A 30-day revision plan before the board exam: for Maths and Science
How to revise Class 10 Maths and Science in the 30 days before boards: a day-by-day plan, a daily time split, and how to use a mistakes notebook.
Thirty days is short, and also plenty, if you use it well. Below is a simple plan that you can change to fit your time and your weak points. It is a suggestion, not a fixed rule.
What this plan assumes
The plan assumes you can give about 3 hours a day to Maths and Science. If you have less time, stretch it over more days but keep the same order. Your school's and your teacher's advice always comes before this plan.
The 30-day outline
| Day | What to do |
|---|---|
| 1–2 | Make the full chapter list. Mark each chapter: strong, okay or weak. |
| 3–20 | Weak and okay chapters, one a day, weak ones first. Follow the daily structure below. |
| 21–26 | Solve previous years' papers and sample papers against the clock, one a day. |
| 27–29 | Revise your mistakes notebook and the weak chapters. Write formulas, definitions and diagrams from memory. Finish any chapter you have not covered yet. |
| 30 | Light revision. Nothing new. Sleep early. |
Work out the chapter count first
By DepLearn's list, Class 10 has 14 Maths chapters and 13 Science chapters, 27 in total. Days 3 to 20 are 18 days, so one chapter a day covers only 18 chapters. The fix is simple: use those 18 days for your weak and okay chapters. Revise the other 9 chapters, the ones you are strong in, with a quick 20-minute pass every third or fourth day, looking at the formulas and examples. If your school's list has more or fewer chapters, do the same sum for your own list.
The daily structure (about 3 hours)
- 25 minutes: read the chapter summary (your textbook's summary or key points, and its examples).
- 25 minutes: solve the textbook's worked examples once with your own hand.
- 60–70 minutes: solve practice questions. If you get stuck, do not look at the answer straight away. First think about the next step of the solution.
- 15 minutes: write formulas, definitions and diagrams without looking.
- Remaining time: write today's mistakes in your mistakes notebook (see below).
The mistakes notebook
Keep one notebook and write every wrong answer in it with three things: the question, where you went wrong, and the correct method. Every fifth day, solve those same questions again. The questions you keep getting wrong are your real weak points.
Rules for solving papers against the clock
- Sit as you would in the exam: the whole paper in one sitting, without the textbook.
- Do the questions you know first, then the harder ones.
- After the paper, count your marks and add the wrong questions to your mistakes notebook.
- If you run short of time, find out which questions ate your time, and leave those for the end next time.
What not to do in the last week
- Do not pick up a new chapter or a new book.
- Avoid staying up all night. What you memorise without sleep does not help in the exam.
- Do not compare your preparation with other people's. Keep your attention on your own mistakes notebook.
For daily practice
The third part of this plan, the daily practice, takes the most time. In DepLearn every chapter has six levels, and when you get stuck you get step-by-step hints, which makes a little practice every day easier. Until the app is out, you can run the same plan with your textbook and previous years' papers. If you want the Maths formulas in one place, see our Class 10 Maths formulas post.
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DepLearn prepared this article to help with revision. It is not an official CBSE or NCERT publication, so always check it against your textbook and your teacher’s notes.