CBSE Exam Date News: CBSE class 10, 12 exams to be held from July 1 to 15: Ministry of Human Resources Development

NEW DELHI: The 29 pending subjects of the CBSE Board exams will take place from July 1 to 15, 2020. This was announced by the union minister for human resources development on Friday. The exams were suspended after the national closure due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Class X exams for six subjects will be held only for northeast Delhi students who were suspended due to riots earlier this year. The date sheet will be announced by CBSE shortly.

As first reported by the TOI on Wednesday, the exams will take place in the first two weeks of July, before the JEE (main) and NEET-UG scheduled later in the month. Resting on all speculation, DRH union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said: “The pending CBSE exams will take place from July 1 to 15, 2020. Students have enough time to review and perform well.”

Previously, on April 1, 2020, CBSE announced that it will conduct exams for only 29 core subjects out of the 41 pending Class X and XII Board exams. CBSE in its statement also said it will issue instructions for grading and evaluating the other postponed subjects for which there will be no further exams.

CBSE was unable to conduct tests on eight test days due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation after March 18. In addition, due to the law and order situation in the North East Delhi district, the board was unable to conduct exams on four exam days, while a very small number of students from and around this district were unable to appear in exams in six exam days.

Class X subjects for Northeast Delhi include Hindi A course, Hindi B course, English communication, English language and literature, science and social science. Class XII subjects for Northeast Delhi include Elective -N, Elective -C, Basic English, Mathematics, Economics, Biology, Political Science, History, Physics, Accounting, Chemistry. Class XII subjects for all of India are business studies, geography, Hindi (elective), Hindi (core), home science, sociology, computer science (old), computer science (new), information practice (old) , information practice (new), Information technology, Biotechnology.