The CBSE Class 12 Physics board exam paper was conducted today, March 15 at various test centers.

This year, a total of 19, 85,397 students from Classes 10 and 12 are appearing for the board examinations.

The CBSE Class 12 board exams 2017 started on March 9 and the first paper which was conducted was that of English (English Elective/English Elective-C/ English Core).

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According to reports, the examination was bit a tough and tricky.

Further, Section B and Section E of the paper had some tricky and repeated questions respectively.

Lengthy paper:

"The paper was bit lengthy and had tricky questions," said one of the class 12 students in an exclusive interview with India Today.

Another student said, "Section B had application based questions."

All the candidates can check the paper here:

Paper pattern:

All questions were compulsory

There were 26 questions in all

This question paper has five sections: Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D and Section E

Section A contains five questions of one mark each, Section B contains five questions of two marks each, Section C contains twelve questions of three marks each, Section D contains one value based question of four marks, and Section E contains three questions of five marks each

There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice is provided in one question of two marks, one question of three marks and all the three questions of five marks weightage. You have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions

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About CBSE:

CBSE was established in 1962. CBSE affiliates all Kendriya Vidyalayas, all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, private schools and most of the schools approved by central government of India. Every year, the board conducts the class 10 and class 12 exam in the month of March.

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