Bengaluru: Karnataka will hold a crunched version of the SSLC exam which was suspended on July 19 and 22, the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Suresh Kumar was announced here on Monday.
The first day will have core papers – mathematics, science and social science – and only a second language.
The exam, which must be held starts at 10:30 a.m.
to 1:30, will be in a multiple choice format and students will write on the OMR sheet.
It is the second year that the SSLC exam is being carried out under the shadow of Covid.
However, the government decided to cancel this year’s PU exam because of the two brutal pandemic waves.
The minister said the Ministry of Health will soon release detailed standard operating procedures on safety measures to carry out inspections.
Some of the steps are: Orders prohibit those that are valid about 200 meters of the exam center; Students can walk as early as 8:30 a.m.
to prevent crowding; And their temperature will be recorded and hands are disanited before they enter the hall.
More than 8.7 lakh students will write this exam this time with 8.4 lakh last year.
The exam center has increased from 48,000 to 73,000.