Team Herald

PORVORIM: Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary (GBSHSE) has warned students answering Class X examinations against carrying of electronic communication equipment and mobile phones to examination centres. 

Speaking to Herald, GBSHSE officials said, “Students have been warned against carrying of electronic communication equipments and mobile phones at the examination centres as this is prohibited. The students should be present 30 minutes before the scheduled examination and late arrival after 30 minutes of commencement of the paper shall not be entertained and the candidates shall be disqualified. Goa Board shall not allow students to leave the examination hall one hour prior before the examination ends.” 

“Whoever is found in or near the examination hall, by the invigilator or any person appointed to supervise the conduct of the examination, copying answers to the question paper set at the examination, from any book, notes or answer papers of other candidates, or appearing at the examination for any candidate or uses any other further means, shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to Rs 500 or  both,” the rules published by Goa Board state.

The rules further state that any person not authorised by the board or conductor or deputy conductor, shall not enter the examination hall for any reasons whatsoever while any act of impersonation or intimidation by the way of assault, oral threat or any gesture in or outside the examination hall or examination premises to the invigilator, conductors, deputy conductors or any staff connected with the conduct of exanimation is strictly prohibited.