TBSE announces Madhyamik, HS ‘Bochhor Bachao’ exams

TBSE will likely hold the save-a-year exams in the last week of July. The students will have to fill the bochhor bachao Tripura board exam forms and submit it to their respective schools between July 8 and 11.

After a month of declaration of Madhyamik and Higher Secondary (HS) results of the Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE), the board of Wednesday announced that it will conduct the ‘Bochhor Bachao’  (save-a-year) examinations.

 Speaking with media persons at TBSE office on Wednesday, the board president Dr Dhananjoy Gan Choudhury said that a total of 2,042 candidates of Class 10 applied for the review of result. Of them, the results of 747 candidates changed, 21 students qualified for pass and seven of them were enlisted for the bochhor bachao examinations.

In case of Class 12, the president added, as many as 1,385 applied for the result review. No students who failed in the board examinations have passed in the review of result and only one candidate is placed in the bochhor bachao after review.

The Board shall be conducting the bochhor bachao in the last week of July this year and will announce the dates in one week, said TBSE secretary Dr Dulal Dey.

After review, as many  3,199 of Madhyamik and 4,236 HS students would appear for the bochhor bachao examinations, he added.

As many as 7,435 Class 10 and 12 students would appear for the bochhor bachao Tripura board examination. TBSE will likely hold the save-a-year exams in the last week of July.

According to ‘Bochor Bachao’ (save year) scheme introduced by the state government in 2020, students would be guaranteed entry into colleges or into the next class in case of board examinations even if they fail in two subjects, provided that they secure a minimum of 150 marks. They would have to clear a re-test within 75 days of results though to continue higher education.