Over seven lakh students appeared for the intermediate second year examinations which began throughout the State on Saturday.
However, of 7,75,920 students who registered for the general and 66,850 for the vocational, 52,537 or 6.21 per cent abstained from the exams. The reasons for such a high percentage of absentees could not be ascertained.
On Saturday, exams were held for Telugu paper –II, Sanskrit paper-II, Hindi Paper-II, Urdu paper – II and Arabic paper – II subjects.
A total of 27 cases of malpractice were booked at different examination centres. The Board of Intermediate Education has sent observers to Nalgonda, Medak and Ranga Reddy Districts.
All the Regional Inspection Officers were instructed to see that the Xerox machines in the Colleges, Schools and Degree colleges attached to the examination centres and other Xerox centres in the vicinity of the examination centres should remain closed during the examination hours with the help of the local MRO and Police officials. (INN)