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Tamil Nadu 12th Exam Pattern 2025: The Directorate of Government Examinations (DGE), released the TN 12th exam pattern 2025 for Tamilnadu 12th exams 2025. Students preparing for the TN Plus two exam 2025 are advised to know the TN 12th exam pattern 2025. The total marks for each subject is 100 marks out of which 70 is for theory, 10 for internal and 20 for practical exam. TN 12th 2025 exam pattern helps to know the mark distribution, and difficulty level of the TN 12th board exam.
The Tamil Nadu 12th board exam 2025 will be held from March 28, 2025 in pen and paper mode. The board released the TN 12th time table 2025 in November 2024.
Tamil Nadu 12th Exam Pattern 2025 Highlights
Students can check some important information about the Tamil Nadu HSC exam pattern below:
| Particulars | Details |
|---|---|
| Exam | State Board School Examinations and Board of Higher Secondary Examinations, Tamil Nadu |
| Conducting Body | Directorate of Government Examinations, Tamil Nadu |
| Frequency of Conduct | Annually |
| Exam Level | Senior and Higher Secondary |
| Languages | English, Tamil |
| Mode of Exam | Offline |
| Exam Duration | 3 Hours |
| Maximum marks for Theory | 70 |
| Maximum marks for Practical | 20 |
| Internal | 10 |
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TN 12th Exam Pattern 2025
The duration of each paper will be 3 hours. The TN 12th exam papers comprises objective, short, and long questions. Tamil Nadu 12th new exam pattern 2024-25 is divided into three sections:
The exam will be conducted in three parts :
Part-1 is Language Paper (Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, and German)
Part-2 is the English Language, and Part-3 for Subjects of the Course
Each exam is conducted for 100 Marks (Theory 70, Practical 20, Internal 10 Marks). Each Subject and Language Exam has 3 Hours of Time duration.
The TN 12th paper is divided into four sections.
- The first section consists of multiple choice questions.
- The second section consists of 2-mark questions
- The third section has three-mark questions
- The students are required to answer 5 questions under section 4, with each question containing 5 marks.
TN 12th Pattern 2025: Passing Criteria
Minimum mark for a pass in each subject is 35 out of 100 marks subjected to the following conditions.
- For languages and for the subjects which do not have practical, student must have secured a minimum of 25 out of 90 marks.
- For the subjects consisting of theory and practical, student must have secured a minimum of 15 out of 70 marks in theory and must have appeared for practical.
- For vocational subjects consisting of practical only, student must have secured a minimum of 20 out of 75 marks in practical.
TN Plus Two exam Pattern 2025: Mathematics
| Sections | No. of Questions | No. of Questions to Attempt | Total Marks |
| A - Objective | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| B - Very Short | 16 | 10 | 60 |
| C - Long | 16 | 10 | 100 |
| Total | 72 | 60 | 200 |
Tamil Nadu +2 Exam pattern 2025: English
Check the pattern of TN 12th exam pattern 2025 English.
| Sections | Objectives | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| A | Supplementary Reader | 25 |
| B | Learning Competency | 15 |
| C | Occupational Competency | 15 |
| D | Strategic Competency | 5 |
| E | Creative Competency | 10 |
| F | Extensive Reading | 10 |
| Total | 100 |
Tamil Nadu +2 Exam pattern 2025: Physics
| Sections | No. of Questions | No. of Questions to Attempt | Marks for Each Question | Total Marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A - Objective | 30 | 30 | 1 | 30 |
| B - Very Short | 20 | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| C - Short | 12 | 7 | 5 | 35 |
| D - Long | 8 | 4 | 10 | 40 |
| Total | 70 | 56 | - | 150 |
Tamil Nadu +2 Exam pattern 2025: History
| Sections | No. of Questions | No. of Questions to Attempt | Marks Allotted for Each Question | Total Marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A - Objective | 45 | 45 | 1 | 45 |
| B - Very Short | 20 | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| C - Short | 12 | 10 | 5 | 60 |
| D - Long | 7 | 5 | 10 | 50 |
| Questions on Map | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Total | 85 | 76 | - | 200 |
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered a month ago
The Tamil Nadu Class 12 results are usually declared by the Directorate of Government Examinations, Tamil Nadu, during the month of May every year. However, the exact result date differs every year and has no direct relation with Alagappa Chettiar Government College of Engineering and Technology. Th
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Answered a month ago
The cutoff for Tamil Nadu 12th for Alagappa Chettiar Government College of Engineering and Technology, ACGCET differs every year according to the number of applicants and seats available along with their Class 12 exam scores. The cutoff is obtained based on marks in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathemati
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Answered a month ago
Students are required to carry their Tamil Nadu 12th Hall ticket 2025 on all days of the examination. They will not be allowed inside the exam hall, if they fail to produce the same. They should remember that TN 12th Hall ticket 2025 is an important document. They need to carry it on the exam days.
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Answered a month ago
Unfortunately in such a scenario, candidates will have to repeat the year and take the Tamil Nadu 12th exam next year. In the meanwhile, they must analyse their weaknesses and rebuild their preparation strategy so that they can pass the exam with satisfactory marks. They have to work hard and prepar
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Answered a month ago
The Tamil Nadu 12th cut off for admission to different B.E./B.Tech branches within Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, for the year 2023 will be differing branch to branch and category to category. For instance
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE): The cut-off for the general category (OC
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The Tamil Nadu 12th results for 2024 are scheduled to be released on May 6, 2024, at 9:30 AM. Students can sit for their results on other official websites such as tnresults.nic.in or dge.tn.gov.in.
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