Board declares exam schedule

Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board ( GSHSEB) on Tuesday declared the schedule of the SSC, HSC science and general streams as well as the second semester board exam of XI (science).

In SSC, over 10.5 lakh students are expected to appear for the exams. Board officials have made it easy for the students by giving one-day holiday between main papers for the students to be better prepared.

In HSC (science) fourth semester exam, over one lakh students will appear which will be the final semester exam. Board has departed from tradition and not given any holiday between main papers. This exam will begin on March 18 with maths as the first paper. On March 19 chemistry, March 20 physics, March 21 English and Gujarati (first language), and on March 22 biology exams will be held.

The board has also declared the schedule of XI (science) second semester exam which will also begin from March 7.

The SSC exams will be conducted from 10 am to 1.20 pm. It will have two papers - the first paper will be objective and the second paper subjective in nature.

The SSC exams will conclude on March 16 while the HSC (general) and old course science stream exams will conclude on March 21.

Board officials said that they have sent the detailed schedule of the exams to the respective

Class XII Board exams to begin on Mar 1, date sheet out

The 2013 board exams by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will start on March 1. The board announced the datesheet for the exams on Monday. While a majority of Class X students will sit for the school-based exams based on Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) system, over 8 lakh students are going to appear for the senior secondary exams.

For Class XII, the exams will start on March 1 with english core, elective and functional. For commerce stream candidates, the next subject will be business studies on March 6, while humanities students will sit for their history exam on March 4. The science subjects will start from March 5 with physics. Mathematics is being scheduled for March 20. The Class XII exams will end on
April 17.

Class X boards will commence with painting, followed by mathematics on March 2 and end on March 15 with home science.

According to CBSE sources, the results for Class XII boards are likely to be declared earlier this year and also re-evaluation of answer sheets for the Class XII science students will be done on priority and those results too would be declared by June 30, 2013. This has been done so as to facilitate smooth conduct of the Joint Engineering Examination as well as the counselling, because only the top 20 percentile scorers their respective Class XII boards or other qualifying examination and those who have appeared in JEE (advanced) are eligible for admission to the Indian Institute of Technologies. Also the merit list of the JEE (main), which is for admission to National Institutes of Technology and other central government funded technical institutions, will give 40% weightage to class XII board results.