The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has made all the required arrangements for the annual matriculation and intermediate exams slated to begin from February 11 across the State.

The upcoming board examinations for class X and class XII will be conducted from February 11 to February 28. In the first half from 9:45 am to 1 pm, the exams for class X will be held while in the second half from 2 pm to 5:15 pm class XII board exams will be conducted. The first 15 minutes are given by the board for reading the question paper.

“The total number of students appearing for the matriculation exams are 3,87,021 while about 2.38.363 students will take the intermediate exams this year. As many as 951 centres have been demarcated for the class X boards while 571 centres have been marked for the class XII boards,” said JAC Chairman, Dr Arvind Prasad Kumar

The Council has made all the necessary arrangements for conducting the exams in a hassle free manner. CCTV cameras which were installed in all the centres last year will be functional this year as well.

“JAC has also ensured that there are no errors while marking the answer sheets. The teachers who will be evaluating the answer sheets have been trained with techniques to minimize errors, step marking, proper totaling and cross checking papers,” added Prasad.

The official further stated that a training programme for all the newly appointed teachers is being conducted across the State.  “A one- day workshop is being organised in all the districts of Jharkhand for all the newly appointed teachers regarding the evaluation process. A training programme for the newly appointed teachers in Ranchi was conducted on January 18 while for those in Palamu was done on January 28. A similar workshop will be organised in the districts of Khunti and Simdega on February 5.”

The Council has already conducted the board exams for class VIII and class IX which were held on January 24 for class VIII and on January 21 and January 22 for class IX. Students can register for the class XI board exams till January 31 while the examination will be held in March for which the Council is yet to finalise the dates.

“This year the number of students who appeared for the class VIII board exams were 5.14 Lakh and as many as 4.22 Lakh students took the class IX exams while the number of centres was 2200 for class VIII. Exams for class VIII, IX and XI are conducted on OMR sheets,” said Prasad.

JAC will announce the results for class VIII and class IX by the end of March so that the new academic session can commence on time from the beginning of April. Matriculation and intermediate results will be announced in the month of May while for class XI, once the exams are held in March, the results will be declared by the end of April.