CBSE Releases Guidelines, SOPs For Board Practical Exams 2025, Check The Details

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released a notification regarding the ‘Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the conduct of Practical Examinations/Project/lnternal Assessment’ for class 10 and 12 board examinations.

The SOPs aims to bring in uniformity of instructions and to ensure the correctness of the procedures to be followed. The practical exams are scheduled to be conducted from January 1, 2025 to February 14, 2025, a notification issued by the CBSE said.

Major takeaways from the guidelines and SoPs for the Practical Examinations/Project/Internal Assessment of Class 10 and 12

• Schools need to comply with the directions given in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and complete the assessment as per schedule.
• The schools, the internal and external examiners, while uploading the marks, should ensure that correct marks are uploaded as no correction in the marks will be allowed once they are uploaded.
• Correct and timely assessment of Practical, Project and Internal Assessment component in classes 10 and 11 is very important.
• Pointing out that some schools were committing mistakes and requesting the Board to change the results after its declaration, the CBSE has made it clear no request will be accepted to change the uploaded marks.
• The marks in respect of all practical examinations/project/internal assessments will be uploaded simultaneously, starting from the dates of conduct of exams/assessments.
• Practical Examinations/Project/Internal Assessments should be conducted for the regular students sponsored through L0C of classes 10 and 12, based on the eligibility/bona fide status of the student(s).
• Students found guilty of communicating or attempting to communicate with examiners with the objective of influencing them or using any other undesirable means for taking undue advantage during exams/assessments will be deemed to have used/attempted unfair means.
• The CBSE, if observes that directions have not been complied with by the schools, reserves right to cancel the practical examination. It can also reconsider practical examination under its own supervision.
• The school will be able to create batches of 30 students each in every subject and shall conduct the practical/project assessment of each batch together.

To view the full notice regarding guidelines and SoPs for practical exams, click here.