CBSE 2027 Date Sheet: Class 10 and 12 Board Exams Start 16 February

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) released the date sheet for the Class X and Class XII Board Examinations 2027 on 6 November 2026. Both classes start on Tuesday, 16 February 2027. Class X papers end on 9 March 2027 and Class XII papers on 9 April 2027. Every paper starts at 10:30 am.

CBSE says it prepared the schedule from the List of Candidates (LOC) submitted by schools, which gives it each student's subject combination, and that more than 40,000 combinations were checked so that no student has two papers on the same day. Over 26.5 lakh students have registered for Class X and over 19.8 lakh for Class XII. Class X students will write papers in 83 subjects and Class XII students in 121.

Class X: dates of the main papers

The first Class X paper is Painting on 16 February. Computer Applications, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence are on 24 February, regional languages such as Tamil, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati on 4 March, French on 6 March, and the last day, 9 March, has German, Spanish, Japanese, NCC and Elements of Book Keeping and Accountancy. The main papers run from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm; most skill subjects and music papers end at 12:30 pm.

Class XII: dates of the main papers

A student with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics gets 11 days between Physics and Chemistry and 10 days between Chemistry and Mathematics; Biology comes on 25 March. Commerce students write Accountancy on 23 February, Economics on 16 March and Business Studies on 1 April. Psychology is on 2 March, Sociology on 30 March and Legal Studies on 8 April. The Class XII schedule ends on 9 April with Retail and Web Application.

CBSE says it took the tentative dates of the main entrance exams into account. The National Testing Agency's proposed calendar puts JEE (Main) Session 2 on 2 to 7 April 2027. The Class XII papers on 6 to 9 April are Sanskrit Core, Taxation, Multi-Media, Textile Design, Data Science, Legal Studies, Retail and Web Application, so students who take one of these and also plan to write JEE Main in April should keep an eye on both schedules.

Practical exams and marks split

Practical examinations, project work and internal assessment for 2026-27 start on 1 January 2027 for schools in India and abroad. Schools in winter-bound areas, which close in January, hold them from 9 November to 19 December 2026, according to a CBSE circular of 5 November 2026. For Class X, internal assessment is done only once.

A separate circular of 6 November 2026 gives the marks split for every subject. In Class X, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and the languages have an 80-mark theory paper and 20 marks of internal assessment, and the skill subjects have 50 marks of theory and 50 of practical. In Class XII, Physics, Chemistry and Biology have 70 marks of theory and 30 of practical with an external examiner, while Mathematics has 80 marks of theory and 20 of internal assessment.

What students should do now

Mark the date of each of your subjects by its subject code. The schedule follows the subjects your school entered in the LOC; the window for schools to correct LOC data ran from 2 to 7 November 2026, and CBSE said no correction would be made after it. CBSE says detailed instructions will follow separately and that the instructions printed on the admit card must be followed; communication devices are not allowed in the examination centre. For what comes after Class XII, see our pages on JEE Main 2027 and CUET (UG).

Source: CBSE date sheet for the Class X and Class XII Board Examinations 2027, issued on 6 November 2026 by the Controller of Examinations, CBSE.