PM Modi will meet with Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank" and top officials at noon Highlights The Class 10 and 12 board exams will begin May 4 Exams would be in the "offline-written mode", the CBSE said in February New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting to discuss the Class 10 and 12 board exams due in May and demands to cancel them because of the massive Covid spike across the country. PM Modi will meet with Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank" and top officials at noon. The Class 10 and 12 board exams will begin May 4. The Class 10 exams will end on June 7 and Class 12, four days later. The exams would be in the "offline-written mode", the CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) said in February, at a time daily Covid cases in India had dropped to fewer than 15,000 a day.