A record of more than 13.13 lakh students, including 5.45 lakh girls, will appear for the 2008 CBSE examinations this year, which will commence from March 1, marking an increase of more than 8 per cent.
“We have a new high this year. More than 7.65 lakh students will write the class X examination and more than 5.48 lakh the XII standard examination,’’ CBSE Chairman Ashok Ganguly told a news conference.
From the Delhi region a total 3.8 lakh candidates will appear for the Boards, while for class X the number has increased by 5.68 per cent with 2.19 lakh pupils. An upward trend has also been registered for class XII by 2.6 per cent, with more than 1.60 lakh students sitting for their Boards.
In the special category, which includes blind, dyslexics and handicapped, a total of 2,478 students will appear in class X and XII examinations compared to last year’s 2,132.
The examinations will be conducted across 5,018 centres of which 375 have been marked as sensitive and will have additional security measures. The national capital alone will have 1,109 centres.
