Exams begin on a peaceful note

VADODARA, Oct 5: The first day of the SSC and HSC trial examinations began on a peaceful note on Monday with no cases of malpractice or cheating reported from any of the examination centres.

District Education Officer DEO R Nanavati said that since this was the first time that the bar coding system was being introduced, students were first explained the system and how to paste the stickers on their answer-scripts.

Of the 4,300 students, who were to appear for their SSC examinations on Monday, 3,963 students were present while 337 were absent.

While SSC students wrote their language and social studies paper, HSC science students appeared for their physics paper and general stream students answered their economics paper.