guwahati the assam state board examination for class xii scheduled for midmarch will frame questions based on the full syllabus but allow some leeway in the form of easier alternate questions to help students whose studies suffered in the second wave of the pandemic last year around 215 lakh students have registered for the examination this year on thursday the assam higher secondary education council ahsec assured a highlevel delegation of the all assam students union aasu that there will be alternate questions in each paper however the class x state board examination which will be held simultaneously will be based on a 40 curtailed syllabusahsec officials assured us today that though the examination will be based on the full syllabus there will be lots of alternate questions in each paper this wont put the students who could not study the entire syllabus because of lack of physical classes in trouble aasu general secretary sankar jyoti baruah who headed the delegation told toiin the previous academic session too the board of secondary education assam seba had curtailed its syllabus ahsecs decision to include the full syllabus is aimed to help students prepare for the competitive examinations that they will have to face immediately after the test in 2020 after the state was hit by the first wave of covid in march seba had trimmed the syllabus for classes ix and x students by 30 while ahsec had also curtailed the syllabus of classes xi and xii by the same percentage since class x passouts dont have to appear for medical engineering and other entrance tests soon after matriculation the cut in the syllabus may not affect them ahsec secretary pulak patgiri said they are going with the full syllabus so the examinees can compete with the students of other boards at the national level if they dont go through the entire syllabus our students will face problems in future examinations curtailing the syllabus would harm the brighter students said patgirihe informed that more options will be given mainly to help mediocre and poor students