The Madhya Pradesh Board of School Education (MPBSE), Bhopal will postpone the class 10 and 12 board exams. The exams were scheduled to begin on February 17 and 18. Due to the rise in cases of coronavirus pandemics, it is likely that the board will postpone the exams and release a revised date sheet. In-person classes which were to begin from February 1 might also be reconsidered. The final decision will be announced in a review meeting to be chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Chauhan.

The final decision will be announced in the late evening of January 31 regarding both board exams as well as school reopening, informed Madhya Pradesh Education Minister Indersingh Parmar. Despite the demand for online exams, the MP Board exams will be held in offline mode. The state has held its pre-board exams already. The pre-boards for both 10th and 12th were held in take-home mode where students took the question paper to their home, wrote the exam and submitted the exam back to school.

As per the existing schedule MPBSE 10th board exams were to be held from February 18 to March 10 while the MPBSE 12th exams were to be held from February 17 to March 31. This year, the theory exams will be for 80 marks and remaining 20 marks will be awarded to practical and internal assessments.

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