More than 10,500 students of Class XII from the State appeared for board examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) started from Saturday. The students of 240 schools are appearing the examinations at 55 centres across the State, official sources said.
According to the CBSE regional office, more than 42,000 students from 900 schools of three States, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal, are appearing the Class XII examinations at 148 centres. The examinations would start from 10.30am and end at 1.30pm on the scheduled examination days. The process of Class XII will continue till April 17, said the official sources.
Similarly, over 54,000 Class X students of the region, including 16,400 from Odisha, would sit for their examinations that would start from April 3. Notably, the CBSE gives students the option of choosing between Board-based and school-based examinations in class X, the difference being the paper correction is carried out by the Board in the case of the former.