Thiruvanathapuram: The Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations will begin in Kerala from Wednesday. A total of 4,46,625 students will appear for this year's examination.

Out of the total number of candidates, 2,21,053 are boys and 2,25,572 are girls. In addition to this, 8,750 candidates are taking the exam under the private new-scheme category.

3,74,532 students will take the examinations in their mother tongue and more than 66,231 candidates in English.

A significant number of students will also take the examination in Tamil and Telugu.

The Education Department had also set up 41 centralized valuation camps across the state. A total of 1,052 chief examiners and 10,514 assistant examiners will take part in the camp.