How this course fits your preparation
This course has these parts, and the plan below says when to use each:
- Board Exam Guide 2027 (chapter 1): this guide. Come back to its paper pattern and 3-hour plan before every full sample paper.
- History: Important Questions and Answers (chapter 2), Geography: Important Questions and Answers (chapter 3), Political Science: Important Questions and Answers (chapter 4) and Economics: Important Questions and Answers (chapter 5): one page for each board chapter, with a Revise in 5 Minutes sheet, written questions with answers, and a Test Yourself quiz. The Geography chapter also has a Map Work section.
- Sample Paper 2027, Sets 1 to 5 (chapters 6 to 10): each set has a Question Paper page, whose quiz checks your MCQ answers, and a Detailed Solutions page with the marks for each point and a Test Your Concepts quiz.
- Past board papers: these are added to the course later, for the final weeks.
The Social Science board exam will be in about February or March 2027. When CBSE releases the date sheet, count back from your Social 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. The May 2026 paper had the same totals as the main paper, with some slots moved around. Prepare for the first exam as if it were your only chance.
Month-by-month plan
| When | Goal | Use in this course |
|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | Finish the chapters still left in class and practise each one as soon as it is done; learn the 8 History map places | That chapter's page in its Important Questions chapter, then its Test Yourself quiz |
| November | All 19 board chapters done once; the Geography map list learnt; a keyword list for every chapter | Important Questions for every chapter; the Map Work section in Geography; every Revise in 5 Minutes sheet |
| December | Full papers under a timer, about one a week | Sample Paper Sets 1, 2 and 3 |
| January 2027 | School pre-boards; fix weak chapters | Sample Paper Sets 4 and 5; redo the questions you lost marks on |
| February to the exam | Past board papers, then revision only | Past board papers; the Revise in 5 Minutes sheets, your map sheets, date list and mistake notebook |
October and November: chapters and important questions
- Study all four subjects every week so none is left for the end. A simple week: one day each for History, Geography, Political Science and Economics, two days for the two you find hardest, and one day for maps and catching up.
- After each chapter, write the answers to its Important Questions page on paper before reading the given answers, then take the Test Yourself quiz.
- Keep a mistake notebook: for every lost mark, write what went wrong (did not know it, missing key term, too long, wrong map spot, misread the question) and the correct version.
- Keep a keyword list for each chapter, 10 to 15 terms with a one-line meaning each: Zollverein, satyagraha, Purna Swaraj, resource planning, disguised unemployment, collateral, coalition government, and so on. Examiners look for these words in your points.
Dates and numbers to fix
History: fix a few dates
A chronological-order MCQ came in the sample paper and both 2026 papers, and dates make long answers precise. Learn these anchors first:
| Europe | India | Print and the world |
|---|---|---|
| 1789 French Revolution | 1917 Champaran | 868 The Diamond Sutra |
| 1804 Napoleonic Code | 1918 Ahmedabad mill workers | 1492 Columbus reaches America |
| 1815 Treaty of Vienna | 1919 Rowlatt Act | 1517 Luther's 95 Theses |
| 1821 Greek war of independence begins | 13 April 1919 Jallianwala Bagh | 1558 Index of Prohibited Books |
| 1832 Greece recognised as independent | 1920 Calcutta (September) and Nagpur (December) sessions | 1780 Bengal Gazette |
| 1834 Zollverein (customs union) | February 1922 Non-Cooperation withdrawn after Chauri Chaura | 1878 Vernacular Press Act |
| 1848 Frankfurt Parliament | 1927 Madras session | |
| 1861 Kingdom of Italy proclaimed | December 1929 Lahore session, Purna Swaraj | |
| 1871 German Empire proclaimed | 6 April 1930 Gandhiji breaks the Salt Law at Dandi |
Economics: practise the numbers
- Average income = total income ÷ number of people.
- GDP is the value of all final goods and services from the three sectors. Given the total and two sectors, subtract to find the third.
- With a table, read the heading and the unit first (per 1,000 live births, %), then compare: which is highest or lowest, and what it tells you about development.
Map work, 10 minutes a day from November. Follow the practice plan on the Map Work page.
Full papers, then revision
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 four sections and the maps marked on a printed outline map. Use the 15-minute reading plan first.
- Score the 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 points you actually wrote. Then take the Test Your Concepts quiz.
- Count the words in two or three of your answers. If you are well over the limits, you are losing time, not gaining marks.
- 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, your keyword lists, the date list and the mistake notebook, and mark one full set of map items every day.
- 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
- Mark each question against the Detailed Solutions, point by point.
- Sort your lost marks into five groups: did not know, point missing or vague (no key term, no example), too long or ran out of time, map (wrong spot, no symbol, no name), and misread the question.
- "Did not know" means going back to that chapter's Important Questions page. The others are habits: number your points, start each with the key term, keep to about 20 words a point, and read the stem twice.
- Track your total and your four section totals across Sets 1 to 5. A steady rise matters more than any single score.