The CBSE Will Conduct The Practical Examinations for Classes 10 & 12 From January 1, 2024
CBSE has disclosed the Practical Examination Guidelines for Classes 10 and 12 for the academic session 2023-24. According to the official announcement on October 30, the board is set to administer the practical exam for both classes starting from January 1, 2024.
In preparation for the upcoming practical examinations, CBSE has issued a comprehensive notification outlining essential guidelines for adherence by affiliated schools. Refer to the provided guidelines below:
- Ensure timely that the sufficient number of practical answer books have been received in the school before the scheduled date for conduct of practical examination.
- Schools should inform parents and students regarding the schedule, format, and any specific requirements for the practical examinations.
- Ensure that the necessary arrangements like infrastructure, equipment, and materials are available in the laboratories for conducting practical exams. Reaffirm that the laboratories or facilities are adequately set up for students to perform their experiments.
- Contact the examiners well in time for smooth and timely conduct of the examination process on the scheduled date and time.
- Identify students with special needs or disabilities and make arrangements of necessary accommodations to ensure they can participate in the practical exams comfortably.
- The students should appear in the practical examinations as per the schedule only.
- The marks in respect of all Practical Examinations/Project/Internal Assessments shall be uploaded every day i.e. on the day of conduct of assessment.
- While uploading the marks, the school, the Internal Examiner, and the External Examiner (as the case may be) shall ensure that correct marks are uploaded as no correction in the marks will be allowed once marks are uploaded. Check maximum marks assigned to practical/Project/Internal Assessment and then award & upload the marks.
- For Class XII, the schools are not authorized to make alternate arrangement of external examiners for the conduct of practical examinations/project assessments at the local level. Practical examination can only be conducted by an external examiner appointed by the Board.
- No change in marks is allowed after finalization arid completion of the process, so proper attention of both the examiners is required to ensure the correctness of uploaded marks
- In case, it is observed that directions of the Board have not been complied with by the schools, the Board reserves its right to cancel the Practical examination.
- No extension of the dates shall be considered by the Board.
- If any clarification is required, may be contacted well in time with the concerned Regional office.
As per the newly published CBSE Date Sheet, the CBSE Class 12 exams for the year 2024 are slated to occur from February 15 to April 2. Simultaneously, the Class 10 exams for 2024 will kick off on February 15 and conclude on March 13. The examination timings for both classes are scheduled from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM.
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