PM Youth Chromebook Scheme 2026: Check Your Record First

Here is the part most students get wrong: you do not start this scheme by filling in a long application form. You start by checking whether your record is already on the official portal. The PM Youth Chromebook Scheme 2026 gives 500,000 Chromebooks to students of government and public schools in Pakistan, and the names come from the education boards, not from a first-come queue. If your board record is on the portal, you confirm it, upload your documents, and submit. If it is not there yet, no form on any website can add it for you.

This site walks you through that checking step in plain words: how to find your record, what the result actually means, what to do after you submit, and which small mistakes quietly ruin applications. Everything here is free to read, and the scheme itself is free too. The only official place to check your record is pmychromebooks.ibcc.edu.pk, run with IBCC.

Quick facts

Scheme: PM Youth Chromebook Scheme 2026
Total devices: 500,000 Chromebooks
Who it is for: students of government and public schools in Pakistan
Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan: top Grade 9 (SSC-I) students only
Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Islamabad (ICT), Gilgit-Baltistan: top students of Grade 9 and Grade 10
How selection works: merit and records held by your education board — your record must already exist
Official portal: pmychromebooks.ibcc.edu.pk
Fee: none. There is no charge at any step

How "Find my record" works

Open the official portal and look for the record check. You enter one of your student numbers — your CNIC or B-Form number, or your board roll or registration number — along with your date of birth. Then you press "Find my record" and the portal searches the data the boards have provided.

That search is the whole gateway. A found record means the board has your details and you can move on to documents and submission. A missing record means the portal has nothing to show you yet, and the fix sits with your school and your board, not with any agent. Our step-by-step guide to checking your record on the portal covers each screen, what to type, and what to try first when nothing shows up.

Who qualifies, in short

Two things decide it: where you study and how you performed. You must be a student of a government or public school. Private school students are not covered by this scheme.

After that, the grade rule changes by region. In Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, only top Grade 9 students qualify. In Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Islamabad Capital Territory and Gilgit-Baltistan, top students from Grade 9 and Grade 10 both qualify. "Top" here means your position in your board's records. The board already holds your marks and your details, which is exactly why the portal can find you by number.

What "record found" actually means

A found record is good news, but read it slowly before you touch anything else. It means your name, school and board details are in the system under the number you typed. Check every line against your real documents: your name spelling, your father's name, your date of birth, your school name and your board. If a detail looks wrong, do not just submit and hope. Ask your school to raise it with the board, because the record on the portal comes from the board's data.

Once your record is confirmed, the portal asks you to upload documents. Each file must be 300 KB or smaller. That limit catches a lot of students out, because a phone photo of a document is often several times bigger. Compress the file before you upload it, and check the size on your phone or computer first. Our guide to common mistakes that stop an application lists this one and the other traps in plain order.

Before you press submit, read this twice

There are no changes after submission. None. Once you submit, you cannot edit your details, swap a document, or fix a wrong date of birth through the portal. So treat the submit button like signing a paper form in front of your head teacher. Read every field one last time, open every uploaded file to confirm it is the right document and it opens properly, and only then submit.

When the submission goes through, save your reference slip. Take a screenshot as well, and keep a printed copy if you can. That slip is your proof that you submitted, with the reference you will quote if you ever need to ask about your case. Losing it does not cancel your submission, but it makes every later question harder to answer.

What happens after you submit

Submitting is not the last step, it is the middle step. After submission, boards verify the records and the merit position behind them. Students are picked from board data, so a clean, correct record matters more than how fast you submitted. Selected students receive their Chromebooks through their schools and boards, which is why your school stays your first point of contact throughout. We explain the full path in what happens after you submit, including how to keep your slip safe and what to do while you wait.

Fake websites and agents: the warning that matters

Because 500,000 devices are involved, fake pages and middlemen have already appeared around schemes like this one. The pattern is always the same: a page that looks official, a small "processing fee", or a person who promises to get your name added for money. Walk away from all of it.

The scheme is free. There is no fee to check your record, no fee to upload documents, and no fee to submit. Nobody can add your name to a board's merit record for cash, because the records come from the boards themselves. If a website asks for payment, or its address is anything other than pmychromebooks.ibcc.edu.pk, close it. If someone in your area is charging students, tell your school. You protect other students by reporting it.

A calm way to do the whole thing

Do it in this order and you will avoid almost every problem we see. First, sit with your B-Form or CNIC and your board roll or registration number in front of you. Second, check your record on the official portal and read what comes back, line by line. Third, prepare small, clear document files under 300 KB each. Fourth, re-check every detail, then submit and save your reference slip in two places.

If your record does not appear, do not panic and do not pay anyone. Speak to your school office first, confirm the exact number and date of birth your board holds for you, and ask the school to confirm whether your board has uploaded its records. Boards upload in their own time, and a record that is missing today can be a record that simply has not been uploaded yet.

That is the honest picture of this scheme: your marks and your board record do the heavy lifting, the portal is just where you confirm them, and your job is to check carefully, upload clean files, and keep your slip safe. Take your time with each step. A careful ten minutes now is worth far more than a rushed submission you cannot fix later.