HYDERABAD, May 6 The controller of examinations of the Hyderabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education announced on Thursday that examination for the HSC (Part-I, II) papers scheduled for May 8 and 15 (morning and evening) would now be held on May 17 and 18. He said that the papers had been postponed on account of declaration of Saturday as weekly holiday.

According to the revised schedule, English Paper-II (Science and Home Economics), Arabic Paper-II (Humanities Group) and Persian Paper-II (Humanities Group) scheduled for May 8 from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm will now be held on May 17 at the same time.

The Islamic Education (Humanities and Commerce Group), Civics (for non-Muslims) will be held from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm the same day. Similarly, the paper of Home Management, Religion-II (Humanities Group) and English Elective (all groups) scheduled for May 15 will now be held on May 18 at 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and papers of Fine Art-II and Statistics-II (all groups) will be held at 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm on May 18.