CBSE(Central Board of Secondary Education) has released the official sample papers for all the subjects of Class 10th and 12th for the exams to be held in March, 2013. This time around, CBSE has added value based questions of 3-5 marks in all the major subjects in the final board examination. It is a great move by CBSE that will benefit the students in a positive way.

What are Value Based Questions?

CBSE has decided that students will be assessed for 5% weight-age in the major subjects such as English, Hindi, Mathematics, Business Studies, Accounts, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, History, Geography, Entrepreneurship & Economics through questions that will be integrated with the content of the subject & analysed on the basis of the values it reflects.
The value based questions will carry 5 marks in a question paper of 100 marks and around 3 to 4 marks in a question paper of 70-90 marks.

CBSE Class 10th Sample Papers – English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science, Sanskrit and Social Science

Hindi:Part A

Hindi:Part B

Mathematics

Science

Social Science

English Communicative

English Language and Literature

Sanskrit

CBSE Class 12th Sample Papers – Hindi, English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Business Studies, Accountancy, etc.

Hindi-Aichik

Hindi-Part B

Hindi-Core

English Elective

English Core

Mathematics

Physics

Biology

Chemistry

Accountancy

Economics

Business Studies

Geography

History

CBSE has also released the date sheet for board exams. Check out here.

Good luck for the exams. If you have any doubts or queries, just ask in comments.