Odisha Board Releases 2025 Matric Exam Schedule; Exams to Begin February 21

Bhubaneswar: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Odisha on Thursday announced the 2025 matriculation exam schedule.

According to the timetable, the exams will begin on February 21, 2025, and conclude on March 6, 2025.

Exams for both regular and ex-regular students will be conducted in a single sitting, with sessions starting at 9 AM and ending at 11:30 AM, except for the Mathematics exam, which will conclude at 11:45 AM.The exams will kick off with first-language subjects, including FLO (Odia), FMB (Bengali), FLH (Hindi), FLU (Urdu), FLT (Telugu) and FLE (Alternative English).

On February 24, second-language exams for subjects like SLE (English), SLH (Hindi) and SEP (Environment and Population Education) for hearing-impaired candidates will be held. TLV practical exams are scheduled for February 25, followed by the Mathematics exam on February 27.

The Science (GSC) exam will be held on March 1 and Social Science (SSC) on March 3.The exams will conclude on March 6 with third-language subjects – TLH (Hindi), TLS (Sanskrit), TLO (Odia), and TLP (Parsi). Additionally, on the final day, theory exams for TLV (for hearing-impaired students) and vocational subjects like IT, RT and others will be conducted.