CBSE Class 10 Science Exam 2020 - Board Paper Analysis

After an easy Hindi paper, CBSE Class 10 students appeared for the Science board paper today. Nervousness, exhilaration or just plain excitement?Reviews from students and teachers varied. Most of the paper was NCERT textbook-based. Sections A and B were easy for most of the students, while Section C was bit a difficult for many.

Question Paper Structure:

There were some changes in the paper pattern this year. So, let’s first see the paper structure before moving on to the paper analysis.

The CBSE 10 Science paper was of 80 marks and was divided into three sections A, B and C and the time allotted for the paper was 3 hours.

• Section A had 14 one mark questions comprising MCQs, VSA questions, two paragraph based questions in  Biology and assertion - reason type questions in Physics and Chemistry.
• Section B had 10 three-mark short answer-type questions.
• Section C consisted of 6 five-mark long answer-type questions.

So, in all, the paper consisted of 30 questions, and internal choice was given in each section.  

Sections A and C had questions which were of the easy-to-moderate level. We can say that students needed to apply their mind to solve questions from the scientific concepts which they had learnt and revised throughout the academic year.

Here we decode the CBSE Class 10 Science Paper 2020 (Set 3) with all its elements and discuss the chapter-wise distribution of marks. But first, we’ll compare the chapter-wise distribution of marks with the CBSE Class 10 Science Paper 2019.

Chapter-wise Distribution (2020 v/s 2019)

The chapter ‘Human Eye and the Colourful World’ was the most-valued chapter carrying 9 marks, followed by the chapters ‘Heredity and Evolution' and ‘How do Organisms Reproduce?’ with a weightage of 8 and 7 marks, respectively.

Paragraph-based questions were picked from 'How do Organisms Reproduce?' and ‘Our Environment’, while Assertion–Reason questions were based on ‘Carbon and its Compounds’ and ‘Sources of Energy'. A tabular based question for 5 marks was asked from the chapter ‘Periodic Classification of Elements’.

General Observations

Listed below are some observations from every aspect of the paper with respect to typology, distribution of marks and, of course, difficulty level.

• The overall paper had a moderate difficulty level.
• The short answer questions in Chemistry were tricky. 
• The Physics part was a bit moderate with application- and HOTS-based questions in Section A.
• HOTS questions, being a requisite for the CBSE board exams, came for a total of up to 14 marks of the paper.
• As expected, Section A required detailed understanding of scientific concepts.

Watch the post paper analysis video for the CBSE Class 10 Science exam by our subject matter expert.

Conclusion

Overall we can say that, the Science paper was moderately difficult. Most of the students can easily score around 60 – 70% marks in this paper.

It’s now time to focus on the Mathematics paper which is to be held on 12th March 2020. Team TopperLearning wishes you all the very best!

Review all the important answers and practice material for CBSE Class 10 Exams 2020:

CBSE Class 10 exam 2020 - Sample Papers

CBSE Class 10 exam 2020 - Previous years papers

CBSE Class 10 exam 2020 - Mock board exam

CBSE Class 10 exam 2020 - Revision notes

CBSE Class 10 exam 2020 - Practice tests

CBSE Class 10 exam 2020 - Chapter notes

CBSE Class 10 exam 2020 - Webinar

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