(1) The Examiners Committee shall from among the panel of examiners drawn up each year, set up a Board of Examiners in each subject in the manner hereinafter provided.
(2) Each Board of Examiners shall consist of a Chief Examiner, one or more Deputy Chief Examiners and as many Examiners, not being less than four, as may be necessary, in accordance with sub-rule (4) below.
(3) Selection to the Board of Examiners in each subject shall be strictly on the basis of seniority in length of service. The senior most examiner on each board shall be the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Examiner for his subject, and the next junior to him hall be the Vice- Chairman.
(4) One Deputy Chief Examiner shall be appointed for every five Examiners or fraction thereof and one Examiner shall be appointed for every two hundred and forty candidates or fraction thereof. The Deputy Chief Examiner shall review and scrutinise the answer scripts valued by the Examiners and assigned to him by the Chief Examiners. He shall also assist the Chief Examiner in other duties, if so required by the Chief Examiner.
(5) The Board of Examiners will carry out the work of evaluation strictly in accordance with the instructions issued by the Competent Authority from time to time and ratified by the Department. These instructions shall be issued in the form of a hand book of Instructions to Examiners.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this rule the Competent Authority shall have power to appoint any qualified person to function as an Examiner, in emergent situations.
22. Panel of Paper Setters,- (1) The Examiners committee shall also from among the Panel of Examiners drawn up each year set up a panel of paper setters for each subject in the manner hereinafter provided.
(2) The Panel of paper Setters in each subject shall consist of three examiners the senior most of whom shall act as the Chairman. It shall be the responsibility of the panel to set question papers in three sets of three answer paper each for the annual and the supplementary examinations of the year, both in English and Kannada/vernacular version. The panel shall be prepare the model answers for each question.
(3) The panel of paper setters will carry out work of question paper setting and preparation of model answers in accordance with the instructions issued by the Competent Authority.
(4) Not withstanding anything contained in the rules the Competent Authority shall have power to appoint any qualified person to function as a paper setter in emergent situations.