BSEB Class XII exam: 60 candidates expelled on Day 1

PATNA: Sixty candidates were expelled from the exam centres for using unfair means on the first day of the intermediate examinations conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on Wednesday. One impersonator was arrested during the exam in Gaya district.
Altogether 3,80,317 students of arts, commerce, science and vocational streams appeared for philosophy, entrepreneurship, biology and Rashtriya Bhasha (RB) Hindi respectively at 1,339 exam centres across the state.The examinations have been conducted in two sittings from 9.30am to 12.45pm and 1.45pm to 5pm.
Of the candidates barred from the rest of the examination, Aurangabad accounted 13 cases of cheating which was followed by 10 each in Gaya and Nalanda, seven in Nawada, six in Chhapra, three each in Jamui and Vaishali, two each in Banka and Arwal and one each in Siwan, Madhubani, Bhojpur and Saharsa.
The BSEB has made tight security arrangements to prevent instances of cheating at its examination centres. The videography and photography of examinations were also done during exams.
In order to ensure fair and cheating-free examination, BSEB chairman Anand Kishor and additional chief secretary RK Mahajan visited several examination centres in Patna where he himself frisked examinees and asked the invigilators to maintain strict vigilance throughout the exams. The duo visited Rajkiye Balika Uchh Vidylaya, Shastri Nagar, Balak plus-two Uchh Vidyalaya, Shastri Nagar and JD Women's College

Patna District Magistrate Kumar Ravi also visited some centres and frisked students.
Altogether 3,17,273 students appeared for biology paper and 731 for RB Hindi paper in first sitting whereas 13,473 students appeared for entrepreneurship and 48,840 appeared for philosophy in second sitting.
Rishikesh Singh, student of Government plus-two Boy's High School said the biology paper was easy for those who studied.
Another student Juliana Marandi from Hartman Senior Secondary Girl's High School said, "The change in question pattern is a student-friendly move. Total 35 questions have been asked in objectives-type and 18 subjective questions out of which, we have to attempt only 10 questions. There was no 'Or' system," she said.