CBSE Board Exam 2026 date sheet OUT: Class 10, 12 exams to be held from February 17 – check tentative full schedule

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced the provisional date sheets for the 2026 Board Exams for Class 10 and Class 12. The board examinations are scheduled to be performed from February 17, 2026 to July 15, 2026.

Students should observe that the date sheets supplied within the notification are tentative. Final date sheets will be issued upon submission of the ultimate record of candidates by the colleges.

CBSE Class tenth, twelfth Board exams: Tentative dates

According to an official notification by CBSE, the Secondary School or the Class tenth examination is anticipated to begin on Tuesday, 17 February, with Mathematics and conclude on Monday, 19 March, with a language paper.

The Senior Secondary School 2nd examination is tentatively scheduled to start on Friday, May 15 and finish on Monday, June 1.

The Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) or the Class 12 examination will start on Tuesday, February 17, for college kids showing for topics similar to Biotechnology, (*17*), and Shorthand. The examination is scheduled to finish on Thursday, April 9, with papers together with Sanskrit Core, Multimedia, and Data Science.

Around 45 lakh candidates are anticipated to take the board exams for 204 topics throughout Classes X and XII, together with college students from India and 26 different nations in 2026, the board knowledgeable.

By releasing the schedule months earlier than the scheduled examination, CBSE goals to assist college students put together structured research plans to improve their efficiency. Schools can align their educational and administrative actions, together with the deployment of lecturers for examination and analysis duties. Additionally, lecturers can plan their private schedules, together with holidays, with better readability, CBSE stated.

The analysis of reply scripts will most definitely start almost 10 days after every topic’s examination is performed and can be accomplished inside 12 days. For instance, if the Class XII Physics examination is about for twentieth February 2026, analysis most likely begins on third March 2026 and finishes by fifteenth March 2026, the board stated.