Plus One examinations get under way in compliance with COVID-19 protocols
The Hindu
The examinations have been scheduled with intervals of one to five days between papers on the requests of students and parents.
After lots of delays and confusions, the Plus One higher secondary and vocational higher secondary examinations (VHSE) got off to a start in State schools on Friday morning.
In all, 4,17,598 students are appearing for the higher secondary examinations, though only 71,795 were slated to reach the examination centres for the papers scheduled on day 1 – Sociology, Anthropology, Electronic Service Technology (Old), and Electronic Systems.
Nearly 30,000 students are taking the Entrepreneurship Development examination in the vocational higher secondary stream. Taken together, more than one lakh students reached schools to appear for the Plus One examinations on Friday.
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