CBSE class 12 Geography paper analysis: It was easy to moderate; questions were from the NCERT

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on March 2, 2023, (Monday) conducted the class XII Geography paper from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. The exam was held across India and 26 countries abroad.

The class XII Board exam is an important exam for students since it starts a student’s academic as well as professional journey. Shilpa Maitra, a Geography teacher at Apeejay School, Faridabad says that the best part about this year’s question paper was that it was well-balanced.

“The CBSE even asked questions from chapters from where the questions had not been asked for two-three years pre-pandemic times. Overall, the question paper was easy to moderate. The questions that were asked had no twists barring a couple of them in Section C; here two questions were worded similarly and some students may have found it a bit confusing on how to attempt the same,” Maitra said.

Another good thing about the paper was that there was nothing out of the syllabus and the questions were based only on the NCERT textbook. “Section A – MCQs – questions 1 & 3 the students got confused; the questions itself were not tough but the options that were given were very close. The rest of the MCQs were easy. Section B that has source-based questions, the answers were already given in the passages were simple and the students should have found it easy to identify the answers. Again, there were no twists here; questions asked were direct. In Section C, two questions were a bit tricky,” Maitra said.

Kudos to the CBSE question paper setters. They have done a lot of research to come up with such a good paper. I laud their effort and the research that went into this

–Shilpa Maitra, a Geography teacher at Apeejay School, Faridabad 

In Section D that had 5-marker questions, the students should have got it right as the questions were direct. “Another advantage was that these were broken into two parts of two-and-a-half marks each. So students should manage to score full marks in this section as well. Section E was map work and was extremely easy and most students should have got all of them correct,” Maitra said.

She gave kudos to the CBSE question paper setters. “They have done a lot of research to come up with such a good paper. I laud their effort and the research that went into setting this paper. This is because questions were asked from each unit making it a well-balanced paper,” Maitra said.

She added that since the paper was easy students should have managed to complete it within the three-hour time slot. “This also made the paper scoring. Students who studied from the NCERT, did the sample papers and the assignments that were given to them should score well over 65 out of 70,” Maitra said in conclusion.