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 (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 textbook chapter. Each page has a Revise in 5 Minutes sheet, the written questions with answers, and a Test Yourself quiz.
• Sample Papers Sets 1-5 (chapters 2-6): each set has a Question Paper page, with a quiz that checks your 1-mark answers, and a Detailed Solutions page, with the marks for each step and a 15-question Test Your Concepts quiz.
• Past board papers: these are added to the course later, for the final weeks.

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

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

Month-by-month plan

October and November: chapters and important questions

• Study the three subjects side by side, so none is left for the end. A simple week: two days each for Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and one day to catch up.
• After each chapter, try every question on its Important Questions page on paper before reading the answer, then take the Test Yourself quiz.
• Keep a mistake notebook: for every wrong answer, write what went wrong (concept, calculation, equation, diagram or reading the question) and the correct version.
• Keep one page of equations: the reaction types, acids and bases, metals, carbon compounds. Write each one balanced from memory once a week.

How to practise diagrams

• Make a list of the diagrams in the "easy marks" section and keep them in one notebook.
• Draw each one from memory, then compare with the book and correct the labels in a different colour.
• Time yourself: a board diagram should take about 3 to 4 minutes, not 10.
• Redraw the ones you got wrong two days later. Before the exam, you should be able to draw every diagram on the list without looking.

How to practise numericals

• Physics numericals come from a small set of formulas: Ohm's law, series and parallel, $R = \rho \frac{l}{A}$, $H = I^2 R t$, $P = VI$, the lens and mirror formulae, magnification and $P = \frac{1}{f}$. Keep them on one card.
• Solve 4 or 5 numericals a day in November and December, writing every step with units and signs, even the easy ones. The habit is what earns the step marks.
• For each circuit, first redraw it and mark which resistors are in series and which are in parallel.
• Biology numericals are quick marks: practise Mendel's crosses with a checkerboard and the 10% law until they take under two minutes.

How to practise experiment-based questions

• Many questions are built on textbook activities and practicals: lime water and the gas from respiration, removing the anthers of a flower and covering the bud, finding the focal length of a lens with sunlight, comparing how fast metal rods conduct heat, and the "what if the experiment is changed" part of a case study.
• For every activity, write four lines in a notebook: the set-up, what you observe, the conclusion, and the variable that matters (what must be kept the same, and what is changed).
• Then ask one "what if" of your own: what changes if the rod is thicker, the leaf is not destarched, or the lens is replaced by a concave one?

December and January: full papers under a timer

• Write each sample paper in one 3-hour sitting, on paper, with the answer book divided into three sections. Use the 15-minute reading plan first.
• Score the 1-mark questions 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 points and steps you actually wrote. Then take the Test Your Concepts quiz.
• Enter every lost mark in the mistake notebook, and redo those questions before the next set.
• 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 in the same way.
• In the last 10 days, start nothing new. Read the Revise in 5 Minutes sheets, the equation page and the mistake notebook, and draw every diagram on your list once.
• The day before: light revision only, check your admit card, pens, pencils, eraser, sharpener and ruler, and sleep properly.

How to check a paper you have written

1. Mark each question against the Detailed Solutions, point by point and step by step.
2. Split your lost marks into five groups: did not know, calculation or sign slip, equation not balanced or incomplete, diagram (unlabelled, no arrows, wrong shape), and misread the question.
3. "Did not know" means going back to that chapter's Important Questions page. The others are habits: balance every equation, write units and signs on every line, label every diagram, and re-read the question before the final answer.
4. Track your total and your three section totals across Sets 1 to 5. A steady rise matters more than any single score.