CBSE Class 10, 12 term-I date sheet to release on October 18, exams to be held offline

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday (October 14, 2021) said that it will release the date sheet for the first term board exams for classes 10 and 12 on October 18. The students will be able to check the date sheet at the official website of the central board- cbse.nic.in or cbseacademic.nic.in, once released.

The CBSE Class 10, 12 term-I exams are to be held in November-December 2021. The central board also revealed that it will have multiple-choice questions (MCQ) covering only the first half of the rationalised syllabus.

“Term-1 board exams for Classes 10, 12 to be conducted offline; date-sheet to be announced on October 18. Term-1 board exams for Classes 10, 12 to be objective-type tests of 90-minute duration,” said CBSE.

CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj said, "After the conduct of the term-1 exams, the results in the form of the marks scored will be declared. No student will be placed in the pass, compartment and essential repeat categories after the first term. The final results will be announced after the first and the second-term examinations."

"Practical exams or internal assessment will be completed in schools before the first-term exams are over. The marks allotted will be 50 per cent of the total marks and mentioned in the syllabus. The schools will be informed separately about the full scheme so that they can make the necessary preparations," he added.

The CBSE is offering 114 subjects in Class 12 and 75 subjects in Class 10.

"The CBSE has to conduct the examinations for a total of 189 subjects. If the tests are conducted for all the subjects, the entire duration of the examinations would be about 40-45 days. Therefore, to avoid learning loss of students, the CBSE has decided that the subjects offered by it will be divided into two parts -- major subjects and minor subjects," Bhardwaj said.

"As the major subjects are offered by almost all the affiliated schools, the exams for these subjects will be conducted by fixing a date-sheet, as done earlier. Regarding the minor subjects, the CBSE will make groups of schools offering these subjects and thus, more than one paper would be conducted by the board in the schools on a day," he added.

Bhardwaj further said the second-term examination would be conducted in March-April, 2022 and whether it will be objective or subjective-type will depend on the Covid situation in the country.

(With PTI inputs)