HIGHER SECONDARY EXAMINATION

According to the new course structure, there shall be one examination to be conducted by the council Higher Secondary Education at the end of 1st year basing on the curriculum meant for that year and one examination at the end of 2nd year to be conducted by the council basing on the curriculum meant for that year alone. Pass certificate will be awarded to successful candidates basing on the performance in the council examination to be held at the end of the 2nd year only.

The examination at the end of the 1st year shall be for 700 marks (including 100 marks for Environemntal Education) and the examination at the end of the 1st year. Selection of optinal (hence forth called as elective) subjects will be restricted. There shall be no extra optional subject. Instead, each student has to offer four elective subjects as mentioned below.

Provided that the Council may in special circumstances permit a candidate to offer alternative papers in English of a Higher standard than required in (i) above instead of M.I.L. paper stating reasons: Provided further that a candidate may be permitted to take up for the Higher Secondary Examination on of the subjects as M.I.L. under (ii) above without attendance at Lecturer in the subject if the institution in which he is admitted is not affiliated in that subject.

Higher Secondary-Arts (256 Seats)

Compulsory

Elective

A candidate shall offer any four elective subjects from the following six groups:

SCIENCE : (128 Seats)

Compulsory

Elective

A candidate shall be offer any one of the following groups to choose his/ her four Elective Subjects : Each elective subject caries 200 marks i.e. 100 marks for the 1st year and 100 marks for the 2nd year class.

General Examination Rules of the C.H.S.E. (relevant portions)

1. Council of Higher Secondary Education, Orissa conducts Annual Higher Secondary Examination in the the month of March (usually in the 1st week of the month). Council has lifted the supplementary examination from 1998.

Regular Candidate

2. Any registered student of the Council, may be admitted to the Annual Examination in Arts, Science or Commerce, if he/she completed in one or more affiliated Institutions recognised for the purpose of such examinations as regular courses of study, on the subject in which the candidate wishes to be examined, for not less than two academic years after passing the High School Certificate Examination of the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha or some other examination recognised by the Council as equivalent thereto (Examinations conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, India chool Certificate Examination and the Board of Secondary Education of other States in India) and has been promoted to the second year class of the basis of the examinations conducted by the Institution in the first year, provided that a student.

(a) Who has passed the Higher Secondary Examination may be permitted to appear at the same examination, subsequently, in any subject in which he has not already passed, without attending a regular course of study in an institution.

(b) Who takes up a subject in which a practical course is prescribed, shall have to produce a certificate from the Head of the Institution to the effect that, he has completed the prescribed practical course in that subject.

3. The application with prescribed fees to be submitted by a candidate for admission into an examination in due time. Every candidate sent up for th Higher Secondary Examination by an Institution shall produce a certificate from Head of the Instituion of:
(a) Good conduct,
(b) Diligent study, and
(c) He/She has satisfactorily passed the college periodical examinations and other tests.
(d) That the candidate has secured the required percentage of attendance.

4. Ex - Regular Candidate

(a) A candidate who has failed at the Higher Secondary Examination or having been registered (i.e. filled up form and received admit Card) for the examination on payment of the prescribed fee without further attending at lectures.

(b) And when he offers any subject or subjects for which practical examination is prescribed, he shall produce a certificate from the Head of the Institution of having taken a further course of Practical work in an Institution in each subject for at least one month before the commencement of the examination at which he is to appear.

5. (a) Examination shall be conducted by means of written papers. There shall be in addition, a Practical examination, of 3 hours duration to be conducted by one external and one internal examiner, in those subjects where there is provision for the same.

(b) The Laboratory Note Book or Field Work Note Books of each candidate who is offered a subject in which there is a practical examination shall be examined by the Practical Examiners. Each experiment in every note book shall contain the signature of the student, date of the experiment together with the signature and date of the teacher under whom he worked.

6. (a) The pass mark in written and Practical shall be 30% and 40% of the maxmium marks, respectively, in that subject or group of subjects. The pass mark in the aggregate shall be 35%.

(b) If the candidate has passed in the compulsory and optional subjects and also in the aggregate, the marks, if any, which the obtains in excess of the minimum pass mark in the extra optional (4th Optional subject) subject shall be added to his aggregate and the aggregate so obtained shall determine his division and his place in the pass list.

(c) The examination committee shall be competent to frame general rules giving benefit to hard cases and such rules as framed by the Examination Committee need to be intimated to Government from time to time.

(d) Candidate obtaining not less than 60% of the total marks (aggregate) shall be placed in the First Division, those who obtain less than 60% but 50% or above shall be placed in the second Division; and all other successful candidates shall be placed in the Third Division.

7. As soon as possible after the examination, the Council shall publish a list of successful candidates arranged in three divisions according to the Institutions in alphabetical order. A list of first ten successful candiadates in each stream shall be published separately.

8. Instant Examination

Upon abolition of Second (Supplementary) H.S. Examination since 1998, the Council is conducting an alternative examination named “Instant Examination” from 1999, usually within 45 days of publication of Annual Result. A list of Roll Nos. of candidates eligible for Instant Examinaiton will be given in separate sheets along with Annual Result sheet. Desirous eligible studnets are to fill up their forms for Instant Examination in due date.

9. Compartmental Candidate

If a candidate fails in one or more subjects in the Higher Secondary Examination but secures pass marks in the aggregate, he shall be exempted, on application, from appearing again in that subject or group of subjects in which he passed, and the order of exemption shall remain valid for the next two consecutive examinations conducted by the Council, following the examination in which he originally failed, provided that:
(a) He shall have to clear all the failed subjects at a time, and
(b) That, he shall not be placed in any division.