Nagaland Board of School Education has on Wednesday announced that 24,361 candidates will appear the High School Leaving Certificate Examination 2023 and 16084 candidates will sit for the Higher Secondary School Leaving Examination.

The HSSLC Examination 2023 will commence from 9 March 2023 till 31March 2023 while HSLC Examination 2023 will be held from 10 March 2023 to 22 March 2023.

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NBSE informed that in HSSLC Examination, 12431 candidates are from Arts stream, 1214 from Commerce and 2439 from Science stream. 7612 boys and 8473 girls will be appearing for the examination at 65 provisional examination centres.

As for HSLC Examination, 11197 boys and 13164 girls will sit in 96 provisional examination centres.

The timing of the HSLC examination is from 9:00 am to 12 noon for 80/70 marks and 2 hours for 50 marks. The Class XI Promotion Examination 2023 will be conducted simultaneously with HSSLC in the afternoon from 9 March 2023 to 31 March 2023 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

Regarding instructions to examinees, NBSE gave the following points:

Candidates are required to bring their Original Admit Cards to the examination hall/room on all the days of the examination.

Candidates are also requested to read the question paper carefully before they start to write the answers. Answers to the questions should be written keeping in mind the marks allotted to them.

Candidates are to note the following permitted items and barred items:

The Board reiterated that candidates must shade/darken the roll number on the front page of the OMR of the Answer book correctly/properly.

Candidates are reminded to maintain discipline and refrain from any kind of mal-practices during examinations. The Board cautioned that anyone resorting to unfair means in the examinations will be dealt with as per the rules of the Board.

Candidates are advised to reach the examination centre in time by moving out from home early.

The Nagaland Board of School Education extended its best wishes to all the candidates appearing for the examinations.