NIOS Class 10 and 12 exams start on 22 October: download your hall ticket now, last papers on 5 and 7 December

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) will hold its October 2026 theory exams for Secondary (Class 10) and Senior Secondary (Class 12) from Thursday, 22 October 2026. Notification 63/2026, signed by the Director (Evaluation) on 8 October 2026, attaches the date sheet. Class 12 papers end on 5 December and Class 10 papers on 7 December. Hall tickets are already live on the SDMIS portal.

Get your hall ticket first

Go to sdmis.nios.ac.in and open “Hall Ticket Oct-Nov 2026”. Enter your 12-digit enrolment number, pick Hall Ticket for Theory Examination and submit. NIOS says the hall ticket will download only if two things are true:

• you paid the exam fee for the October 2026 public exam, and
• NIOS has your photograph on record.

If the hall ticket does not generate, NIOS asks you to contact your Regional Centre straight away. With the first paper on 22 October, that leaves very little time, so download it well before then.

Main subject dates

Every paper starts at 2:30 pm. Most run to 5:30 pm. Some skill and arts papers end earlier, and Class 10 Mathematics, Science and Home Science end at 5 pm.

Date	Class 12 (Senior Secondary)	Class 10 (Secondary)
22 October	Sanskrit Vyakaran, Basics of Transportation, Bodh Darshan	Folk Art, Veda Adhyayan, Physical Education and others
23 October	Early Childhood Care and Education	Accountancy, Indian Sign Language
24 October	Geography	Painting
28 October	English	Regional languages (Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil and others)
31 October	Mathematics	Home Science
2 November	Physics, History, Environmental Science	Sanskrit, Employability Skills
4 November	Hindi	Psychology
5 November	Biology, Accountancy	Mathematics
6 November	Business Studies	Science
12 November	Computer Science, Sociology	English
17 November	Chemistry, Political Science	Business Studies
18 November	Regional languages	Hindi
21 November	Economics	Social Science
25 November	Home Science	Indian Culture and Heritage
28 November	Psychology	Hindustani Sangeet
5 December	Gender Studies, Sanskrit Sahitya (last Class 12 day)	Bharatiya Darshan
7 December	None	Sanskrit Sahitya (last Class 10 day)

This table lists the main subjects only. Vocational and skill papers fall mostly on 1 and 2 December. Check your own subject codes against the full date sheet.

Different dates in three regions

• Gangtok: the Class 12 papers of 22 October are on 27 October, and Early Childhood Care and Education (376) moves from 23 October to 3 November.
• Dehradun and Prayagraj: Class 12 Sanskrit (309) is on 3 December instead of 20 November.

Rules worth knowing

• You get 15 minutes to read the question paper before the exam begins.
• NIOS says there will be no change in the exam dates.
• The exam fee you have paid covers the theory exam. Nothing more is payable at the centre.
• Results are likely about seven weeks after the last paper, on sdmis.nios.ac.in. Mark sheets and migration certificates go out through your study centre.

Practical exams for this session ran from 14 to 29 September. If you have not joined NIOS yet, online admission to Stream 1, Block 2 is open at the normal fee until 31 January 2027, for the October/November 2027 exams.

CareerBox News Desk, reporting on the National Institute of Open Schooling, Notification 63/2026 and the date sheet for Secondary and Senior Secondary theory examinations, October 2026, dated 8 October 2026, and the hall ticket page on its SDMIS portal. Official portal: sdmis.nios.ac.in/search. Dates and eligibility change; confirm them on the official portal before you act.