ICSE Class 10 Chemistry Board Exam 2024 Post Paper Analysis- 11th March

ICSE Class 10 Chemistry Board Exam 2024 Post Paper Analysis - 11th March

The ICSE 10 Chemistry paper was easy to moderate. Read further for more details.

By Topperlearning Expert 11th Mar, 2024 | 05:00 pm

The Class 10 board exams for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, popularly known as ICSE, successfully conducted Chemistry exam (Science Paper II) today 11^th March 2024.

Today’s ICSE 10 Chemistry exam went without any hitches, and students felt that the paper was of easy to moderate level, not too challenging nor too easy. Let us analyze the ICSE Class 10 Chemistry 2024 question paper and find the details.

Question Paper Structure

The ICSE 10 Chemistry exam comprised a theory paper of two hours with questions of 80 marks and an internal assessment with practical work carrying 20 marks. We will focus on today’s theory paper.

Let’s first see the question paper structure before moving on to paper analysis.

The duration of the paper was 2 hours. As per the CISCE Board guidelines, students were given an additional 15 minutes to read the question paper. This is a guideline that is followed for every question paper.

The theory paper was precisely in line with the specimen paper released by CISCE. The question paper was divided into two sections: Section A (40 marks) and Section B (40 marks).

Section A had two main questions. Question 1 comprised 15 MCQs, each carrying 1 mark accounting for 15 marks. Question 2 comprised 5 sub-questions, each carrying 5 marks accounting for 25 marks. Section A consisted of memory-based and understanding-based objective questions.

Section B had six main questions of SAQ type, each carrying 10 marks. Of these 6 questions, students were expected to attempt any four questions, thus accounting for a total of 40 marks.

Now, here we decode the ICSE Class 10 Chemistry board paper with all its elements and discuss the chapter-wise distribution of marks.

Question Paper Analysis

Based on the reviews obtained from the students and the subject experts, a detailed analysis of the ICSE Class 10 Chemistry paper has been tabulated below:

Parameter	Analysis
Overall Paper Analysis
Overall difficulty level	Easy to Moderate with a few tricky questions.
Was the paper lengthy	Bit lengthy
Overall average expected good score	65+
Analysis of Section A
Difficulty level of Question 1	Easy to Moderate
Difficulty level of Question 2	Easy to Moderate
Expected good score in Section A	35+
Analysis of Section B
Average difficulty level of Question 3 to Question 8	Moderate, tricky and lengthy
Expected good score in Section B	30+

Chapter-Wise Distribution of Marks (Including Options)

From the above graphical analysis, it’s clear that the highest weightage is given to chapters Organic Chemistry, Periodic classification, Metallurgy, Electrolysis and only numerical based but scoring chapter Mole Concept and Stoichiometry.

Listed below are some student and teacher responses from every aspect of the paper concerning typology, distribution of marks, and, of course, difficulty level.

Student Feedback

Paper Balance : well balanced with an equal mix of hard, easy, and direct questions.
Difficulty level – Easy to moderate but lengthy with a few tricky questions.
Scoring potential – Section A: The MCQs in section A were the easiest part of the paper.
Paper Structure aligned to specimen paper released by CSICE.
The challenging section was section B with a few tricky questions. Long answer-type questions were a bit lengthy.

Expert Feedback

Overall, it was easy to moderate.
Section A had easy-to-moderate questions that tested the students’ basic knowledge and understanding of concepts.
Section B was moderate and followed the given paper pattern. It was lengthy and have a few tricky questions.
Also, if students had spent more than half an hour in Section A, they would have certainly felt its crunch in Section B.

Conclusion

It would be fair to conclude that this paper was easy to moderate. It was well-balanced, with an equal mix of easy, tricky, and direct questions. Students who studied through the specimen paper shared by the CISCE could complete the paper on time. Students who had practiced solving questions and had a good understanding of the concepts would be able to score 65+ marks out of 80. Click here for assistance with any exam-related queries.

Nevertheless, now is the time to focus on the next paper which is Mathematics going to be held on Friday, 15^th March 2024. Wish you all the very best for your next exams.

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