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| Acronym | MP (SE) |
|---|---|
| Type | Public examination Paper-based Standardized test |
| Administrator | West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) |
| Skills tested | Knowledge in languages, mathematics, sciences, social sciences |
| Purpose | Certification of completion of secondary education |
| Year started | 1857 (Matriculation Exam), 1964 (as Madhyamik) |
| Duration | 10–14 days |
| Score range | 0 to 700 |
| Score validity | Permanent |
| Offered | Annually |
| Restrictions on attempts | No |
| Regions | West Bengal, Tripura |
| Languages | Bengali, Santali, English, Hindi, Urdu (depending on medium of instruction) |
| Annual number of test takers | 1,000,000+ annually (as of 2023) |
| Fee | As prescribed by the WBBSE |
| Website | WBBSE website |
Madhyamik Pariksha or simply Madhyamik is a centralized examination conducted by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in West Bengal, India, at the end of the 10th year of school education. Similarly, one examination is also conducted at the state of Tripura for its students studying in Govt or Govt Aided school under the control of Tripura Board of Secondary Education. By count of examinees, it is among the better-known 10th standard examinations in India. In WBSE, over 600,000 students took the exam in 2000, and the number has increased substantially since then. The number of students reached a record 1 million in the 2011 Madhyamik examination. Compulsory subjects are first language, second language, physical science (combined with physics and chemistry), life science, mathematics, history and geography.[1]