The Route to 95: Class 12
A clear plan to the board exam: every chapter in four steps, each ending in a short checkpoint, then timed sample papers. This page shows the plan, and your own progress once you sign in.
Track your route
Sign in (free) and every checkpoint you pass shows here, chapter by chapter.
Your progress
Checkpoint results by chapter and step.
The four steps in every chapter
The board paper has 38 questions, 80 marks, 3 hours: Section A 20 × 1 mark (18 multiple choice and 2 assertion–reason), B 5 × 2, C 6 × 3, D 4 × 5 and E three case studies × 4. Each step trains a part of it.
Secure the basics
Section A: fast, accurate one-mark answers.
Board standard
Sections B and C: every standard two- and three-mark question.
Full marks on long answers
Sections D and E: complete five-mark answers and case studies.
95+ stretch
The internal-choice and higher-order items that separate 95 from 90. Optional until the chapter's step 3 checkpoint is passed.
Move on when the checkpoint is passed (80%). A checkpoint missed twice in a row means going back one step.
A plan from April to the board exam
About 154 hours of chapter work in all.
- Weeks 1 to 26 (April to September): chapters 1 to 9, 8 to 9 hours a week, so that Calculus is finished (steps 1 to 3) by the end of September.
- Weeks 27 to 32 (October to mid-November): chapters 10 to 13, and step 4 on the Calculus chapters.
- Weeks 33 to 38 (mid-November to December): step 4 on everything else, mixed practice and one timed sample paper every two weeks. School pre-boards.
- Weeks 39 to 46 (January to February): one full timed sample paper a week (two in the final three weeks), each followed by redoing every lost mark against the chapter's "where marks are lost" list.
Starting in October (about 20 weeks)? Calculus steps 1 to 3 first (10 weeks at 10 hours a week), then Vectors and 3D Geometry, Probability and Algebra steps 1 to 3, then five weeks of sample papers.
For the timed papers: CBSE's own sample paper (on our Class 12 question papers page) and our 5 sample papers on the 2026-27 pattern, each with a 3-hour timer and a step-marking scheme.
The weekly rhythm
| Day | What | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | Learn: read the notes section named on the step, then do the step's questions in order. | Step questions done |
| 3 | Checkpoint: the 3 or 4 checkpoint questions, closed book, about 1.5 minutes per mark. | Pass at 80%, or redo the weakest questions and retry in 2 days |
| 4 to 5 | Next step of the same chapter, or the next chapter. | |
| 6 | Mixed practice: 30 to 45 minutes of step 2 and 3 questions from chapters finished 2 to 6 weeks ago. | Old chapters stay secure |
| 7 | Timed practice: one board-style section until October, then a full 3-hour sample paper every two weeks, weekly from December. | A scored paper |
The Sunday paper lands just before the parent report goes out on Sunday evening.
What "on track for 95+" means
The parent dashboard shows an estimated score range, worked out from timed sample-paper scores and chapter mastery: 60% from the average of the last five scored papers and 40% from mastery. The range is ± 4 marks with three or more scored papers, ± 7 with one or two, and ± 10 from mastery alone.
It says "on track for 95+" only when the low end of the range is 95 or more, which needs three or more scored papers and a centre of at least 98.5. "Within reach of 95+" means the high end is 95 or more. It is deliberately cautious: an estimate, never a promise.
Red flags for a parent: a chapter slipping back from "secure", two missed checkpoints in a row in the same chapter, more than ten days without scored practice, or sample-paper marks lost mainly in Sections A and B (careless slips, fixed with the mark-loss lists) rather than D and E.
Chapter order and hours
| Ch | Chapter | Unit (marks / 80) | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Relations and Functions | Relations and Functions (8) | 12 |
| 2 | Inverse Trigonometric Functions | Relations and Functions (8) | 10 |
| 3 | Matrices | Algebra (10) | 7 |
| 4 | Determinants | Algebra (10) | 8 |
| 5 | Continuity and Differentiability | Calculus (35) | 20 |
| 6 | Application of Derivatives | Calculus (35) | 16 |
| 7 | Integrals | Calculus (35) | 28 |
| 8 | Application of Integrals | Calculus (35) | 12 |
| 9 | Differential Equations | Calculus (35) | 16 |
| 10 | Vector Algebra | Vectors and Three-Dimensional Geometry (14) | 7 |
| 11 | Three Dimensional Geometry | Vectors and Three-Dimensional Geometry (14) | 7 |
| 12 | Linear Programming | Linear Programming (5) | 4 |
| 13 | Probability | Probability (8) | 7 |