Hoping to ease the minds of anxious SSC students this year, who will be the first batch under the new curriculum, Balbharati - the state bureau of textbooks - has organised a practise preliminary examination for students. These exams will be held between November 26 and December 3.

The purpose is to give schools an idea of what the SSC exam will be like as under the new curriculum, as question paper patterns, too, have changed. Under the new SSC curriculum, there will be activity sheets instead of question papers.