CBSE dates have been announced keeping in mind assembly elections in five states.
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced class X and class XII exams dates. Considering, that assembly polls are scheduled in five states from February 4-March 8, CBSE exams will begin from March 9.
10.9 lakh students will be writing Class XII exam from March 9 to April 29, while 16.6 lakh students to take Class X exam from March 9 to April 10.
According to a statement released by the CBSE, 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 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, the CBSE statement said.
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.
Last year, 14,91,371 students had taken the Class X exams while 16,67,573 students would take the exam this year. Of these 8,84,710 candidates would be taking the board based examination while 7,82,863 candidates would be taking the school-based exam.
The CBSE currently gives its students the option of taking either the school-based or board-based examination. For the class X exam, there would be 3,974 centres and 16,354 schools, the CBSE said. The total number of candidates for the class XII exam is 10,98,420 while the number of centres is 3,503 and the number of schools 10,677.
Earlier, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) has decided to reschedule its class X and XII examinations. CISCE Chief Executive Gerry Arathoon said that owing to elections, the examinations will be rescheduled but emphasised that no dates have been finalised yet.
According to the previous schedule, the CISCE was planning to hold Indian School Certificate Examination for the year 2017 from February 6 and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education Examination from February 27.
With PTI inputs
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