Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

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. ==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. == See also ==