(Notification) Change in History Paper: Class XII effective for the Board Examination: 2012
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Design Of Question Paper History Class XII :
The following changes have been made in the design of the Question Paper in History for Class XII:-
Marks for each question in the long answer section have been increased from 8 to 10 marks. The suggested word limit of answer to each long answer question has been enhanced to 500 words (earlier word limit 250 words)
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The number of very short answer questions of 2 marks has been reduced from 5 to 3 questions. The following is the updated weightage of marks to form of
questions:
Weightage to form of questions:
| Form of question marks | No. of questions | Marks for each question | Total |
| Long answer (LA) | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Short answer (SA) | 8 | 5 | 40 |
| Very short answers | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 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.
Courtesy: cbse.nic.in