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in the United States, see United States Medical Lice nsing Examination. In India, board examinations refer to the public examinations that occur at the end of the 9th to 10th grade education (SSC), or at the end of the 11th to 12th grade education (HSC). The scores achieved in these exams are considered very im portant for getting into university, getting into professional courses or traini ng programs, and even possibly in finding employment. Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 State Board Examinations Procedure (CBSE) CICSE Evaluation See also References

State Board Examinations State board examinations are variously referred to as Madhayamik, Secondary Stat e Certificate and Higher Secondary Certificate examinations. They are conducted and managed by each education board of the different states in the country. They do not take place simultaneously due to the differences between syllabi and the examination itself. The examinations are generally held in the months of Februa ry and March, and the results are out in May and June. Students have to apply for the examinations in November stating their personal d etails, subjects, and current educational status. Admit cards for the prescribed examination hall are received at the notified cell or their respective schools about 20-25 days prior to the commencement of the exam. Examinations are offered for various fields which include Science, Maths, Social Studies, regional and foreign languages for SSC; Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Soc ial Studies, basic Computer Science and basic Electronics, IT, Western Classical music and Indian classical music, Economics for HSC. Students follow a fixed pa ttern in choosing the subjects. The exam is conducted only in pen and paper format. Procedure (CBSE) Each of the examinations takes place simultaneously across the country, to ensur e that questions are not leaked in advance across time zones. Security is usuall y high for these board examinations. The question papers are distributed by the overseeing board of education, and their contents are guarded closely until the exam begins. The examinations may include multiple sets of question papers as we ll. The candidates are issued identification passes in advance, which are presen ted to the staff at the examination site. The site itself must not be the same s chool where a candidate is from; to ensure impartiality, the candidate must trav el to a different school to take the examination. For the same reason, the candi date may not identify himself/herself on the answer sheet except with an identit y-masking number. Use of calculation aids other than logarithm tables, which are provided by the examination center, is prohibited. The examinations last about 3 hours per course. CICSE The COUNCIL was established in 1958 by the University of Cambridge Local Examina tions Syndicate to ensure that its examinations become adapted to the educationa

l needs of the country and assign the ultimate control of the same on the COUNCI L. The COUNCIL was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 on 19 December, 1967. The object of the COUNCIL is educational, and includes the promotion of science, literature, the fine arts and the diffusion o f useful knowledge by conducting school examinations through the medium of Engli sh. The Council exists solely for educational purposes and not for purposes of p rofit. Evaluation The answer sheets are sent back to the board of education overseeing the certifi cations. The papers are evaluated based on examples of ideal answers. A false ro ll no. is attached to the answer-sheet before evaluation. Once the answers have been evaluated, the identity numbers are matched to the actual roll no. (and ide ntity) of the candidate. The board then issues an official grade/score report fo r the exam to the candidate, as well as a certificate of completion in the case of the HSC exam.