PESHAWAR: The secondary school certificate examinations conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar, will start on Tuesday (today), in which more than 192,000 students are participating.

According to a press release issued here on Monday, a total of 101,488 students will appear in the ninth grade and 91,086 in the tenth grade.

Preparations have been completed for the exams to be held in Peshawar, Charsadda, Khyber, Mohmand and Chitral.

A total of 712 examination centres have been set up with 359 in Peshawar, 164 in Charsadda, 80 in Khyber, 25 in Mohmand and 84 in Chitral.

Over 200 examination centres have set up for boys, 129 for girls and 26 combined in Peshawar.

Meanwhile, a meeting held at the BISE under the chair of Peshawar division commissioner Riaz Khan Mehsud discussed the arrangements for the transparent conduct of the exams.

It was decided that suspicious private examination halls would be shifted to nearby government schools and colleges to prevent cheating.

For the first time, assistant commissioners have been tasked with preventing cheating, and a ban has been imposed on the sale and purchase of pocket guides.

CCTV cameras have been installed in examination halls to help prevent cheating. APP