JEE Main in January, CBSE Boards From February 16: A Week-by-Week Plan for Class 12 PCM Students

If you are in Class 12 with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, the next five months are now fixed. JEE Main 2027 Session 1 is on 20 to 24 and 28 January, and the CBSE board exams start on 16 February with Physics. Here is how the two fit together, week by week.

The dates that matter

Week by week

• Now to 22 November: submit the JEE Main Session 1 form and pay the fee. Finish any chapters you have not started.
• Late November to December: complete the syllabus for both exams, which largely overlaps. Keep your practical files and project up to date. If your school is winter-bound, your practicals happen in this window.
• 1 to 19 January: JEE mock tests every few days, with error review. If your school is not winter-bound, practicals start on 1 January, so plan around those days.
• 20 to 28 January: JEE Main Session 1. Keep the days between papers for light revision only.
• 29 January to 15 February: switch to board mode. Practise full written answers, derivations and diagrams. Physics is first, so give it the most time in these 18 days.
• 16 February to 9 March: the boards. There are 11 days between Physics and Chemistry, 6 between Chemistry and English, and 4 between English and Mathematics.
• 10 March to the end of March: for most PCM students, Mathematics on 9 March is the last main paper. Use these weeks for JEE Session 2 revision, around any remaining papers such as Computer Science on 31 March.

Watch out for

• Physical Education is on 18 February, two days after Physics. If you take it, prepare it before Physics week.
• Two CBSE days fall in JEE Session 2 week. Sanskrit Core and Taxation are on 6 April, and Multimedia, Textile Design and Data Science on 7 April. If you take one of these, watch which day NTA gives you for Session 2, and plan your revision for both.
• Practical and internal marks count: Physics and Chemistry carry 30 practical marks each with an outside examiner, and Mathematics 20 internal marks. Our marks split report has the details.
• If you are also preparing for NEET or CUET: neither has an exam date for 2027 yet, so plan around the boards for now.

For the full CBSE schedule, see our date sheet report and the CBSE Class 12 date sheet on AglaSem Schools. For JEE Main papers and syllabus, see the JEE Main page on AglaSem Admission.

Sources: NTA notice and information bulletin for JEE Main 2027, dated 24 October 2026; CBSE date sheets of 6 November 2026; CBSE circulars on practicals (5 November 2026) and marks bifurcation (6 November 2026).