Dates for Odisha’s class 10 and 12 exams announced

Dates for Odisha’s class 10 and 12 exams announced

The exam dates for the Class 12 and Class 10 exams have been released by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha. The exams for the class 10 will commence from February 22, 2019 and will continue until March 8, 2019 and the exams for class 12 will commence from March 7, 2019. Practical exams for both the classes will be conducted between February 11 and February 16. Exams equivalent to the Matriculation such as Madhyama for Sanskrit students and State Open School certificate examinations (for dropouts) will also be conducted during the same period. According to the reports, more than 6 lakh students will appear for the exams next year. The board has also introduced some changes in the paper pattern. From now, the exams will have four parallel sets of questions instead of three objective sets of question and minimum qualifying marks will be 15. Candidates are required to obtain this minimum qualifying marks in both subjective and objective paper separately. New pattern for the Odisha HSC exams 2019 The subjective portion of the exam will remain unchangedThe 3 sets of objective question papers have been replaced by the 4 parallel sets of questionsCandidates are required to secure a minimum of 15 marks in each paper in order to pass the each subjectThe current distribution of marks has been changed from 10 & 5 marksto 7 & 8 marks in both Social Science and General Science papers OMR sheets will be completely abolished in High School Certificate Examination – 2020.The new pattern of objective part for the High School Certificate Exam -- 2020 will be communicated soon.

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