Hyderabad, April 4 -- The School Education Department has announced that those SSC candidates who attempted the sixth question in part-II of the Biology paper will receive two additional marks.

The decision was made because the sixth question in section-II of the question paper, comprising three short-answer questions of four marks each, veered away from the question paper blueprint. These two extra marks are not grace marks and will only be awarded to students who attempted the question.

The question centered around the Coleoptile experiment, requiring students to analyze a diagram and respond to a subset of four questions, each carrying one mark. However, the first and second subsets did not align with the expected academic standards....