Board of Secondary Education Odisha changes class 10 exam pattern, syllabus for 2019

BSE Odisha has introduced several changes in the Class 10 exam to be held in 2019. The change has been done in the objective part of the question paper while the subjective part of the question paper will remain unchanged.

Change in Exam Pattern

• As per changed pattern, the current three Objective sets of question papers will be replaced by four parallel sets of questions.
• Present distribution of marks will also be changed from 10 and 5 marks to 7 and 8 marks respectively in both Social Science and General Science papers.
• The student will have to secure a minimum of 15 qualifying marks in subjective and objective papers separately to pass examination in each subject.
• Besides this the Board is planning to do away with the OMR completely for High School Certificate Examination by 2020.