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NIOS Open School 10th & 12th Class Subject List

Course	Pass Criteria in a Subject	Certification Criteria
Secondary Course (Class 10th)	A minimum of 33% marks in the aggregate (Theory plus practical wherever applicable) in the public examination. The marks obtained in Internal Assessment will be shown separately in the marksheet.	Pass in 5 subjects including at least one but not more than two languages.
Senior Secondary Course (Class 12th)	A minimum of 33% marks in the aggregate as well as separately in theory and practicals in the public examination. The marks obtained in Internal Assessment will be shown separately in the marksheet.	Pass in 5 subjects including at least one but not more than two languages.

NIOS Open School 10th Class Subject List

Secondary Examination (10th Class) - Group A
S.No.	Code	Subject	No. of Papers	Max. Marks	Duration (hours)
1	201	Hindi	1	100	3
2	202	English	1	100	3
3	206	Urdu	1	100	3
4	209	Sanskrit	1	100	3
5	203	Bengali	1	100	3
6	204	Marathi	1	100	3
7	205	Telugu	1	100	3
8	207	Gujarati	1	100	3
9	208	Kannada	1	100	3
10	210	Punjabi	1	100	3
11	228	Assamese	1	100	3
12	231	Nepali	1	100	3
13	232	Malayalam	1	100	3
14	233	Odia	1	100	3
15	235	Arabic	1	100	3
16	236	Persian	1	100	3
17	237	Tamil	1	100	3

Those Subject which are in Bold Green Color – Examination of those subjects will be held on same day and time

Group B
1	211	Mathematics (TH)	1	85	2
		(PR)		15	3
2	212	Science & Tech. (TH)	1	85	2
		(PR)		15	3
3	213	Social Science	1	100	3
4	214	Economic	1	100	3
5	215	Business Studies	1	100	3
6	216	Home Science(TH)	1	85	2
		(PR)		15	2
7	222	Psychology	1	100	3
8	223	Indian Culture & Heritage	1	100	3
9	224	Accountancy	1	100	3
10	225	Painting (TH)	1	30	1
		(PR)		70	3
11	229	Data Entry Operations (E) (TH)	1	40	2
		(PR)		60	2

Five subjects with either one or two languages from Group A and the remaining subjects from Group B.
Two Additional subjects can be taken from either of the two groups with additional fee as per NIOS norms.

NIOS Open School 12th Class Subject List

Senior Secondary Examination (12th class) - Group A
S.No.	Code	Subject	No. of Papers	Max. Marks	Duration (hours)
1	301	Hindi	1	100	3
2	302	English	1	100	3
3	306	Urdu	1	100	3
4	309	Sanskrit	1	100	3
5	307	Gujarati	1	100	3
6	303	Bengali	1	100	3
7	304	Tamil	1	100	3
8	305	Odia	1	100	3
9	310	Punjabi	1	100	3

Those Subject which are in bold – Examination of those subjects will be held on same day and time

Group B
1	311	Mathematics	1	100	3
2	321	Home Science (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3
3	316	Geography (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3
4	318	Economic	1	100	3
5	319	Commerce/Business Studies	1	100	3
6	328	Psychology	1	100	3
7	332	Painting (Th)	1	30	1
		(Pr)		70	6
8	336	Data Entry Operations (Th)	1	40	2
		(Pr)		60	2

Group C
9	312	Physics (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3
10	315	History	1	100	3
11	333	Environmental Science* (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3
12	339	Library and Information Science (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3

Group D
13	313	Chemistry (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3
14	317	Political Science	1	100	3
15	335	Mass Communication (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3
16	374	Military Studies	1	100	3

Group E
17	314	Biology (Th)	1	80	3
		(Pr)		20	3
18	320	Accountancy	1	100	3
19	338	Introduction to Law	1	100	3
20	375	Military History	1	100	3

Group F
21	330	Computer Science (Th)	1	60	3
		(Pr)		40	2
22	331	Sociology	1	100	3
23	337	Tourism	1	100	3
24	373	Physical Education and Yog	1	.	.

Five subjects with either one or two languages from Group A and the remaining subjects from Group B, C, D, E and F
(only one subject from each group C, D, E, F)
Two Additional subjects can be taken from any group (only one subject from each group C, D, E and F) with additional fee as per NIOS norms.

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