Analysis of class 12 Biology board exam

CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) successfully conducted the Biology exam of class 12 March 27. Like other papers of the CBSE for class 12, this paper was also balanced and most of the questions were application based.

The exam was strictly based on the syllabus given in NCERT textbook and students who had studied the textbook found the paper easy. The questions in the exam were not tricky and students found no element of surprise in the question paper.

Students can easily get full marks in this exam.

Priti Gupta, Biology teacher of Manav Racha International School said, “Paper was easy as compared to the last year's paper. Only two to three questions were repeated from the previous year. Most of the students also found the diagrams easy to attempt”.

Section wise analysis

Section A
It consisted of the questions which were based on the several applications. The questions were balanced but tested the understanding of the students in depth.

Section B
Questions in this section were direct and easy to answer.

Section C
This section consisted of the explanation based questions. Three of the questions were explanation based and only one question was diagram based.

Section D
This section consisted of the value based questions.

Section E
Questions in this section were from the NCER exercises and were from the expected topics.

Rajshekhar Ratrey, VP, Educational Content, Toppr.com said,” Last year, ‘Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants' had more weightage than ‘Human Reproduction' whereas this year ‘Human reproduction' has more weightage than ‘Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants'. The weightage of ‘Organisms and Population' was halved as compared to 2017. Marks' weightage wasn't similar as compared to that of last year.”