NEW DELHI, Apr 26: The Ministry of Education has asked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to work out logistics for conducting board exams twice a year from the 2025-26 academic session, official sources said.
The plan for introduction of a semester system has been ruled out, they said. The Ministry and the CBSE will hold consultations with school principals next month for conducting board exams twice a year, the sources said.
The CBSE is currently in the process of working out the modalities of how to structure academic calendar to accommodate another set of board exams without impacting the undergraduate admission schedule, they said. “The ministry has asked the CBSE to work on the logistics of how will board exams be conducted twice a year. The board is working out the modalities and a consultation will be organised next month with school principals,” sources said.
“The idea being explored is to conduct two editions of the board exams at the end of the year from the 2025-26 academic session but the modalities still need to be worked out. However, there is no plan to implement the semester system,” the source added.
The New Curriculum Framework (NCF) announced by the union education ministry last year had promised holding the board examinations twice a year to ensure the students have enough time and opportunity to perform well and get an option to retain the best score.
“The idea being explored is to conduct two editions of the board exams at the end of the year from the 2025-26 academic session but the modalities still need to be worked out. However, there is no plan to implement the semester system,” the sources said.
(Manas Dasgupta)
