CBSE announces date sheet for 2014 Board exams

After the New Year bash it is time for class X and XII students to gear up for Board examinations as Central Board for Secondary Education, CBSE, has announced the date sheet. Board exams for both classes would begin from Saturday, March 1. Where class X exams would begin with easy exams like Marathi, Spanish, Painting etc, Class XII exams would begin with English examination. As per CBSE's Regional Director, RJ Khanderao, this year 10% more students will be sitting for Board examinations in both class X and XII.

The class X exams would end on March 19 where as class XII exams would go on till April 17. All the exams would begin at 10.30am.


The announcement of the date sheet has come as a relief for all the students sitting for board exams, especially for class X as their exams would be ending within 19 days.

"I am glad all the main papers will get over by March 15 as then we will be able to happily enjoy Holi, which falls on March 17," said Ankush Chopra, a class X student.

On the other hand some of the class XII science students are a little worried about short breaks between the main exams. Though their main worry comes from the fact that many of these students will be facing Board exams for the very first time as in Class X they opted for school based board exams.

"I have opted for both medical and non medical and I feel scared because there are only three days to prepare for Biology after Chemistry Exam and after four days of biology will be Mathematics and," said Nitika Bansal, a class XII Science stream student.

"I have enough time to prepare for mathematics after Chemistry exam but I still feel anxious as this for the first time I will be giving board exams," said Dhruv Kapoor, a class XII science student.

The main exams for class XII have been scheduled for March 5 (Physics), March 11 (Chemistry), March 15 (Biology), March 20 (Mathematics) and April 1 (accountancy). It is mainly the students from Humanities stream whose exams would be ending by April 17.

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