Students across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa waiting for a second chance at their intermediate examinations can now plan their revision. The province’s education boards have begun releasing the date sheets for the Class 11 and 12 second annual examinations of 2026, with Peshawar, Kohat and Abbottabad first to publish. For thousands of students, the announcement ends a long wait for a firm date.
The second annual examination, often called the supplementary examination, is a routine part of the academic calendar in Pakistan. It gives students a second sitting in the same year, so one failed paper or a missed examination does not cost them a whole academic year. Anyone who failed a subject, could not appear for a genuine reason, or wishes to improve marks or add a subject can enter the Annual Two session. Its results decide whether a student reaches university admissions or entry tests without losing a year, which is why the date sheet matters so much to families.
KPK Boards Class 11 and 12 Exam Schedule 2026
The written examinations will begin on November 18, 2026, and continue until December 5, 2026, according to the schedules released by the boards in Peshawar and Kohat. The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar has confirmed two sessions each day: the morning session from nine until noon and the evening session from two until five. Most papers last three hours, though some are shorter, so students should check their roll number slips. Kohat has announced the same window, while Abbottabad has published its own HSSC Annual Two date sheet on its official website. The other boards, including Mardan, Swat, Bannu, Malakand and Dera Ismail Khan, set their own schedules, so students must follow their own board’s timetable.
KPK Boards Class 11 and 12 Date Sheet 2026
The Peshawar board has spaced its papers to give students breathing room between the heavy science subjects. The session opens on November 18 with Pakistan Studies, a compulsory paper for Class 12, before Mathematics, with the Class 12 paper on November 20 and the Class 11 paper on November 21. English follows on November 23 for the second year and November 24 for the first year, with Chemistry on November 25 and 26 and Physics on November 27 and 28. Biology and Computer Science fall on December 2 and 3, and compulsory Urdu closes the session on December 4 and 5. These dates belong to Peshawar alone; the other boards have arranged their subjects in their own order, so a student in Kohat or Abbottabad may sit the same subject on a different day. Candidates should read their own board’s date sheet line by line: a missed paper will not be excused on the grounds that the student followed another board’s timetable.
KPK Boards HSSC Practical Exam Schedule 2026
Once the written papers are over, attention turns to the laboratory. The Peshawar board has scheduled practical examinations from December 10 to December 23, 2026, covering Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science and the other laboratory subjects. Kohat has given its students a longer window, with practicals from December 8 to December 25, while Dera Ismail Khan has announced practicals from December 7 to December 24. Practicals work differently: each student is assigned a group, date and laboratory, and arrangements vary from centre to centre. Students should confirm their group, date and laboratory with their centre well before the session begins, and arrive with the required apparatus and record books. A practical paper carries real weight in the science subjects, so a slip at this stage can undo months of preparation.
How to Download KPK Boards Class 11 and 12 Date Sheet 2026
Every board publishes its date sheet on its own official website, and that is the only place students should rely on for the final timetable. Candidates can visit their board’s website, open the downloads or date sheet section, and save the PDF schedule. The eight boards serving the province are Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad, Swat, Kohat, Bannu, Malakand and Dera Ismail Khan, and each one issues its own document. Students should download the sheet as soon as it appears, keep a printed copy, and keep checking the board’s website for changes. Social media posts are no substitute for the official document, and a student who plans from an unverified copy risks turning up on the wrong day.
The scale of the exercise shows how much rides on these examinations. More than 130,000 students were expected to sit the intermediate examinations under the Peshawar board alone in 2025, across 420 centres, and the province-wide HSSC figure has exceeded half a million in recent years. For the students entering the second annual session, the stakes are personal rather than statistical. A clear paper in November can rescue a year that seemed lost in the summer, open the door to a university place, or lift a result to the merit threshold of a chosen programme. The boards have done their part by publishing the timetable; what remains is for candidates to use the weeks ahead well and walk into the hall prepared.
