KARACHI: A revised timetable for the intermediate exams was issued on Thursday by the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi (BIEK).
Inter-exams are scheduled to begin on June 1 and go until July 1.
A total of 290,000 students are scheduled to participate in the inter exams; group scientific papers will take place in the morning, while general group exams will take place in the evening.
According to the notification, all science group tests will run from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and general group exams will run from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The new schedule comes a day after the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi (BIEK) Chairman Prof Nasim Ahmed Memon had said that the exams will start from June 1.
In a statement, he said that the intermediate exams will take place from June 1 as it is not possible to hold them from May 28.
The BIEK chairman said that it was not possible to hold matric and intermediate exams in the same centres at the same time.
Memon said that the board has sought permission from the education minister to extend the exams for four days. He said that the inter exams were to be held in the centres in morning while matric exams were scheduled for the evening.
Earlier, the Sindh government postponed the intermediate exams across the province for five days in the wake of ongoing heatwave.
