Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Instructions for the students who are appearing for the HSC Board Examination February/ March 2024

Subject: English 

1. Students should be in the Examination Hall at 10.30 am sharp for the 11 am paper.
2. The special reading time which was given earlier is no more there. Extra 10 minutes will be given for the paper so the exam time is 3 hours and 10 minutes now.
3. Use of regular lead pencil is allowed only for diagrams / outline shapes /boxes etc. 
Answers /content written with pencil will not be accepted. 
White ink or correction pen, sketch pen, colure pencils are strictly not allowed. 
4. Use only black or blue pen with waterproof ink or regular ball pens. 
5. Don't change the order of the questions. Write the answers as per the order given in the question paper.
6. Write the question numbers correctly while attempting the questions.
7. Write the descriptive answers in grammatically correct complete sentences.
8. Draw the format correctly if the activities are in tabular or web diagram form.
9. For fill in the blanks type of questions, write the complete sentence and underline the keywords.
10. For true or false questions, write the complete sentence and the full word true or false (whatever is applicable) against the sentence. 
11. For match the columns, write the terms from both the columns and their numbers correctly and write the answer as per the correct match. 
12. Start every writing skill or long answer on a new page. 
13. In the long and descriptive answers, write in multiple small paragraphs and underline the keywords.


All the best for your English paper and your great future ahead 👍

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