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This time, easy Maths paper for CBSE Class 12 students

New Delhi - 20 per cent questions will be difficult, 20 per cent easy

There's good news for Class 12 Science students of Central Board Secondary Education (CBSE).
According to reports, the Mathematics question paper of 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, DNA India reports.
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.
Revised question pattern 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