The matriculation examination, conducted by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) which commenced on February 21 concluded on Friday. As many as 4,80,628 students appeared for matriculation exam at 895 centres across the State.
Happy with holding the peaceful and fair matric exams, JAC chairperson Anand Bhushan said, “We are glad that there was no tension created during the matric examination.”
Secretary of the Council Sushil Kumar attributed the mutual cooperation of school Principals, Deputy Commissioners, District Education Officers and Block Education Officers to the smooth examination process.
Sources said that the collection of answer sheets from each centre will begin from March 10.
“It will take our colleagues seven days to gather matriculation answer sheets from the allotted centres of
the State. We are hopeful that the copy evaluation will
begin after Holi,” an official source said.
Notably, the intermediate exams which too began on February 21 will end on March 13 and JAC has probably succeeded in conducting this examination as well without any ‘tension’.
As many as 2,99,329 students are appearing across 408 centres for intermediate examinations. The matric exams were held in the first half whereas the intermediate exams are being held in the second half.