Putting a full stop to confusion and questions over the state board exams, School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad on Friday declared in the Assembly that SSC and HSC exams will take place as scheduled and in the traditional offline pattern. Gaikwad was responding to questions raised by the Opposition. 

There is much discussion on board examinations amid increasing COVID cases. Concerned parents and teachers have been opposing the holding of exams offline. With the declaration of the time table, the state board, however, had cleared the confusion.