New Format: 20% of CBSE Questions To Be Analytical

Hoping to ace the boards? Forget past year question papers, concentrate on concepts. Announcing the blueprint for this year's new-format board exams on Thursday, CBSE said 20% of the questions will be designed to test students' conceptual knowledge.

The announcement comes perilously close to the exams, which begin on March 1.


Said Ashok Ganguly, CBSE chairman: "From this year, a part - 20% - of the paper will have analytical questions which will be different from past years' papers."

In effect, this means that these will be phrased differently from the regular questions and answering them will require sound understanding of concepts as well as critical thinking.


The move, says the board, is to differentiate the best from the rest. Said Ganguly, "If a student scores 100% in this paper, then he's really the best." In the new scheme, 10% of the questions will be very short answer questions, and 20% will be concept-based. The rest though remains the same.

Courtesy : The Times Of India