributed to this report.

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