Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education’s 12th standard Higher Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary (Professional) examination for the year 2016 would begin on March 1 and class tenth examination would start from March 2.
A total of 7, 67, 330 students would appear this year in the class 12 examination of them 5, 96, 156 students would appear as regular student while 1, 71, 174 students would appear as private students. Similarly, in class tenth examination a total of 12, 28, 703 students would appear of them 9, 99, 008 would appear as regular while 2, 29, 695 would appear as private students.
A total of 3490 examination centers have been for class 12 examinations while 3836 centers have been made for class ten. The timing for all the papers would be from 8.30 to 11.30 am.
This year elaborate arrangements have been made to stop copying in the examination and for this all Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) District Panchayat and Additional Directors education have been made nodal officers.
It would be for the first time that in the current session 2015-16 of board examinations that over 2500 students would appear in subjects like IT and security. On the first day of examinations students would be provided entry 45 minutes before the schedule time of the exam while on the other days this duration would be thirty minutes. In all the examinations question papers would be provided ten minutes before the exam while answer sheet would be provided just five minutes before the schedule time of exam.
Meanwhile, the class 10 and 12 examination of CBSE board would also start from March 1. The time of these examinations would be from 10.30 am.