TN plus-two exams from today

Updated on: Thursday, March 03, 2011

Over seven lakh class XII students from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will appear for their first paper (Language I) of this year's State Board Higher Secondary examination today March 2, across nearly 2,000 centres.

This year, 3,87,102 girls will take the examination, outnumbering the boys by over 50,000.

Chief Educational Officers and District Educational Officers have been taking every little step to ensure that all safety measures are in place, officials said. Police protection will be provided at examination centres and flying squads would undertake surprise checks at examination centres.

According to sources from the Directorate of Government Examinations, students with visual impairment, speech or hearing impairment and learning disabilities were provided scribes with option to drop one language paper and additional time of one hour to complete the examination paper.
The Directorate warned that students indulging in malpractices such as possession of printed books, notes or manuscripts, attempt to copy from another candidate, misbehaviour with invigilators, substitution of answer books, or impersonation will be severely punished.

More Education news

• Entrance exams to be time-bound
• IAF to select crew for India's 1st manned mission to space
• Kids dont give words special power to mark their worlds
• Faculty shortage in IITs
• Indian-origin scientist Ramakrishnan honoured with knighthood
• Education for special children has a long way to go, finds survey
• Admission process: Engineering aspirants get boost
• Controversy, scams bent the learning curve
• Good science is not possible without freedom of thought: Ramakrishnan
• Panels to monitor SSA
• DU may allow Pak student with poor attendance to take exam
• Direction to issue appointment letters within 6 weeks
• Indians in Malaysia urged to safeguard Tamil language
• JK govt to suspend principals of zero pass rate schools
• Decks clear for AMU Centre in Bihar
• MP medical admission scam: Guilty students to face action
• TN to recruit 7,000 teachers for govt schools-
• State common board to examine Samacheer kalvi syllabus
• Rs 151 crore sanctioned for DD Upadhyay College building
• Balaji Telefilms to sell education, mobile content biz for Rs 8.37 cr