India, Jan. 28 -- Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has postponed the Class 8 and 9 final examinations, 2025 due to 'unavoidable reasons'.

Revised dates for these exams will be announced later, JAC said in a notification on jacexamportal.in.

The Class 8 final exam was scheduled for January 28 and the Class 9 final exam was scheduled for January 29 and 30.

As per the previous schedule, Class 8 students were supposed to write the exam in 2 shifts. On the first shift (9:45 am to 1 pm), students were scheduled to appear for paper 1, which covers Hindi, English and additional language subjects.

The second shift from 2 pm to 5:15 pm would have covered Mathematics, Science and Social Science subjects.

The Class 8 exam is taken on OMR sheets,...