Kolkata, Oct 31 The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) has extended the deadline for students to challenge the provisional answer keys of the higher secondary third semester examinations till November 2, an official notification said on Saturday.
Students can submit their objections online till 3 pm on November 2 by paying the prescribed fee through the council’s official online portal.
Both regular candidates who appeared for the third semester examinations and those who took the supplementary examination will be eligible to challenge the answer keys (model answers), the notification said.
Earlier, students were allowed to raise objections between October 27 and 30.
The deadline, which was originally scheduled to end on October 30, has now been extended by three days.
The council is likely to announce the third semester results by the end of November or in the first week of December, sources said.
The examinations were conducted between September 21 and October 14 this year, with a total of 7,18,467 candidates appearing for them.
Of the total candidates, 3,15,661 were male and 4,02,806 females.
The examinations were held at 2,105 venues across 825 centres.
As many as 15,938 candidates, or 2.22 per cent of the total number, remained absent, council sources said.
(PTI News)
