CBSE Board Exam 2025 Live: Class 12 mathematics paper 'moderate but lengthy'; memory-based questions
Vikas Kumar Pandit | March 8, 2025 | 09:47 PM IST | 10 mins read
CBSE Class 12 mathematics exam was held from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. Updates on admit card, paper patterns, exam guidelines, marking scheme, passing marks, difficulty level, exam analysis and more.
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Attempt NowNEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 board exams 2025 for mathematics subjects was held today, March 8. The CBSE Class 12 mathematics exam was conducted in a single shift from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. The CBSE Class 12 maths exam analysis 2025 will be available soon, providing insights into the difficulty level, question trends, and student reactions.
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Students are required to carry their CBSE admit card 2025 along with their school ID to appear for the CBSE Class 12 board exam 2025. The CBSE Class 12 mathematics theory exam is being conducted for a total of 80 marks, while the remaining 20 marks will be evaluated based on internal assessment. The CBSE Class 12 board exam 2025 is scheduled to be held from February 15 to April 4.
Coaching institutes will also release the unofficial CBSE Class 12 maths answer key 2025 after the exam. Students can use the CBSE Class 12 maths paper answer key to calculate their probable score.
CBSE Class 12 Board Exam: Mathematics marking scheme
The mathematics marking scheme for CBSE Class 12 board exam 2025 is given in the table below.
|
Sections |
Type of questions |
Number of questions |
Marks |
Total marks |
|
A |
Question number 1 to 18 are MCQs and Question number 19 and 20 are Assertion-Reason Based Questions |
20 |
1 Mark Each |
20 |
|
B |
Very Short Answer Type Questions |
5 |
2 Marks Each |
10 |
|
C |
Short Answer Type Questions |
6 |
3 Marks Each |
18 |
|
D |
Long Answer Type Questions |
4 |
5 Marks Each |
20 |
|
E |
Source-Based/ Case-Based/ Passage-Based/ Integrated Units of Assessment |
3 |
4 Marks Each |
12 |
|
Total Marks |
|
|
|
80 |
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CBSE Class 12 Math Analysis 2025: Moderate but lengthy paper
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cbse academic.nic: Class 12 English syllabus 2024-2025
Under CBSE Class 12 English syllabus 2024-2025, the prescribed books:
Flamingo: English Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi
(Prose)
- The Last Lesson Lost Spring Deep Water
- The Rattrap
- Indigo
- Poets and Pancakes
- The Interview
- Going Places
- (Poetry)
- My Mother at Sixty-Six
- Keeping Quiet
- A Thing of Beauty
- A Roadside Stand
- Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
2. Vistas: Supplementary Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi
- The Third Level
- The Tiger King
- Journey to the End of the Earth
- The Enemy
- On the Face of It Memories of Childhood
- The Cutting of My Long Hair
- We Too are Human Beings
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- Dot product
- Cross product
- Equations of planes
- Shortest distance between two skew lines
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CBSE Class 12 Maths Paper Analysis 2025: Marking scheme
The CBSE Class 12 maths paper analysis 2025 will be available soon. The marking scheme in CBSE Class 12 maths paper 2025 is explained below.
- Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) and assertion-reason questions- carry 1 mark each.
- Very short answer questions: carries 2 marks each.
- Short answer questions: carries 3 marks each.
- Long answer questions: carries 5 marks each.
- Source-based questions: carries 4 marks each.
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CBSE Class 12 Maths analysis 2025
The CBSE 2025 Class 12 maths analysis will be available soon. Students have just come out of the exam hall. The CBSE 2025 Class 12 maths exam difficulty level, questions, student's reactions and expert insights will be available soon.
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CBSE maths paper leak 2025
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CBSE Class 12 maths exam analysis 2025
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CBSE Class 12 passing marks 2025
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CBSE Class 12 maths paper analysis
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CBSE Class 12 maths answer key
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CBSE Class 12 maths answer key 2025
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Class 12 date sheet 2024-25 CBSE board
The CBSE Class 12 board exam date sheet 2025 is given below.
|
CBSE board exam date 2025 |
Subjects |
|
February 15 |
Entrepreneurship |
|
February 17 |
Physical education |
|
February 18 |
Hindustani Music Voc, Hindustani Music Mel Ins, automotive, healthcare, data science, electronics and hardware |
|
February 19 |
Food production, office procedures and practices, design, Early Childhood Care and Education |
|
February 20 |
Typography and Computer Application |
|
February 21 |
Physics |
|
February 22 |
Business studied Business administration |
|
February 24 |
Geography |
|
February 25 |
French Taxation Textile design Artifical Intelligence |
|
February 27 |
Chemistry |
|
February 28 |
Financial markets management, Beauty and wellness, medical diagnostics |
|
March 1 |
Engineering Graphics, Kathak, Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri, Kathakali, Horticulture, Library and information science, cost accounting |
|
March 3 |
Legal studies Retail |
|
March 4 |
National Cadet Corps (NCC) Banking |
|
March 5 |
Agriculture Marketing |
|
March 6 |
Fashion studies |
|
March 7 |
Mass media studies Design thinking and innovation |
|
March 8 |
Mathematics Applied mathematics |
|
March 10 |
Tourism, Air-conditioning and refrigeration, Salesmanship |
|
March 11 |
English Elective, English Elective |
|
March 12 |
Yoga Physical activity trainer |
|
March 13 |
Web application |
|
March 15 |
Hindi elective Hindi core |
|
March 17 |
Urdu Elective, Sanskrit Elective, Carnatic music vocal, Carnatic music mel ins, Carnatic music per ins mridangam, Urdu core, Front office operations, insurance, geospatial technology, electrical technology |
|
March 18 |
Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Applied Art (Commercial Art) |
|
March 19 |
Economics |
|
March 20 |
Hindustani music vocal, Biotechnology, Knowledge Tradition and Practices of India, Kokborok, Electronics Technology, shorthand (English and Hindi), Food nutrition and dietetics, |
|
March 22 |
Political science |
|
March 24 |
Sanskrit core |
|
March 25 |
Biology |
|
March 26 |
Accountancy |
|
March 27 |
Sociology |
|
March 29 |
Informatics Practices, Computer Science, Information technology |
|
April 1 |
History |
|
April 2 |
Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Sindhi, Marathi, Gujarati, Manipuri, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese, Kannada, Arabic, Tibetan, French, German, Persian, Nepali, Limbo, Lepcha, Telugu Telangana, Bodo, Tangkhul, Japanese, Bhutia, Spanish, Kashmiri, Mizo |
|
April 3 |
Home Science |
|
April 4 |
Psychology |
March 8, 2025 | 10:30 AM IST
CBSE Class 12 Maths exam begins
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CBSE Class 12 Maths Exam 2025: Entry closed
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CBSE 2025 Class 12 Maths paper with solutions
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English syllabus Class 12 CBSE 2024-25
The CBSE Class 12 English literature syllabus 2024-25 are as follows
|
Book name |
Chapters |
|
Flamingo |
The Last Lesson, Lost Spring, Deep Water, The Rattrap, Indigo, Poets and Pancakes, The Interview, Going Places |
|
My Mother at Sixty-Six, Keeping Quiet, A Thing of Beauty, A Roadside Stand, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers |
|
|
Vistas |
The Third Level, The Tiger King, Journey to the End of the Earth, The Enemy, On the Face of It, Memories of Childhood, The Cutting of My Long Hair, We Too Are Human Beings |
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CBSE Class 12 maths exam 2025 today
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the Class 12 maths paper today from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. The CBSE Class 12 maths exam 2025 will be held at 7,842 centres.
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