22 January, 2021, 5:17 pm

The Maharashtra board has reduced the syllabus by 25 percent for students appearing in the board exams 2021. Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate (SSC or Class 10) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC or Class 12) board exam dates 2021 have been announced by State School Education Minister.

Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate (SSC or Class 10) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC or Class 12) board exam dates 2021 have been announced by State School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad on Thursday, January 21.

The written exams of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) Class 12 will be held from April 23 to May 29, 2021.

Maharashtra HSC Class 10 exams will be held from April 29 to May 31. "Written exams of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Class X will be held from April 29, 2021, to May 31, 2021. Results are expected to be announced in the last week of August 2021. All exams would be conducted in compliance with the COVID-19 norms," Ms Gaikwad tweeted. The results would be declared in July for Class 10 and August for Class 12.

Ms Gaikwad informed that the board practical exams for Class 12 will be held between April 1 and 22 and for Maharashtra Class 10 between April 9 and 28. "The written exams for Class 12 will be held between April 23 and May 29, and for Class 10 between April 29 and May 31. We are trying to declare the results of Classes 12 and 10 by July-end and August-end, respectively," the minister said.

Maharashtra Syllabus Reduced

The Maharashtra board has reduced the syllabus by 25 per cent for students appearing in the board exams 2021. Schools and junior colleges for Classes 9 to 12 had reopened in parts of the state earlier this month based on the COVID-19 situation in respective areas.

16 January, 2021, 11:18 am

The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBOSE) has released the tentative exam dates for classes 5, 8, 9, and 11. According to HPBOSE, the exams will be held in March, the class 11 exam will commence from March 16, class 8 exam from March 20, class 9 exam from March 22, and class 5 from April 1. The entire date sheet PDF link is given below.

HPBOSE Class 5 Date Sheet PDF

HPBOSE Class 8 Date Sheet PDF

HPBOSE Class 9 Date Sheet PDF

HPBOSE Class 11 Date Sheet PDF

The board earlier released the tentative date sheets for classes 10 and 12, the senior secondary exam will be held from May 4, while secondary from May 5. The exams will be held both in morning shift (9:45 am to 1 pm), and the evening shift from 1:45 pm to 5 pm.

HPBOSE Class 5 Date Sheet

HPBOSE Class 8 Date Sheet

HPBOSE Class 9 Date Sheet

HPBOSE Class 11 Date Sheet

The board exams will be held on a curtailed syllabus. The HPBoSE had reduced the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 by 30 percent.

The students have to appear in the exams following COVID-19 guidelines, wearing face masks, carrying hand sanitizers, without it, the candidates will not be allowed to appear in the exams.

The above schedule is provisional in nature, the board will soon release the dates for the board, class-wise exams.

15 January, 2021, 1:02 pm

Even as the other boards including CBSE have announced to postpone the boards this year due to the loss of instructional hours as a consequence of shutting down of physical schools due to the pandemic, the PSEB will hold its exams in March-April.

The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) will hold its annual board examination in March-April even as the other boards including CBSE have announced to postpone the exams this year due to the loss of instructional hours as a consequence of shutting down of physical schools due to the pandemic. The PSEB class 12 exams will be held from March 22 to April 27 and class 10 from April 9 to May 1.

Punjab Board will conduct class 5 exams from March 16 to 23. The exams will be held from 9 am to 12:15 pm. Practical exams for class 5 will be held from March 24 to 27 in the respective schools. For class 8 as well, the practical exams will be held from April 8 to 14. These exams will be held amid COVID precautions, the board said in its official notice.

Download Punjab Board (PSEB) 5th and 8th Exam Date Sheet 2021

Download Punjab Board (PSEB) 10th and 12th Exam Date Sheet 2021

PSEB Punjab Board Class 5th Date Datesheet 2021

March 16 – Language -I
March 17 – English
March 18 – Second language
March 19 – Environmental education
March 22 – Mathematics
March 23 – Swaagat Zindagi

While all the exams in class 5 will be for three hours duration, the ‘swaagat zindagi’ (welcome life) exam will be for two hours. Students will also get 15 minutes’ time to read the question paper.

PSEB Punjab Board Class 8th Datesheet 2021

March 22 – Langauge 1
March 23 – Swagat zindagi
March 24 – Science
March 26 – English
March 30 – Mathematics
April 1 – Language-II
April 3 – Health and physical education
April 5 – Social science
April 6 – Computer science
April 7 – Elective subject

PSEB Punjab Board Class 10th Date Sheet 2021

April 9 – Punjabi-A, Punjab History, and Culture-A
April 12 – English
April 15 – Science
April 16 – Punjabi-B, Punjab History, and Culture-B
April 17 – Music
April 19 – Social science
April 20 – Music tabla
April 22 – Hindi, Urdu
April 23 – NMQF subjects
April 26 – Mathematics
April 27 – Music (singing), home science
April 28 – Mechanical drawing and painting, cutting and stitching, agriculture, health science, pre-vocational and language subjects
April 29 – Health and physical science
April 30 – Swaagat zindagi
May 1 – Computer science

PSEB Punjab Board Class 12 Date Sheet 2021

March 23 – General Punjabi, Punjab history and culture, Sanskrit, Business organisation and management, Music (vocal), psychology
March 24 – Philosophy, Bookkeeping, and accountancy, history and appreciation of arts
March 25 – General English
March 30 – Public administration, religion, Frech, German, media studies, accountancy-II, Biology, Rural development and environment
March 31 – Punjabi elective, Hindi elective, English elective, Urdu
April 1- NSQF subjects
April 3 – History, Chemistry, Business economics, and quantitative methods,
April 5 – Swaagat zingadgi
April 6 – Computer applications
April 7 – environmental education
April 8 – Physical education and sports
April 9 – Home science
April 12 – Political science, physics, business studies-II
April 15 – Mathematics
April 16 – Music (tabla), fundamental and E-business
April 17 – Computer science
Aril 19 – Economics
April 22 – Geography
April 23 – National Cadetal Cops,
April 26 – Sociology
April 27 0 Agriculture, Dance, Defence studies

12 January, 2021, 7:00 pm

As per the tentative schedule the Class 10 exams, both regular and State Open School, will start on May 5 and end on May 20.

Click Here to Check Class 12th DateSheet

Click Here to Check Class 10th DateSheet

The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBOSE) on Tuesday released the provisional datesheet of Class 10 and Class 12 annual exams.

The board has also invited suggestions and objections regarding the provisional datesheet from the students and parents which can be can be submitted through the board’s official email-ID hpbose2011@gmail.com till February 10.

As per the tentative schedule the Class 10 exams, both regular and State Open School, will start on May 5 and end on May 20.

Similarly, the Class 12 exams will start on May 4 and conclude on May 29.

Class 10 exams will be held in the morning session and Class 12 in the evening. HPBOSE spokesperson Anju Pathak said that the final datesheet will be issued after considering the suggestion and objections.

11 January, 2021, 10:28 am

Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has released the Class 10 board examination admit card 2021. The board exams will begin on February 17.

Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has released the Class 10 board examination admit card 2021. The principles of state--government schools will have to login using their username and roll number on the official website to procure student admit cards for upcoming Class 10 Bihar board exams from February 17 to 24 and the practical exams from January 20 to 22. They can then distribute the signed hard copy of admit cards to their students. The Class 10 students will have to carry along BSEB Bihar boards admit card to the examination center.

Click Here to Check Admit Card 2021

Steps To Download BSEB Bihar Board 10th Admit Card 2021

• Go to the official website -- biharboardonline.com
• Login using your credentials
• Download the admit card
• After downloading, school principals will sign and distribute the admit cards among students.

The BSEB state board has also released mock test papers for Class 10 and Class 12 to practice for the upcoming exams.

For more information regarding admit cards, candidates can contact the official helpline numbers of BSEB-- 0612-2232074, 2232257, 2232239, 2230051 and 2232227 or send email at bsebsehelpdesk@gmail.com.

Last year BSEB Class 10 board exams 2020 were held amid COVID-19 pandemic curbs. Over 15 lakh students appeared for the exams while the overall pass percentage was 80.59.

8 January, 2021, 12:54 pm

The Board of Secondary Education Assam (SEBA) has released the schedule for High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) and Assam High Madrasa examinations on its website.

Students can check the Assam HSLC examination 2021 Schedule direct link given below.

Click Here to Check Assam HSLC Examination 2021 Schedule

As per the schedule, the board will conduct the Assam HSLC examination from May 11 to June 1, 2021. The examination will be held in pen and paper mode. The DISHA Psychometric Test will be held on June 2, 2021.

The practical examinations are scheduled to be conducted from March 4 to 5, 2021.

7 January, 2021, 1:11 pm

The second-year pre-university (class-12) exams would begin in the second week of May and the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC-class 10) in the first week of June, Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar said on Wednesday.

The Education Department has finalised the syllabus for the classes for teaching and learning purposes in view of the exams and its details have been sent to all schools and colleges, the Minister was quoted as saying in an official press statement.

Both class-10 and second year PUC are board exams in the state.

The Minister further said there was no proposal before the government to cut short the syllabus from classes-one to nine as an alternative academic schedule has been finalised.

The evaluation would be held at the school-level for these classes and be based on the students’ learning ability.

After over nine months, schools and pre-university colleges in the state re-opened for students of class-10 and second year PUC on January 1 with strict adherence COVID-19 safety norms.

Students from grades 6-9 are also coming to campuses for Vidyagama programme, which enables continued schooling.

6 January, 2021, 12:15 pm

Model question papers for matric students released, while the same for intermediate students will be released in a day or two; marking pattern also disclosed

JAC 10th Model Paper (SET-1) 2021

ENGLISH Set - 1

HINDI Set - 1

MATH Set - 1

SCIENCE Set - 1

SOCIAL SCIENCE Set - 1

The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has released model question papers for students of Class 10, who would be appearing for board examination this year, while the same for students of Class 12 will be released in a day or two, officials said on Tuesday.

JAC secretary Mahip Kumar Singh said, “Model question papers for students of Class 12, who will appear for examinations this year, are also ready. It will be released in a day or two.”

He said, “The marking pattern shown in the model question papers would be the same in the board examinations. It would help students to prepare accordingly.”

As per the first set of model question papers for Class 10, which was also uploaded on JAC’s website, written examinations of all subjects, excluding science, will be of 90 marks. The rest 10 marks will comprise internal assessment, which is to be given by schools.

The written examinations for Science subject will be of 80 marks, while 10 marks will be for practical and 10 marks for internal assessment.

Thirty percent marks will be for multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blanks-type questions, while 20% for very short answers type questions. Twenty percent each will be for short and long answer type questions, according to the first set of model question paper.

JAC officials said earlier the internal assessment used to be of 20 marks but it was reduced to 10, as schools remained closed since March last year.

Even though the model question papers for intermediate are yet to be released, JAC has declared the marking pattern for their examination.

As per the pattern, written examination of non-practical subjects--Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Mathematics, History, Political Science, Economics and Social Science--would be of 100 marks. These papers will have 30 multiple-choice answer type questions, while there will be 10 fill in the blanks type questions of one mark each.

There would be 10 very short answer type questions of two marks each, five short-answer type question of four marks each and four long-answer type questions of five marks each, JAC officials said.

Similarly, written examinations of practical subjects would be of 70 marks, while practicals would be marked out of 30. In such a paper, there would 20 multiple-choice answer type questions, seven very short answer type questions of one mark each, seven very short answer type questions of two marks each, five short answer type questions of three marks each and two long answer type questions of seven marks each.

Earlier on Monday, JAC declared the dates for board examinations of both matriculation and intermediate sections. The examinations for both classes will commence from March 9 and conclude on March 26.

5 January, 2021, 11:08 am

Maharashtra State Board exams are expected to commence after April 15 for Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) while the SSC students are likely to take the examination after May 1, 2021. Sharing the information, Maharashtra Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad took to Twitter and shared the dates for the board exams as she said 'a decision will be taken soon.’

“We are considering holding HSC exams after April 15 and SSC exams after May 1. The state is consulting health officials on the possibility of reopening schools for standard 5th to 8th. A decision will soon be taken,” Varsha Gaikwad said.

Every year, Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) releases the Maharashtra SSC, HSC Board exam 2021 date sheet on the official website, however, this year the process has been delayed in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to this, Ms Gaikwad also said that the discussions are ongoing to consider the possibility of reopening schools for the students of Classes 5 to 8.

31 December, 2020, 6:54 pm

CBSE Class 10, 12 board examinations will be held from May 4, 2020, to June 10, 2021. The practical examinations will begin from March 1.

Check Official Notification

CBSE Classes 12 and 10 Board examinations will be held from May 4, 2021, to June 10, 2021. The practical examinations will begin from March 1, 2021. Class 12 board examination will be held in pen and paper mode at designated examination halls. Class 12 students can also check the official CBSE website cbse.nic.in for the full schedule of both theory and practical exams. Students are advised to take all precautions regarding the COVID-19 protocol.

Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has announced the CBSE Boards examination dates for Class 12 during his live session.

CBSE boards examination aspirants had been asking for the board examinations schedule for over a month. They had also complained of facing stress as they are clueless about the upcoming exams which would set course for their future career.

There were several live discussions conducted by the Education Minister on December 10, December 16 and December 22 to discuss CBSE Board examinations, engineering entrance examination JEE Main 2021 and medical entrance examination NEET 2021.

29 December, 2020, 10:00 am

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) have released the exam dates for the madhyamik and uchha madhyamik pariksha or secondary examination 2021, respectively for both regular and external exams.

The madhyamik exam will be held from June 1 (11:45 am to 3 pm), while for uchha madhyamik, the exam will be held on June 15 (10 am to 1:15 pm), as per the official notice. During the exam, 15 minutes will be given to students exclusively to read the question papers.

The exam for computer application will be held for the duration of two hours and 45 minutes, for the theory exam and the practical exam will be by schools respectively. The dates of physical education and social service and work education will be announced later, as per the official notice.

WBBSE West Bengal Madhyamik date sheet 2021

WBBSE West Bengal Uccha Madhyamik datesheet 2021

All practical exams for class 12 will be held between March 10 and March 31. The official notice said, “The council may, if necessary, change the above dates with due intimation to all concerned.”

26 December, 2020, 9:39 am

The Directorate of Higher Secondary Education (DHSE) has released the schedule of Kerala Plus Two 2021 examination. An official notification regarding the Kerala class 12 registration has also been uploaded on the official website.

Students can check the schedule online at the direct link given below.

Check Kerala Plus two Schedule PDF:

According to the schedule, the directorate will conduct the Class 12 exams for Arts from March 17 to 25, 2021. The Class 12 exams for other streams will be held from March 17 to 30, 2021. However, the evaluation for Kerala Plus 2 practical will be conducted later.

Time of Examination:

Subjects without Practicals: 9.40 A.M TO 12.30 P.M including Cool Off Time of 20 minutes

Subjects with Practicals except Biology & Music: 9.40 A.M TO 12.00 P.M including Cool Off Time (20 minutes)

Biology: 9.40 A.M TO 12.10 P.M including Cool Off Time (25 minutes ie., 10 minutes each for Botany & Zoology and 5 minutes preparatory time for Zoology)

Music: 9.40 A.M TO 11.30 A.M including Cool Off Time (20 minutes)