pune first delayed and now errorridden hall tickets for the hsc board practical exams caused much anxiety to students on the first day of their practical tests on thursday as they queued up to get the mistakes on them corrected there were complaints galore about wrongly spelt names missing photographs and signature scans incomplete print of roll numbers in words mention of incorrect medium of instruction and incorrect exam centres some junior colleges even reported receipt of blank hall tickets the pune divisional board had to authorise junior college and high school officials to make last minute corrections on the spot to overcome these problems the errors on hall tickets are being attributed to the online registration system for class xii board exam that the maharashtra state board for secondary and higher secondary education msbshse switched to this year the idea behind this was to go paperless and create an elaborate electronic data base of the board exams chairman of msbshse gangadhar mhamane told toi the entire data entry work has been done by the juniorcolleges and high schools if there are any errors then it must have happened at the institution level in cases where photographs or signatures are missing the same may have not been properly attached to the forms at the time of uploading on their part colleges blamed the online system this was the first year that the system went online and the same caused several delays since many processes were done at the lastminute the same may have resulted in the errors what is worse is that since we got the halltickets at the eleventh hour there was very little time to rectify these mistakes said the viceprincipal of a junior college the board had instructed all junior colleges and high schools to conduct their practical exams for science and commerce streams between febraury 6 and 18 as per the schedule worked out by them several junior collegeshigh schools started their practical exams from thursday abasaheb garware college viceprincipal mangala khanvelkar said we have received some hall tickets with errors in names medium of instruction and missing photographs however we were able to resolve these issues by making corrections on the spot and started with our practical exams l r patankar viceprincipal of modern college said while our practicals are to commence from friday we have spent most of the time today making corrections in the hall tickets sir parsurambhau sp college viceprincipal surekha dange said we have had several hall tickets that did not carry the photograph and signature scan of the concerned students we managed to make corrections for all the science stream students so that we can start with our practicals on friday a pilot run for online enrolments was conducted during the hsc supplementary examination held in october 2013 the board had then announced that the system would be extended to the regular hsc exam from februarymarch 2014 the board had even conducted workshops for principals of junior colleges and high