CBSE Practical Exams 2024: Board issues instructions for schools to ensure timely completion

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued instructions for schools on practical exams 2024 for their timely completion. The instructions included guidelines on schedule, examiner, marks, and more. CBSE practical exams 2024 will commence from the first week of January 2024.

“The annual practical examinations/ internal assessment/ projects for Class 10, 12 for the session 2023-24 are scheduled to start with effect from the first week of January 2024. Therefore, to ensure its timely completion, all the stakeholders are requested to do the following,” said CBSE in an official notice.

The board said that schools must ensure that they have received the sufficient number of books before the beginning of practical exams. Schools have been asked to inform students and parents about the format, schedule, and any specific requirements regarding the practicals.

The board asked schools to ensure that the required equipment and materials are available in their laboratories for practical exams. “Reaffirm that the laboratories or facilities are adequately set up for students to perform their experiments,” it stated.

The board directed schools to identify the disabled students or those with special needs and to arrange accommodation for such students to ensure their comfortable participation in practicals. Students are asked to appear in the practical exams as per schedule only.

Schools have been asked to contact the external examiners for timely conduct of exams on the scheduled date and time. CBSE said that schools are not allowed to make alternate arrangement of examiners at their level and that the exams will be conducted only by the external invigilator appointed by the board.

Coming to marks, the central board asked schools to upload the practical and internal marks on a daily basis. “While uploading the marks, the school, the internal examiner and the external examiner (as the case may be) shall ensure that the correct marks are uploaded as no correction in the marks will be allowed once marks are uploaded,” the board added. It asked school heads to check the maximum marks assigned to the internal assessment and then award and upload the marks.

“No change in marks is allowed after finalisation and completion of the process, so proper attention of both the examiners is required to ensure the correctness of the uploaded marks,” CBSE iterated.

Moreover, CBSE said that it will not consider extension of the exam dates and warned schools, “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.”