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Methods for Monday morning: setting papers to the board’s blueprint, writing competency questions, and keeping internal marks defensible.
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What a competency-based question actually looks like: ten rewrites
CBSE's question papers for 2026-27 Class 10 are out, with the files dated 21 and 22 September, and they show item by item what separates a competency question from a recall one. Here are ten ordinary questions rewritten the same way, across four subjects, with answers.
After the half-yearlies: read the results by question, not by student
A section average tells you almost nothing about what to teach next. Read the same marks three ways, by cohort, by question and by prerequisite, and a class of "weak students" often turns out to be one missing skill from two years back.
The 20 internal marks are the ones you will have to defend. CBSE has already written down how.
The 80-mark paper is the board's to justify, and the 20 marks awarded inside your school are yours. The 2026-27 curriculum lists, in some detail, the record it expects you to be able to produce when someone asks.
Setting the Class 10 half-yearly: the 2026-27 blueprint no longer matches last year's paper
Most half-yearly papers are last September's paper with the numbers changed. For Class 10 this year that quietly tests three topic blocks the board has taken out of the year-end exam. CBSE's 2026-27 model papers, out since late September, confirm which topics are examined.
CBSE is retiring Maths Basic and adding Maths Advanced. Those point opposite ways.
Class 9 Mathematics and Science now run at two levels. The easier paper your school used as a safety valve is being discontinued, and the new second level is a harder optional one. For one year you will be running both systems at once.
One term into the new Class 9 books. Here is what the paperwork admits.
NCERT ran the Social Science teacher webinar on 20 April. On 1 May the book was still unpublished. By 24 June a fake copy was circulating on WhatsApp. Everything else about this term is a question we cannot answer from Delhi.