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CBSE Accountancy Class 12 is split into Partnership Accounts and Company Accounts + Analysis of Financial Statements. Partnership is the heaviest scoring area — get the admission, retirement, and dissolution of a partner questions down cold.

Exam format you'll actually sit

Class 12 Accountancy: 80-mark paper, 3 hours. Part A: Accounting for Partnership Firms + Companies (60 marks). Part B: Financial Statement Analysis (20 marks) OR Computerised Accounting (20 marks, option).

Highest-yield topics (the ones that show up year after year)

  • Admission of a partner (goodwill, revaluation, capital adjustment)
  • Retirement / death of a partner
  • Dissolution of partnership firm
  • Company accounts: Share capital + debentures issue
  • Cash flow statement
  • Comparative + common-size statements
  • Accounting ratios

Drill these first. If you can't do every one of these cold, work through them with /explain or /problem-variants.

Common mistakes that quietly cost marks

  • Putting goodwill on the asset side when it should be written off
  • Mistakes in sacrificing vs gaining ratio
  • Forgetting capital adjustment after admission
  • Confusing debentures issued at discount vs premium
  • Cash flow: misclassifying operating vs investing vs financing activity

When you mark your past papers, tag each lost mark to one of these. The pattern reveals where to focus.

Where to get real past papers

  • cbse.gov.in sample papers
  • T.S. Grewal Accountancy (the standard CBSE textbook)
  • D.K. Goel Accountancy (alternative)

Realistic study plan

T.S. Grewal exercises chapter by chapter. After each chapter, do CBSE PYQs on that topic. Last 3 weeks: full mock papers.

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