The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday conducted the Class 10 social science term 2 exams. Here is what students said after the paper:
Prayagraj
Class 10 student of BBS International School, Gohri in Prayagraj Aditi Tripathi said that her exam of social science went very well.
“I hope to score well in it. None of the questions were tough and the question paper held no surprises. I found the question paper to be much easier than that came in Term-1 exam,” she said.
Her classmate and also a student of BBS International School, Gohri in Prayagraj Alok Sharma agreed.
“All questions were from within the syllabus and in general the question paper was easier than even the sample paper. Anyone who had prepared in accordance to NCERT pattern would have done well,” he maintained.
Shivram Pandey, a student of Prayag Public School, Lalgopalganj in Prayagraj also said that the question paper was easier than Term-1 and was not at all lengthy.
“I managed to complete the questions with half-an-hour to spare,” he said.
Yogendra Kumar, also a student of Prayag Public School, Lalgopalganj in Prayagraj said that his exam also went very well.
{{/usCountry}}Yogendra Kumar, also a student of Prayag Public School, Lalgopalganj in Prayagraj said that his exam also went very well.
{{/usCountry}}“Even the question of “Map” wherein we had to identify the location of the given power plant, airport and nuclear plant was easy enough and I got it right despite being a little wary of Map-based questions,” he shared.
Social science teacher of Ganga Gurukulam school, Phaphamau in Prayagraj Kusum Srivastava said that all questions of the social science exam including from the sections of civics, history and geography were along expected lines keeping in line with the CBSE pattern and the NCERT standards. “The question paper did not hold any surprises for the students and most would have done well,” she claimed.
Chandigarh
The students of Class 10th who gave their CBSE Social Sciences board exam on Saturday gave a mixed response on the question paper. While some students found the exam very easy, others said it was moderately difficult.
Pranya of Vivek High School, Sector-38B, Chandigarh said, "It was moderately easy exam, the questions were NCERT based, it was how one attempted them that made a difference."
Vandhana of Jawahar Navodya Vidyalya Sector 25 found the exam very easy and completed the paper in time.
Akanksha of Sharda Sarvhitkari Model Senior Secondary School said, "I can't really say that the paper was easy but it covered the full syllabus. Paper was set wise, divided and lengthy at some parts but it went well." Her schoolmate Vishakha also found the paper easy and completed the exam in time.
Lucknow
CBSE Class 10 students who appeared in Social Science exam on Saturday felt that questions were direct and they could finish the exam on time.
Tanisha Mishra of Class X-studrnt of GD Goenka Public School said that the paper was good with standard questions and she was able to finish it in due time.
Saundarya D Nair, a student from same school said the passage based questions were very direct and thus, were well attempted by us.
Samriddhi also found the paper easy and she could complete the paper in time.
Aditya was happy on seeing the question paper as most of the questions were from syllabus and well prepared by them in the classes. As the paper went very well, he is hoping for a good result.
For Aryan Tripathi, the paper was easy with direct questions and he is very confident with the results.
Overall, the Social Science paper was easy, well within the syllabus and standard questions made the question paper to be well attempted by the students.
(With inputs from K Sandeep Kumar in Prayagraj, Nistha Gupta in Chandigarh and Rajeev Mullick in Lucknow)