CBSE 12th Exams 2024 – The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the CBSE class 12 exams 2025 from February 15 to April 2025.
The exam will be conducted in a pen-and-paper format.
The CBSE Class 12 date sheet 2025 will be released in December 2024.
The CBSE 12th date sheet 2025 will be released on the official website- cbse.gov.in.
CBSE 12th admit card 2025 will be released in the 1st week of February 2025 (tentative). Students need to collect the CBSE Class 12 admit card 2025 from the schools and carry it on all exam days. If the candidate fails to showcase the admit card, he or she will not be allowed to write the exam.
The board will conduct the CBSE 12th practical exams 2025 from January to February 2025 (tentative). Meanwhile, the CBSE practical exams 2025 for winter-bound schools will be conducted from November and December 2025.
Candidates appearing in the CBSE 2025 exam for class X and XII need to follow the update syllabus. The updated syllabus contains the chapters and topics from which questions will be asked in the exams. Students also need to refer to the CBSE 12th exam pattern 2025 to get familiar with the marking scheme, types of questions asked, test duration etc.
To prepare for the CBSE 2025 exam, it is recommended that the candidate solves CBSE 12th practice questions and CBSE Class 12 Sample Papers 2024-25 and previous years question papers. This will not only provide inputs like exam difficulty level, weightage, types of questions asked, but also help improve one’s problem solving ability.
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About CBSE 12th
The Central Board of Secondary Education conducts the CBSE Class 12 exams every year for students studying in Class 12.
Students who have passed their Class 11 exams from a recognized institute and have studied for a year in Class 12 are eligible to appear in the CBSE 10+2 board exams.
CBSE releases the CBSE 12th Syllabus and Exam Pattern 2025 on its official syllabus at the start of the session.
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CBSE Class 12 Date Sheet 2025 for All Streams
The CBSE date sheet 2025 for class 12 is expected to be out in December 2024. Check the subject-wise tentative CBSE 10+2 exam date sheet 2025 below:
| Date | Subject Name |
| Feb 2025 | Entrepreneurship, Kokborok, Capital Market Operation, Physical Activity Trainer |
| Feb 2025 | Biotechnology, Knowledge Tradition and Practices of India, Electronics Technology, shorthand (English and Hindi), Food nutrition & dietetics, Library & information science, Banking, Early Childhood Care and Education |
| Feb 2025 | Engineering Graphics, Kathak, Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri, kathakali, horticulture, Data Science |
| Feb 2025 | Hindi elective and Hindi core |
| Feb 2025 | Food production, office procedures and practices, design, Electronics and Hardware |
| Feb 2025 | Hindustani Music Voc, Hindustani Music Mel Ins, automotive, healthcare, cost accounting |
| Feb 2025 | English Elective, English Elective CBSE(Functional English), English Core |
| Feb 2025 | Retail, Web Application, Multimedia |
| Feb 2025 | Typography and Computer Application |
| Feb 2025 | Taxation, Artificial Intelligence |
| Feb 2025 | Chemistry |
| Feb 2025 | financial markets management, Beauty and wellness, medical diagnostics |
| Feb 2025 | Geography |
| March 2025 | Yoga |
| March 2025 | Physics |
| March 2025 | Hindustani music vocal |
| March 2025 | Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Applied Art (Commercial Art) |
| March 2025 | Legal Studies, Textile design |
| March 2025 | Mathematics, Applied Mathematics |
| March 2025 | National Cadet Corps (NCC), Fashion Studies |
| March 2025 | Physical Education |
| March 2025 | Home Science |
| March 2025 | Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Sindhi, Marathi, Gujarati, Manipuri, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese, Kannada, Arabic, Tibetan, French, German, Persian, Nepali, Limbo, Lepcha, Telugu Telangana, Bodo, Tangkhul, Japanese, Bhutia, Spanish, Kashmiri, Mizo |
| March 2025 | Psychology |
| March 2025 | Agriculture, Marketing |
| March 2025 | Economics |
| March 2025 | Biology |
| March 2025 | Tourism, Air-conditioning & refrigeration, Salesmanship |
| March 2025 | Political Science |
| March 2025 | Accountancy |
| March 2025 | Urdu Elective, Sanskrit Elective, Carnatic music vocal, Carnatic music mel ins, Carnatic music per ins mridangam, Urdu core, Front office operations, insurance, geospatial technology, electrical technology, mass media studies |
| March 2025 | Business studies, Business administration |
| March 2025 | History |
| March 2025 | Sanskrit Core |
| April 2025 | Sociology |
| April 2025 | Informatics Practices, Computer Science, Information technology |
To download CBSE 2024 revised date sheet – Click Here
CBSE sample papers 2025
Download the latest subject-wise CBSE sample papers and marking scheme following the links given below:
| Subject | Sample Paper PDF | Marking Scheme |
| English Core | Click to download | Click to download |
| English Elective | Click to download | Click to download |
| Mathematics | Click to download | Click to download |
| Physics | Click to download | Click to download |
| Sociology | Click to download | Click to download |
| Psychology | Click to download | Click to download |
| Accountancy | Click to download | Click to download |
| Biology | Click to download | Click to download |
| Business Studies | Click to download | Click to download |
| Chemistry | Click to download | Click to download |
| Economics | Click to download | Click to download |
CBSE Exam 2025 Class 10+2 Exam Highlights
| Particulars | Description |
| Exam name | CBSE Class 10+2 exam |
| Full form | Central Board of Secondary Education Class 12th Examination |
| Conducting Body | Central Board of Secondary Education |
| Frequency of Conduct | Annually |
| Exam Level | Matriculate |
| Mode of Exam | Offline-based exam |
| Test Duration | 3 hours |
What’s new in CBSE Class 12 exam?
- No percentage of marks, overall division, distinction or aggregate marks will be released with CBSE Result 2025
The CBSE will not release percentage of marks nor announce overall distinction, division or aggregate marks in the CBSE Class 10+2 results.
- Answer sheets not to be made available for Accountancy paper
Commerce students appearing in the CBSE 2025 class XII exam may note that separate answer sheets with printed tables will not be released for the Accountancy paper.
- Special CBSE Board 2025 exams for students participating in sports events, Olympiad
CBSE will conduct special exams for students participating in international olympiads and sports events (recognized by sports bodies SAI, BCCI, and HBCSE) and thereby unable to appear for regular CBSE 12th board exams.
However, no separate or special CBSE 2025 examination opportunity will be available for the compartment and practical exams. The Board has taken this decision to promote sports and other educational competitions among the youths.
- Exam pattern modified
The CBSE Class 12 Board exam pattern has been revised. The paper will now include 40 percent objective-type questions and the weightage of short and long-answer-type questions will be reduced. The paper will now include a higher percentage of MCQs questions.
- 100% syllabus to be covered
Questions in the CBSE 2025 Class 12 exams will be based 100% on the official syllabus.
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