Bengaluru: The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) has announced the schedule for the 2024 pre-university certificate (II PU) and Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations. 

Commencing on March 1, the II PU board exams will kick off with Kannada and Arabic papers and conclude with Hindi papers on March 22. The examination period will be from 10:15 am to 1:30 pm. Subsequently, the SSLC exams will commence on March 25 with the first language papers and conclude on April 6. For JTS students, oral and practical exams are scheduled for April 8.

Both SSLC and II PUC examinations will have a total duration of 3 hours for writing the first language and other optional subjects, along with 15 minutes allocated for reading. Second and third language subjects will have a writing time of 2 hours and 45 minutes.

II PU EXAM:
March 1: Kannada and Arabic;
March 4: Maths and Education;
March 5: Political Science, Statistics;
March 6: IT, Retail, Automobile, healthcare, beauty and wellness;
March 7: History, Physics;

March 9; Optional Kannada, Accountancy, Geology, and Home Science;
March 11: Logic, Business Studies;
March 13: English;
March 15: Hindustani music, Psychology, Chemistry, Basic Maths;
March 16: Economics;
March 18: Geography, Biology;
March 20: Sociology, Electronics, Computer Science;
March 21: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Urdu, Sanskrit, French, and
March 22: Hindi.

SSLC EXAM :
March 25: First language Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, English and Sanskrit
March 27: Social Science
March 30: Science, Political Science, Hindustani Music, Karnataka Music
April 2: Maths and Sociology
April 2: Economics, Elements of Electrical Engineering, Elements of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering-2, Elements of Mechanical Engineering-4, Engineering Graphics-2, Elements of Electronics Engineering-4, Elements of Electronics Engineering, Programming in ANSI ‘C’, Elements of Computer Science

April 4: Third Language Hindi, Kannada, English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit, Konkani, and Tulu 
April 6: second language English and Kannada.