Previous Year Question Papers

One-mark MCQs from past Tamil Nadu public exams, with answers and short explanations. Choose your class and subject, then take any year's paper as an online test.

The Tamil Nadu board sets its public exams from the same syllabus every year, so the questions rarely arrive out of nowhere. Work through a few past papers and the pattern shows itself: the same chapters carry the same weight, the same ideas are tested in slightly different words, and a handful of questions repeat almost unchanged from one year to the next.

That makes a past paper the closest thing to the real exam you can practise on. It tells you what the examiner actually asks, rather than what a textbook happens to cover, and it shows you how a one-mark question is phrased when marks are on the line.

1. Start with the most recent year and read it with the answers shown. Treat it as reading, not testing — you are learning the shape of the paper.
2. Take an older year as a timed online test instead, without looking first. The score tells you which chapters still need work.
3. Use the most-repeated questions list for each subject when the exam is close. Those are the questions that have come back year after year.
4. When you get one wrong, go back to that chapter's MCQs rather than memorising the answer. The next paper will ask it differently.

Every paper on this site is a real Tamil Nadu public exam paper, split into its one-mark multiple-choice questions. Each question carries the correct option and a short explanation of why it is right, so a wrong answer teaches you something instead of just costing a mark. Papers can be read with the answers visible, or taken as an online test that marks itself. Everything is free, needs no sign-in, and is available in both English and Tamil.