KARACHl: More than 126,500 students will appear in the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi`s (BIEK) annual examinations for the 11th and 12th grades from Monday (today).

These examinations, in the morning and evening shifts, are to continue till May 29.

The morning shift will be held from 9am to 12pm for the Science Pre-Medical, Pre-Engineering and Home Economics groups, in which more than 92,000 students will participate, while the evening shift will be held from 2pm to 5pm for the Science General examinations, in which more than 34,500 candidates will be participating.

A total of 182 examination centres have been set up in morning and evening shifts for the examinations, of which 122 are set up in the morning shift and 60 in the evening shift.

A total of 36 examination centres in the morning and evening shifts have been declared highly sensitive.

According to BIEK Chairman Ghulam Hussain Soho, no one, including vigilance officers, centre control officers, centre superintendents, examination staff, teachers and students, will be allowed to carry mobile phones, tablets, laptops and electronic devices inside the examination centres. If a student is found with copied material or a mobile phone during the examination, he or she will be punished by cancellation of the paper or be disqualified from taking the examination for three years.

He said complaints of leaked papers being uploaded on WhatsApp groups after the start of the examination have been brought under control to a considerable extent. They have reached out to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) so that the admins and members of such WhatsApp groups can be arrested and legal action can be taken against them.