NEW DELHI: With three back-to-back exams and the fourth one just after a day's gap, Class XII humanities students of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) are in for a tough schedule. Their board exams will start from March 1.

According to the datesheet issued on Saturday, economics is scheduled for March 31, to be followed by legal studies the next day, and psychology on April 2. The sociology exam in on April 4 after a day's gap. However, those students with either three or all of this combination are now in panic mode. They said it will be too stressful to handle three exams in one go. Moreover, they said the datesheet hasn't been planned well as after political science exam on March 18 there is a gap of 12 days before economics exam on March 31.

Jagriti Sharma of Step By Step School, Noida, said, "I have English, history, economics, psychology and sociology. Between psychology and sociology, I am getting just a one-day gap. I have a friend who has legal studies too. The pressure on appearing for back to back exam is too high. Even for internal exams, we get more gaps. If we do not perform well in one exam, our entire percentage will go for a toss and so will our chance of admission to a good DU college."

Meanwhile, schools are getting panic calls from students and parents. "We have many students who have economics, legal studies and psychology as a combination. Legal studies is not an easy paper, and this is just the second year since its introduction," said Tania Joshi, principal, The Indian School.

However, according to CBSE officials, the board prepares the datesheet based on its past experience, and doesn't consider stream-wise combinations. "There are stream-wise subjects in CBSE. A student need to have a language and four electives from 240 subjects. So we have students with physics and legal studies, chemistry and sociology, and e...

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