The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a notification directing its affiliated schools to provide consent for hosting the upcoming National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) exams scheduled for October-November 2024.

Schools affiliated with CBSE must log into the NIOS portal to provide their consent for conducting the public examination by July 31, 2024.

The notification states: "Your assistance will not only help NIOS in holding public examination of the candidates of the most disadvantaged group of society but also help CBSE in compliance with the directions of Ministry of Education, Govt, of India."
The NIOS public examination for secondary and senior secondary courses is anticipated to commence in the first week of October 2024.

This comes in the wake of the case of trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar who is facing a UPSC probe for allegedly “faking her identity” to flout appearance norms for the Civil Service Exams. UPSC’s plan also comes close on the heels of a row over the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) conduct of examinations including the NEET-UG exam.

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Petitioners have claimed that they had cleared their class 12 exams in 2023 and were already enrolled in engineering colleges, but they started preparing for JEE Advanced 2025 as and when the number of available attempts increased from two to three. This preparation included submitting JEE Main 2025 application form fee, coaching classes’ fee, and spending money on test series, study materials/ books and other preparatory courses.

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