CBSE 2027 date sheet: board exams start 16 February; Telugu papers on 3, 4 and 5 March

Class 12 Physics and Class 10 Painting open the board exams on Tuesday, 16 February 2027, under the CBSE 2027 date sheet that the Central Board of Secondary Education issued on Friday, 6 November. Over 26.5 lakh Class 10 students and over 19.8 lakh in Class 12 have registered. Papers begin at 10:30 am IST on every exam day.

Class 10 finishes on 9 March, and Class 12 runs on until 9 April, when Retail and Web Application close the schedule. The timetable covers 83 subjects in Class 10 and 121 in Class 12. Controller of Examinations Sanyam Bhardwaj told schools the board had worked through over 40,000 combinations of subjects so that no student gets two chosen papers on one date, and had kept tentative entrance exam schedules in mind for Class 12.

The main papers

For Class 10, the big papers begin with Mathematics, Standard and Basic, on 17 February. Science follows on 22 February, English on 26 February, Hindi on 3 March and Social Science on 8 March. Class 12 students sit Accountancy on 23 February, Chemistry on 27 February, English on 5 March, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics on 9 March, Hindi on 13 March, Economics on 16 March and Political Science on 19 March. Biology comes on 25 March, History on 27 March, Computer Science on 31 March and Business Studies on 1 April.

Telugu papers fall on different days

Students taking Telugu should look at their subject code, because Class 10 has two papers on two days: Telugu-Telangana (code 089) on Thursday, 4 March, and Telugu (code 007) on Friday, 5 March. In Class 12, Telugu (107) and Telugu Telangana (189) are both on Wednesday, 3 March.

Practical exams, project work and internal assessment are scheduled from 1 January 2027 for affiliated schools in India and abroad, with a circular for regular-session schools still to come. Winter-bound schools hold theirs from Monday, 9 November to 19 December.