CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Board Examination Pattern: 2016

Jagran Josh

Jan 25, 2016 17:10 IST

Chemistry is the most important subject of Class 12th as well as from the competitive exams perspective. It is the common subject for both engineering and medical entrance examinations and its syllabus is extremely vast.
To score maximum marks in the Class 12th Chemistry Board Exam, students must know about the blueprint, paper pattern and other essential information related to the board exam paper.
For the convenience of the students, some very important links are given at the end of the articles.

Class 12th Chemistry Theory Paper is basically divided into three parts:

Weightage of Various Chapters according to the Previous Year Question Paper 2015 and Latest CBSE Blue Print is shown below:

Unit	Unit Name	Marks
Unit-I	Solid State	4
Unit-II	Solutions	5
Unit-III	Electrochemistry	5
Unit-IV	Chemical Kinetics	5
Unit-V	Surface Chemistry	4
Unit-VI	General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements	3
Unit-VII	p- Block Elements	8
Unit-VIII	d- and f- Block Elements	5
Unit-IX	Coordination Compounds	3
Unit-X	Haloalkanes and Haloarenes	4
Unit-XI	Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers	4
Unit-XII	Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids	6
Unit-XIII	Organic Compounds containing Nitrogen	4
Unit-XIV	Biomolecules	4
Unit-XV	Polymers	3
Unit-XVI	Chemistry in Everyday Life	3
	Total	70

Marks Distribution of the Previous Year Question Paper 2015 and the Sample Paper issued by CBSE for the year 2015-16 is as follows:

Serial No.	Types of Questions	Number of Questions	Marks of Each Question	Total Marks
1.	Very Short Answer Type Questions	5	1	5
2.	Short Answer Type I Questions	5	2	10
3.	Short Answer Type II Questions	12	3	36
4.	Value Based Questions	1	4	4
5.	Long Answer Type Questions	3	5	5
		Total = 26		Total = 70

Choices in the question paper:

Previous year question paper and the paper issued by CBSE shows that there will be no overall choices in the coming board exam of class 12th chemistry.

However, an internal choice may be present for one question of 2 marks, one question of 3 marks and all the three questions of 5 marks.

List of 5 most important Unitwise Questions Paper for Class 12^th Chemistry

CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Sample Paper: 2016

CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Solved Question Paper 2015

NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Chemistry

Click Here to get the Previous Year Solved and Unsolved Papers of CBSE Class 12^th Chemistry Papers

Other Links of Most Popular Articles Related to CBSE Class 12

CBSE Class 12^th Online Test

Buy Guess Papers for CBSE Board Exams 2016 from Josh Shop

List of 5 most important Unitwise Questions Paper for Class 12^th Chemistry

CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Sample Paper: 2016

CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Solved Question Paper 2015