WB Madhyamik 2025: Record number of 5.5 lakh girls to sit for exam; admit cards for 181 students tomorrow
Anu Parthiban | February 8, 2025 | 04:19 PM IST | 2 mins read
The WBBSE will conduct the West Bengal Class 10 Madhyamik board exam 2025 in 2,683 centres under strict surveillance till February 22.
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Download NowNEW DELHI: West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) will commence the WB Madhyamik 2025 board exams from Monday, February 10. Around 9.8 lakh students will sit for the West Bengal Class 10 board exams 2025, out of which a significant number of 5.5 lakh girl students will be appearing for the madhyamik exam.
WBBSE president Ramanuj Ganguly said that the exams will be held in 2,683 centres under strict surveillance till February 22. Out of the 9,84,753 candidates appearing for the exams this year, 5,55,950 are girls, which is a welcome sign indicating high rate of girl's education in the state, he told the PTI .
The West Bengal school board has also announced measures to prevent candidates from resorting to unfair means.
Students and most of the officials appointed for exam duty will not be allowed to carry mobile phones or any other electronic gadgets to the exam halls.
Anyone found in possession of any gadget, he or she will not be allowed to write the West Bengal Madhyamik board exam 2025 . Special checks will be conducted in washrooms as some candidates are found to adopt malpractices outside the exam halls, Ganguly said.
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As per the Kolkata High Court order, the WBBSE reopened enrollment portal for eligible students who were “deprived due to dereliction on the part of concerned school, for which they did not receive their Admit Card from Board to appear in the Madhyamik Pariksha (SE), 2025”.
The board president said that 181 candidates will be enrolled before the Class 10 board exam starts on February 10. It held authorities of 136 schools responsible for the ordeal of these candidates whose details were not sent to the board in due course of time. The fresh admit cards for these students will be issued tomorrow.
The West Bengal board exams will begin at 11 am, with question papers being distributed at 10.45 am, and will continue till 2 pm. Recalling the disqualification of 45 candidates last year for adopting unfair means, the senior board official said, "We have zero tolerance for unfair practices in the exams."
(With inputs from PTI)
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