New Delhi: The CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Examinations) board examinations for Classes 10 and 12 commenced on Wednesday. As many as 38,83,710 students are appearing for the examinations being held at 7,250 centers across the country.
While the Class 10 exams will conclude on March 21, the last paper for Class 12 will be held on April 5. Students from 26 foreign countries are also writing the examinations.
A total of 21,86,940 students from 24,491 schools are appearing for the Class 10 exams and 16,96,770 students from 16,738 schools for the Class 12 exams.
According to CBSE, the exam results will be announced by the mid of May.
Prohibits use of ChatGPT in exams
The use of Artificial Intelligence-based ChatGPT has been prohibited in the upcoming class 10, 12 board exams by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), officials said on Tuesday.
"Mobile, ChatGPT and other electronic items will not be allowed in examination hall," according to instructions issued by the board ahead of the papers. The use of ChatGPT will amount to using unfair means in the exam, the board officials said.
"Students are not allowed to carry any electronic devices inside the exam centre. This includes using device to access ChatGPT so that unfair means is not used," a senior board official said.
ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), which was launched in November 2022, is capable of generating speeches, songs, marketing copy, news articles and student essays or human-like text based on the input it is given. The new artificial intelligence (AI) system, known as a large language model (LLM) is designed to generate human-like writing by predicting upcoming word sequences.
The admit card for the exams also has a cautionary instruction saying, "You should not indulge in any unfair practice. If found, you will be booked under Unfair Means (UFM) Activity and action will be taken as per the rules of the board." "Do not believe in fake videos and messages uploaded on social media. Do not spread rumours too. You could be booked under unfair means rules," it added.
(With inputs from PTI)