West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (Hindi: पश्चिमबंगाल उच्च माध्यमिक शिक्षा परिषद ) is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 12 examination (or Higher secondary level or Pre-university level examination) of West Bengal, India. The examination for the 12th standard is called the Uchyaa Madhyamik(Hindi:उच्च माध्यमिक) or Higher Secondary examination (Also known by its acronym H.S. or 10+2). The Higher Secondary examination is conducted annually and simultaneously all over the state of West Bengal and also in affiliates of the board located outside West Bengal, elsewhere in India.
It has its headquarters at Vidyasagar Bhavan, Salt Lake City, in Kolkata, India. Besides it main office it has 3 other offices at Bidhannagar, Korunamoyee, Kolkata along with other 4 regional offices.
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