Puducherry: Over 14,000 students to sit for plus-two exam 2022

PUDUCHERRY: All arrangements have been made for the plus-two (class XII) public examination commencing on Thursday in Puducherry and Karaikal regions. Joint Director of Education V K Sivagami said in a release on Wednesday that 14,627 candidates, including 7,655 girls, were expected to sit for the exam, which ends on May 28.

A total of 15,145 candidates, including 7,812 girls, would appear for the Plus-one (Class XI) public examinations in the two regions commencing on May 10 and ending on May 31. The Joint Director said 16,802 candidates would appear for the Class X public examination beginning on May 6 and ending on May 30.

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Last year, Puducherry had cancelled board exams 2022 owing to COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Minister of Puducherry N Rangasamy had announced in June that plus-two board examinations were being cancelled in view of the ongoing pandemic situation in the Union Territory. He had said in a release that the examinations slated for Puducherry and Karaikal regions adopting the Tamil Nadu pattern of curriculum and syllabus have been cancelled.

Puducherry does not have a separate Board either for secondary education or higher secondary education and follows the pattern adopted in Tamil Nadu.

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Meanwhile, the first bench of the Madras High Court today rejected a plea from a Tamil Nadu Board student to strike down a GO issued in July 2021 by the Tamil Nadu government, which declared all the students to have passed without awarding the marks. The bench of Chief Justice M N Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy refused to quash the GO while dismissing a writ appeal from Nakshatra Bind A K, represented by her mother Dhanya, recently.

(With inputs from PTI)