MPBSE: Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

In 1965 Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) was established under The Madhya Pradesh Secondary Education Act,1965. 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. MPBSE is 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. It also runs model schools such as the Model High, TT Nagar.

MPBSE Activities

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

MPBSE Examinations

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.

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.

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