First phase of inter exams begins today

Karachi
The first phase of Higher Secondary School Certificate Annual Examinations-2015 will start from Tuesday (today).
The Board of Secondary Education Karachi would conduct papers in morning and afternoon shifts till May 20.
As many as 135,245 male and female candidates would appear at 159 examination centers with 43 declared as sensitive.
The BIEK has also written letters to the director general Rangers, director colleges, home department and other concerned authorities to provide foolproof security arrangements around examination centers.
Controller of Examinations Muhammad Imran Khan Chishti has mentioned that students of science, home economics and medical technology would appear in morning shift while exams for Arts (Regular and Private) and Diploma in Physical Education would be held in the afternoon shift.

Bar-coded admit cards
The board has introduced bar-coded admit cards for the HSC Annual Examinations-2015. ­BIEK Chairman Anwar Ahmed Zai believed this step would help in reducing the chances of impersonations.
The board has decided to introduce the bar-coded admit cards having complete information about a candidate just like the Smart Card, the chairman added, asserting that “ We strongly believe that it would deliver desire results.”
Anwar Zai claimed that each admit card has additional encoded details, including actual photograph of registered candidate, and the scanned photocopy could not be replaced by the impersonators at all.

Smart phones for superintendents
The board has set up 15 invigilator teams, comprising four members each, for the first phase of the annual exams. Besides, being a member of the committee, the superintendent of the examination centres are provided with smart-phones enabled with mobile internet service, the chairman said.
These phones would be used for immediate verifications of candidate’s credentials FROM board’s control room, he claimed.
Zai mentioned that the BIEK has been planning that from next year, it would empower examination centres to do verification work at their own with the help of barcode scanners, “which would be provided to them just like these smart-phones.”

Change in exam centres
The controller has warned that those candidates who change their examination centres without permission from the board office would be marked as absent.
“We have experienced that numbers of students used to appear at un-authorised examination centres. They also have support from external elements who provide them materials to solve papers. But, now this exercise would come to an end.” Chishti claimed that the board was considering to make the centre superintendents responsible if any candidate appeared at any examination centres not allocated to him or her.

Sensitive exam centres
The board has asked the controlling authority of examination boards—the chief minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah—to release orders for deployment of Rangers at examination centres declared sensitive and most sensitive.