Bengaluru: The re-examination of the Chemistry paper was held without a hitch across the state on April 12.

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Several second pre-university students who were stressed before apprearing for the exam, heaved a sigh of relief and were all smiles while coming out of the exam centres. The Chemistry exam was held today for the third time after being cancelled twice due to question paper leaks.

It may be recalled that the Chemistry examination was first cancelled on March 21 by the Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) after the question paper was found to have been leaked. Though the re-examination was scheduled for March 31, the question papers for that exam were also leaked, forcing the DPUE officials to cancel it (re-exam) and was postponed to April 12.

As many as 1.74 lakh students appeared for the Chemistry re-exam on Tuesday.

The state PU department had taken unmatched security measures for the exam to be conducted smoothly.

Since mobile applications were extensively used to sell the leaked papers o the last two occasions, the Cyber, city and CID police squads had kept an eye on the online activities of suspected students, colleges and agents.

Pre-university teachers who continued their boycott of evaluation till MOnday reported to examination duty.