UP Board inter practicals from Feb 3

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Board intermediate practical examinations will begin from February 3.

The exams will be held in two phases -- February 3 to 12 and February 13 to 22.

In the first phase the practical exams will be held in Agra, Sahranpur, Bareilly, Lucknow,

Jhansi, Chitrakoot, Faizabad, Azamgarh, Devipatan and Basti divisions, said UP board secretary Divya Kant Shukla.

In the second phase, practicals will be held in Aligarh, Meerut, Moradabad, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Mirzapur, Varanasi and Gorakhpur divisions.

In practicals, 50% marks will be awarded by internal evaluators and remaining 50% by external evaluators, Shukla said.

The exams will be held strictly under CCTV camera vigil and the principals of examination centres will be required to save the recordings, he said.