Bihar Board 10th, 12th Exam Date 2024: The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) today announced the datesheet for Class 10 (matric) and Class 12 (Intermediate) board exams 2024 for arts, commerce and science streams. The Bihar board Class 10 theory exams will start with the mother tongue papers on February 15, 2024 and the Class 12 exams will start on February 1, 2024. The exams will be held in two shifts — one in the morning from 9:30 am to 12:45 pm, and the next in the afternoon between 2 pm and 5:15 pm.
The datesheets are available at the official BSEB website — secondary.biharboardonline.com. The Bihar board Class 10 and Class 12 exams will end on February 23 and February 12 respectively.
Date | Shift 1 (9:30 am to 12:45 pm) | Shift 2 (2 pm to 5:15 pm) |
February 15 | Mother tongue | Mother tongue |
February 16 | Maths | Maths |
February 17 | Second language | Second language |
February 19 | Social Science | Social Science |
February 20 | Science | Science |
February 21 | English | English |
February 22 | Elective | Elective |
February 23 | Elective | Elective |
The Class 12 exams will begin with the Biology, Philosophy and Economics papers on February 1 followed by Mathematics, political science and foundation course on the next day. Students will get a 15-minutes cool-off time to read the question papers in each shift.
The BSEB Class 10 and Class 12 results will be declared in March/ April, 2024.
Last year, the overall pass percentage of the Bihar Board Inter exam for all three streams of science, commerce and arts was registered at 83.70 per cent, which was an improvement from the previous year.
श्री आनन्द किशोर, अध्यक्ष, बिहार विद्यालय परीक्षा समिति आज दिनांक- 04.12.2023 को बिहार बोर्ड द्वारा वर्ष 2024 में आयोजित की जााने वाली इंटरमीडिएट, मैट्रिक एवं विविध परीक्षाओं का वार्षिक कैलेन्डर जारी करते हुए।#BSEB #BiharBoard #Bihar pic.twitter.com/8tlqit6rfW
— Bihar School Examination Board (@officialbseb) December 4, 2023
For Class 10, the overall pass percentage was recorded at 81.04 per cent. A total of 16,10,657 students appeared for the Matric exam, out of which 8,19,737 were girl students and 7,90,920 were boys. The total number of passed candidates is 13,05,203, out of which 6,61,570 were boy students and 6,43,633 were girl students.
Recently, the Bihar Board also announced the school holiday calendar for the 2024 session. As per the new calendar, the summer vacation in Bihar schools will be for 30 days unlike 20 days last year from April 15, 2024 to May 15, 2024.
Also, the Board issued a clarification that there will be no changes in the number of holidays this year and schools have always remained open and celebrated the birth anniversaries of great men. The birth/death anniversaries that fall during the summer vacation have not been mentioned separately in the calendar.