Over 51 lakh students to appear in UP Board exams next year – Times of India

According to state education department officials, around 27.70 lakh students have registered for the high school exams, including around 14,000 private candidates. Likewise, around 23.42 lakh students have registered for Intermediate exams, including 1.14 lakh as private candidates.

In terms of advance registrations, 31.14 lakh students have registered in class 9 and another 26.04 lakh have registered for class 11 this time, informs the officials.
“The last date for online filling of the examination forms of UP Board’s high school and intermediate examination-2022 was October 19. Similarly, the last date for advance registration of class 9 and class 11 for UP Board affiliated schools was also October 19,” said UP Board secretary Divyakant Shukla.

With this vital process over, the state government is now expected to release the class 10 and class 12 examination’s centre fixation policy soon, according to which the exam centres would be allotted in 2022. The UP Board had already sent the proposal of this session’s examination centre fixation policy to the state government for approval and sanction, officials said.

The number of examinees registered for the 2022 edition of high school and intermediate exams has decreased by around 5 lakh as compared to last year. In the 2021 edition of the exams, a total of 56,03,813 candidates had registered for the board exams including 29,94,312 for class 12 examination and another 26,09,501 for class 10 exams.

The fall in number of candidates has taken place despite the UP Board having extended the last date for registration once. The last date to fill the forms online for the class 12 and class 10 examinations of 2022 without late fee was October 16. The forms were accepted till October 19 with a late fee of Rs 100. Earlier, the last date was October 6.

The principals of UP Board affiliated schools will now undertake scrutiny of the online filled forms of registered students as the prescribed checklist from October 20 to October 23. There will be an opportunity for amending the incorrect details on the forms by the schools from October 24 to October 30.