UP Board Class 10 and Class 12 Marksheet Name Change

The general UP Board process, the portals, the Principal's submission, the DIOS countersignature and the fee, is set out on our main correction guide. This page covers the part that guide deliberately leaves out: what changes between the two classes. It matters because most people treat their marksheets as two separate items of equal standing, apply for whichever one is causing a problem today, and discover months later that they have created a new inconsistency instead of removing one.

Table of Contents

1. Why Class 10 is the source record
2. The order, and what happens if you reverse it
3. Four documents, not two
4. When only Class 12 is wrong
5. One corrected, one not: what a verifier sees
6. Applying for both, practically
7. Central Gazette name change: step by step
8. Areas we serve
9. Related guides
10. Why choose our office
11. FAQs

Why Class 10 Is the Source Record

When you were enrolled for the High School examination, your school entered your name and date of birth from its own admission and scholar registers into the Board's records. Those details then became the Board's entry for you, and when you were registered for the Intermediate examination two years later, they were carried forward rather than re-collected. That is why an error in your Class 12 documents is so often an inherited error rather than a fresh one: nobody mistyped it in Class 12, it arrived that way from Class 10.

Two consequences follow. First, correcting Class 10 usually resolves the reason the error exists at all, rather than the symptom. Second, if your school's own register carries the error, that is where the chain actually begins, which is why the Principal's verification step exists and why the school-side entry gets corrected as part of the same exercise.

The Order, and What Happens If You Reverse It

The second row is the expensive one and it happens for an understandable reason: a job application or an admission is asking for Class 12 today, so that is the one people fix. The trouble arrives later, at a verification desk that pulls both. A verifier comparing a corrected Class 12 against an uncorrected Class 10 does not see a partial fix in progress; they see two documents that disagree, which is the exact problem you were trying to remove. If a deadline genuinely forces the Class 12 correction first, apply for Class 10 in the same visit rather than afterwards.

Four Documents, Not Two

This catches almost everybody. Each Board examination produces two printed documents: the marksheet, showing your subjects and marks, and the certificate, which is the formal record of having passed. They are separate physical documents with the name printed on each, and correcting one does not correct the other automatically.

The reason it matters is that the two get used in different places. Marksheets go to admissions and employers who want marks. Certificates go to verification, government recruitment and anywhere proof of qualification rather than performance is wanted. Correct only the marksheet and the problem simply resurfaces at the desk that asks for the certificate. When you apply, state clearly that both the marksheet and the certificate are to be corrected, and check what the school has actually requested before it submits.

When Only Class 12 Is Wrong

The good news case, and more common than people assume: your High School documents are correct, and the error appears only on the Intermediate ones. That usually means the mistake was introduced at the Class 12 registration stage rather than inherited, which makes it a clean correction rather than anything heavier. Your proof is unusually strong here, because you hold a Board-issued document from the same Board carrying the correct name. Attach the Class 10 marksheet and certificate to the application, alongside Aadhaar and the birth certificate, and the case largely argues itself.

One caution worth taking seriously. Before concluding that only Class 12 is wrong, read the Class 10 documents carefully rather than from memory, including the father's and mother's names, the spelling arrangement and any middle name. People correct Class 12 to match a Class 10 they have not actually looked at in a decade, and then discover the two were never the same.

One Corrected, One Not: What a Verifier Sees

This is the question that fills forum threads, phrased as: my 12th is corrected, will the old 10th cause a problem? The honest answer is that it depends entirely on who is looking, and the pattern is predictable.

• Ordinary employers: often ask only for Class 12 or the degree, and may never notice.
• Universities and admissions: ask for both classes routinely, so the mismatch appears immediately.
• Government recruitment and verification: pull the full academic record and compare it against your identity documents; this is where it stops.
• Passport and background checks: compare names across everything you submit, so an inconsistent academic chain invites questions.

So the practical rule: if your future involves any government recruitment, higher education or verification of any kind, correct both. If it genuinely does not, an uncorrected Class 10 may never surface, but you are carrying a known inconsistency rather than a resolved one, and the correction does not get cheaper with time.

Applying for Both, Practically

1. Read all four documents before deciding anything

   Class 10 marksheet and certificate, Class 12 marksheet and certificate, checking your name, your parents' names and the spelling arrangement on each. Note exactly what each says.

2. Fix Aadhaar first if it is also wrong

   The Board aligns its record to your identity documents, so those need to be right before either application is made. Our Aadhaar guide covers it.

3. Apply at the school for Class 10 first

   Written application to the Principal with the full document set, asking for both the marksheet and the certificate to be corrected. Keep a stamped copy.

4. Ask for the Class 12 application in the same visit

   Sequenced after Class 10 rather than months later, so the school files both while your file is open and your documents are already with them.

5. Track both application numbers separately

   Two applications, two numbers, two fees of around Rs 1,000 each. Note which portal each was filed on.

6. Collect all four corrected documents

   And check them at the counter before leaving, because a corrected document carrying a new error is worse than the original one.

Central Gazette Name Change: Step by Step

1. Swear the affidavit

   Notarised on stamp paper with the name on the marksheets, the name you will use, your address and the reason, in your own district.

2. Publish two newspaper advertisements

   One Hindi daily of your district (Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala or Hindustan) and one English paper, complete original pages kept flat.

3. Type the proforma and prepare the CD

   Two typed copies with two witnesses giving their signature, full name and address, and the CD carrying the declaration as typed Word text.

4. Pay Rs 1,100 on BharatKosh

   Before dispatch, with the printed receipt going into the envelope as an enclosure.

5. Courier the file to Civil Lines

   Tracked dispatch to the Department of Publication, Delhi 110054, with your phone and email on the covering letter.

6. Download and take prints to the school

   Publication in 25 to 45 days, free download, and prints for both class applications rather than one.

One Gazette, Two Applications

A detail that saves money and confuses people: you do not need a separate gazette notification for each class. One published notification covers your name, and copies of it go into both the Class 10 and the Class 12 file.

The distinction is between the gazette fee, which is a one-time publication charge, and the Board fee, which is charged per correction application. Anyone quoting you two gazette fees for two marksheets is either mistaken or overcharging. Print three or four copies of the notification, since the school retains one per application, as our download guide explains.

Gazette Fees, Time and the File

The Department's checklist in one line: covering letter with phone and email, affidavit (notarised), newspapers (both, original, whole pages), proforma (typed, two copies, applicant plus two witnesses), CD with signed declaration, photo ID, address proof, photographs, BharatKosh receipt.

Before You Apply: Check These

• Read all four documents first, rather than trusting your memory of what Class 10 says.
• Apply for Class 10 before Class 12, and if a deadline forces the reverse, file both in the same visit.
• State explicitly that both the marksheet and the certificate are to be corrected for each class.
• If a gazette is needed, publish once and print several copies, because each application retains one.

After the Gazette: What Updates Next

With both classes corrected, the rest of the education chain follows: the university degree, then any professional registration or council record. Outside education, the ordinary counter order applies. Keep the superseded documents rather than discarding them, because a verifier occasionally wants to see the old and new side by side with the gazette explaining the link.

What Other Websites Get Wrong

• Wrong: correct whichever marksheet is causing trouble today. Right: Class 10 is the source, so correcting Class 12 alone creates a fresh inconsistency.
• Wrong: a marksheet correction fixes the certificate too. Right: they are separate printed documents and both must be requested.
• Wrong: two marksheets mean two gazette notifications. Right: one publication covers both; only the Board fee repeats.
• Wrong: nobody checks the old Class 10. Right: universities, government recruitment and verification desks pull both routinely.
• Wrong: the same application can fix a date of birth. Right: date of birth carries a hard three-year limit and is separate.

Areas We Serve in Uttar Pradesh

Both applications go through the school that enrolled you, so the district where you studied matters more here than the district you live in now. We prepare these files across all 75 districts, most often these:

Where the two classes were studied at different schools, each application goes to its own school, which is worth planning for rather than discovering at the counter. Our chamber is at Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Sector 5, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow 226010, with the city guide on our Lucknow page. Call 9540003316 or WhatsApp 9540005002 from any district.

Related Guides on This Site

Every guide here is part of one connected map, so whichever counter your case lands at next, the page for it already exists:

• the main UP Board correction guide: portals, the approval chain, documents and fees.
• education records correction: the pillar covering school, board and university records.
• correction versus change: the router that classifies your case in a minute.
• Aadhaar name update: fix this first if Aadhaar is also wrong.
• date of birth correction: the three-year limit and the routes that remain.
• father's name corrections: the commonest board error after your own name.
• the gazette name change pillar: the route where your case is a change.
• downloading your gazette copy: free, and why you print several.
• gazette time and fees: the window to build into your plan.
• the full cost breakdown: government fees and service fees, line by line.
• contact the office: Lucknow office, phone and WhatsApp.
• the samadhan portal guide: what the portal does, upload rules, status meanings and the six common problems.
• when the school will not forward: the written application and DIOS escalation.
• marksheet and Aadhaar mismatch: deciding which document is wrong.
• correction versus gazette: two different jobs, and which your case needs.
• correction after many years: no deadline for names, and archived registers.
• university degree correction: the source record and the five documents.

Why We Ask for All Four Documents

The first thing we ask a marksheet client for is photographs of every board document they hold, and there is a reason. Roughly half the time the case they describe is not the case they have: the Class 10 they believed was correct is not, or the certificate carries a different arrangement from the marksheet. Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, has read a great many of these.

• We compare all four before advising: because the ordering decision depends on what each document actually says.
• We plan both applications together: so the school files them in sequence rather than months apart.
• We make sure the certificate is included: the item most often left out of a correction request.
• One gazette, not two: if publication is needed, it happens once and serves both files.

Associate office at Chamber No. 19, Sadar Tehsil, Gomti Nagar Vistar, Lucknow, serving all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Call 9540003316 or WhatsApp 9540005002.

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