- By Ritesh Kumar
- Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:48 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a notification instructing its affiliated schools to give consent for hosting the upcoming National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) exams scheduled for October-November 2024. CBSE-affiliated schools must log into the NIOS portal and provide their consent for conducting the public examinations by July 31, 2024.
The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) exams are held twice a year, in April-May and October-November.
"It is to inform that NIOS, Department of School Education, Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India conducts public examinations two times in a year i.e. in April-May and October-November-2024 for secondary(10), sr. secondary(12) and vocational courses. Every year NIOS uses the services and infrastructure of the schools affiliated to CBSE for conduct of its examination. The October-November examination of NIOS is scheduled to commence in the month of October, 2024. I would request you to kindly extend your cooperation and give your consent for the conduct of public examination October-November, 2024 on NIOS portal (http://exams.nios.ac.in) latest by 31.07.2024," reads the notification.
"Your assistance will not only help NIOS in holding public examination of the candidates of most disadvantageous group of society but also help CBSE in compliance of the directions of Ministry of Education, Govt, of India," the notification added.
The NIOS public examination for secondary and senior secondary courses is expected to begin in the first week of October 2024.
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The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), formerly known as the National Open School (NOS), was established in November 1989 as an autonomous organisation in pursuance of the National Policy on Education 1986 by the Ministry of Education (MOE), Government of India. NIOS offers a variety of vocational, life enrichment, and community-oriented courses in addition to general and academic courses at the secondary and senior secondary levels. It also provides elementary-level courses through its Open Basic Education Programmes (OBE).