bengaluru a day after the class 10 examinations ended the karnataka secondary education examination board kseeb released the key answers for secondary school leaving certificate sslc exam or class 10it is also expected that the karnataka sslc exam 2021 results will be announced in a fortnight students can check the key answers on the official site of kseeb sslckarnatakagovin released on thursday nightamid pandemic concerns the twoday class 10 exams began across the state on monday and thursday with as many as 876 lakh students registering for these examinations this year as many as 30000 more students appeared this year for the exam as compared to the 2020 academic year this year more than eight lakh students appeared for the sslc exams 2021according to the circular released by the kseeb students must note that the answer key links will have subject codes mentioned on them in such a case they can even refer to the subject codes and then access that particular answer key the circular saidthis is for the second consecutive year that the kseeb is conducting the sslc examinations after the covid outbreak in march last year in karnataka however for the first time the examinations have been reduced from six days to two days with students writing one paper for three subjects each dayon monday students wrote the exam for core subjects mathematics science and social science while on thursday students wrote language papers such as kannada english hindi and sanskritowing to covid concerns the kseeb this year has increased the number of examination centres and teachers on duty with as many as 119 lakh staff deployed for 73064 exam halls in 4885 centres across the statestudents attempted a multiple choice question mcq paper and marked the right option on the omr optical mark recognition or optical mark reading sheetsthe omr sheets were of different colours so that there was no confusion among students while appearing for class 10 examinations the evaluation process is expected to be faster this year as there is no conventional method involved in finalising the marks of the students