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Over 15L students to appear in HSC Board exams beginning today

The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will conduct the exam across nine divisions --- Pune, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Mumbai, Kolhapur, Amravati, Nashik, Latur and Konkan.

Students have been instructed to reach their board exam centres at least half an hour before the mentioned exam time, at 10:30am for the exam scheduled in the morning and at 2:30pm for the afternoon exam. (Express Archive/Arul Horizon)

Students have been instructed to reach their exam centres at least half an hour before the mentioned exam time, at 10:30am for the exam scheduled in the morning and at 2:30pm for the afternoon exam. (Express Photo/Arul Horizon)

As many as 15,05,037 students from across the state will appear for the Class 12 Higher Secondary Certificate board examination starting from Tuesday. The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will conduct the exam across nine divisions — Pune, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Mumbai, Kolhapur, Amravati, Nashik, Latur and Konkan.

Of the over 15 lakh students, 7,68,967 students are from science stream, 3,80,410 are from arts, 3,19,439 are from commerce, 31,735 are from the vocational stream, and 4,486 are from ITI stream. While 8,10,348 are male students, 6,94,652 are female and 37 are transgender students who will be appearing for the exam. The exam will be conducted at 3,373 exam centres and will have students from 10,550 colleges.

In Pune district, 2,58,034 students will be appearing for the exam, which includes 1,40,221 male, 1,17,807 female, and six transgender students. The district has 432 centres and students from 1,678 colleges.

Examination-related staff such as centre directors and supervisors have been replaced at 818 examination centers in the state where cases of cheating were found in previous examinations. This time around, 271 flying squads have been deployed to curb malpractices and officials have been asked to make surprise visits to examination centres.
Officials have been asked to strictly enforce the Maharashtra Prevention of Malpractices Act, 1982. Drones will monitor sensitive exam centres. Examination centres where malpractice is found will have their recognition revoked for the upcoming years.

Students have been instructed to reach their exam centres at least half an hour before the mentioned exam time, at 10:30am for the exam scheduled in the morning and at 2:30pm for the afternoon exam.

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