Now, SSLC students can download hall tickets at exam centres

Mysuru: ‘Hall Ticket’ is likely the first article on the checklist of students, or sometimes on those drafted by parents for their wards, attempting board examinations in India. Leaving this sheet of paper that allows us entry to the examination centres at home is a singularly dreadful experience, the stuff of nightmares that students wake up from in streams of perspiration. However, the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) has, perhaps taking cognisance of the anxiety that the compulsion of carrying a hall ticket triggers in students, decided to adopt a solution already in place in many private universities: Uploading hall tickets online, to allow students to download the document at the examination centres in case they have forgotten to carry it.
Not being in possession of the hall ticket necessitated the student to undergo a long bureaucratic procedure before he or she could finally sit down to write the exam. However, with the secondary school leaving certificate (SSLC) examinations round the corner, KSEEB has decided to spare students palpitations before facing a crucial test.

Deputy director of public instruction, Mysuru Mamata said that all examination centres would have computer systems to allow students to download hall tickets at the last minute, if need arises. “Once the principal of the school that the student belongs to confirms his or her identity, the hall ticket can be downloaded from the server. Principals of those schools, the students of which will appear for the examinations at the centre, will be present there, so there will not be any problem,” Mamata told TOI.

Parents, and students, have greeted the initiative with audible sighs of relief. “Students forgetting hall tickets at home is a common problem. It merely adds to the last-minute anxieties of the students. The new system is welcome,” said Sumangala Vastrad, a resident of Chamundipuram.