The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : It's a `cool' day one for SSLC examinees

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It's a `cool' day one for SSLC examinees

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ACID TEST: They say it is never too late to learn. A middle-aged woman taking the SSLC examination along with other students at one of the centres in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: K. Gopinathan

Bangalore: Anxiety was palpable at all centres as the SSLC examination got under way on Wednesday in which 8.14 lakh students answered their first language paper. Students were desperately trying to make last-minute preparations, while parents looked on anxiously. The crowd of anxious parents was larger in front of private schools than government schools.

The Fort High School in Bangalore presented an interesting picture of a variety with several visually-challenged students and a fairly large number of adults taking the examination.

Some of the adults said they were Group D employees who were trying to get promotion by passing the examination. Some other said they simply wanted to "cross an important milestone" in education.

The visually-challenged were assisted by scribes.

Most students were a relieved lot when the examination ended at 1.30 p.m.

G. Ragashree, who answered her Kannada examination at New Public School in Basaveshwarnagar, described the paper as "cool".

Anjali S. found her Sanskrit paper so easy that she finished an hour before the scheduled time and spent the rest of the time revising.

Vinay B.A., who wrote his first language Kannada examination at A.P.S. Boys' High School at N.R. Colony, also found it easy.

The invigilation was "very strict", he said, and the squads came into his room at least thrice.

According to SSLC Board officials, 23 students were debarred from various examination centres for copying. No student was debarred from Bangalore.

Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti, meanwhile, has warned strict action against any Education Department official who abets malpractice. With the first paper behind them, the students were busy preparing for the next examination hours after the first one.

The "real examinaton" begins tomorrow, said Vinay referring to the mathematics paper.

A majority of students The Hindu spoke to said they were forgoing the "crucial" Bangladesh-Sri Lanka cricket match of the World Cup series to prepare for the "tough" paper.

As many as 10 staff, mostly supervisors, were relieved from examination duty in Bijapur district for failing to perform their duties.

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