II PUC exams begin across Dakshina Kannada, Udupi

Mangaluru, Mar 11: The second Pre-University exams began across 1032 centres in Karnataka on Friday with thousands of students appearing for Biology and Electronics papers.

In total, 6,40,033 students are appearing for the examinations this year out of which 3, 29,187 are boys and 3, 10,846 are girls. Out of them, 31,252 students are appearing as private students.

In Dakshina Kannada, as many as 34,760 students will write II Pre University examination.

There are 20,544 students in Mangaluru taluk, 5,167 students in Puttur, 3,924 students in Bantwal, 3,381 in Belthangady and 1,744 in Sullia.

These students will write the examination in 52 centres.

It will be for the first time that Pre University students from the Science stream will be writing the examination based on the complete syllabus. The examination was held on “blow-up” (condensed) syllabus in 2013, 2014 and in 2015.

As many as 13,111 students will be writing the examination in the Science stream this year, while 15,767 are from the Commerce stream and 5,882 from Arts.

In Udupi, as many as 14,845 students are expected to appear in these examinations in 29 centres across the district. The 14,845 students include 2,447 students from the Arts stream, 8,006 from Commerce and 4,392 students from Science streams.

As many as 13,309 regular students, 1,067 private students and 469 repeaters would be writing the examinations. As many as 7,611 girls and 7,234 boys would be writing the exams in the district.

Of the 29 examination centres, 13 are in Udupi taluk, 11 in Kundapur and five in Karkala taluks. Proper drinking water and toilet facilities too have been provided at these centres.

R.B. Nayak, Incharge Deputy Director of Pre-University Education Department, said that one district-level squad and six taluk-level squads would keep tight vigil on the examination centres.

Of the six taluk-level squads, three are in Udupi, two in Kundapur and one in Karkala.

Earlier in the day, hundreds of parents were found dropping their children to examination centres to write the exams, which began at 9 a.m.

Police personnel were deployed around the 155 sensitive examination centres as the prohibitory orders within a radius of 200 metres from the examination centres had been imposed. There are flying squads, mobile squads and sitting squads comprising senior lecturers and headed by Principals to prevent malpractices during examinations.