Guwahati: The Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) conducts High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) examinations for 2023 from today, March 3.
As many as 4,23,000 students across the state are appearing for HSLC examinations.
SEBA conducts the HSLC exams in Assam each year, which falls on the same line of CBSE’s 10th standard board exams.
It is worth mentioning that the HSLC 2023 examinations are conducted as per the guidelines of the National Education Policy (NEP). In the wake of this, SEBA has also made changes in four major subjects for the HSLC exams beginning today.
As per reports, SEBA has made some changes in the subjects like Mathematics, General Science, English, and Social Science in the HSLC exam.
As per the new guidelines under NEP, these four subjects in the HSLC exam will now consist of two answer sheets the first answer sheet will consist of eight pages of objective-type questions, while the second answer sheet will consist of 16 pages of descriptive-type questions.
The HSLC exams this year are commencing on March 3 and will end on March 20 and the examinations will be held across 912 exam centers.
Meanwhile, the set of practical examinations for HSLC 2023, were already completed last month, on February 24 and 25.