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CBSE guides for the Exam coordinator
LOC submissions, internal-assessment records and board-exam logistics, with the dates that cannot slip.
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The 20 internal marks are the ones you will have to defend. CBSE has already written down how.
The 80-mark paper is the board's to justify, and the 20 marks awarded inside your school are yours. The 2026-27 curriculum lists, in some detail, the record it expects you to be able to produce when someone asks.
APAAR is optional in the 2026-27 LOC. Entering one comes with a consent step.
Last year CBSE made schools enter REFUSED or NOGEN for every student without an APAAR ID. This year the field is optional. But page 33 of the LOC circular attaches three conditions to any ID you do enter, and one of them is a consent the circular never describes.
The LOC window opens on 24 September. If you pay by challan, it closes four days early.
CBSE published the 2026-27 List of Candidates circular on 21 September. The last dates sit in two annexure tables at the back, and they differ for the same fee slab depending on whether the school pays online or by challan.
Setting the Class 10 half-yearly: the 2026-27 blueprint no longer matches last year's paper
Most half-yearly papers are last September's paper with the numbers changed. For Class 10 this year that quietly tests three topic blocks the board has taken out of the year-end exam. CBSE's 2026-27 model papers, out since late September, confirm which topics are examined.
The third language arrived mid-session. Your Class 9 timetable did not.
CBSE made R3 compulsory for Class IX from 1 July, after an April notification said it would not apply until 2029-30. Both documents are still on the site. The operational load is a 100-mark internal assessment and a certificate nobody can be awarded without it.