CBSE  Introduces New Passing Criteria for Cbse Class 10 students For Examination 2019 CBSE  Introduces New passing criteria for CBSE Class 10 students For Examination 2019 CBSE (read the recent notification here)  has introduced new passing criteria for class 10 students. All candidates who had appeared in the CBSE Class 10 exam last year (2017) were exempted from separate pass criteria