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Bihar: 60 expelled on first day of Inter exam

Bihar: 60 expelled on first day of Inter exam
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PATNA: Sixty candidates were expelled for using unfair means on the first day of the Intermediate examination being conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on Wednesday.
Altogether 3,80,317 students of arts, commerce, science and vocational streams appeared for philosophy, entrepreneurship, biology and Rashtriya Bhasha Hindi papers respectively at 1,339 exam centres across the state.
The examination is being conducted from 9.30am to 12.45pm and 1.45pm to 5pm.
Thirteen examinees were expelled in Aurangabad, followed by 10 each in Gaya and Nalanda, seven in Nawada, six in Saran, three each in Vaishali and Jamui, two each in Banka and Arwal and one each in Siwan, Madhubani, Bhojpur and Saharsa. One impersonator was also caught in Gaya.
The BSEB has made elaborate security arrangements to prevent cheating in examination halls. It is also getting videography of the examination at different centres.
BSEB chairman Anand Kishor and additional chief secretary R K Mahajan visited several examination centres in Patna and frisked the examinees. Patna DM Kumar Ravi also visited some of the centres.
Altogether 3,17,273 students appeared for biology paper and 731 for Hindi in the first sitting whereas 13,473 students appeared for entrepreneurship and 48,840 wrote philosophy paper in the second sitting.
Rishikesh Singh, a student of Government Plus Two Boy’s High School, said biology paper was easy for those who had studied. Another student, Juliana Marandi from Hartman Plus Two Girl’s High School, said, “The change in question pattern is a student-friendly move. Total 35 questions were asked in objective-type and 18 subjective-type, out of which only 10 questions had to be attempted. There was no ‘OR’ system,” she said.
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