Cuttack: The annual high school certificate (HSC) examination for 2018 will begin from February 23 and continue till March 8, board of secondary education (BSE) announced here Monday.
The state open school certificate and Sanskrit madhyama examinations will also be conducted simultaneously this year. The BSE announced the detailed time table for the examinations. The HSC and open school examinations will be held in the first sitting from 9 am to 11.30 am, while the madhyama examination will be conducted in the second sitting between 2 pm and 4.30 pm. The mathematics examination will have a duration of 2.45 hours, BSE sources said.
The OMR answer sheets will be given to students at 8.30am while the subjective and objective question papers will be given at 8.45am. The students will have to attend the objective type questions first between 9am to 10am.
The online filling up of forms for the HSC examinations has begun from November 1 and will continue till November 22. The dates for filling up of forms for state open school and madhyama examinations will be declared soon.
This year, the question papers for all the nine subjects of matric, state open school certificate and the madhyama examinations will be the same. Like the HSC, the students of open school certificate and madhyama will have to attend 50 objective type questions in the OMR sheets. The remaining 50 marks will be of subjective type.
“This year 100 more exam centres will be added to the existing number of centres,” BSE controller of examination Nihar Ranjan Mohanty said. Last year, the exams were conducted at 2900 centres, Mohanty added.
Students who register and deposit the fees by November 16 have to compulsorily submit their applications by midnight of November 17. Similarly, the last date of filling up application forms with fine is November 21 and candidates have to submit their form finally by midnight of November 22.
The regular students will have to deposit Rs 320 as the examination fee while students under Quasi-Regular, Ex-Regular, Correspondence-Regular and Correspondence-Ex-regular categories will have to deposit Rs 405. Fine for late registration and submission is Rs 50.
However, the state government has waived the examination fee of the students of 15 drought affected districts.
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