Month-by-Month Preparation Plan

How this course fits your preparation

This course has four parts, and the plan below tells you when to use each:

• Board Exam Guide 2027 (chapter 0): this guide. Come back to its paper pattern and 3-hour plan before every full sample paper.
• Important Questions and Answers (chapter 1): one page for each of the 14 chapters. Each page has a Revise in 5 Minutes sheet, board-level questions with step-marked answers, and a Test Yourself quiz.
• Five full sample papers (chapters 2-6), Maths Sample Paper 2027, Set 1 to Set 5: each has a Question Paper page to write under a timer and a Detailed Solutions page with the marks for each step.
• Past board papers: these are added to the course later, for the final weeks.

The Maths board exam will be in about February or March 2027. Once CBSE releases the date sheet, count back from your Maths date and adjust the months below.

CBSE now also holds a second, optional board exam in May for students who want to improve their score. It follows the same paper pattern (the May 2026 paper matched it exactly). Plan for the first exam as if it were your only chance.

Month-by-month plan

October and November: chapters and important questions

• About an hour of Maths a day: 30 minutes on the chapter, 30 minutes of questions.
• After each chapter, try every question on its Important Questions page on paper before reading the answer. Then take the Test Yourself quiz.
• Start a mistake notebook. For each wrong answer, write the question number, what went wrong (concept, calculation, reading the question, or presentation) and the correct step.
• Learn the fixed proofs until you can write them without looking: irrationality of $\sqrt{2}$, $\sqrt{3}$, $\sqrt{5}$; the BPT; the two tangent theorems; the standard trig identities.
• Keep one page of formulas: AP, section and distance formulas, sector and segment, surface areas and volumes, grouped mean, median and mode.

December and January: full papers under a timer

• Write each sample paper in one sitting of 3 hours, on paper, with a clock and no book. Use the 15-minute reading plan first.
• Score your MCQs with the quiz on the Question Paper page. Then check every written answer against the Detailed Solutions, the way an examiner would: give yourself only the marks for the steps you actually wrote.
• Enter every lost mark in the mistake notebook. Before the next paper, redo those questions.
• Watch the pattern across papers. If you keep losing marks in the same chapter, go back to its Important Questions page before the next set.

February to the exam: past papers and revision

• Write the past board papers under a timer, the same way.
• In the last 10 days, stop starting new material. Read the Revise in 5 Minutes sheets, your formula page and the mistake notebook, and write out each fixed proof once.
• The day before: light revision only, check your admit card, pens, pencil, eraser, ruler and geometry box, and sleep properly.

How to check a paper you have written

1. Mark each question out of its full marks, step by step, using the marks shown in the Detailed Solutions.
2. Split your lost marks into four groups: did not know, calculation slip, misread the question, presentation (no figure, no units, no reason written).
3. "Did not know" means going back to the chapter's Important Questions page. The other three are fixed by habit: write one step per line, re-read the question before the final answer, and draw the figure first.
4. Track your total across Sets 1 to 5. A steady rise matters more than any single score.