Thursday, February 9, 2012

CBSE changes exam pattern for class XII History paper

News for all you students in CBSE class XII appearing for your History paper this year! Starting this year CBSE has modified the exam pattern for the class XII History exam. The following changes have been made in the paper that is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2012-
  • Each question in the long answer section would now carry 10 marks as compared to 8 marks earlier and the suggested word limit for each long answer has been enhanced to 500 words (earlier word limit 250 words).
  • The number of very short answer questions of 2 marks has been reduced from 5 to 3.
Weightage of Questions



Form of question No. of questions Marks for each question Total Marks
Long answer (LA) 2 10 20
Short answer (SA) 8 5 40
Very short answers 3 2 06
Passage based questions* 3 8 24
Skill (Map work) 2 5 10
Total 18 100


Note: Each Passage based question will have 3-4 questions with marks ranging from 1 to 4.

Good Luck!

1 comment:

  1. CBSE is affiliated to a large number of schools all over India. The board allows both regular candidates, who study in CBSE schools, as well as private candidates from non-affiliated schools to appear in the exams.We need a strict change in the way of studies done in schools.
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