A total of 58,091 students will appear for the SSLC examination in Vellore district commencing on Thursday.
In Vellore Education District, 28,474 students – 14,183 boys and 14,291 girls – from 276 schools will appear for the exam in 106 centres.
A total of 29,617 students – 15,004 boys and 14,613 girls – from 316 schools will appear for the exam in 98 centres in Tirupattur Education District, officials said.
Hence, a total of 29,187 boys and 28,904 girls will be writing the SSLC examinations across the district.
Private centres
There are six private centres in Vellore and five in Tirupattur education districts. While 2,118 persons have been posted as invigilators for the exams in Vellore, 1,862 will don the role in Tirupattur.
There will be flying squads comprising 180 members in Vellore and 116 members in Tirupattur.
The officials pointed out that there were 21 custodian points across the district where question papers were kept – nine in Tirupattur and 12 in Vellore. There are two collection points in the district.
Twenty five route officers in Tirupattur and 18 route officers in Vellore will take care of transporting question papers from the custodian points to exam centres, and later collect the answer scripts and hand over at collection points.
Officials said all arrangements for the examination have been put in place at the examination centres such as uninterrupted power supply, drinking water facility and toilets.
At Tiruvannamalai: As many as 35,508 students will write the SSLC exams in Tiruvannamalai district. Of them 17,743 are boys and 17,765 are girls.
Tiruvannamalai district is composed of two educational districts namely Tiruvannamalai and Cheyyar. In Tiruvannamalai Educational District 7,354 boys and 7,871 girls will write the exams while in Cheyyar educational district 4,280 boys and 4,942 girls appear for this exam.
Students from 459 schools will be writing the exams in 113 centres in Tiruvannamalai. For every 20 candidates there would be an invigilator and for ten invigilators there would be a standing squad. Apart from these there would also be six moving squads led by officials, said P.Ponnaiah, Chief Educational Officer.
