State Board Exams 2027: Date Sheets, Forms & Results

State Board Exams 2027: Date Sheets, Forms, Practicals & Results — Board by Board

There is no single "state board exam" — there are more than twenty of them, each run by its own state authority, each on its own calendar. That is exactly why misinformation spreads so fast here: a date sheet for one board gets forwarded as if it were everyone's. This page separates them properly, board by board, with the status of each board's 2027 cycle as it actually stands in late October 2026.

And the status has moved. An earlier version of this page could honestly say no board had published a 2027 schedule; that is no longer true. Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have released full 2027 timetables, Maharashtra has announced its 2027 exam windows and is still taking exam forms, and Karnataka has published a provisional schedule that is open to objections until 22 October 2026. Other boards — Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, CBSE — are at earlier stages, set out below.

The 2027 picture at a glance

Uttar Pradesh — UPMSP (upmsp.edu.in): date sheet out, exams 5–24 February

UP moved earliest and furthest. UPMSP's own portal lists the High School and Intermediate 2027 exam programme as published on 12 October 2026 — weeks ahead of the previous cycle, when the sheet came on 5 November 2025. Theory exams run 5 to 24 February 2027 for both classes, in two daily shifts (8:30–11:45 AM and 2:00–5:15 PM), with the first 15 minutes of each session reserved for reading the paper. Class 10 sits mostly in the morning shift and opens with Hindi on 5 February, followed by Social Science (8 February), English (10 February), Mathematics (13 February) and Science (17 February), closing with Agriculture on 24 February. Class 12 opens with Hindi in the afternoon shift on 5 February; its main papers are English (8 February), History (10 February), Biology and Mathematics (12 February), Chemistry (15 February), Geography (16 February), Physics (17 February), Accountancy (23 February) and Computer and Sanskrit (24 February). Practicals are reported for the last week of January 2027. On the forms side, the revised application schedule closed with the treasury fee deposit on 28 September, student-data upload by 30 September, corrections from 1 to 6 October and photo-list submission to the DIOS office by 15 October; a further extension of the candidate-list submission to 22 October 2026 has been reported for schools that had not generated their lists — if your school is one of them, that deadline is this week, and UPMSP has said the revised schedule is final.

Maharashtra — MSBSHSE (mahahsscboard.in): windows announced, forms close 31 October

Maharashtra announced its 2027 schedule by press note on 17 September 2026. HSC (Class 12) theory runs 8 February to 16 March 2027, with practical, oral and internal assessments from 20 January to 6 February 2027; SSC (Class 10) theory runs 15 February to 11 March 2027. Both run in the board's usual two shifts, 11 AM–2 PM and 3–6 PM. The detailed subject-wise timetable PDF is still to come — expected in October–November — so treat the windows as fixed but your individual paper dates as unconfirmed. What is actionable right now is the form: regular students apply through their school or junior college on the SARAL system, with the regular-fee deadline on 31 October 2026, a late-fee window from 1 to 15 November, and an extra-late-fee window from 16 to 30 November. If your form is not in by 31 October, you are paying a penalty for the same seat.

Madhya Pradesh — MPBSE (mpbse.nic.in): full timetable out since August

MPBSE published its 2027 main-examination timetable on 13 August 2026 — the notice sits on the board's homepage — and it is the most settled schedule on this page. Class 12 runs 17 February to 19 March 2027 and Class 10 runs 24 February to 18 March 2027, in a single morning shift, 9 AM–12 noon; students are expected at the centre by 8 AM and seated by 8:30. Class 10's main papers are Hindi (2 March), Mathematics (5 March), English (9 March), Science (15 March) and Social Science (18 March). Class 12's are Hindi (23 February), English (26 February), Physics (4 March), Biology (8 March), Chemistry (13 March) and Mathematics (16 March). The same notice covers the 2027 second examinations (Class 12: 11–30 June; Class 10: 15–30 June), so MP students who miss or underperform in February already know their second window.

Tamil Nadu — DGE (dge.tn.gov.in): timetable released 14 October, March start

Tamil Nadu runs the latest calendar of the large boards. The DGE released the 2026–27 public-examination timetable on 14 October 2026: Class 12 (Plus Two) theory runs 3 to 29 March 2027, after practicals from 8 to 18 February; Class 10 (SSLC) theory runs 17 March to 12 April 2027, after practicals from 19 to 26 February; Class 11 arrear exams run 5 March to 1 April. The SSLC paper order is spread out — Tamil (17 March), English (25 March), Mathematics (31 March), Science (5 April), Social Science (9 April), optional language (12 April) — with multi-day gaps that are genuinely usable revision time. Tentative result dates announced with the schedule are 7 May 2027 for Class 12 and 20 May 2027 for SSLC.

Karnataka — KSEAB: provisional schedule, objections close 22 October

Karnataka is the one board on this page where your input can still change the dates. KSEAB's provisional 2027 schedule, published on 8 October, sets II PUC Exam 1 from 27 February to 17 March 2027 and SSLC Exam 1 from 22 March to 5 April 2027, with Exam 2 sittings in May (II PUC: 3–15 May; SSLC: 24–31 May). II PUC papers run 10 AM–1 PM; SSLC papers 10 AM–1:15 PM. Students, parents and schools may file objections to the provisional dates until 22 October 2026 — by email to [email protected] for SSLC and [email protected] for II PUC. Separately, schools must complete SSLC Exam 1 registration submissions by 11 November 2026. Until KSEAB issues the final timetable after the objection round, plan revision around these windows but do not book anything immovable against a single paper date.

Bihar — BSEB: registration closed, February exams expected, no date sheet yet

Bihar's 2027 cycle is a stage behind. Registration for the Matric and Intermediate annual examinations ran through schools from 25 August to 16 September 2026 and is closed; dummy admit cards are the next expected step. BSEB has not published the 2027 date sheet. On the board's consistent pattern — Intermediate in the first half of February, Matric in the second half, results by late March — the 2027 exams are expected across February 2027, but those are expectations from previous cycles, not a BSEB announcement. Check biharboardonline.com / biharboardonline.bihar.gov.in for the sheet when it appears, and treat any subject-wise "Bihar Board 2027 date sheet" circulating before then as a mock-up built from last year's.

Rajasthan, Gujarat and the rest

Rajasthan (RBSE) has announced a structural change rather than dates: from 2026–27, Class 10 students get two board examinations a year — a first phase in February–March and a second in May–June — and a student unhappy with a paper can reappear in up to three subjects in the second phase. The subject-wise sheet is awaited. Gujarat (GSEB) is expected to announce its 2027 dates in November 2026; its 2026 exams ran from late February to mid-March. West Bengal, Haryana, Punjab, Odisha, Assam, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh boards publish on their own portals on their own cycles — if a date sheet is not downloadable from your board's own domain, it is not official, whatever the forward says.

For comparison: the national board

CBSE's 2027 subject-wise date sheet had not been released as of mid-October 2026; the examinations sit in the February–April 2027 window, and for reference the 2026 final sheet was released on 30 October 2025 with exams from 17 February 2026. If your school is CBSE, everything runs through cbse.gov.in instead.

What to do now, depending on your board

1. Sheet released (UP, MP, Tamil Nadu):download the PDF from the board's own portal today, write out your personal subject dates, and build your revision plan backwards from your first paper — UP students have the least time, with Hindi on 5 February.
2. Provisional sheet (Karnataka):check the dates against anything immovable in your calendar and file any genuine objection before 22 October 2026; confirm your school has your registration in before its 11 November submission deadline.
3. Forms still open (Maharashtra):get the exam form in through your school before the 31 October regular-fee deadline; after that the same form costs a late fee.
4. Sheet awaited (Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, CBSE):your live task is registration accuracy, not dates. Board forms are filled through schools in most states, and your name spelling, date of birth and subjects must match your school records exactly — errors here cause real pain at admit-card, result and certificate time.
5. Everyone:practicals run two to four weeks ahead of theory in most boards, and admit cards come through schools shortly before the exams (private candidates download theirs from the board portal where that facility exists). Results follow from April to June depending on the board — Tamil Nadu has already named tentative May dates; most others have not.

Common mistakes

Trusting a viral PDF screenshot of a "2027 date sheet" for a board that has not released one — Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat and CBSE students are the current targets; assuming another state's released dates apply to you (a UP student and a Tamil Nadu student are more than a month apart this year); missing a form or objection deadline that falls before the date sheet — Maharashtra's 31 October form deadline and Karnataka's 22 October objection deadline both land this month; and, in Karnataka, treating a provisional schedule as final.

Flags

• UNVERIFIED: Maharashtra SSC practical/oral dates. Secondary reports of the board's schedule conflict (28 January – 13 February in one, 20 January – 6 February in another); the body gives the confirmed HSC practical window (20 January – 6 February) and no SSC practical dates. The subject-wise timetable PDF will settle it.
• UNVERIFIED: Tamil Nadu SSLC end date. Most reports of the DGE schedule, and the published SSLC subject list ending with the optional language on 12 April, give 12 April 2027; one outlet (Careerindia) printed 24 April. The body uses 12 April.
• UNVERIFIED: The UP candidate-list extension to 22 October 2026 rests on a single report (FreeJobAlert) of a 16 October UPMSP extension for 5,905 schools; the underlying revised application schedule (28/30 September, 1–6 October corrections, 15 October DIOS submission) is confirmed by multiple reports of UPMSP's official notice, and the timetable itself is listed on upmsp.edu.in dated 12-10-2026.
• UNVERIFIED: Bihar's February 2027 windows are the board's established pattern as reported by education portals, not a BSEB announcement; BSEB had published no 2027 date sheet when this page was checked on 2026-10-20.
• NOTE: mahahsscboard.in returned a stale cached homepage in this session, so Maharashtra's windows and form deadlines are cross-checked across four independent reports (Shiksha, Buddy4Study, Collegedunia, JagranJosh) of the board's 17 September 2026 press note rather than read off the portal directly.

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