What are the eligibility criteria to take up the SSLC exams if I am over 18 years of age?

Eligibility of recognized High Schools to send up candidate for the examination, -

  1. All recognized High Schools shall be eligible to send up candidates for the examination subject to such conditions as may be specified from time to time by the Board.


  2. Every recognized High School shall, -

  1. supply to the Board on or before such dates may be specified by the Board, such returns are information's as may be required;

  2. maintain such registers and records as may be required; required by the Board from time to time.

  3. afford all facilities for the conduct of examination and for the tabulation of the marks and publication of the results of the examination;

  4. carry out and observe such instructions in connection with the examination as may be issued by the Board from time to time.


Conditions of eligibility to appear for the examination as a school candidate, -

  1. No person shall be eligible to appear for the examination as a school candidate unless he has –
  1. sent his application through a recognized High School in which he was studying as a regular student of the X Standard as the time of sending his application for admission to the examination and has completed the course of study prescribed for the X Standard;

  2. put in attendance of not less than seventy-five per sent of the number of working days (excluding holidays and vacation) or such other percentage of the number of working days as may be prescribed by the Department of Public Instruction as the minimum attendance required to be put in by a student of the X Standard in a recognized High School or deficiency in the required number of working days to be attended has been condoned under clause (2) or (3).

  1. Where the attendance put in by the school candidate is less than seventy-five per cent of the total number of working days in the X Standard class –
  1. the head of the recognized High School may condone deficiency in attendance of such number of days not exceeding fifteen days of the deficiency; and

  2. where the deficiency exceeds fifteen days, but does not exceed thirty days, the head of the recognized High School shall forward cases of such deficiency for condonation by the Chairman and in cases where the deficiency exceeds thirty days, the names of candidates shall be reported to the Chairman with details regarding the deficiency.

  1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the proceeding clause, the Board may in respect of a candidate or class of candidates condone deficiency of attendance either by general or special order up to such percentage of the working days as the Board may decide after considering the circumstances of any case and for reasons to be recorded in writing.


Conditions of eligibility to appear as a ex-school candidates for the examination, - No person shall be eligible to appear for the examination as an ex-school candidate unless he has registered himself as an ex-school candidate in a recognized high school after paying the prescribed fee for such registration and sent his application through such school.


Conditions of eligibility to appear as a private candidate for the examination, -
Save as otherwise provided in regulation 40, a candidate will be eligible to appear for the examination as a private candidate in the year only if he-
 

  1. completes eighteen years of age on the 1st day of March of that year where the examination is to be held during March and on the 1st day of September of the year where the examination is to be held during September.

  2. has passed the Primary VII Standard examination conducted by or under the authority of the Department of Public Instruction or an examination considered by the Board as equivalent to the Primary VII Standard examination; and a period of not less than four complete years form the date of passing such examination will have elapsed on the 1st day of March of that year where the examination is to be held in March, or on the 1st day of September of that year where the examination is to be held in September.

  3. has not attended any recognized high school at any time during the period of hundred and eighty days immediately before the 1sr day of March of that year where the examination is to be held in March and before the 1st day of September of that year where the examination is to be held in September.
      


Special conditions of eligibility to appear as a private candidate, - Notwithstanding anything contained in regulation 39, but subject to the provision 42, -  

  1. any male person who completes twenty years or any female person who completes 18 years of age during the year in which he/she wishes to appear for the examination, on the first day of March of that year where the examinations is to be held during March, or on the first day of September as where the examination is to be held during September the case may be;

  2. women candidates who have undergone the two-year condensed course conducted under the auspices of the Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi, before the last date prescribed for sending applications for the examination;

  3. physically handicapped persons; shall be eligible to appear as private candidates.


Explanation, - For the purpose of this regulation, a person shall be deemed to be physically handicapped if he is certified as such by a medical officer in the services of the State Government who is not below the rank of a District Surgeon.


Provisions relating to physically handicapped. –
Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations the provisions of these regulations relating to age, qualification, attendance, mode of examination, medium of examination and other matters shall not ably to physically handicapped persons in so far as they are in courses sent with any special provision made by the Board in respect of the physically handicapped persons and such special provision shall apply to the conduct of examination in respect of such class of persons.


Ineligibility of candidates who have passed an equivalent or higher examination.
Notwithstanding anything contained in regulations 39 and 40, no person who has passed any examination recognized as equivalent to or higher than the Mysore Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examination conducted by the Board, shall be eligible to appear for the examination as a private candidate.


Enrolment of private candidates. –

  1. Any person who intends to appear as a private candidate for the examination shall apply to be Board through the recognized institution for being enrolled as a private candidate through a recognized high school in the form of enrolment prescribed by the Board and on payment of the fee specified in Annexure VI.

  2. The application for enrolment should be accompanied by anyone of the following documents as evidence of age, namely: -

(I) Baptismal certificate;
(ii) extract from the birth register;
(iii) affidavit sworn to before a Judicial Magistrate;
(iv) extract from service register if the candidate is a Government
      servant.

  1. The Board may after being satisfied about the conditions of eligibility of the person to appear as a private candidate grant an enrolment certificate.

  2. On receipt of the enrolment certificate a candidate shall on payment of the registration fee specified in Annexure VI get himself registered with one of the recognized high school as a private candidate. A candidate shall forward the enrolment certificate granted by the Board along with his application for admission to the examination.