CBSE Class 12 Physical Education Previous Year Question Papers with Solutions (2020-2026)

CBSE's own copies of the 2026 board paper and its marking scheme are on its website, under Physical Education in the Class 12 lists. For the 2027 exam, the 2026-27 sample paper and its marking scheme are on the CBSE academic site.

What three recent papers show about Section D and Section E

Every case study and long answer in the 2025 and 2026 board papers and the 2026-27 sample paper was matched to its unit in the CBSE curriculum. This is what came up.

• All nine case studies (Section D, 4 marks each) came from just three units: Unit 1 Management of Sporting Events, Unit 4 Sports for CWSN and Unit 7 Physiology and Injuries in Sport.
• In all three, the Unit 1 case study was a fixture: a knockout fixture of 11 teams in 2025, a league fixture in 2026 and a knockout fixture in the sample paper.
• Unit 6 Test and Measurement and Unit 10 Training in Sports set a 5-mark long answer in all three papers.
• Each paper asked for the procedure and scoring of a fitness test: SAI Khelo India tests in 2025, the Rikli and Jones Senior Citizen Fitness Test in 2026 and the Johnson-Metheny test in the sample paper.
• The other long answers rotated: Yoga for lifestyle diseases (2025, sample paper), Biomechanics (equilibrium in 2025, projectile in the sample paper), postural deformities and motivation (2026).

What to do with this: prepare Units 1, 4 and 7 well enough to handle a case study, and learn the fitness test procedures with their scoring. In each of the three papers, the case studies (12 marks) and the test and training long answers (10 marks) could cover 22 of the 70 marks you answer, if you pick both of those long answers.

Source: CBSE Class 12 Physical Education board papers 2025 and 2026 (cbse.gov.in), 2026-27 sample paper and curriculum (cbseacademic.nic.in), Gradehunt analysis.

CBSE Class 12 Physical Education paper pattern 2026-27

The 2026-27 sample paper carries a note that the question paper design has not changed for this session. The 2025 and 2026 board papers used the same layout: 37 questions, 70 marks, 3 hours.

• Section A, Q1 to 18: 18 MCQs of 1 mark, all compulsory (18 marks).
• Section B, Q19 to 24: six 2-mark questions, answer any 5, 60 to 90 words each (10 marks).
• Section C, Q25 to 30: six 3-mark questions, answer any 5, 100 to 150 words each (15 marks).
• Section D, Q31 to 33: three 4-mark case studies with internal choice (12 marks).
• Section E, Q34 to 37: four 5-mark questions, answer any 3, 200 to 300 words each (15 marks).

So you answer 34 of the 37 questions. The paper prints 80 marks of questions and 70 count. The word limits add up to 1,400 to 2,100 words across Sections B, C and E. With 180 minutes for 70 marks you get about 2.6 minutes a mark, which means roughly 39 minutes for the three long answers. Practicals carry another 30 marks.

Unit-wise marks for Class 12 Physical Education

CBSE's 2026-27 curriculum gives this weightage. The units add up to 80 because the spare questions in Sections B, C and E are counted.

• Unit 1, Management of Sporting Events: 9 (5 + 4 concept-based)
• Unit 2, Children and Women in Sports: 7
• Unit 3, Yoga as Preventive Measure for Lifestyle Disease: 7 (6 + 1 concept-based)
• Unit 4, Physical Education and Sports for CWSN: 8 (4 + 4 concept-based)
• Unit 5, Sports and Nutrition: 7
• Unit 6, Test and Measurement in Sports: 8
• Unit 7, Physiology and Injuries in Sport: 8 (4 + 4 concept-based)
• Unit 8, Biomechanics and Sports: 10
• Unit 9, Psychology and Sports: 7
• Unit 10, Training in Sports: 9

The curriculum describes the concept-based marks as tactile diagram, data interpretation or case-study questions, set in a separate version for visually impaired candidates. The 4-mark ones sit in Units 1, 4 and 7, the same three units the case studies came from. For topic lists under each unit, see our Class 12 Physical Education syllabus page.

How to practise with these past papers

• Write the 2025 paper first, in three hours. It uses the current pattern.
• Then do the official 2026 paper and the 2026-27 sample paper, and check both against their marking schemes.
• Use 2024 and 2023 next. The 2022 paper is from the Term II exam of the term-wise 2021-22 session and covers only part of the syllabus, and 2020 is older still, so use those two for topic practice rather than timing.
• There is no chapter-wise set here. Instead, sort the questions you get wrong by the units listed above, so you can see which unit keeps costing you.
• Keep a fixtures page. With 11 teams in a knockout, the next power of 2 is 16, so there are 5 byes and 10 matches (N - 1). A single league of N teams has N(N - 1)/2 matches. Write the formula in the answer, then the working.

One point to check in the sample paper: the marking scheme gives (c) Reaction for Q13, but the question describes friction, which is option (b). Confirm it with your teacher before you learn it.

Common reasons marks are cut in Physical Education answers

• Answering half a split question. Marks are shown as 1 + 2 or 2 + 3; a definition with no causes or functions can earn only the 1 mark.
• Covering one test out of two. The 2025 question on the Flamingo Balance and Plate Tapping tests gave 2½ marks to each, procedure and scoring included.
• Skipping the stick diagram when an asana question asks for one, as the sample paper's Gomukhasana question does.
• Long answers with no structure. Short points or headings make the separate parts of a 5-mark answer easy to find.

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