Team Herald
PANJIM: Much in advance, Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE) has announced the tentative exam dates for Class X and Class XII for 2019. While the Class X (SSC) exams will be held from April 2 to April 13, 2019, the Board will conduct the HSSC or Class XII exams from March 1 to March 26, 2019.
The exams for vocation stream students will begin on March 2 and end on March 14, 2019. The exam will begin at 10 am and therefore students have to reach the exam centre before 9.30 am.
As per the time table, the HSSC exams will begin with a language paper for students of Arts, Science and Commerce streams and will also end with language paper II. Nearly 18,500 students had answered Class XII exam in March 2018.
Science students can have some relief as there is a gap to prepare for chemistry (March 6), Biology (March 11) and Mathematics (March 13). However, all the three papers are lined up one after the other. Before the biology paper there is holiday of four days.
As far as the SSC exams are concerned, the examination will begin with first language paper on April 2. The students have two-day break before the maths paper on April 8. The theory exam will conclude on April 13 with the third language paper. Practicals will start on April 15 and will go on April 23.
Over 19,500 students had registered themselves for SSC exams held in April 2018.
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Board to continue with existing
re-evaluation process
Goa Board has decided to continue with the existing procedure of re-evaluation of answer sheets for the academic year 2018-19, as there were no major grievances reported in the process during the 2018 board examinations. The decision was taken after the Board executive council deliberated and resolved the same. The council also resolved that the examination section may work out the possibility of supplying digital photocopies of answer books under verification facility in consultation with the IT Section. It was also resolved to increase the ratio of scrutinisers at the evaluation centre to curb cases of discrepancies in totalling, un-assessed answer etc. Last academic year the board received 4000 answer sheets for re-evaluation.
