ahmedabad the gujarat secondary and higher secondary education board gshseb is going to introduce a statewide competition for gujarati on the lines of science and math olympiads the move is aimed at creating awareness about the language and also to attracting children towards the subject that had seen 167 lakh students failed out of more than 9 lakh that had taken the state board exams last year r r varsani chairman of the gshseb said that they plan to link it with vaanche gujarat initiative where they encourage students to read literature and then participate in the competition that would be primarily held at school level and with gradual progression would reach at a statelevel finals the decision was taken in a meeting of the education committee of the board on thursday the meet also discussed the formats of the board exams there were demands from various quarters about rethinking the existing pattern 50 multiplechoice questions mcq and 50 descriptive questions varsani said that there would be no change in the paper style at least for 2015 exams