The Central Board of Secondary Education has recently released the practical exam dates for the students of class 10th and class 12th in its latest circular and is also expected to release the official timetable for the board examinations on its official website. Candidates appearing for the examinations in the year 2025 must start the preparations and get their projects and submissions ready before the due date approaches. This article brings you the expected CBSE exam dates for both class 10th and class 12th along with the practicals and submissions due sates.
CBSE Exam Dates 2025
The board examinations conducted by the CBSE for the year 2025 will be in pen-and-paper format but there is no clarification or any announcement about the two-board exam format which was followed in the previous year on account of the outspread of Covid 19. Whether this format will be continued by the board for the new academic year 2024-24 is yet to be cleared by an official notification from the board.
CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Tentative Exam Dates
The notifications of the exams for the academic year 2023-24 came out in the month of December and the exams commenced in the month of February lasting up to the second week of April. The exams for the academic year 2024-25 are also expected to commence around the same dates. In order to provide the students appearing for the board exams with a rough idea of the dates on which the exams will be commenced so that they can prepare accordingly, the following is a tentative schedule for both classes 10th and 12th which is based on the schedule of the board examinations conducted last year.
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CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Tentative Exam Dates for Class 10th
The exams for class 10th will most probably commence in February and the official announcement of the exam timetable will be in December. The tentative exam schedule for the class 10th board examinations curated for students to facilitate better preparation is given below.
Subject | Dates |
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Painting, Tamang, Sherpa, Thai, Rai, Gurung | 15th February 2025 |
Retail, Security, Automotive, Introduction to Financial Markets, Beauty and wellness, Agriculture, Food Production, Front Office Operation, Banking & Insurance, Marketing & Sales, Health Care, Apparel, MultiMedia, Physical Activity Trainer, Data Science | 16th February 2025 |
Hindustani Music (Melodic Instruments), Hindustani Music (Percussion Instruments), Elements of Book Keeping & Accountancy, Hindustani Music (Vocal) | 17th February 2025 |
Sanskrit | 19th February 2025 |
Urdu Course-A, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Manipuri, Urdu Course-B | 20th February 2025 |
Hindi | 21st February 2025 |
National Cadet Corps, Telugu-Telangana, Bodo, Tangkhul, Japanese, Bhutia, Spanish, Kashmiri, Mizo, Bahasa Melayu | 23rd February 2025 |
Punjabi, Sindhi, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese, Kannada | 24th February 2025 |
English Language and Literature | 26th February 2025 |
Elements of Business, Healthcare | 28th February 2025 |
Science | 2nd March 2025 |
Home Science, Multi Skill Foundation Course, Tibetan | 4th March 2025 |
Arabic, Russian, Persian, Lepcha, Persian, Nepali, Limboo, German, French, Carnatic Music (Melodic Instruments), Carnatic Music (Vocal), Carnatic Music (Percussion Instruments) | 5th March 2025 |
Social Science | 7th March 2025 |
Mathematics Standard, Mathematics Basic | 11th March 2025 |
Computer Applications, Information and Technology, Artificial Intelligence | 13th March 2025 |
CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Tentative Exam Dates for Class 12th (Science Stream)
The exams for class 12th will most probably commence in February and the official announcement of the exam timetable will be in December. The tentative exam schedule for the class 12th (Science Stream) board examinations curated for students to facilitate better preparation is given below.
Subjects | Dates |
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Biotechnology | 17th February 2025 |
Electronics Technology | 17th February 2025 |
Chemistry | 27th February 2025 |
Physics | 5th March 2025 |
Maths/Applied Maths | 10th March 2025 |
Biology | 21st march 2025 |
Computer Science/ Informatics Practices | 2nd April 2025 |
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CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Tentative Exam Dates for Class 12th (Commerce Stream)
The exams for class 12th will most probably commence in February and the official announcement of the exam timetable will be in December. The tentative exam schedule for the class 12th (Commerce Stream) board examinations curated for students to facilitate better preparation is given below.
Subjects | Dates |
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Entrepreneurship | 15th February 2025 |
Accountancy | 26th March 2025 |
Economics | 20th March 2025 |
Business studies/ Business administration | 28th March 2025 |
Maths/Applied maths | 10th March 2025 |
Computer Science/ Informatics Practice | 2nd April 2025 |
CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Tentative Exam Dates for Class 12th (Arts Stream)
The exams for class 12th will most probably commence in February and the official announcement of the exam timetable will be in December. The tentative exam schedule for the class 12th (Arts Stream) board examinations curated for students to facilitate better preparation is given below.
Subjects | Dates |
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English Elective/Core | 22nd February 2025 |
Hindi Elective/Core | 19th February 2025 |
Geography | 3rd March 2025 |
Political science | 25th March 2025 |
History | 29th March 2025 |
Sociology | 1st April 2025 |
Psychology | 18th March 2025 |
CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Tentative Exam Dates for Class 12th (Vocational Subjects)
The exams for class 12th will most probably commence in February and the official announcement of the exam timetable will be in December. The tentative exam schedule for the class 12th (Vocational Subjects) board examinations curated for students to facilitate better preparation is given below.
Subjects | Dates |
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Physical activity trainer | 15th February 2025 |
Early Childhood Care & Education | 17th February 2025 |
Horticulture | 18th February 2025 |
Food Production | 20th February 2025 |
Healthcare | 21st February 2025 |
Fashion Studies | 24th March 2025 |
Beauty and wellness | 1st March 2025 |
CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Timings of Exams
The board exams conducted by CBSE usually start with the students reaching the exam centre by 9:30 AM and the answer sheets in which the students will be writing their exams are distributed at 10 AM. The question papers are distributed fifteen minutes after the answer sheet at 10:15 AM. Students are then provided 15 minutes to read the paper. This time is provided only for reading the paper and the students are allowed to start answering the questions only at 10:30 AM. The exam lasts for two hours till 1:30 PM and till 12:30 for some of the elective papers. It is necessary for students to report to the exam centre on time in order to avoid unnecessary stress.
CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Practical Exam & Project Submission DatesĀ
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The practical exam dates for schools that are winter-bound have already been announced by the board. As per the instructions of CBSE, the schools that are located in areas that face extreme climate conditions will be conducting their practicals between the 5th of November and the 5th of December. The subjects that will have practical exams include biology, chemistry, physics, computer applications, physical education, and home science. The board has also directed the schools to complete their project submissions by the 5th of December 2024 along with all the assessments that have to be conducted like the oral exams. The board has also issued guidelines for schools ordering them to conduct the practicals according to the set of procedures specified so that the exams are fair and without any hiccups.
CBSE Exam Dates 2025: Steps to Download the Official Exam Schedule
The official exam schedule will be declared soon on the official website of the board and the candidates who will be appearing for the board examination may follow the following set of steps in order to download the official PDF.
- Step 1: Go to the official website of the board.Ā
- Step 2: From the homepage of the official website the candidate will have to spot the āCBSE 10th and 12th Date Sheet 2025ā.
- Step 3: The candidate will then have to click on the link and it will direct you to the PDF version of the exam schedule for class 10th and class 12th.
- Step 4: The students then have to download the PDF and may also print a hard copy for their own future reference.Ā
Conclusion
The CBSE Exam Dates 2025 will be out on the official website probably by December and the candidates must start their preparations accordingly and also submit all the projects within the due date as they make up a substantial part of the overall scores, especially in subjects like English and Maths. The board examinations often decide the future of the students. Hence, the candidates must ensure that they start focussing on their studies and perform well. The students are advised to keep themselves up-to-date with all the new announcements and notifications released by the board on its official website regarding the examinations.