CBSE question paper generator — what we are building
Examaker builds one board at a time, properly. CBSE is the next one. This page says exactly where it stands, and sets out the 2026-27 pattern the build is following — which is worth reading whether or not you ever use us.
Status, September 2026: CBSE in build · Tamil Nadu State Board live today
You cannot generate a CBSE paper here yet
That is the whole answer, and it is worth being blunt about it. The CBSE exam patterns and the CBSE question bank are being built now. Until they exist, a CBSE teacher cannot make a paper on Examaker, and we are not going to take money for a plan that cannot do the job.
What is live today is Tamil Nadu State Board, Classes 9 to 12, across 14 subjects — which is the proof that the method works, not a consolation prize. When CBSE opens it will open the same way: real patterns taken from real papers, and a question bank built from the prescribed NCERT books with a person approving every question.
If you teach CBSE only — leave us your number and we will tell you the week it opens. Please do not buy a plan today expecting CBSE.
What the CBSE build is following
Verified against CBSE’s own pages on 22 September 2026. Where something is reported rather than officially published, it says so.
The 2026–27 sample papers are already out
CBSE published the Sample Question Papers and the Marking Schemes for Classes 10 and 12 for the 2026–27 session on cbseacademic.nic.in in September 2026. That is the authoritative blueprint for the 2027 boards — not a publisher’s guide, not last year’s paper. If you set papers for CBSE, that is the document to work from, and it is the document our templates are built against.
One detail that is not being widely reported and that matters if you teach a language: as of late September 2026, several language subjects — Tamil among them — had not yet been uploaded on either the Class 10 or the Class 12 page. Check your own subject before you plan a revision schedule around it.
Class 10 now has two board exams a year
Under a CBSE notification issued in June 2025, Class 10 has two board examinations in an academic year. As notified: the first is compulsory, the second is optional, the better result counts, improvement is limited to a small number of subjects, and internal assessment is conducted only once, before the main exam — so a second attempt reuses the same internal marks. Both attempts cover the full syllabus.
This applies to Class 10 only. There is no two-exam scheme for Class 12.
Careful with dates. Most articles circulating right now quote February and May dates for the two attempts. Those are the 2025–26 dates — exams that have already happened. CBSE had not published the 2026–27 dates as of late September 2026, and neither had it released the 2027 date sheet. Check cbse.gov.in rather than an aggregator.
Open-book assessment in Class 9 — recommended, not mandatory
Open-book assessment enters Class 9 from this 2026–27 session, aligned to NCF-SE 2023. The point that is being widely misreported: it is recommended, not compulsory. Schools opt in based on readiness. It also applies to internal school assessment, not to the Class 10 board examination.
New NCERT books for Classes 9 and 11 this session
The NCF-SE rollout puts new NCERT textbooks in front of Class 9 and Class 11 this session, with Classes 10 and 12 reported to follow. For anyone maintaining a question bank this is the real work of the year: a bank built against the previous books does not carry over chapter for chapter. It is one of the reasons we would rather launch CBSE late and correct than early and stale.
Why this takes months and not a weekend
Adding a board is not adding a dropdown. For CBSE it means four separate pieces of work, each of which has to be right before the next one is worth doing:
- Read the real papers. The current sample papers and marking schemes, per class and per subject — section structure, marks split, where internal choice sits, how many sub-questions each section carries.
- Encode the patterns. Each becomes a template the generator can build against, so the output is a CBSE-shaped paper rather than a list of questions with CBSE written at the top.
- Build the bank from the prescribed books. NCERT exercises and questions drawn from inside each chapter — against the books that are actually in use this session.
- Have a person approve every question. Nothing reaches a teacher’s paper until it has been read. How that works →
A tool that offers sixteen boards on day one has skipped at least steps one, three and four. That is the difference you feel at the marking table, not on the pricing page.