Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

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Abbreviation	MPBSE
Formation	1965
Type	Governmental Organization
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Administration of education related matters in MP
Headquarters	Bhopal, MP, India
Location	India Madhya Pradesh
Official language	Hindi, English & Urdu
Owner	Government of MP
Chairman	Smt. Veera Rana IAS
Secretary	Shri.Krishna Deo Tripathi IAS
Board of directors	Sheela Dahima, Addl. Secretary Hridyesh Shrivastav, Dy. Secretary Gopal Prasad Singh, Joint Dir.Finance Balwant Verma, Exam Controller Bhupesh Gupta, Chief Systems Officer Vijay Guhe, Registrar Mukesh Kumar Malviya, Registrar
Main organ	Government of Madhya Pradesh
Website	official website

Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (abbreviated MPBSE) is a board of school education in Madhya Pradesh State of India.^[1]

The MPBSE is a Madhya Pradesh government body responsible for determining the policy-related, administrative, cognitive, and intellectual direction of the state's higher educational system. The board regulates and supervises the system of Intermediate education in Madhya Pradesh State. It executes and governs various activities that include devising of courses of study, prescribing syllabus, conducting examinations, granting affiliations to colleges. MPBSE also provides direction, support and leadership for all educational institutions under its jurisdiction^[2] It also runs model schools such as the Model High, TT Nagar. mp board has announced syllabus deduction up to 40% on 25 sep 2023 for class 12. this includes humanities science and commerce stream for class 10 it would remain the same as per government order

Establishment

The Madhya Pradesh Legislature, in the sixteenth year of the Republic of India, enacted an Act for the establishment of a Board in order to regulate Secondary Education in Madhya Pradesh and other ancillary matters. In 1965 this autonomous body was established under The Madhya Pradesh Secondary Education Act, 1965.^[3]

Activities

• To grant affiliation/recognition to schools.
• To prescribe courses and text books at High school and Intermediate level.
• To conduct High school and Intermediations.
• To provide equivalence to the examinations conducted by other Boards.

Academics

The MPBSE prescribes the syllabus, for students from Standard IX to Standard XII, for schools affiliated with it & exams whose scores are necessary to gain admission in higher study institutes.

• Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Urdu, Arabic, French, Russian or Persian, can be chosen as a language subject in addition to the compulsory English language and Hindi languages.

Examination

It conducts three board examinations: the Middle School Exam for Standard VIII, High School Certificate Examination for standard X and the Higher Secondary (School) Certificate (HSC) Exam for standard XII, which is a school-leaving examination.^[4]