TBSE exams to start from March 02

Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) will start its Higher Secondary (+2 stage) examinations on March 02.

Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said here that while 27,197 students appeared their higher secondary examinations last year, 27,142 would be writing the exams this year. However, he informed the Madhyamik or matriculation exams scheduled to start March 03 this year, would see higher candidates compared to the last academic year. 50,569 examinees are slated to write their papers this year compared to 46,633 from 2019-20.

TBSE had announced its Higher Secondary and Madhyamik examination schedule earlier in January this year. The H/S examinations are scheduled to continue till March 31 while Madhyamik examinations of the new pattern and new syllabus are scheduled to be completed by March 21. The old syllabus papers would continue till March 27.

The education minister informed that students from 408 schools of Tripura would be writing their Higher Secondary papers in 86 venues spread across 60 examination centers this year. This includes 3,198 students from science stream, 23,245 candidates from arts stream and 699 students from commerce discipline.

Apart from this, the state-run school education board would also be conducting Madrasa Fazil examinations, which is equivalent to the higher secondary level, in three centers. 24 students have enrolled themselves to write their Madrasa Fazil papers, the minister said.

In the matriculation segment, 39, 917 regular candidates, 5792 continuing, 4,591 compartmental and 268 external candidates would be appearing their board exams in 158 venues in 77 centers across the state.

A hundred candidates would also be writing their Madrasa Talim papers, the matriculation equivalent examination, in 5 centers.

All preparations have been taken by the Tripura Board of Secondary Education, the minister informed, adding that admit cards are being distributed.

80.51 percent students who wrote their Higher Secondary examination last year, passed while 64.60 percent candidates who appeared in their Madhyamik examinations, had emerged passed.

The state education is also conducting ninth and eleventh standard annual examinations this year with centrally framed question papers for the first time. “We have started centrally framed questions for the first time in ninth and eleventh standard examinations. Students will get acquainted with board examination style if they write centrally set papers from lower classes”, education minister Nath said.

The centrally set question papers is a part of the state government’s continuing initiative to bring in educational reforms in order to make students more competent at par with students of other states of the country.