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CBSE changes exam pattern for class XII History paper

Meritnation|Feb 7th, 2012 10:33am

News for all you students in CBSE class XII appearing for your History paper this year! Starting this year CBSE has modified the exam pattern for the class XII History exam. The following changes have been made in the paper that is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, March 14, 2012-

  • Each question in the long answer section would now carry 10 marks as compared to 8 marks earlier and the suggested word limit for each long answer has been enhanced to 500 words (earlier word limit 250 words).
  • The number of very short answer questions of 2 marks has been reduced from 5 to 3.

Weightage of Questions

Form of question No. of questions Marks for each question Total Marks
Long answer (LA) 2 10 20
Short answer (SA) 8 5 40
Very short answers 3 2 06
Passage based questions* 3 8 24
Skill (Map work) 2 5 10
Total 18 100

Note: Each Passage based question will have 3-4 questions with marks ranging from 1 to 4.

Good Luck!

Team Meritnation

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  • 1. DIVYA NISHA  |  July 21st, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    ITS BEST….

  • 2. DIVYA NISHA  |  July 21st, 2014 at 4:48 pm

    GOOD….

  • 3. Rohit  |  June 3rd, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    This pattern can’t be helpful for the futur engeenears … need to be changed.,.!!!!

  • 4. harsh jain  |  February 18th, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    hi

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