The High School Certificate (Matriculation) Examination-2016 to be conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha would begin from Monday.
More than six lakh students would appear at the examination both in Regular and ex-Regular streams in about 2,882 centres across the State. The examination would continue till March 4, said BSE President Dakhya Prasad Nanda. Hoping that examin-ation would end smoothly with everybody’s cooperation, Nanda said all arrangements are over. “A three-tier examination squad and special squads have been formed to check unfair means during the examination,” he said, adding police have been mobilised by the district SP to provide security at the nodal centres and maintain law and order.
The BSE has formed at least 300 nodal centres to store the question and answer sheets, which would be dispatched to each examination centres under their jurisdiction well in advance before the start of each paper. Similarly, adequate numbers of OMR answer sheets have been dispatched to each examination centre which would be used for marking the correct answers of multiple-choice objective questions, Nanda informed.