SRINAGAR, Oct. 21 -- Preparations have been completed for holding the Class 10 exam in Kashmir.

This will be the first board exam after the Omar government announced to restore the November-December academic session.

Over 95,000 students from the Kashmir division and winter zone areas of Jammu division, including students from Ladakh, are expected to write the exam.

This time, the question papers will be a little bit competency-based to test the intelligence of the students.

"The papers will be as they used to be. No change in that. However, question papers will be a little bit competency-based. This is to test the intelligence and learning outcomes of the student," Sheikh Ghulam Hassan, Secretary, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Ed...