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CBSE guides for the Vice-principal
The timetable, the exam calendar and the staffing that turn a circular into something that actually happens in classrooms.
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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.
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.
CBSE is retiring Maths Basic and adding Maths Advanced. Those point opposite ways.
Class 9 Mathematics and Science now run at two levels. The easier paper your school used as a safety valve is being discontinued, and the new second level is a harder optional one. For one year you will be running both systems at once.
CBSE's two-phase Class 10 board has run once. Your calendar has not caught up.
The first full cycle is finished and the numbers are out. The operational trap is not the exam — it is the LOC schedule, whose first window closes before anyone knows their Phase 1 marks.
CBSE has introduced CT and AI for Classes 3 to 8. Nobody new is teaching it.
The curriculum framework is live from this session and asks for 50 hours a year in the primary classes and 100 in the middle. It also assumes your existing subject teachers will absorb all of it.