Representative image: Indian school students. Photo: Byronkhiangte (CC BY-SA 4.0)
About 1.89 lakh students sat for the CBSE Class 12 compartment exam today, July 28, held in a single shift.
These students had been placed in the compartment category following the main Class 12 board results earlier this year.
Major academic subjects were scheduled from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm.
Skill and elective subjects, including Painting, Yoga, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Hindustani Music, ran on a shorter schedule, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Students were permitted to appear in only one compartment subject during this cycle.
The exam followed CBSE’s earlier release of admit cards, which candidates were required to carry to the exam centre along with valid photo identification.
Results are expected to be announced after the board’s wider supplementary exam window, running from July 29 to August 4 for other categories, concludes.
Exam centres were instructed to follow standard CBSE protocols for the compartment exam, including frisking and identity verification, similar to procedures followed during the main board examinations held earlier in the year.
Students who clear their compartment paper will have their results reflected as a pass for the academic year, allowing them to proceed with admissions to undergraduate courses or other next steps without further delay.
The compartment system applies only to students who failed to clear one subject in their original Class 12 board examination, with those who fell short in more than one subject required to reappear for the full set of papers in a subsequent academic year instead.
CBSE has typically declared compartment exam results within a few weeks of the exam being held, giving affected students clarity on their academic status well before most undergraduate admission cycles conclude for the year.
Candidates were advised to reach their exam centres well ahead of the reporting time specified on their admit cards, in keeping with CBSE’s standard exam-day guidelines followed for both main and compartment examinations.
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