CBSE Class 10 and 12 Parents: Check Your Child's Exam Registration by November 7

If your child is in Class 10 or Class 12 at a CBSE school, stop and do one thing this week: verify the details the school submitted to the board. CBSE opened its correction window for the List of Candidates (LOC) on Monday 2 November, and it closes this Saturday, 7 November 2026. The board's circular is unusually blunt about what happens next: no correction will be made thereafter. The name, date of birth, parents' names and subjects in this data are what will print on your child's admit card, marksheet and passing certificate, so a spelling mistake found in March is a much bigger problem than one found this week.

What the LOC is, in plain terms

The List of Candidates is the registration data every CBSE-affiliated school submits for its Class 10 and Class 12 students ahead of the board exams. Schools filed it in September and October after a series of board reminders, and CBSE told schools to generate a data verification slip for each candidate after submission. The 2 November circular exists because mistakes survive anyway: a name shortened out of habit, a wrong birth date, a missing surname, a subject ticked incorrectly. This week is the one scheduled chance to fix them.

The window: 2 to 7 November 2026, and corrections go through the school

The correction schedule in the circular runs from Monday 2 November 2026 to Saturday 7 November 2026, for both Class 10 and Class 12. Parents do not correct anything on the CBSE site directly - corrections are entered by the school in the LOC portal, so every request has to reach your school with enough time for them to act before Saturday. If you raise it Friday evening, you are asking for a same-day favour; today is better.

CBSE's own checklist for parents

The circular lists exactly what the board wants parents to check, and it is worth doing line by line against an actual document, not from memory: your child's name is filled in expanded form, not a short form (CBSE notes that extended-form documents are required at many places later); the surname is included, which the board flags as a requirement of several countries if your child may study abroad; the date of birth is correct in all respects; the mother's, father's or guardian's names are correct; the details match the passport if your child has one; and the subjects entered for Class 10 or Class 12 are right, because no change of subjects will be accepted after this window either. The board closes the list by putting the responsibility squarely on parents: it is the responsibility of the parents that all the data of their ward submitted in the LOC is correct.

What to do today

Ask the school for your child's data verification slip - the one generated per candidate after LOC submission - or simply ask the class teacher or exam coordinator to confirm the registered name, date of birth, parents' names and subjects. Compare each field against the birth certificate and, if your child has one, the passport. If anything is wrong, put the correction in writing to the school (email is fine) so there is a record, and ask for confirmation once it is entered. If everything is correct, you are done, and you have bought yourself certainty for the document your child carries into every application for years.