In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Dibyakant Shukla, Secretary, UPMSP said that a total of 13 working days will be taken to complete the answer-sheet evaluation process.
The press note read, “The evaluation of high school and intermediate answer sheets by the Secondary Education Council, Uttar Pradesh is scheduled to commence from March 16, 2024, and will span a total of 13 working days until March 31, 2024. Due to the Holika festival, the evaluation work will be postponed from March 24, 2024, to March 26, 2024.”
In the 2023-24 examination session, 55,25,308 (more than 55 lakh) students had registered for the examination round with 29,47,311 candidates in the high school examination and 25,77,997 candidates in the intermediate examination, as per data released by the UPMSP.
The tweet further said that a total of more than 1.4 lakh examiners have appointed to undertake the procedure. The notice read, “To help with the evaluation process, a large workforce has been assigned, with 94,802 examiners assigned to evaluate 1.76 crore high school answer sheets and 52,295 examiners assigned to evaluate 1.25 crore intermediate exam answers. In total, 1,47,097 examiners have been appointed to evaluate approximately 3.01 crore answer sheets from both examinations.”
The press note further said that the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) has set up a total of 260 evaluation centres, which includes 131 evaluations centres for examining of 1.7 crore high-school answer sheets.
The press note released by the Secretary of UPMSP states, “For the evaluation process, 131 evaluation centers have been established for the assessment of high school answer sheets, while 116 evaluation centers have been designated for the evaluation of intermediate answer sheets. Additionally, both high school and intermediate answer sheets will be evaluated at 13 mixed evaluation centers.”
“Of the total 260 evaluation centers, a combination of 83 government and 177 non-government aided secondary schools have been selected as evaluation centers,” it further added.
The UP Board Exam Date 2024 for Classes 10 and 12 was scheduled from February 22 to March 9, 2024. Students in grades 10 and 12 took part in the exams. The UP board Class 10 examination was held in two shifts, with the first shift running from 8:30 AM to 11:45 AM and the second from 2 PM to 5:15 PM.