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CBSE to go easy on Class 12 Maths paper

  Kritika Sharma | Tue, 17 Jan 2017-07:05am , New Delhi , DNA

The Board has revised the pattern of its question paper, after students complained about it being very tough, last year

In a relief to Class 12 Science students, the Mathematics question paper of Central Board Secondary Education (CBSE) is going to be easier this year, and will include only 20 per cent difficult questions. The Board revised the pattern of its question paper after students, last year, had complained about the questions being very tough, and some of them being out of the syllabus.
As per the revised format of the question paper, 20 per cent questions will be difficult, 20 per cent easy and the rest 60 per cent will be average questions.
Also, the Board is going to do away with choice system. There will be no overall choice in the question paper, but 30 per cent internal choice will be given in questions containing four and six marks.
A circular in this regard was circulated by CBSE in July 2016, which will be adopted for designing the questions this year. As per the circular, 35 per cent questions will be designed to test a student's 'understanding' of the subject, 20 per cent to test 'remembering' and only 10 per cent questions will test Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS), the kind of questions that are generally considered to be difficult. The paper will also contain very short and short-answer type questions.
"A team of experts discussed various aspects of the question paper and it was decided that most of the questions should be based on Understanding and Application of the subject. Questions that test HOTS can only be solved by bright students but the question paper should cater to all kinds of students, which is why the focus will be more on average questions," said a source in the CBSE.

Clean chit

After various complaints from students and teachers last year, the CBSE had placed the matter before Committee of Subject Experts who concluded that the question paper was as per the curriculum. For this year, the CBSE wants to assure students that questions will be completely based on what they have studied in school from their National Council of Education and Research Training (NCERT) textbooks.

Revised question patten of Mathematics:

Typology of Questions–
Remembering: 20 per cent
Understanding: 35 per cent
Application: 25 per cent
Higher Order Thinking Skills:10 per cent
Evaluation: 10 per cent

Question-wise break-up

Very short answer–4 marks
Short answers – 16 marks
Long answers -I – 44 marks
Long answers -II – 36 marks

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/academy/report-cbse-to-go-easy-on-class-12-maths-paper-2293189