The Higher Secondary exams 2020 (written) will start on March 12 and continue till March 27.

The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education posted the schedule of the school-leaving exams on its website on Friday.

The HS exams start with the first languages. Each day’s test will start at 10am and continue till 1.15pm.

“An additional 15 minutes were initially allotted for the students to go through the questions. But now students can start writing at 10am,” a council official said.

The practical exams of all laboratory-based subjects will be held from December 2 to December 24 this year.

The council usually announces the dates of next year’s examinations the day the results of the current year’s test are announced.

This year the results of the Higher Secondary exams were declared on May 27.

But the council could not announce the schedule of next year’s exams that day because the state secondary education board was yet to declare the Madhyamik 2020 roster.

Usually, the HS exams schedule is finalised after the Madhyamik dates are announced.

The schedule of next year’s Madhyamik, which starts on February 18, was announced on Thursday.

The dates of all state board examinations are fixed in consultation with the police and the district administrations.