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New CBSE Policy for Private Students Affected by Class 12 Exam Cancellations

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
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New CBSE Policy for Private Students Affected by Class 12 Exam Cancellations

The Centre basically told the Supreme Court something on Monday. It was about a new policy CBSE brought in. This policy deals with private students who got hit by the cancellation of their Class 12 board exams in Gulf countries, all because of that recent Iran-US mess.

A bench Justices S V N Bhatti and Vipul M Pancholi got this information from Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. He was representing the Centre and CBSE. They explained that a fresh nationwide policy had actually been made up to handle these students. The ones affected by the exam cancellations in seven Gulf countries, they were dealing with the fallout from the regional conflict.

Mehta laid out the details. Two groups of students got seriously messed up: regular school kids and private candidates. And under this new rule, which was notified on June 21st, there’s a separate formula just for checking the marks of those private candidates.

How does it work? For subjects where exams couldn't happen at all? Performance is judged using two things. First, the marks they got in Class 10 board exams. And second, the results from their last attempt at the Class 12 board exam.

That brings up something specific. The whole thing hinges on a formula. It’s called the 40:60 rule . For those subjects that were cancelled, forty percent weight goes to the Class 10 marks. Sixty percent? That's from the last Class 12 result they had.

Mehta pointed out why this was tricky for private candidates. They didn't have the usual school records. No internal assessments no quarterly scores, no half-yearly grades, nothing like that. Those were what used to form the basis of the old March 27 evaluation scheme. It just didn't exist for them.

Meanwhile, there was a specific case playing out in court. Pransu Jigarkumar Patel, a private candidate from Al Jubail in Saudi Arabia, was challenging things. He argued that CBSE messed up by not declaring his Class 12 improvement results under the original system.

Patel contended that while Physics and Chemistry exams went ahead, the Math, English, and Computer Science papers were scrapped entirely. He pointed out that for the subjects he did sit Physics and Chemistry they just used the actual marks he got. But for those three cancelled ones? They had to use this new formula from June 21st.

Mehta confirmed something important for Patel. Under this revised policy, his assessed marks ended up being higher than what he previously had. The result was sent to him by email and will also be put in his DigiLocker.

The policy even gives some breathing room. If students aren't happy with the final assessment? They can just sit for the next regular exam instead of fighting it all the way through court.

The bench asked Advocate Vineet Jindal, who was arguing for Patel, if those concerns were actually settled by CBSE announcing this new rule.

Jindal acknowledged that the result was declared. But he pushed back, asking the court to protect Patel’s right to see his answer scripts and maybe re-evaluate things according to the CBSE rules.

The bench then observed something about the petition itself. They noted no actual relief had been asked for in the plea. So, they couldn't grant anything that hadn't been requested. After hearing all this back and forth from the solicitor general, the court just shut down the matter. Liberty was granted to Patel to chase whatever legal remedies he felt were necessary if he still had a grievance floating around.

It’s wild how much moves around when exams get cancelled like that. The CBSE actually cancelled board exams in seven places Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE all because of that chaos brewing across West Asia.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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