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New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has warned schools that students were found absent without valid holiday records during surprisingly inspection, they were considered as non-individual or dummy candidates and would not be allowed to appear in board examination 2026.
CBSE has decided to bar nominated students in “dummy schools” – where students are nominated on paper, but leaving regular classes to focus on private coaching for engineering and medical entrance examinations.
A senior CBSE official said, “We have amended their examination bylaves to prevent such students from appearing in board examinations, they need to take the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) exam.”
CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj on Monday informed the principals and heads of the board affiliated schools to inform students and parents compulsory 75% attendance requirement criteria and the possible results of not meeting this criteria.
Bhardwaj said in his letter to the schools, “The holiday will be considered unauthorized absence from school without a written request.”
According to Rule 13 and 14 of CBSE examination Baylavs, students must have at least 75% attendance to be eligible for board examination. The discount of up to 25% is allowed only in exceptional cases such as medical emergency or participation in national level events with proper documentation.
Bhardwaj told the schools in the letter that students would have to submit a holiday application with valid medical documentation immediately after taking advantage of the holiday in terms of medical emergency conditions and inform the school of their absence with a valid reason, and only for other reasons for other reasons.
“… If it is seen by CBSE at the time of sudden inspection of schools that students are absent without proper holiday records, it will be assumed that they are not regularly participating in schools and can be considered as non-work/dummy candidates. CBSE will not allow such students appear in board examinations,” the letter said.
Bhardwaj also said that schools with incomplete attendance records or evidence of irregular student attendance can face strict action, including dissatisfaction and the affected students can also be prevented from appearing in the board examination.
CBSE has directed schools to maintain an accurate daily attendance record, signed by class teachers and school officials, and keep them ready for inspection. The board has also instructed schools to inform parents in writing whether a student often recalls classes or decreases with the requirement of attendance, warning that non-compliance can cause disqualification from board examination.
Bhardwaj warned schools that no change in attendance records would be allowed after presenting cases of school reduction, and insisted that regular attendance was important for both examination eligibility and student development.
According to the information available on the CBSE website, the board has 31,075 affiliated schools.
On 31 July, CBSE surprised 15 schools in Delhi, Chandigarh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, so that they could verify doubts that they were violating affiliation criteria by nominating “non-attending” or dummy students in classes 11 and 12.
In January, the Delhi High Court called dummy schools “fraud” and directed the Delhi government and CBSE to take action against them. The CBSE lawyer informed the court that action was taken against more than 300 “dummy” schools across the country.
CBSE withdrew affiliation from 21 schools in Rajasthan and Delhi in November last year, following a significant number of non-informative students from class 9 to 12 during surprise inspection in September. The board also reduced the affiliation of six schools in Delhi.
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