NAGPUR: There has been a sharp decline of over 10,000
students from the Nagpur division for Maharashtra State Board examinations that
commence from February 21. Over 3.72 lakh students will appear for the HSC and
SSC examinations as compared to 3.82 lakh last year. While there has been a
slight increase of seven students in SSC, there has been a decline of over
10,000 students in HSC.
Nagpur division chairman Chandramani Borkar, who provided
these details, said many students were shifting to CBSE, ICSE and other
courses, and this might explain the decline. Endorsing his view, board
secretary for Nagpur division Shriram Chavan added that many students prefer to
complete their standard XII from places like Kota, where they can
simultaneously pursue coaching classes for various entrance exams like JEE.
He said that this year 1,65,960 students will appear in the
HSC exams from 383 centres as compared to 1.76 lakh from same number of centres
last year. The students are from 1,176 junior colleges in the division. In SSC
exams, 2,06,773 students will appear from 648 centres as compared to 2,06,766
from 652 centres last year. The students will be appearing from about 2,472
schools.
Borkar said the practical exams for HSC will commence from
February 2 and continue till February 18. However, there was a big change as
compared to last year. "From this year, there will be no external for
conducting practical exams. The schools have to conduct their internal exams
and award the marks," he said.
This year's exams will be conducted as per new course.
"There will be one combined paper of physics, chemistry and mathematics,
but will be conducted in two sections of 35 marks each. The remaining 30 marks
will be given through practical, project work and viva-voce. Similarly,
mathematics paper will be of 80 marks theory and 20 marks viva-voce," he
said.
"The number of flying squads would be doubled as
compared to last year. This has been done to keep a check on malpractices. Such
cases are rampant during the SSC exams due to more number of students and
centres," he said. Besides flying and sitting squads, CCTV cameras under
supervision of district collectors will be put up, he added.
The timetable for board exams was declared a year earlier,
under the new policy by state government. This was to help students prepare and
the administration to chalk out logistics. However, after stiff opposition from
students due to packed schedule, the time table has been revised. Now, the last
paper will be held on March 26.
No of HSC & SSC students in Nagpur Div:
District ------------ HSC ---------------- SSC
Bhandara-------19,280 -----------------23,953
Chandrapur-----28,180----------------38,333
Nagpur------- -64,706 ---------------- 77,670
Wardha ------- 18,663 ---------------- 23,516
Gadchiroli ---- 13,463 --------------- 17,458
Gondia -------- 21,660 ---------------- 25,843
Total ------------1,65,960 --------------2,06,773
Sex -------------- Male ----------------- Female ----------
Centres
HSC ------------ 79,611 --------------- 81,349 ------------
383
SSC ------------ 1,06,056 ------------ 1,00,717 ----------
652
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