Day one of Board exams: Easy but tricky

Easy but tricky -- that is how the students described the question papers as the examinations for class X and class XII under Central Board of Secondary Education started on Saturday across the country and abroad.

For the first time, 20 per cent of the questions required 'high-order thinking skills' as prescribed by the National Curriculum Framework, the guiding document for preparation of NCERT textbooks.

The class-XII students appeared in the Chemistry paper while Class-X students sat for Information Technology. However, the students did not find any problem to answer them.

"It was not at all difficult. Those questions were bit tricky," Ananya Roy Choudhary, a Class-XII student of Delhi Public School, Dwarka, said.

She said the question paper was a bit lengthy as there were many questions, which warranted brief answers.

"But I could answer them before time. It took me two hours to answer all questions and I had one hour time to revise," she said.

"If you are thorough with the textbooks, you would not find any problem to answer," said another student.

The class-X students appeared in the Information Technology paper, which was on expected line, students said.

"The questions were as per expectations. We could answer them before time," Snehashis Mitra, a student of Mount St Mary school, said with a smile.

CBSE spokesperson Roma Sharma said the exam was conducted in a peaceful manner.

"There was no disturbance anywhere," she said.