"fuss with the boards" AGAIN??

Class X

Its been eight years. I know the count since from that year I didn't encounter someone who is saying "oh! you have Boards this year. You better practice good, you have boards". Yes, I am talking about board exams. Eight years prior CBSE announced that they will not conduct board exams for class 10th. Now in the year, 2018 boards came back for class 10th. Along with it, all the fuss comes again. I really don't get it what this fuss is all about. Why does everybody cares, where the exams are going to be? What their exams will be called? Who will check their papers? With whom they will be going to sit in the exams?  Maybe its years of teaching experience, now I don't think as which questions are important? I think in a way what I might have given in a paper if I have to prepare a question paper for lakhs of different students all over India unanimously. Many of them don't even have any reference books which are available in the market easily. So if you or any of your relatives is giving boards this year then please look at how many positives we have about these board exams. 

1. Questions prepared to keep in mind the difficulty level for all.
2. The objectivity and reliability of the paper is really high so there are actually not many different
    ways to solve a particular question which minimize the confusion among children.
3. The time limit is set taking care of all the aspects.
4. Calculations are kept generally easy because they don't really want to check your basic
    calculation skills instead they want to check your clarity of concepts.
5. We do have a marking scheme provided by the CBSE. They strictly adhere to it.
6. They have given a book i.e. NCERT as per the reference book. So maybe the questions will not
    be exactly copied from there but the pattern will be approx. same for most of the questions.
7. Congratulations! good news is ten years are back in the market, and believe me questions do
    repeat. If they don't repeat then the pattern does.
8. The four markers are relatively easy and their type is already set so practice for them first before
    your exams.
9. Teachers know that you are giving boards for the very first time. They understand the unseen hype
    related to the boards. So they are very helpful in every manner.
10. Checking for the exams are relatively lenient than class 9th but don't make a fool of yourself that
      they will distribute marks for free. So, please study and write to get marks.
11. The questions will be written in Hindi and English both. So if you have any language problem,
      believe me, understanding word problems are quite easy this way.
12. The question papers do have sets, But that doesn't mean that your friend got an easier paper
      than yours instead, questions are generally the same only number changes.
13. Schools are off way prior to your exams so u already got a lot of preparatory leaves.
14. Even in schools the syllabus usually finished by November. You got months for practice.

Please don't panic. These are exams with better knowing pattern, better date sheet as exams in schools doesn't have these many holidays.
Revise properly, Practise wisely. Your hard work will definitely pay.
Good luck!!