The Maharashtra State Board's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams began on Tuesday. On the first day, there was confusion over cell phone restrictions in some colleges. While some colleges allowed candidates to keep their phones in bags outside the exam hall, a few did not even allow students inside the gate with a mobile phone.

Similar chaos was seen outside Matunga's Ruia College where students were not allowed to enter with a mobile phone. A report in this paper quoted a student as saying that she was aware that phones were not allowed in the exam hall, but was unaware that they were not allowed in bags to be kept outside the hall.