CBSE Class 10 science analysis: Students found questions ‘balanced’, pattern similar to sample paper

NEW DELHI: The CBSE Class 10 science exam was conducted today, March 4 between 10:30 am and 1:30 pm. The science exam was held for a total marks of 80. Students who took the exam found the questions in the science paper balanced. The Class 10 science question paper had questions from NCERT textbook. The science question paper was set in line with the sample paper provided at the official website -- cbseacademic.ac.in.

Analysing the paper as balanced, DPS Indirapuram’s Ritu Pant, Senior Mistress said: “Students who have studied their NCERT textbook thoroughly will definitely score well. The pattern was similar to the CBSE sample paper and the difficulty level was not very high.”

Saying that the competency-based questions were of average level, Deepika Sharma, HOD Science at Silverline Prestige School, Ghaziabad said: “The paper was easy to moderate and the questions were mainly NCERT-based.”

The application-based questions were direct and easy to answer, Sharma added.

The science HOD also said that students were able to attempt the paper in time and were satisfied and happy after attempting the exam.

Students, Sharma added, shared that the paper was balanced and based on the CBSE curriculum.

The short and long answer questions were direct and framed with language easy to understand. MCQ was a little tricky and required deeper concept application. Case study-based questions were moderate and interesting, she added.

As per Shweta Rai, PGT Biology, Pacific World School, the science paper of Class 10 CBSE board had moderately easy to average questions.

Saying that no question was found to be outside of the syllabus, Rai said: “About 50-60% of the questions were straight from the textbook. Students could easily finish the paper before allotted time. MCQ's were mostly average but needed a conceptual knowledge. Case based questions were uniformly distributed from easy to moderate and can be answered by students.”

CBSE science exam: Section-wise analysis

All five sections in the paper were relatively easy, Nisha Sharma, Science teacher, KIIT World School Gurugram analysed. Here are the section-wise analysis:

Section A: MCQ’s were easy and easily solved by our students.

Section B: Diagrammatic questions were asked for labelling and the level of questions were easy.

Most of the questions were asked in a simple manner.

Section C: questions were divided into parts and asked in a simple language.

Section D: Questions were easy and students were able to solve them efficiently.

Section E: Case based study questions were also found easy.