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The Odisha Board of Secondary Education admitted an error in the Class 10 Science exam, with Set-C having 96 marks instead of 100.
Odisha 10th Board Exam 2025: BSE President assured that students will not be affected due to discrepancy
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The Odisha Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has acknowledged a discrepancy in the Science question paper for the Class 10 exams held on Saturday. The discrepancy was noticed by students and teachers after the question papers were distributed at 3,111 exam centers across the state. It was found that Set-C of the Science question paper had a total of 96 marks instead of the required 100. However, the other three sets for the same subject contained questions worth the full 100 marks, as reported by PTI.
BSE President Srikant Tarai addressed the issue, stating, “A question carrying 4 marks was missing in the ‘C’ set question paper. The Board will look into the matter and the students will not be affected; we will take necessary measures during the evaluation of answer sheets.”
In addition, Tarai confirmed that 11 students were caught using unfair means during the exam. “A decision regarding them will be made by a committee later,” he added.
The BSE Odisha Class 10th Board Exams began on February 21, 2025, and are scheduled to conclude on March 6, 2025. According to the official notice, the Class 12 exams for science, commerce, and arts streams will take place from February 18 to March 27, 2025.
In 2024, a total of 96.07% of the 5,41,061 students who appeared for the Class 10 exam passed. Girls had a pass percentage of 96.73%, outperforming boys, who had a pass rate of 95.39%. In comparison, 96.4% of students passed the Odisha 10th Board Exams in 2023.
For the Class 12 exams in 2024, nearly 3.84 lakh students appeared. The science stream had the highest pass percentage at 86.93%, followed by commerce with 82.27% and arts with 80.95%.
