CBSE 12th Biology Exam Analysis 2022: Application-based questions; balanced paper

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 biology exam 2022 was a “balanced” and “student-friendly” paper with mostly direct and some application-based questions, according to teachers. CBSE Class 12 biology exam live updates.

According to Lipika Tamuli, PGT Biology, Modern English School, Guwahati, “The exam pattern and difficulty level were similar as that of CBSE sample paper. It consisted of questions ranging from easy to moderate difficulty. 60% questions were mostly direct and if the students studied well, they have a good chance of scoring well.”

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“The question paper was balanced and student-friendly, which is a perfect mix of analysis, application and memory based questions. If students read the NCERT book properly they will score well. Students could readily finish the paper in allotted time. Application-based questions from Biotechnology were of high order and average students may find difficulty in answering those questions,” she added.

Sudhir, Lecturer Biology, Government Boys Senior secondary school, Prashant Vihar said, "This paper contains all kinds of balance including mostly easy level, with adequate quality content of high order thinking. Almost all students will find familiarity with 80 per cent of the content as in directly asked topics / language. Some questions were asked on memory-based on the name of a ringworm causative organism. Some students found even easy ecological based questions were asked in complex indirect language. Overall question paper was meant to demand familiar concepts except about 6 marks out of 35 asking deep concepts."

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As per Nidhi Sharma, Biology Teacher at Silverline Prestige School, Ghaziabad, “The questions were NCERT-based with a slight change in language. The diagram-based questions were direct questions. The analysis-based questions were not difficult to tackle. The case study-based questions were from known important topics in biotech. Teachers found that overall it was a good paper. From students' perspectives, the paper was satisfying though few found it an average paper.”