The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) will not conduct mid-term exams for the students of Class 8 and Class 9. The board will instead conduct phase 1 and phase 2 exams. The dates of phase 1 and phase 2 exams are notified in the 2024 academic calendar.

The decision to do away with the mid-term exam and hold phase-wise exams is taken to gain more teaching days and in order to shift towards semester structured pattern of secondary education as envisioned in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, an NBSE statement said.

To become eligible for promotion to the next higher classes, students will have to obtain the minimum qualifying marks and grades in aggregate in both phase 1 and phase 2 exams.

While announcing this, the board also asked the institutions to enter the marks in the PCR (Pupil Cumulative Record) by following a certain pattern. Phase-1 marks will have to be put in the first evaluation column, phase-2 marks in the second evaluation column and the consolidated marks of phase-1 and 2 will be entered in the third evaluation column.