The intermediate examination of Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) concluded peacefully on Tuesday. As many as 3, 08, 766 examinees appeared in 438 centres across the state of which 21,545 students were from Arts stream, 9,686 students from Science stream and 8,467 students from Commerce stream. The Council had formed seven teams comprising 15 observers to inspect exam centres in their respective areas. Examinees of both matric and intermediate were given extra 15 minutes prior to the exam for going through the question papers.
Council Chairman Anand Bhushan had earlier announced to conduct the evaluation of matric and inter answer sheets in the presence of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras. Matric exams were over on March 2. Overall 4, 54,833 examinees had appeared for matric exam at 900 centres. Bhushan inspected several exam centers of the state capital during the both the examinations. On the first day of the matric exam, a girl was caught by the invigilators for appearing on behalf of her mother at Project High School in Tangad, Chanho. On the same day, a matric examinee was expelled for cheating at Hindustan Mitra Mandal, Jamshedpur.
Control Rooms at the council headquarter at Namkom and in the offices at Palamau and Dumka were set up for the convenience of examinees. Sources maintained students from various districts called up for locating their exam centres. In order to improve the performance of the students in subjects like science and mathematics, JAC had organized workshops for matric and inter teachers before preparing the questions paper. Experts from National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Ranchi University, state government and media were invited as speakers in the workshop.
JAC Joint Secretary Arvind Kumar Jha said workshops on evaluation will be held for teachers of matric and inter like previous years. Notably, JAC is known to be the first among the state boards across the nation to host the board examination. It maintains the same record in publishing the result in the month of May.