The Punjab board term 1 exams will commence on December 13, 2021. The PSEB Class 10 exams will be held in the morning shift from 10 am, while the Class 12 exams will be held in the afternoon shift from 2 pm.
According to examination controller Sanyam Bhardwaj, the announced date sheet is for major subjects while the schedule for minor subjects will be sent to schools separately.
The examinations were scheduled to start on May 12 but were indefinitely postponed due to the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly two months after cancelling the annual exams of Class 10 and Intermediate first year (Class 11), the government announced cancellation of Class 12 exams.
While a majority of the teachers want the exams to be conducted, a section of parents have opposed to such school of thought.
The exam, which will take place in the third week of July, will have one multi-choice question paper for mathematics, science and social science and one more question paper for languages, Kumar said.
Both the boards had postponed the class 12 exams scheduled in May-June in view of the aggressive second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both CBSE and ICSE had also cancelled class 10 exams
In a letter to HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Ficci President Uday Shankar said an alternate solution should be devised to determine academic progression.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As per the datesheet, the exams for class 10 will conclude on June 7, while those for class 12 will conclude on June 10.
