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CBSE exams after Assembly polls
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct annual examinations of Class X and Class XII exams from March 9, a day after the last phase of polling in the upcoming assembly elections in five states.
​New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct annual examinations of Class X and Class XII exams from March 9, a day after the last phase of polling in the upcoming assembly elections in five states.
The board has given careful consideration to the situation before postponing the exams by a week which will now allow the students to get more time for preparation and ensure uninterrupted sequence of examinations, a CBSE statement said.
The CBSE Class X examinations, in which 16,67,573 students are expected to appear, would end on April 10. Class XII annual examinations, for which 10,98,420 students are expected to appear, would go on till April 29.
According to a statement, the annual examinations of Class X and XII will be conducted from March 9 in view of the state assembly elections being conducted in Punjab, Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. On March 8, voting is scheduled in some constituencies of Uttar Pradesh and Manipur.
The CBSE also said it has made all possible efforts to maintain reasonable time gap between the major papers and ensure that the students appearing for Joint Engineering Exam and upcoming National Eligibility cum Entrance Test complete the CBSE examinations ahead of these entrance exams.
The annual exam result will be declared on time as the board has adopted several IT initiatives which will aid in faster result processing, it said.
