West Bengal HS Routine 2025: WBCHSE to cancel exam if found with mobile phones, allows use of calculator
Anu Parthiban | February 18, 2025 | 11:35 AM IST | 2 mins read
WB HS Board Exam 2025: The WBCHSE has instructed the West Bengal schools to frisk students at the exam centre with the help of metal detectors.
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Download NowNEW DELHI: After the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) barred three Class 10 students for carrying phones inside the exam hall, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) reiterated that use of mobile phones in Class 12 board exams is ‘strictly prohibited’.
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The WB Madhyamik exams 2025 for Class 10 started on February 10 and will conclude on February 22. Whereas the West Bengal HS board exam 2025 will commence on March 3 and end on March 18.
As per the list of prohibited items, students appearing in the WB Class 12 board exam should not carry mobile phones, or any other electronic gadgets such as bluetooth, wireless headphone, air pod, or smart watch.
Students, however, will be allowed to carry a calculator permissible by the council. The board has instructed the schools to frisk students at the exam centre with the help of metal detectors. If a student is caught with possession of prohibited items inside the exam hall, their exam and enrollment will be cancelled.
“The electronic gadget is to be seized and further communication has to be made to the Deputy Secretary (Examination) through mail (dsexamination@ wbchse.org),” the council said.
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As per the instructions for the West Bengal HS Routine 2025, “The concerned centre-in-charge, centre secretary, venue supervisor and council nominee can only carry the mobile phone inside the venue premises exclusively for examination related purpose, but not permitted to use it in the examination hall.”
Any other teacher, non-teaching staff or other person should not be allowed entry inside the exam hall with their mobiles. They are required to deposit their mobile phones to the supervisor till the exam is concluded.
On February 17, the WBBSE conducted the Class 10 history paper. Two students of Gobindapur Kalicharan High School were caught with mobile phones at the exam venue at Mathur Jatiram Memorial High School in South 24 Parganas. Another student of Hindi High School was caught with a mobile in Uttar Dinajpur, as per the report.
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