The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board has raised its public exam fee for the second year running. Fee statements signed by board secretary R.R. Vyas on November 4 put the regular candidate’s fee at Rs 445 for Class 10, Rs 760 for Class 12 science and Rs 620 for Class 12 general stream for the exams of February-March 2027 (SSC fee statement, HSC science, HSC general). That is Rs 20, Rs 35 and Rs 30 more than last year, an average rise of about 5 percent that the board attributed to the cost of exam stationery and related expenses, Akila News reported from Ahmedabad.
Schools can fill the online application forms with the regular fee on gseb.org from noon on November 4 until midnight on December 3, the board said in a press note of the same date. Every category of candidate, regular, repeater, open-school and private, must apply online. The exams themselves run from February 25 to March 17, 2027, dates the board announced in May and that Gujarat First and Akila News both carry.
Who the Rs 20 actually lands on
Each fee statement carries a note that outlets have not led with: the state government exempts all girl students and all divyang (disabled) candidates from the exam fee. In practice the increase is paid only by boys who are not disabled. A family with a son in Class 12 science and a daughter in Class 10 will pay Rs 760 plus practical fees for him and nothing for her. The statements also say the figures exclude any late fee; the board has not yet published the late-fee windows for this cycle.
The full 2027 table
The board charges repeaters and private candidates by the number of subjects they sit, and the per-subject ladder has moved up along with the headline fee:
- Class 10: regular Rs 445; repeater or private candidate Rs 165 for one subject, Rs 235 for two, Rs 300 for three, Rs 435 for more than three. Open-school (GSOS) regular candidates pay Rs 435.
- Class 12 science: regular Rs 760; repeater or private Rs 230 for one subject, Rs 380 for two, Rs 530 for three, Rs 760 beyond that. A practical fee of Rs 135 per practical subject comes on top.
- Class 12 general: regular and GSOS Rs 620; repeater or private Rs 175, Rs 280 and Rs 370 for one, two and three subjects, Rs 620 beyond that. Practical subjects cost Rs 10 each.
Akila News lists last year’s equivalents at Rs 425, Rs 725 and Rs 590 for the three regular fees, and Rs 100 for a science practical, which makes the practical charge the steepest proportional jump at 35 percent. Those 2026 figures match what DeshGujarat reported when the board last revised fees in November 2025, when Class 10 went from Rs 405 to Rs 425 and science from Rs 695 to Rs 725.
Two years, Rs 40 on Class 10 and Rs 65 on science
Put the two revisions together and a Class 10 boy pays Rs 40 more than in early 2025, and a science boy Rs 65 more plus the higher practical fees. Against coaching and textbook costs those sums are small. The sharper point for parents is the calendar. Last year’s form window ran to December 6; this year it closes three days earlier, on December 3, and falls across the Diwali vacation that keeps schools shut until November 25. Principals have about a week of working days after reopening to collect fees and upload forms before the regular-fee deadline passes. For how the previous cycle went, see our report on the Class 10 and 12 results and pass percentages.
Sources: GSHSEB SSC fee statement (PDF), GSHSEB HSC science fee statement (PDF), GSHSEB HSC general fee statement (PDF), GSHSEB press note (PDF), Akila News, DeshGujarat, Gujarat First
This report was written with AI assistance from the publicly reported sources linked here; each fact was cross-checked against at least two of them.