The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released the date sheet for the Class 10 and 12 Board Examinations 2026. The examinations will start on February 17, 2026. CBSE had first announced that the Class 10 and 12 examinations in 2026 will start from February 17 while declaring the results of the 2025 examination. The CBSE had said that the 2026 Board examinations for Class 10 will be conducted as per the recommendations made in NEP-2020.
The notice says that, based on the registration data of Class 9 and Class 11, CBSE, for the first time, released a tentative date sheet for 2026 examinations on September 24, 2025, i.e., 146 days before the start of examinations, so that stakeholders could make their preparations accordingly. As all schools have submitted their LOC and CBSE now has the final data of subject combinations offered by the students, CBSE has prepared the date sheet for the examinations to be scheduled from February 17, 2026 onwards, i.e., 110 days prior to the start of the examinations.
While preparing the date sheet, CBSE stated that a sufficient gap has been given between two subjects generally offered by a student in both classes. The date of conduct of entrance examinations meant for the students of Class 12 has been taken into consideration, and efforts have been made to complete the examinations much before the entrance examinations. CBSE said that this will help students in better time management for both the Board and entrance examinations.
During evaluation, teachers of all subjects will not stay away from their school simultaneously for a long period. The date sheet has been prepared by avoiding more than 40,000 subject combinations to ensure that no two subjects’ examinations offered by a student fall on the same date. The time of the start of the examinations will be at 10.30 a.m.
To ensure that the JEE (Main) and CBSE examinations of the students do not coincide, NTA will require the registration number of the student of Class 11 to be filled in the JEE (Main) application. Accordingly, all the schools are requested to provide the registration number of Class 11 to their students applying for JEE (Main). Date sheets can be downloaded from the CBSE’s official website.
