Study guides
How the exams actually work
Most of the advice students get about the SEE and about Classes 11 and 12 describes a system that has since changed. These guides explain the current structure — the subjects, the grading scale and what a pass actually requires — and say where every claim came from.
Each guide lists its sources, and says plainly where those sources disagreed rather than picking one and sounding certain. Last checked .
Class 10 · SEE
The SEE, explained: subjects, grading and what a pass actually needs
What the Secondary Education Examination examines, the full A+ to NG grading scale with grade points, and the rule most students get wrong — 35% is needed in theory and internal assessment separately.
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You got NG in the SEE. Here is exactly what happens next
NG is not a failed year. Up to two subjects can be cleared in the grade increment examination about a month later — here is who qualifies, what it costs, and what happens to Class 11.
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Class 11 and 12: how subjects are chosen, and why "stream" is the wrong word
The three compulsory subjects, the three electives you choose, and what replaced the old Science and Management streams — plus the grading scale and what NG means at this level.
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How to photograph handwritten notes so somebody can actually read them
Most handwritten notes are shared as photographs, and most photographs are the reason nobody reads them. Six things that decide whether your notes get opened or skipped.
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The two things students are most often told wrongly
“Just get 35% overall and you pass.”
Grading is subject-wise, and within a subject the 35% has to be reached in the theory paper and in the internal assessment separately. A strong theory mark does not cover a missed internal, and a strong overall GPA does not rescue a single subject that fell below the line. For a subject marked 75 theory and 25 internal, that is 27 and 10 — both, not either. How SEE grading works.
“Choose your stream: Science, Management or Humanities.”
Rigid faculties are not how the Class 11 and 12 curriculum is built any more. Every student takes three compulsory subjects and chooses at least three electives from one list — accounting sits on the same list as physics. Colleges still sell bundles under the old faculty names, and students still choose by that name, which is how somebody ends up without a subject an entrance exam required. How Classes 11 and 12 are structured.
Both mistakes have the same cause. The system was restructured, the advice circulating was written for the system it replaced, and nobody sends a correction to the people repeating it. That is the entire reason these pages exist, and it is why each one ends with the sources it was written from — so you can check it rather than take our word, and so you can tell us when it goes out of date.