CBSE exams to be held in March, not February

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Representative                                                                              The class 10 and 12 examinations will be held in March 2018, confirmed the Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE) in its latest circular issued to all its affiliated schools.

The circular stubbed speculations that were doing rounds for a long time that the exams will be held in February. The CBSE has scheduled the practical exams for class 10 and 12 students in January 2018. Subsequently, the writ ten examinations will be held in March, 2018.

Emphasizing the need to have high quality and error free evaluation of the answer sheets, the board stated - "Smooth and efficient con duct of class 10 and 12 exami nations along with declara tion of result in time and with accuracy has always been the foremost endeavour of the bo ard. To ensure quality and er ror free evaluation of the ans wer booklets, the board requi res a large number of experienced and trained teachers to complete the whole process in a time bound manner," reads the circular which was issued on December 18.

The CBSE has directed all its affiliated schools to ensure that all teachers identified as evaluators of answer script are given no other teaching or academic work, undergo requisite training for pre-evaluation and are registered with the board as evaluators. CBSE board exams were conducted from March 9 last year.