Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha on Monday announced that the results of the matriculation examination will be announced in May.
BSE President, Ramashish Hazra said that the matriculation results will be announced by the second half of May. The process is already underway to publish error-free results this time, he added.
Addressing a press meeting, BSE vice president Nihar Ranjan Mohanty said, “As compared to other boards, we will publish our results soon. We are aiming at publishing error-free results. Though there is a directive to publish results within 45 days, the exact date cannot be announced at this point in time.”
“The evaluation was carried out smoothly at 55 examination centers. Except for two-three centers, the evaluation process concluded on April 13. Now we are correcting the discrepancies,” Mohanty added.
Mohanty further said, “The first two phases – conduct of the examination and evaluation has been completed. The third phase is defect compliance and processing. We are now working on defect compliance and then tabulation and processing will be done.”
Responding to a question on the evaluation of students who suffered due to question paper printing mistakes, the senior official said, “Around 3,000 to 5,000 students were affected due to the glitch in social science set-B question paper. We came up with a special mechanism and the issue has been resolved. Necessary steps have been taken to ensure that no student suffers due to the glitch.”
