The second Pre-University exams began across 47 centres in Mysuru district on Thursday with thousands of students appearing for Chemistry and Business Studies papers.
While the Business Studies paper was fairly easy, students appearing for Chemistry said they found the paper to be “moderately tough”.
Sweekruth M.S., a student of Marimallappa’s Pre-University college in Mysuru, said the Chemistry paper was not on expected lines. Similarly, Danish, a student of Mahesh Pre-University College, said he found the paper to be moderately tough though none of the questions were out of syllabus.
Principal of SVEI College, Mysuru, Rachana Nagesh said the students found some objective-type questions in Chemistry paper to be tricky. The students, who were aiming to score very high marks, found it disappointing to start the exams with such a relatively tough paper.
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. Parents thronged the centres even around noon to pick up the children after the exams, which concluded at 12.15 p.m.
Police personnel were deployed around the 25 examination centres in Mysuru City as the City Police Commissioner M.A. Saleem had imposed prohibitory orders within a radius of 200 metres from the examination centres.
Deputy Director of Pre-University Education K.M. Puttu said a total of 33,240 students are appearing for the examinations, which will continue till March 27. A total of 12,539 students of Arts, 10,852 students of commerce and 9,849 students of Science are appearing for the examinations.
The students appearing for the examination include 1,529 private students and 4,023 repeaters. As many as 27,688 students writing the exams are fresher’s, he said. There are 16,664 girls and 16,576 boys.
A total of 12 vigilance squads monitored the exams in the district. “There were flying squads, mobile squads and sitting squads comprising senior lecturers and headed by Principals to prevent malpractices”, he said.
Though the Government institutions, where exams were held, did not have CCTVs, a few private institutions had the facility, Mr. Puttu added.
