CBSE 10th Preparation Tips 2025: Strategies and Guides to Score Well

CBSE has declared the CBSE 10th Date Sheet 2025 in November 2024. The CBSE 10th Exams 2025 are to be conducted in offline mode via pen and paper. The CBSE 10th Board exams 2025 will be conducted from 15th February to 18th March 2025. The CBSE 10th syllabus 2025 has been released by CBSE along with the CBSE 10th exam pattern 2025 on their official website. Students taking the exam are suggested to access the syllabus and exam pattern thoroughly to score well in the CBSE 10th Exams 2025. According to the last year trend, CBSE 10th Result 2025 will be announced in May 2025. 

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CBSE 10th Preparation Tips 2025

The students appearing for CBSE 10th Board Exams 2025 should complete the whole CBSE Class 10th syllabus 2025 before the exam. They should be aware of the current exam pattern and practice several CBSE 10th sample papers along with previous years' question papers available. Students should reserve the month before CBSE 10th Board Exams 2025 for revision. The tentative date for conducting CBSE class 10th exams 2025 is between 15th February and 13th March 2025.

Given below are some important CBSE Class 10th Preparation Tips 2025 which the students must follow to score highly in the exam. 

Thoroughly know the Exam Pattern and the Syllabus

It is necessary for students to have thorough knowledge of the exam pattern and syllabus. The CBSE 10th Boards pattern informs about question types, exam duration, marking scheme, and no. of sections in the question paper. Students are supposed to learn the entire CBSE 10th Class Syllabus 2025 before starting to prepare for the exam.

The CBSE 10th board exams is taken for 100 marks in total that is further divided as such:

Theory Exam (Yearly Board Exam): 80 Marks (33%  from 80 is the passing marks for all subjects)

Internal Assessment: 20 marks (These tests are taken periodically- 10 marks each, Submission of notebook - 5 marks, Subject activities - 5 marks)

Note: The average of the best two marks out of the 3 Periodic tests is valued and taken into consideration finally.

Prepare a Study Schedule

Students targeting to achieve high scores in the CBSE 10th Exam 2025 need to plan and prepare well. Preparing well for the exam requires creating a detailed study schedule and follow it through. Students should dedicate more time to subjects which are difficult to understand  during the preparation.

Solve previous year questions and sample papers

Students should analyse and solve the previous year's CBSE 10th question papers to know their preparation progress. Students should time themselves while solving question papers which will help them to solve the question paper during the exam within the limited time.

Study Breaks

Students should also take breaks between studying as continuous concentration is no good but only exhausting. Doing regular exercises is helpful as it takes care of their mental health along with helping them to prepare well.

Study sessions

Group studies with friends is fun and fruitful. Studying with friends is rewarding as studying through speaking and listening helps to understand the basics quickly. Even dull topics turn into interesting topics and pushes students to study more than their schedule.

Taking Proper Rest

Students go through a lot of mental pressure, fear, and anxiety while preparing for the exam which affects their exam performance. students should fix their sleeping schedule to prepare better.

Practicing to write appropriate answers

After preparing well for exam, students should learn to write proper answers. Students should go according to a strategy while preparing answers for the exam. To write well structured and to the point answers students should read the question paper in the allotted 15 mins.

CBSE Class 10th Mathematics Preparation 2025

Mathematics is a highly scoring subject provided the student has thorough knowledge of concepts and basics. Solving, analyzing and practicing the question/sample papers helps students to understand the question types and question paper pattern. Also referring to different books is helpful.

Tips for the CBSE 10 Math Board Exam 2025 

1. Practice and solve all of the examples and questions provided in the NCERT books. 
2. Do regular practice to increase question solving speed and accuracy 
3. Complete sample papers and question papers available from previous years. 
4. Create a separate notebooks for all the different topics (theories, formulas, and practice points). 
5. Since geometry, algebra, and metry have the most weight, students should prepare them in advance. 
6. Schedule all topics in accordance with the weightage of each chapter in the math class 10 syllabus.

The table below lists the preferred the reference books for CBSE 10th Mathematics:

CBSE Class 10th English Preparation 2025

1. Students can improve their English during the exam preparation by reading novels, newspapers and other reading materials.
2. They should always be mindful of the word limit and the formatting. Practicing to write letters, speeches, applications etc helps in understanding the format better.
3. The total weightage given to reading skills (discursive passage and factual) along with writing skills and grammar is 50 marks and thus should be focused on more.
4. To complete the English term 1 as well as English term 2 syllabus of CBSE class 10, students must refer the suggested grammar books and understand the basic rules while practicing numerous questions.
5. Students should test their preparation by practicing several unseen passages as it carries high marks but requires less efforts.
6. Study literature thoroughly as the question are usually analytical and related to content.

CBSE Class 10th Hindi Preparation 2025

2. Write practice letters, essays, and descriptive questions to understand the format.
3. Poems along with their meanings and the question types should be memorized.
4. They should know the grammar rules and practice answering questions accordingly.

CBSE Class 10th Social Science Preparation 2025

The CBSE 10th Social Science consists of the subjects: history, geography, civics. All of these subjects carry equal marks (20 marks).

1. Try to remember descriptive answers as pointers instead of paragraphs.
2. The important date, events, names of kings can be prepared in the form of a list to be studied and even revised later.
3. Practice locating different places on the map.
4. To remember events relate them with real life incidents to learn easily.
5. Attempt short form question before answering the longer descriptive type of questions.

CBSE Class 10th Science Preparation 2025

The CBSE Class 10th Science Syllabus consists of three subjects - Physics, Chemistry and Biology. These subjects need basic concepts and fundamentals to be understood well in order to score highly.

1. Practice and solve several Physics numericals to be clear of the basics.
2. Lean the nomenclature, periodic table, reactions in Chemistry.
3. The difficult but important terms and their significance is to be learned.
4. Biology needs a  lot of memorizing difficult terms.
5. The theorems of Physics along with the direct formulas should be known and revised again.
6. In Physics the most important questions come form Motion, Work, and Force, so these topics should be focused on more and prepared in advance.