a mix of application and memorybased questions the difficulty level was the same as that of the cbse sample paper students found assertion and reason questions a bit tricky sections b c and d were of moderate level and section e had majorly direct questions students who had thoroughly prepared from ncert will score well writes sonia saraswat pgt biology dps raj nagar extensionthe level of biology paper was moderate mcqs were high scoring however a few subjective questions were tricky and required critical thinking the paper was structured as per cbse guidelines only but the overall paper required technical thinking and application writes pooja goel pgt biology mrg schoolbiology teacher papiya saha of vidya bharati school c block surya nagar ghaziabad reviewed it as a paper that required a thorough understanding of the keen knowledge and concept but all the same commented that questions were almost like that of in previous years and is expecting good marksit can be a challenge to score 100 for top scorerspratibha sharma academic director bhai parmanand vidya mandir delhi wrote it was a wellbalanced paper set in accordance with the sample paper released by cbse the paper was easy to moderate barring a few questions in which the students might have struggled the multiple choice questions in section a were easy section c had all the direct questions from ncert and it is scoring both the casebased questions in section d were tricky all the questions from section e were also direct paper was from ncert all those who have studied ncert thoroughly should excel most questions were directly from the ncert textbooks which made it easier for students who had studied the prescribed syllabus thoroughly said a govt school subject teacher on condition of anonymity the paper was wellbalanced and the questions were evenly distributed across various chapters he further said diagrambased questions were relatively easy but they required a sound understanding of the subject matter said another teacher who also does not want his name to appear on this page there were no outofsyllabus questions or topics in the paper which made it easier for students who had covered the prescribed syllabus she added