Students appearing for II year PU examinations, that began across the State on Monday, were all praise for the PU Board for coming out with novel concept of introducing an additional 15 minutes to go through the question paper before the exam.

This helped them plan their answers according to their priorities and convenience. On Monday the PU-II year exams commenced with papers for Chemistry, business studies, psychology and education on the first day. Students from MPC stream though found the chemistry paper quite tough.

Two students from National College, Yashavanth and Harsha the question paper was quite lengthy and difficult as well and they could solve only 80 per cent of it.

Yet the extra time gave them opportunity to set their priorities.

Debarred
As many as 26 students were debarred on Monday for malpractices on the first day of the second PUC examination in the state.

Bidar district had maximum number of students to be debarred with eight, while Bijapur stood second where six students were debarred.

Three students in Tumkur, two students each in Haveri, Dharwad and Belgaum and one student each in Bangalore South, Kolar and Mysore were debarred from the examination.

Sources in the PU Board said, majority of students were debarred for bringing copying materials and misbehaving with the invigilators after being caught.