The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) released a revised date sheet for class 10 and class 12 board exams on Friday. The exam will begin on May 4 and end on June 14. The last Class 10 paper is on June 7, while the last Class 12 exam will be held on June 14.

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The results will be announced by July 15. To access the latest date sheet, visit the official CBSE website: www.cbse.gov.in. Once you are in the site, these are the steps you have to follow:

On the homepage, there is a column ‘LATEST @ CBSE’.

Under this, there will be direct links to Class 10 and Class 12 board date sheet.

On the basis of your Class, click on the link.

The exam schedule will open in a new window.

Download the schedule or and take a print.

Click here for the direct link to the revised class 10 date-sheet.

Click here for the direct link to the revised class 12 date-sheet.

Several changes have been made in the revised date sheet. Date for the Class 12 Physics exam has been changed from May 13 to June 8. Apart from this, the dates of the Geography Class 12 exam, too, has been changed.

It will be held on June 3 instead of June 2. On May 13 and 14, there will be no exams for Class 12 students. The dates for History and Banking exam also have been revised.

For Class 10, the Mathematics paper has been shifted from May 21 to June 2. Other Class 10 exams that have been rescheduled are French, German, Arabic, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Punjabi, Russian and Urdu. Schools have started conducting the practical examinations from March 1.

For Class 12, the exams will be conducted in two shifts. Staff who are part of the morning shift will not take part in the afternoon shift, as a precautionary measure against COVID-19.

Here are 10 things you need to know:

The board exams will be held in written mode, not online.

The duration of each exam has been mentioned in the date sheet.

Class 10 exams will be held in one shift from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm.

Class 12 exams will be held in two shifts — 10.30 am to 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm.

For the 10.30 am exam, answer books will be distributed between 10:00 am and 10.15 am.

For the 2.30pm exam, students will be given answer books between 2:00 pm and 2.15 pm.

After distribution of the answer books, students will get 15 minutes to read the question paper.

They need to write their particulars on the answer book, which will be checked and signed by assistant superintendent.

After that, candidates can start writing their answers.

For Class 10, the examinations will be held in 75 subjects, while for Class 12, it’s 111 subjects.

(Edited by : Jomy)

First Published:Mar 5, 2021 7:11 PM IST