Mohali: The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) has released the date sheet for annual examination of Class XII (Senior Secondary) for all government, aided and affiliated schools across the state.

PSEB chairman Mr. Dalbir Singh Dhillon, while announcing the datasheet, informed that the Class XII (Senior Secondary) annual examinations for humanities, science, commerce, agriculture, technical, home science and engineering groups, to be conducted by the board, will commence from March 1.

He also announced the schedule of the written examinations that would end by April 1.

As per the datasheet, all theory papers would be conducted between 2 pm and 5.15 pm everyday and geometrical perspective and architectural drawing paper would be held between 2 pm and 6.15 pm.

The papers of environment education, elements of building construction, electronics engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and engineering drawing would be held between 2 pm and 4.15 pm.

Bringing good news to students, the PSEB further disclosed that from this year, 15 minutes of additional time would be given to students to read the paper cautiously before the start of the examination.

The question papers would now be distributed to the students at 2 pm but the answer sheets would be given to them at 2.15 am. These would be collected at 5.15 pm at the end of the examination.

Furthermore, the blind and physically handicapped students would be given one hour more time for every paper.