CBSE Board Exam 2025: Thorough Guidelines and SOPs for Practical Exams
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The Central Board of Secondary Education released key Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures for the forthcoming practical exams, projects, and internal assessments of Classes 10 and 12 students. The guidelines have been formulated to standardize and preserve the procedural integrity of the processes involved. The new practical exams will be conducted from January 1, 2025, to February 14, 2025.
Let’s discuss the key takeaways from the notification, along with specific instructions for smooth execution of these assessments.
1. General Guidelines for Practical Examinations, Projects, and Internal Assessments
o All practical exams, projects, and internal assessments must strictly adhere to the syllabus provided for the respective academic session.
o The syllabus and detailed guidelines are available on the CBSE Academic Branch’s official website: cbseacademic.nic.in.
2. Real-Time Marks Submission
o Schools should upload marks for practical exams, projects, and internal assessments simultaneously as they conduct.
o The uploading procedure should be done within the date of the examination period, which is from January 1, 2025 to February 14, 2025.
3. Fair Conduct of Examinations
o Strict punishment will be given to students who indulge in unfair practices like trying to influence the examiners or using wrong methods during an examination or assessment.
o. Those such events ought to be reported by Examiners promptly to the corresponding Regional Office concerned accompanied with necessary documentations and/or with statements from witnesses.
4. UFM Policy
o. The following will amount as UFM cases when in any case students, teacher, or other stakeholders act detrimental to the integrity of examinations.
o. The board concerned will also apply stringent ways of correcting such offenses
About Specific Practical exams instruction for class 10:
For the Class 10 students, CBSE has given special instructions to make assessment easy.
• No External Examiner
o Class 10 Practical exams will not have an external examiner as is there for class 12 practicals. The assessment would be internal, conducted by respective schools
• No Board-Provided Answer Books
o CBSE will not provide practical answer books for Class 10. It will be a school responsibility to get all of them prepared by themselves.
• Answer Book Management
o Once the practical exams, projects, or internal assessment is over, schools need not return the answer books of the students to the Regional Office CBSE.
Schedule for Practical Exams
The exams, projects, and assessments will be conducted in the scheduled time of January 1, 2025, to February 14, 2025. Students are advised to remain vigilant about their respective school schedule and prepare accordingly.
Tips for Students to Score Well in Practical Exams
Students should:
• Thoroughly Revise the Practical Syllabus Make sure you are familiar with all the concepts and experiments defined in the practical syllabus for your class.
• Keep Things on Track Do projects and internal assessment well before time, error-free, and nicely presented.
• Be a Legitimate Person Never indulge in unfair practices. Just work hard and honestly for your academic qualifications.
• Monitor Official Updates Keep looking for updates from official CBSE notifications about any change in the exams.
This year’s 2025 CBSE Board Practical examination guidelines strive to make an assessment fair and transparent. These SOPs, if adhered to along with ethical values, will keep the assessment process smooth for both students and schools.
Read more on the official CBSE Academic website or see the link below for direct reference to the notification.
