KARACHI, April 8: The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) annual examination 2008 of Science and General (regular and private) groups will commence on April 15.

A record number of candidates ie around 300,000 have been registered to take the exams this year.

This was stated by the controller of examinations of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK), Syed Javed Iftikhar, on Tuesday.

He said that these examinations would be conducted simultaneously. The papers of class X will be conducted in the morning session and those of the class IX in the afternoon from 2pm to 5pm.

The examinations will be held at over 400 centres set up across the city. The preparations for the conduct of the examinations have almost been completed.

The BSEK official said that the exam schedule had already been distributed and the admit cards of the private candidates had already been dispatched to their respective addresses.

Meanwhile, the BSEK has also directed the heads of all the affiliated education institutions to send their representatives with authority letters to collect the admit cards of SSC annual examinations.

In this regard, a meeting of all the superintendents of the examination centres is scheduled to be held on April 10 at 11am for girls and at 2pm for boys’ centres at the Conference Hall of the board.

Furthermore, the centre superintendents have been asked to collect the examination material immediately from the board.—APP/PPI