CBSE LOC 2026–27: A Checklist for the School Office (Class 10 & 12)

If your school has Class 10 or Class 12, the List of Candidates (LOC) for the CBSE Main Examinations 2026–27 is already open on Pariksha Sangam — and the window without late fee closes on 21 October 2026 for digital payment (or 17 October 2026 if you are paying by challan). After that, late fee applies. Only candidates whose names and subjects are submitted through this online LOC process are eligible for admit cards and the exams.

This guide is for CBSE exam in-charges, office staff and principals. It covers the key dates this week, what to check for accuracy before you finalise, who should do what in the office, and how clean student and subject records in your school system help — without claiming that any ERP exports or submits the LOC for you.

What LOC is and why it matters this week

LOC is the List of Candidates your school submits to CBSE for Class X and Class XII Main Examinations. It is not a casual attendance list. It is the board’s working record of who will sit the exams and in which subjects. Errors here — wrong spellings, wrong date of birth, wrong subject codes, missing candidates — turn into admit-card problems, centre issues and frantic correction requests later.

CBSE opened the Pariksha Sangam portal for this LOC on 24 September 2026. Through October it has also issued reminders (including on 9 October and around 14–15 October 2026) urging schools to submit accurate data and pay fees on time. Reminder language from recent coverage is clear: principals should take daily status reports from staff in the final week before the deadline.

One more point for Class X this year: under the two-examination policy, the LOC you are filling now is for the first (February–March) exam only. The LOC for Phase 2 opens later. Do not assume one submission covers both.

Key dates checklist (Main Exams 2026–27)

Confirm the circular on cbse.gov.in and Pariksha Sangam before you act — payment mode changes the last day.

Public coverage of these dates includes outlets such as NDTV Education and school-exam briefings that summarise the Pariksha Sangam schedule. Always re-check the board circular if your payment mode or school category is unusual.

Treat 21 October as the hard planning date for most offices that pay digitally. If you’re paying by challan, 17 October is tomorrow, so act today.

Accuracy checklist before you finalise

CBSE’s October reminders stress accuracy as much as speed. Walk every Class 10 and Class 12 candidate against the school master once before anyone clicks finalise on Pariksha Sangam.

Identity and demographics

• Full name spelling matches the Class 9 / Class 11 registration and school leaving documents parents care about
• Date of birth, gender, category and differently-abled status where applicable
• Photograph and signature on file where the portal expects them
• Parent / guardian details consistent with what the school already holds

Subjects and subject groups

• Subject codes match what the student is actually studying this year
• Additional subjects, practicals and combinations are correct for Class 12 streams
• No leftover subjects from a previous transfer or wrong section allocation
• Subject groups in your school software match the combination you will enter on the portal

Eligibility and fee

• Every eligible candidate for the first Class X exam / Class XII main exam is on the list
• Private candidates are handled through their own registration path, not mixed into the school LOC by mistake
• Exam fee collection from parents is tracked so the school can pay CBSE in full at submission
• Visually impaired candidates’ fee exemptions (where applicable) are noted from the circular, not guessed

Class X two-exam note

• LOC now = first exam only
• Tell parents and class teachers clearly so nobody assumes Phase 2 is already covered

Do not invent fields the circular does not ask for. If a new identifier appears in a later board notice, add it then — not from hearsay.

Who does what in the office

A clean LOC week looks like a short chain of named people, not a last-day scramble.

1. Exam in-charge / office coordinator — owns the Pariksha Sangam login, prints or exports working lists from the school system, and marks each class section “checked”.
2. Class teachers of X and XII — verify names, subjects and absences from the school roll against the working list within 24–48 hours.
3. Accounts — collects exam fees from parents, reconciles paid vs unpaid, and is ready with the online payment on submission day.
4. Principal — takes a daily status report in the last seven days before the deadline (as urged in September coverage of the LOC circular): how many candidates remaining, who is blocked on fee or data, and whether digital or challan payment is still open.

Write the status report as three numbers every morning: total candidates, data-ready, fee-ready. Anything not in “fee-ready” gets a named owner by lunchtime.

How clean student and subject records help

The LOC itself is submitted on Pariksha Sangam. ConnectEdu does not export an LOC file, submit to Pariksha Sangam, or pay CBSE exam fees. Claiming otherwise would be wrong.

What does help the office is having a single, current student master and subject / subject-group record before you sit down at the portal:

• Student demographics you can trust when you type or re-check names and dates of birth
• Subject and subject-group assignments that match what teachers teach (ConnectEdu’s tutorials cover Add Subject and Subject Group and Overall Working of CBSE Examination)
• A clear Class 10 / Class 12 roll so nobody is left off the list because they sit in a different section file

If your school is still reconciling subjects from Excel sheets the week of the deadline, fix the master first, then enter LOC — not the other way around. For a wider view of what a CBSE-facing office usually needs in one system, see our school ERP checklist for CBSE and ICSE schools and school exam management software. How those pieces sit next to attendance, fees and transport is summarised in school management system for Indian schools.

Practical checklist for this week

• Confirm whether your school will pay by digital modes (deadline 21 Oct) or challan (deadline 17 Oct without late fee)
• Name the exam in-charge and the principal’s daily status-report slot
• Freeze Class 10 and Class 12 subject combinations in the school master
• Run a name / DOB / category pass against registration records
• Mark fee-collected vs fee-pending for every candidate
• Enter LOC data on Pariksha Sangam in batches by section, not all on the last evening
• Keep the late-fee window (22–30 Oct digital; challan may close 26 Oct) as a contingency only
• Diary the early-November correction window (reported 2–4 Nov) but aim for zero reliance on it
• Brief Class X parents that this LOC is for the first exam only; Phase 2 comes later
• File the final submission acknowledgement and fee receipt with the exam file

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