The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has announced the schedule for the 2026 board examinations. The Class 10 Matric and Class 12 Intermediate exams conducted by the JAC are set to commence on February 3. The Class 10 JAC 2026 examinations will run until February 17, while the Class 12 Intermediate exams will extend until February 23, 2026.
The Class 10 secondary exams will take place from 9:45 AM to 1:00 PM, and the Class 12 Intermediate exams will be held from 2:00 PM to 5:15 PM.
JAC Class 10, 12 Timetables 2026
| Date | Class 12 | Class 10 |
| February 3, 2026 | Vocational Subject | Vocational Subject |
| February 4, 2026 | Economics, Anthropology | Hindi ‘A’ & Hindi B |
| February 5, 2026 | Mathematics/Statistics | Commerce and Home Science |
| February 6, 2026 | Economics, Accountancy | Urdu, Bangla, Oriya |
| Feb 7, 2026 | Physics | Social Science |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Biology (Botany+Zoology) Business Studies Sociology | Science |
| February 10, 2026 | Geology, Bussiness Studies, Geography | Music |
| February 11, 2026 | Entrepreneurship, Home Science | Mathematics |
| February 13, 2026 | Philosophy, Chemistry | English |
| February 14, 2026 | History | Kharia / Nagpuri / Panch Pargania / Khortha / Kurmali |
| February 16, 2026 | Political Science | Sanskrit |
| February 17, 2026 | Psychology, Computer Science | Arabic / Mundari / Santhali / Oraon / Persian / Ho |
| February 18, 2026 | Hindi ‘A’ & English ‘A’ (Arts) | – |
| February 20, 2026 | Hindi ‘A’ & English ‘A’ (Science, Commerce), Music | – |
| February 21, 2026 | Optional subject, Additional subject | – |
| February 23, 2026 | Hindi B Mother Tongue | – |
For the non-linguistic subjects in the JAC Class 12 Intermediate examinations, only answer sheets written in Devanagari, Roman, Bangla, Urdu, or Oriya scripts will be accepted. In the HNB MB subject examination scheduled for the second shift on February 23, students will utilize two distinct plain answer sheets.
It is essential to record the serial numbers of both answer sheets on the attendance sheet as well. For the biology subject, only a single answer sheet will be utilized.
