The Uttar Pradesh Board will release the UP Board exam pattern on its official website. The board has introduced some kind of changes in the UP Board class 12th exam pattern. In that exam pattern of 12th class the question paper will be separated into two sections — Section A and Section B. Section A will consist of multiple-choice questions, while there will be descriptive answer type questions in Section B. There will be a total of 20 MCQ in section A, and one mark for each question, while in section B there will be short answer-type and long answer-type questions of 50 marks.
According to model paper, the examination will be of 70 marks and the time duration will be of 3 hours and 15 minutes. Candidates will get 15 minutes extra to read the question paper before answering. The model papers of UP board Class 12 will soon be made available on the official UPMSP website.
For better preparation of examination all students who are appearing in the exams must go through the examination pattern carefully. The examination pattern shows deep insight into the marking scheme for better understanding for example, time duration of the examination, types of questions asked, many other things. Students must also keep this in mind that they go through the entire UP Board Class 12 Syllabus carefully and thoroughly, and advised to divide the chapters according to the exam pattern and study accordingly.
Mentioned below is the marking scheme of all the subjects for the UP 12th Board exams. Aspirants must refer to them during the preparation of examination.
| Name of the Subjects | UP Board Class 12 Exam Pattern | Types of Questions asked |
| Subject- Biology | Marks of Theory Paper- 70
Marks of Practical Paper- 30 |
Short & Long Answer Type Questions , MCQ |
| Subject- Physics | Marks of Theory Paper- 70
Marks of Practical Paper- 30 |
Short & Long Answer Type Questions , MCQ |
| Subject- Chemistry | Marks of Theory Paper- 70
Marks of Practical Paper- 30 |
Short & Long Answer Type Questions , MCQ |
| Subject- Mathematics | Marks of Theory Paper- 100 | Short & Long Answer Type Questions , MCQ |
| Subject- Hindi | Marks of Theory Paper- 100 | Part-I – Questions from Prose, Poetry, and Passage (50 Marks)
Part-II – Translation Sanskrit and Grammar (50 Marks) |
| Subject- English | Marks of Theory Paper- 100 | Section-A Prose, Poetry, Play, Short Stories, Figure of Speech (50 Marks)
Section-B General English, Translation,Vocabulary (50 Marks) |
UP Board Class 12 English Exam Pattern
| Subject | Syllabus | Marking Scheme |
|
English |
Poetry | 14 |
| Prose | 16 | |
| General English | 8 | |
| Short Stories | 8 | |
| Play | 8 | |
| Unseen Passage | 6 | |
| Figure of Speech | 4 | |
| Vocabulary | 14 | |
| Translation | 10 | |
| Essay Writing | 12 | |
| Unseen Passage | 6 | |
| Total Marks | 100 | |
UP Board Class 12 Hindi Exam Pattern
| Subject’s Name | Syllabus of Subject | Marking Scheme |
| Subject- Hindi | Prose |
Part I marks – 50 Part II marks – 50
|
| Poetry | ||
| Literature | ||
| Development of Prose | ||
| Poetry and Literature | ||
| Stories | ||
| Sanskrit literature | ||
| Prose | ||
| Poetry | ||
| Sanskrit grammar | ||
| Sentence correction |
UP Board Class 12 Mathematics Exam Pattern
The examination of UP Board for class 12 mathematics is organized for a total of 100 marks and the division of marks is as follows:
| Question type | Number of questions asked | Marks per question | Total marks |
| Type- Very Short | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Type- Short answer | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Type- Long answer | 6 | 3 | 18 |
| Type- Very long answer | 3 | 4 | 12 |
UP Board 12th Science Exam Pattern
The UP Board announces the UP Board Class 12 Exam Pattern for Science stream along with the syllabus of examination which consists of Examination pattern of subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Computer comprises the type of questions asked, marking scheme of examination and the number of questions asked in the UP Board Class 12 examinations.
| Subject’s Name | Examination Pattern | Types of Questions |
| Subject- Biology | Marks of Theory Paper- 70
Marks of Practical Paper- 30 |
Short & Long Answer Type Questions, MCQ |
| Subject- Physics | Marks of Theory Paper- 70
Marks of Practical Paper- 30 |
Short & Long Answer Type Questions |
| Subject- Chemistry | Marks of Theory Paper- 70
Marks of Practical Paper- 30 |
Short & Long Answer Type Questions |
UP Board 12th Physics Exam Pattern
The Practical Examination of physics carries 30 marks and the theory examination carries 70 marks. The theory exam of phyisics is divided into two papers but the marks division is same for both papers.
Paper 1 –marks-35, total questions-23
Paper 2 – marks-35, total questions-23
| Question’s Type | Number of questions Asked | Per Question Marks | Total marks |
| MCQ | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Very Short | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Short answer | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Long answer | 2 | 3 | 6 |
UP Board 12th Chemistry Exam Pattern
The Theory examination carries 30 marks and the practical examination carries 70 marks. The theory exam is separated into two papers but the marks distribution is the same for both papers.
Paper 1 –Inorganic Chemistry and General Chemistry (marks-35 and total 23 questions)
Paper 2 –Organic Chemistry and Physical Cemistry (marks 35 and total 23 questions)
| Question’s type | Number of questions | Marks per question | Total marks |
| MCQ | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Very Short | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Short answer type 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Short answer type 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Long answer | 2 | 3 | 6 |
UP Board 12th Biology Exam Pattern
The practical exam is conducted for 30 marks and the theory paper carries 70 marks. The theory exam is divided into two papers and the marks distribution is the same for both theory and practical examination.
Paper 1 – Subject- Zoology (marks 35– total questions- 19)
Paper 2 – Subject- Botany (marks 35 – total questions- 19)
| Question’s type | Number of questions | Marks per question | Total marks |
| MCQ | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Very Short | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Short answer | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Long answer | 2 | 5 | 10 |
UP Board 12th Commerce, Arts Exam Pattern
The UP Board 12th Exam pattern for course Commerce as well as UP Board 12th Exam Pattern for Arts can be seen in the Syllabus released on the UP Board official website i.e. UPSMSP website.
UP Board 12th exam pattern for Economics
Total Mark is 100
Macroeconomics is of 50 marks (4+18+18+10)
Microeconomics is of 50 marks (12+8+14+8+8)
The division of the question paper will be in 9 parts, wherein the first four parts will be from microeconomics while the rest will be from macroeconomics.
Exam pattern for Accountancy and Audit of 12th class UP Board
Division of the question paper will be in five parts namely,
| Bookkeeping and accounting | Maximum marks: 60 Minimum marks:20 |
| Bookkeeping and accounting—I | Maximum marks: 60 Minimum marks:20 |
| Business organization | The questions asked will be on office equipment, retail market, wholesale market, etc |
| Mathematics and Statistics | Three questions of 20 marks each will be asked |
| Audit | Maximum marks: 60 Minimum marks:20 There will be 2 question of 30 marks each will be asked |
UP Board 12th exam pattern for
Division of question paper will be in 2 parts- Commerce Economics and Geography. And number of questions asked in Commerce Economics (25+15+10) and in Commerce Geography number of questions asked (9+9+8+8+8+8)