Which is hardest Five Board for Classes 10 and Class 12 Students in India; Know More

Exams for Class 10 and 12 state board examinations are comparatively harder for students in West Bengal, Tripura, Maharashtra, Goa, Chhattisgarh, and other states, according to a PARAKH (a standard-setting organization under the NCERT) review of English and Math question papers from 17 school education boards.

The analysis, a first for the Union Government, was conducted over the course of the past year by PARAKH in an effort to create a formula for uniform school board assessments across the nation. PARAKH’s most recent study, “Establishing Equivalency Across Boards,” just made the results available to the public.

The report states that the highest percentage of “hard” questions (66.6%) were found on the Tripura Board of Secondary Education. Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (53.57%), Goa Board (44.66%), Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education (44.44%), and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (33.33%) were next in line.

In comparison to the other five Boards, Chhattisgarh students fared better since a similar percentage (47.62%) of the questions on their exams were classified as “easy.” Goa had just “medium” level questions (55.34%) and no “easy” ones, aside from the “hard” questions. According to the PARAKH report, there were equal amounts of “easy,” “hard,” and “medium” questions in Maharashtra.

“Easy” questions are those that a “great majority of learners exposed to relevant learning opportunities would be expected to answer correctly,” according to PARAKH. “Hard” questions are ones that only a small percentage of students may possibly know the answer to. Experts evaluated the exercise’s questions to determine their level of difficulty, and the report stated that answers are “inherently subjective” and should be “interpreted with caution.” Overall, PARAKH discovered that questions generally ranged “from easy to medium difficult level” across the 17 school education boards, which include those of Punjab, Haryana, UP, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Manipur, Odisha, Nagaland, Himachal, and Kerala, aside from CISCE, which administers ICSE and ISC exams.

“There could be a lot of reasons for this, but it doesn’t aid students in meeting increasing expectations. Therefore, the research recommended that boards develop question papers that foster creativity and imagination in students. With the exception of the Chhattisgarh board, the CISCE (38.39%) and the Odisha Board of Secondary Education (40%) had the largest percentage of “easy” questions.

The Board of Secondary Education Haryana (HBSE or BSEH) question papers had the highest percentage of items (64.71%) that tested rote memory, followed by Goa (57.89%), Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (53.13%), and Odisha (50.77%). The analysis also examined the “cognitive demand” of the question papers across the 17 school boards. However, the majority of comprehension-testing questions were found in the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (87.76%), followed by the Nagaland Board of Secondary Education (73%), Tripura Board of Secondary Education (61.7%), and Kerala Board of Public Examination (61.54%).