Families of Uttar Pradesh students due to write the 2027 High School and Intermediate board examinations will learn in stages over the next seven weeks where their children will sit the papers. Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, Uttar Pradesh (UPMSP) has revised its timeline for fixing exam centres, and the online process now runs from 12 October to 27 November 2026.
The change is set out in a Parishad notice dated 25 September 2026, signed in Prayagraj by Additional Secretary (Administration) Satyendra Kumar Singh. Almost every step has moved back by about a month from the original plan.
The notice says the dates were changed through a state government order dated 25 September 2026, which partly amends the earlier policy orders of 1 July and 18 August 2026 on how centres are chosen.
Centres are selected online by software, using school data that has been physically verified. The Parishad says the aim is to hold the examinations in a clean, fair and copying-free manner.
The revised dates, step by step
12 October 2026 (earlier 12 September): last date for District Inspectors of Schools (DIOS) to upload or update on upmsp.edu.in the report, with remarks, of the tehsil-level committee set up by the District Magistrate after physically verifying schools.
22 October (earlier 21 September): the list of centres chosen online, with the allotment of students, is made public on the board website and placed before the district centre determination committee chaired by the District Magistrate.
23 October (earlier 23 September): the list of schools facing derecognition proceedings, debarred schools and ineligible schools is shown on the DIOS portal.
28 October (earlier 28 September): DIOS offices publicise the online centre list through newspapers in their districts, and students, parents, principals and school managers can file objections online on upmsp.edu.in.
6 November (earlier 8 October): DIOS offices examine the objections, settle them, and forward the reasonable ones to the board website with the district committee's approval.
16 November (earlier 17 October): the centre list approved by the district committee, with student allotment, is uploaded to the board website.
21 November (earlier 22 October): last date for a second round of online objections, specifically where a centre is farther away than the norm allows or has been given more students than it can hold.
27 November (earlier 29 October): the state-level centre determination committee disposes of those objections, finalises the list and uploads it.
The two dates that matter to families
For most parents, two dates need a circle on the calendar. The first is 28 October, when the district lists are publicised and students, parents and schools can send objections online. This is the stage to point out a problem early, before the district committee approves the list.
The second is 21 November. By then the district-approved list will have been on the board website since 16 November. If the allotted centre still looks too far away, or overloaded, this is the window to say so, again online on the board portal. The state committee's decision by 27 November is the last step in the notice.
The notice does not spell out what distance counts as beyond the norm; that comes from the government's policy orders. A parent planning to object on distance should work out how far the allotted centre is from the school and keep the objection specific to the facts.
What students can do now
Nothing is due from students before 22 October, when the first online list goes up. Until then, the useful step is to make sure the school has the student's details right in the board records, because the centre allotment is tied to the school and its registered candidates.
When the list is out, families should check two things: the name of the allotted centre and how far it is from the school. Distance and capacity are the two grounds named for the second objection window. If something looks wrong, it is easier to raise it through the principal and on the portal in October than to wait for the second window in November.
What happens before the public lists
The first deadline, 12 October, is not for families at all. It falls on DIOS offices, which must upload the tehsil committee reports. Those reports feed the verified school data the software uses to choose centres, which is why a delay there would hold up every later step.
On 23 October the DIOS portal will show schools that are debarred, facing derecognition or otherwise ineligible. The notice lists this step without further detail. Parents of students in such schools can ask the principal what it means for where their children will write the exam.
Who has the notice
The notice has gone to the Parishad's regional offices in Prayagraj, Varanasi, Meerut, Bareilly and Gorakhpur, to every District Magistrate and DIOS, and to police officers across the state. In Varanasi and neighbouring districts, the DIOS office is the point of contact for the district list and for first-stage objections.
The Parishad has also asked newspapers to publish the notice free of charge in the public interest, and says the timeline must be followed strictly given the sensitivity of the 2027 examinations.
Other paperwork to watch
The centre list is only one part of board exam preparation. Private candidates had a correction window that ended on 6 October, covered in our report on the UP Board correction window for private candidates. Families with children in CBSE schools can compare the process in our parents' guide to CBSE's List of Candidates for 2026-27.
The Parishad's toll-free helpline numbers, 1800-180-5310 and 1800-180-5312, are printed on its notices for students and parents who need help with board matters.
