The overall variety of college students showing within the board exams from April 24 exceeds the inhabitants of round 118 international locations, together with New Zealand, Kuwait, Norway, Finland and Eire, every having lower than 56 lakh residents.
The UP Board, arrange in 1921 at Allahabad by an act of the United Provinces Legislative Council, had carried out its first examination in 1923. In its 100 years of journey, the variety of college students showing in its highschool and intermediate exams has elevated 976 instances, incomes it the excellence of being one of many largest examination conducting our bodies of the world.
As per information, 5,744 college students had registered for the board’s first examinations carried out at 179 centres in 1923. Then 5,655 college students had been in highschool and 89 in intermediate.
In a span of 100 years, the depend of examinees swelled from 5,744 in 1923 to 56,07,118 (together with 30,24,480 in highschool and 25,86,339 in intermediate) final yr.
In 1947, the examinee depend swelled to 48,519 for which 224 examination centres had been made. The depend additional elevated to 1,72,246 in 1952.
“For 2021 exams, a complete of 56,03,813 college students, together with 29,94,312 of highschool and 26,09,501 of intermediate have registered. There can be a complete 8,513 examination centres this yr,” stated UP Board secretary Divya Kant Shukla.
The quantity remains to be excessive though UP Board had adopted strict anti-copying measures following which the depend of examinees registering for exams had fallen up to now few years. In 2018, as many as 66,37,018 college students had enrolled for board exams.
As college students elevated, the UP Board opened regional workplaces in Meerut (1973), Varanasi (1978), Bareilly (1981), Prayagraj (1987) and Gorakhpur (2017), that are operating below regional secretaries.
“The rise within the variety of examinees has elevated the workload many instances. 5 regional workplaces had been arrange through the years new applied sciences had been embraced in addition to adopting anti-copying measures for holding truthful examinations,” stated officers.
As per the 2019 figures launched by the United Nations, 118 international locations have lower than 56 lakh inhabitants.
