Bhubaneswar:17/3/22: The annual Plus II Examinations for all streams–Arts, Science , Commerce and Vocational stream– will begin in the state on April 28.
More than 3,20,000 students will appear for the examinations, conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE). Besides, all practical examinations will be held internally by the respective Higher Secondary Schools with their own teachers. All examinations will be conducted offline mode. In view of the heatwave condition, the examinations will be held in one sitting starting at 9 am.
As per the decision, every student will be assessed in two separate schemes in a paper.
Scheme 1: Performance of the candidates based on their performance only in Annual HS Examination.
Scheme 2: 80% weightage on the basis of performance in Annual HS Examination and 20% weightage from the performance in Quarter-End Examination.
The highest of the marks obtained by the students in above two schemes shall be the final mark in that paper.
While calculating 20% weightage of Quarter-End Examination and 80% weightage on Annual Examination, every fraction will be rounded off to the next whole number.
More than 3,20,000 students in Arts, Science, Commerce and Vocational streams will appear for the examinations.
As the students have undergone difficult situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Odisha Government has decided to take the following ‘sympathetic steps’.
* All practical examinations shall be conducted internally by the Higher Secondary Schools with their own teachers.
* 20% weightage in both theory and practical will be given from the performance of the students in quarter-end examinations which were conducted by the schools internally. For this purpose, their performance in best two internal tests out of three shall be taken into account.
Keeping in view the heatwave condition, the examinations will be conducted in one sitting from 9 AM.