BSE Odisha Class 10 exam pattern released; matriculation exams to begin from April 29

Cuttack: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) announced the pattern of holding the matric (Class 10) examination in Odisha next month. The exam will begin at 8 am and the second sitting will be from 11 am. The exam will be conducted out of 80 marks for all subjects except the vocational trades and the third language, a BSE official said at a press conference in Cuttack.

The students can give the exam, which will begin from April 29, at their own centres, the official said. The students will be examined in three ways through summative assessment and internal assessment. The method where students scored the highest marks will be counted, he said.

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Eighty marks will have 50 multiple choice questions in the OMR sheet, while the remaining will be subjective, according to the official. The state government had announced last Friday to conduct the annual matriculation examination from April 29 to May 6 in offline mode.

Stating that it is mandatory for all students to appear in the examination, the chief secretary SC Mohapatra said that the evaluation of the board of secondary examination will be done by three methods. As many as 6.5 lakh students are expected to appear in the annual examination. It has been decided that students will appear in the summative assessment-2 in their own respective schools while teachers from other schools will be engaged as invigilators, the official said.

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