All the different state education boards of the country hold the Class 10 and Class 12 exams with more than thousands of candidates every year. The exam pattern, syllabus and level of difficulty of the exam differs from state to state, but have you given a thought as to which state’s board exams are the toughest? This question must have come to your mind at some point. The answer to this has been given by NCERT’s unit Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH). According to PARAKH’s report, the 10th and 12th papers of Tripura, Maharashtra, Goa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal boards are tougher than others. PARAKH has arrived at this conclusion by analysing the English and Mathematics subject papers of 17 school education boards.
The central government has undertaken a pioneering analysis via PARAKH, aimed at devising a standardised assessment formula for school boards nationwide. The findings were recently disclosed in PARAKH’s report titled Establishing Equity in Boards. Additionally, PARAKH’s report addresses which questions were identified as challenging and straightforward. According to PARAKH, easy questions are those which are expected to be answered correctly by most of the students who are aware of relevant learning opportunities. Difficult questions are those which are answered by only a small number of students. The report states that only difficult and medium level (55.34%) questions were asked in the 10th and 12th exams of Goa Board. PARAKH found in its analysis that the 10th and 12th class students of Tripura, Maharashtra, Goa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal boards have to face tougher questions than other state boards.
According to a report, the Tripura Board of Secondary Education had the highest proportion of difficult questions at 66.6%, followed by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education at 53.57%, the Goa Board at 44.66%, the Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education at 44.44%, and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education at 33.33%.
PARAKH analysed 17 board exams, including those from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Manipur, Odisha, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, and Kerala. The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), which conducts the ICSE and ISC exams, was also included in the analysis. The report found that most of these exams featured questions predominantly of easy to medium difficulty levels.
The analysis also assessed the ‘cognitive demand’ of question papers from 17 school boards. It revealed that the Haryana Board had the highest proportion of questions (64.71%) focusing on memorisation skills. Following closely were the Goa Board (57.89%), Himachal Pradesh School Education Board (53.13%), and Odisha (50.77%). Conversely, the UP Board had the highest percentage of questions (87.76%) designed to test students’ understanding.
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