By Papri Chanda
Published Oct 09, 2024

Hindustan Times
Education

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CBSE Board Exam 2025: Question pattern for Class 10 Science paper

The Central Board of Secondary Education has released the CBSE Board Exam 2025 sample papers for Class 10 for 2024-25. The question pattern for the Class 10 Science paper can be checked here. 

The Class 10 Science question paper will have 80 mark questions and the exam will be of 3 hours. 

All the questions will be compulsory, and students will have to answer all of them. However, an internal choice of approximately 33% will be provided, and 50% of marks will be allotted to competency-based questions.

The CBSE 10th Science question paper, Section A, will have 18 MCQs and 4 assertion-reasoning type questions, each worth 1 mark.

The CBSE Class 10 Science question paper Section B will have 6 short answer type questions. Each question will carry 2 marks. 

The Class 10th Science question paper Section C will have 7 short answer type questions carrying 3 marks each. 

Section D of the CBSE Class 10 Science question paper will have 3 long answer type questions carrying 5 marks each. 

The CBSE Class 10 Science question paper Section E will have 3 source-based/case-based/passage-based/integrated units of assessment (04 marks each) with sub-parts worth 1/2/3 marks.