Odisha HSC exams likely to begin by February-end

Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Cuttack, Nov 18:

The annual High School Certificate (HSC) examinations in Odisha, conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), is most likely to begin in the last week of February next year.

Briefing the media today, BSE president Dr Dakshya Prasad Nanda said the final schedule of the examinations would be decided at the Board meeting on November 21.

He made it clear that all reform measures, relating to fixing the examination centres in the same school, 50 per cent objective-type questions, OMR sheets and safe custody of question-cum-answer sheets, taken by the Board last year, shall continue this year.

More than six lakh students are likely to appear in the Regular and Ex-Regular streams this year, Nanda added.