The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has expelled 51 students of Class 12 exams. The board started the Class 12 inter 2024 exams on Thursday, February 1 with the philosophy and economics papers. The students were expelled for using unfair means during the exam. 

BSEB also apprehended eight persons impersonating students in the Bihar board Class 12 inter exams. While as many as six impersonators were caught in the Nalanda district, one each was caught in Bhojpur and Gaya districts.

This year, a total of 13,04,352 are appearing for the intermediate (class 12) exam and of them, 6,26,431 are girls and 6,77,921 are boys. The BSEB Class 12 exam is being held in 1,523 exam centres across the state. In Patna alone, as many as 78 exam centres have been provided to accommodate 77,012 total students.

As part of the BSEB 2024 exam guidelines, students were frisked twice – one at the entrance and the other at the exam hall. Section 144 was also implemented around 200 metres across the exam centres so that nobody else except the students, invigilators and other exam-conducting members trespass. These measures are undertaken so that cheating is curbed.

Morever, there are provisions of videographers at all the examination centres. Also, all the personnel and officers deputed at the centres (except the center superintendent) were not allowed to carry mobile phones.