Coimbatore: For the first time , Class X students in the city wrote board exams in the afternoon session.While some students found the session more relaxed as they could reach the exam centres early and revise leisurely in the morning, others found the language paper difficult to crack.Exam in the morning hours would force students to get up early and rush to the centres, said a Class X student. “But the afternoon session was not so. Teachers conducted revision sessions to clear doubts in the last minute. They also gave us tips,” he said.Teachers agreed. “To attend exam in the morning hours, the students have to hurry as they have to tackle the busy traffic. They won’t get enough time to revise before the exam,” said a teacher posted as a departmental officer at an examination centre in the city.But some teachers had a different opinion. “If the exam is in the morning, students would be fresh when they reach the hall. By noon, they will be tired,” said R Vivekanandan, a Tamil teacher from Thambu Higher Secondary School.Most of the students found the Tamil-I paper tough, the teacher said. “As many as 28 questions were twisted or made deliberately complicated. Usual, only one or two questions would be twisted,” said Vivekanandan. “Students had to spend a lot of time to understand the questions. As a result, many of them couldn’t answer all questions.”A total of 40,698 students have been registered for the Class X exams in the district, which has 146 examination centres. The city has 15,181 students appearing for the exams.

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