The Central Board of Secondary Education has conducted the CBSE Class 10 term 1 board exams on December 2, 2021. The Class 10 science exam was held from 11:30 to 1:00 pm in the offline mode. As per discussion with the students, overall the CBSE Class 10 social science board exam paper was quite easy. As analyzed, the exam had a mix of questions that covered almost all the subjects.
Highlights of the Exam Subject-wise:
Physics
- The physics section contained mainly 75% theoretical questions while 25% were numerical based.
- Overall the difficulty level of the physics part was easy to moderate.
- About 60% of the questions were quite easy, 30% questions were medium level and about 10% of the questions were of difficult level.
- In addition to this, special attention was required to solve case study-based MCQs.
- About 80% of the questions were asked from the Chapter Light: Reflection and Refraction and the remaining 20% came from the chapter Human eye and colorful world
- A few questions were also asked on the new topic Cartesian sign conversion which was recently added in the class 10th
Biology
- The question from the Biology section was of moderate level.
- The question paper was based on the same paper pattern as per the sample paper that is issued by CBSE.
- The easy questions were based on facts and came directly from the different chapters.
- The case study questions were diagram-based and came directly from the textbook.
- Assertion and Reasoning based questions were mainly of moderate to difficult level.
- There were many questions that required a detailed analysis of various topics.
- Diagram and activity-based questions were directly asked from the NCERT book.
Detailed Analysis Breakup – Biology Section
Difficulty Level | Weightage |
Easy Questions | 40% |
Moderate Questions | 40% |
Difficult Questions | 20% |
Chemistry
- From a total of 60 questions, 23 questions were from this Chemistry.
- All the questions are NCERT based. There were a number of questions that were application and activity-based.
- Overall the level of the chemistry section was average.
- Case study-based MCQs required maximum attention.
- There were about 10 questions that were asked from different chapters like Acids, Bases, and Salt (about 44%), 7 to 6 questions were asked from Chapter Chemical Reactions and Equations (30%) and Metals and Non-Metals (26%) respectively.
Detailed Analysis Breakup – Chemistry Section
Difficulty Level | Weightage |
Easy Questions | 44% |
Medium Questions | 43% |
Difficult Questions | 13% |
Here’s a complete Exam Analysis.
Conclusion
Overall the CBSE Class 10 Term 1 Science exam was average. Students were happy and satisfied. Most of the questions came from the syllabus and were similar to the questions asked in the sample papers. While there were some questions that required special attention. In all, the paper was on the expected lines.