Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the change in paper pattern for 2015 board exams. Before the exams commenced, the students were very anxious but now as the exams have started, the students and the parents have negative reactions to the change. CBSE has has conducted 5 main exams for Class X and Class XII and the reactions of the students have gone from bad to worse.

On March 18, Mathematics exam was held for Class XII and most students were disheartened by the question paper. Pranavi Mulmuley, a student of DPS Mathura said, "They could not have made the question paper any tougher. Only 30% of the question paper was from the NCERT books and we did not know what to do for most of the questions."

CBSE shifted the paper pattern from 'objective type' questions to application based questions and this has made hard for the students to score. The question papers since are application based, the students spend more time on the questions due to which the students tend to miss the questions. After the mathematics exam, the students were seen sobbing as they got out of their centres while many students were angry on CBSE. . Shubhi Mathur, a students after appearing for her Mathematics exam said, "Damn CBSE! They have no right to play with our feelings and keep our future at stake by setting such exams. What do they want to prove?"

Anand Gujral, another student after appearing for his exam said, "CBSE please don't make papers this tough as in this competitive world only marks count not intelligence."

The students are worried that they wont be able to meet the cut off for the colleges as other board students who are appearing for ICSE, ISC, MSBSHSE, UP board examinations will still score more.

