This year, there will be about 38 lakh students taking the CBSE board exams, which will start today, February 15. The exams will be administered between February 15 and April 5.
CBSE Board exams 2023: The use of ChatGPT, an AI-based program, has been outlawed for the upcoming class 10, 12, and board exams by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), according to officials on Tuesday. The board exams are set to start tomorrow.
“Mobile, ChatGPT and other electronic items will not be allowed in examination hall,” according to instructions issued by the board ahead of the papers. “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.
Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) can produce text that resembles human speech, songs, marketing copy, news articles, student essays, and more based on the input it receives.
A large language model (LLM), a new artificial intelligence (AI) system, is intended to produce writing that resembles that of a human by anticipating subsequent word sequences.
This year, there will be about 38 lakh students taking the CBSE board exams, which will start today, February 15. The exmas will be administered between February 15 and April 5.
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There are 21.8 lakh candidates total who have registered for class 10, of whom 9.39 lakh are female students, 12.4 lakh are male candidates, and 10 students have selected the “others” category. As only 16.9 lakh candidates have signed up for this year’s board exams, there are fewer candidates overall for class 12th, 7.4 lakh of the 16 lakh students are female, 9.51 are male candidates, and 5 are listed under the “others” category.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has disclosed information indicating that board exams will be administered in more than 7200 locations throughout the nation and in 26 different nations worldwide.
The class 10 exams will be administered in 76 subjects over the course of 16 days, and they will be finished by March 21. For class 12, there are 115 subject exams that will last 36 days and end on April 5. The CBSE will administer exams in 191 subjects in total.