MBoSE gears up to thwart paper leak

SHILLONG: In view of the recent leakage of papers of Meghalaya Teachers’ Eligibility Test (MTET), the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBoSE) is keeping a hawk’s eye as candidates get ready to sit for their Board examinations scheduled in March.
Speaking to The Shillong Times, Joint Director of MBoSE, M. Marbaniang said instructions were given to the concerned authorities to be vigilant.
“Comprehensive and detailed instructions were sent to all officers in charge of examination centers and custodians to be vigilant on how to handle confidential matters as per instructions of the Board,” he said.
Vocational subject
On the other hand, 200 students will be appearing for the vocational subject this year after the vocational subject was introduced in class IX in 2017, Marbaniang said.
“The vocational subject was introduced as part of the initiative of the government with the intention to make students ready for self-employment,” he said.
In class X, students can select only one subject out of Health Education, Computer Science and vocational subject.
Again in vocational subject, the students can choose from a wide range of topics such as Healthcare, Tourism, IT & ITES, Beauty & Wellness, Electronics and Agriculture.
No exam fees for PWDs
Further, Marbaniang informed that Persons with Disabilities (PWD) candidates will be exempted from paying examination fees.
“From this year, PWD students appearing for SSLC and HSSLC will be exempted from paying examination fees,” he said.
A total number of 51,321 and 31,104 candidates will be appearing for the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) and Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) respectively.
The MBoSE will conduct the SSLC examinations from March 5 and the HSSLC examinations from March 1.
The total number of female candidates for SSLC is 27,816 while the male students are 23,505.
In the HSSLC examinations, the total number of candidates for Arts stream is 25,053, Science stream (3,748) and Commerce stream (2286).
There are 17 candidates for vocational stream.
There are140 SSLC examination centres across the state and the number of HSSLC centres is 101.