Over 9 lakh students appeared for the Intermediate Public Examinations that began on Wednesday.
Over 9 lakh students appeared for the Intermediate Public Examinations that began on Wednesday.
As many as 909,038 General and 66,064 Vocational candidates appeared for the Telugu paper - I, Sanskrit paper - I, Hindi paper - I, Urdu paper - I and Arabic paper - I. However, a total of 65,814, or 6.755 of the candidates, abstained from the exams. While 621 candidates attended the exam after 8:45am, 9 students reached the examination hall at around 9am.
A total of 9 cases of malpractice were booked across the state on Wednesday.
The Board of Intermediate Education had sent observers to Mahaboobnagar, Nalgonda, Medak, Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad districts. The examination was conducted peacefully without any untoward incident.
According to the Board of Intermediate Education, all the regional inspection officers were instructed to see that photocopy machines in colleges, schools and degree colleges attached to the examination centres, and those in the vicinity of the examination centres, remained closed during the examination hours, with the help of the local MRO and police officials.
There were complaints in the past from the students, parents and observers from the Board of Intermediate Education that certain colleges had leaked question papers to some of their students and allowed them into the examination even 5-15 minutes after the scheduled start. To curb these malpractices, this year the BIE has taken a decision to allow candidates into the exam hall between 8:30am and 8:45am, with a grace period of 15 minutes, that is, from 8:45am to 9am. However, today, the BIE directed the Chief Superintendents of exam centres to allow students into the exam centres upto 9:05am. (INN)