Bhubaneswar: The annual Plus II board examination conducted by the Council Of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) Odisha has started, on Friday.
3,84,597 students (3,59,039 regular and 25,558 ex-regular) across Arts, Science, Commerce and Vocational Education will appear in the examination this year.
Around 2.21 lakh regular students in Arts, 1.08 lakh in Science, 24,157 in Commerce and 4,978 in Vocational Steam will write their papers. For the Vocational Education stream, the test will begin with the English paper on February 19.
The examination of the Science stream will kick off with the Odia paper on February 16 and those of the Arts and Commerce streams from February 17.
Regarding security, the examination controller of CHSE Ashok Nayak said the 202 exam management hubs (where question papers are stored) and almost all the examination centres have been brought under CCTV surveillance. There are 1,160 exam centres this year.
Candidates are advised to arrive at the examination centre 30 minutes before the scheduled start time, ensuring they enter the examination room/ hall at least 15 minutes before the commencement of the examination to take their designated seats.
