CBSE Class 10 · Artificial Intelligence, code 417 · Crash revision 2026-27

A class 10 AI crash course with a fixed end date, a fixed plan and five mocks.

A class 10 AI crash course only works if every session has a job and the mocks are on the calendar before the first class. This one is six weeks of live revision counted back from the day of the 417 paper: twelve sessions, five timed mocks, and the practical file and viva brought up to standard alongside. It runs inside our Monday and Wednesday batch in its revision phase, or one to one.

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Courses behind the crash plan

The 417 course whose revision phase the crash plan follows, plus the two companions that rescue a thin practical file fastest.

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Crash / 417 Class 10

CBSE AI for Class 9 to 12

The board course: in its final weeks the batch moves from teaching to timed papers, reviews and viva practice, which is where a crash student joins.

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File rescue / Python

Python for Teens

For a practical file that is still short of programs: lists, NumPy and charts, written fast but understood.

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Practical / Orange

Visual ML with Orange

The no-code tool the practical units use, so a vision or text task in the practical exam is not a first look.

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Ans. The short version

A class 10 AI crash course is a short, time-boxed live revision of CBSE 417 before the board exam. A workable plan is six weeks: twelve sessions that revise every theory unit in order of marks (Unit 2 carries 11, Unit 3 10, Unit 6 8, Unit 1 7, Unit 5 4, Part A 10), bring the practical file and viva up to standard, and run five timed mocks, each reviewed. Modern Age Coders runs this inside its Monday and Wednesday 9:00 PM IST batch during the revision phase, or as personalised one to one at the family's own time.

Q1. Is six weeks enough?

Is a class 10 AI crash course enough to score well in 417?

For the theory paper, usually yes: 50 marks over five units and Part A can be revised in six weeks if the student has met the topics at school. The practical half is where a late start hurts, because a file, a project and two vivas cannot all be built in a fortnight. Here is what fits and what does not.

Part of the 100 marksMarksCan six weeks fix it?What the crash plan does
Section A, objective items24YesTimed sets by unit, then mixed; traps named
Section B, written answers26Yes, with markingAnswer shapes for 2 and 4 marks, rewritten after marking
Practical file, at least 15 programs15Partly: depends on how many exist nowThree or four programs a week, each understood
Practical examination15Yes, if school's date is not too closeTwo practical mocks on unseen tasks
Viva on the practical5YesQuestions on the student's own programs
Project10Only a small one, started at onceA tight scope chosen in week 1
Project viva5Yes, once the project existsA rehearsal in week 2 before the paper

Dates first. The CBSE date sheet released 6 November 2026 puts the AI 417 paper on Wednesday 24 February 2027, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM IST (in 2026 it was on 27 February). Your school sets the practical examination date, which can come weeks before the theory paper. Count your six weeks back from whichever comes first, and if the practical is very close, the plan swaps its order so the file and viva come first.

Q2. What does each session cover?

The six-week AI 417 revision batch plan, session by session

Twelve live sessions, two a week, ordered by marks and difficulty: the heavy units first, Part A in short blocks, mocks from week 3. Counted back from Wednesday 24 February 2027, week 6 is the week of Monday 11 January and week 1 the week of Monday 15 February, leaving 18 to 23 February for the error list and light revision.

Weeks to goMonday sessionWednesday sessionWork between sessions
6Diagnostic mock (Section A) then Unit 2: model types, perceptron sumsUnit 3: confusion matrix, precision, recall, F1, which metric whenProject topic fixed; count the file programs that exist
5Unit 6: normalisation, bag of words, TFIDF; script and smart botsSection B drill on Units 2, 3 and 6, marked on screenThree file programs: lists and NumPy statistics
4Unit 1: project cycle, 4Ws canvas, ethical frameworks, case questionsPractical mock 1: unseen program on Units 4 and 7, short vivaThree file programs: charts and a CSV
3Unit 5: pixels, RGB counts, CV tasks; Part A units 1 to 3Full mock 1: 50 marks, two hours, timedRewrite every lost answer; project data gathered
2Review of mock 1 as a doubt session; Part A units 4 and 5Full mock 2, then practical mock 2 with project viva rehearsalFile complete and read aloud once
1Review of mock 2; the error list, unit by unitFinal mock: a half paper on the weakest two units, then exam-room routineLight revision only; sleep before the paper

Why heavy units first

Units 2 and 3 together carry 21 theory marks and need practice, not reading. Starting there leaves time for two rounds of mistakes.

Why Part A in blocks

Ten marks across five units, each quick to learn. Spread through weeks 3 and 2, they never crowd out the numericals.

Why an error list

Every lost mark from the mocks goes on one sheet. The last week revises that sheet, not the whole book.

Revising alone, without a class? Use the self-study timetables on the Class 10 AI revision plan, or the single long sitting on the 417 one shot revision.

Q3. When are the tests?

The crash course mock test schedule, with marks and timing

Five timed mocks over six weeks: a diagnostic, two full papers, a final half paper and two practical mocks counted as one series. Full mocks follow the 2025-26 sample paper layout, because the 2026-27 sample paper for 417 has not been released.

MockWeeks to goWhat it coversMarksTimed
1. Diagnostic6Section A: Part A any 4 of 6, AI units any 20 of 2424Yes, objective only
2. Practical mocks4 and 2Unseen program on Units 4 to 7, viva on own file; project viva in week 2PracticalYes
3. Full mock 13Whole theory paper: Section A 24, Section B 2650Two hours
4. Full mock 22Whole theory paper, new questions, same layout50Two hours
5. Final half paper1The two weakest units from mocks 3 and 4Set per studentYes

Inside Section B, as the 2025-26 sample paper set it

BlockChoiceMarks
Part A short answers, 2 marksany 3 of 56
Part B short answers, 2 marksany 4 of 68
Part B long answers, 4 marksany 3 of 512
Section B total26

How each mock is reviewed

  1. Marked against the scheme

    Point by point, the way CBSE marking schemes award marks, so students see which line earned what.

  2. Lost marks sorted

    Into "did not know", "knew but slipped" and "ran out of time". Each needs a different fix.

  3. Re-attempted

    Every lost written answer is rewritten before the next session, and goes on the error list.

The wider set of papers used across the full year is on the sample paper and mock tests page, and the way each answer is marked is explained on the 417 marking scheme.

Q4. What is a crash session like?

One crash session in full: Unit 6 NLP in a single sitting

Unit 6, Natural Language Processing, carries 8 theory marks and one calculation that comes up again and again: bag of words, then TFIDF. Here is how the Monday of week 5 covers it, in the order the class runs.

  1. Recall check

    Five quick questions: what is a token, a stopword, a corpus; stemming against lemmatisation; one script bot and one smart bot.

  2. Normalise three documents

    Lower case, split into tokens, no stopwords needed here because the sentences are short.

  3. Build the dictionary and vectors

    Six unique words; one row of counts per document.

  4. Document frequency, then IDF

    Count how many documents contain each word; IDF = log(N / document frequency), with N = 3.

  5. Read the result aloud

    Which word best identifies document 1? The student must say why, not just point.

  6. Exam turn

    One four-mark question on the same method with new sentences, timed and marked before the session ends.

Worked in the sessionlog to base 10
D1: AI helps doctors
D2: AI helps farmers
D3: farmers grow food

         ai helps doctors farmers grow food
D1        1   1     1       0      0    0
D2        1   1     0       1      0    0
D3        0   0     0       1      1    1

Doc freq  2   2     1       2      1    1
IDF     0.176 0.176 0.477 0.176 0.477 0.477

TFIDF for D1:
ai 0.176, helps 0.176, doctors 0.477

log(3/2) = 0.176 and log(3/1) = 0.477. "doctors" scores highest in D1 because no other document uses it.

The point the examiner rewards: a word found in fewer documents gets a higher IDF, so it says more about the document it is in. More worked sets are on bag of words and TFIDF for Class 10 AI, and the rest of the unit on NLP questions.

Q5. How do I join this late?

AI class 10 fast track: joining in the last months, batch or one to one

There is no separate crash batch. A student who starts late joins the Monday and Wednesday batch, which by then is in its revision and mock phase, or takes one to one so the six-week plan can start on the day they join. Which suits depends on when you start.

StartingWhat usually worksWhy
November or early DecemberThe batch, plus a few one to one sessions for any unit school has not yet coveredThere is time for the batch's own revision and full mock series
Mid December to early JanuaryThe six-week plan above, one to one or batch plus one to oneThe batch is already mid-mock; a private plan can start at week 6
Less than four weeks before the paperOne to one, compressed: heavy units, two full mocks, file and vivaEvery session must go on the student's own gaps
Studying from abroadOne to one at a local hour, two private classes a weekMatches the plan's twelve-session rhythm in a home time zone

In India the one to one plan is one private class a week; for a twelve-session crash, families usually pair it with the batch or ask the mentor at the free demo how to fit the plan to the weeks left. If the gap is mostly one unit, a short private plan from a Class 10 AI private tutor is the faster fix. Students revising on their own can work through CBSE Class 10 AI important questions alongside.

Batch or personalised: you choose

Crash revision in the evening batch, or one to one from the day you join

Late in the year the batch is already running papers and reviews, which suits a student who has covered the units at school. One to one starts the six-week plan on day one and spends it on your child's gaps. Monthly billing, no admission fee, stop at the end of any month.

Option 1 · Fixed batch timings

Group batch, Monday and Wednesday 9 PM

₹1,499

per month, two live classes a week

  • Monday and Wednesday, 9:00 PM IST
  • Revision phase: timed papers and live reviews
  • Practical mocks and viva rehearsal in the lab
  • Fifteen to twenty students under exam conditions
  • Suits a student who has met every unit at school
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Option 2 · Choose your own timing

Personalised one to one

₹4,999

per month, one private class a week, at a time set with you

  • The six-week plan starts on the day you join
  • Order changed if the practical comes first
  • Every review on your child's own lost marks
  • One private class a week in India, two abroad
  • Same teachers and mock papers as the batch
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A quick way to choose: if the diagnostic mock in the free first class shows gaps in most units, start one to one; if it shows a solid base with a few weak spots, the batch's revision phase is enough. Fees appear in your own currency.

Studying outside India?

Class 10 AI crash course for CBSE students in the Gulf and abroad

CBSE schools abroad work to the same CBSE date sheet as schools in India, so the six-week countdown starts on the same day. Here is the batch hour in local time.

Where you liveMon and Wed 9:00 PM ISTBest format
India (IST)
every Indian city		9:00 PMBatch fits
UAE and Oman
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Muscat		7:30 PMBatch fits
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain
Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Doha, Kuwait City, Manama		6:30 PMBatch fits
Nepal
Kathmandu		9:15 PMBatch fits
Ethiopia and East Africa
Addis Ababa and East Africa Time		6:30 PMBatch fits
Singapore and Malaysia
Singapore, Kuala Lumpur		11:30 PMChoose 1-on-1

For a crash plan at a local hour, one to one runs two private classes a week outside India. More is on CBSE Class 10 AI online classes in the Gulf and abroad.

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The rest of the Class 10 series

More pages for Class 10 board students

Every page in the CBSE Class 10 AI (417) series, grouped by what you need: classes, each unit, question practice, notes and revision, and the exam itself.

Classes, tuition and batches

Unit by unit

Questions and practice

Notes and revision

Exam, marks and practicals

Choosing the subject

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Questions about the Class 10 AI crash course

What students ask about a class 10 AI crash course

Is there a crash course for class 10 AI 417?

Yes, as a six-week live revision plan. It runs inside our Monday and Wednesday 9:00 PM IST batch during its revision and mock phase, or as one to one starting the day you join. It revises every theory unit by marks, runs five timed mocks and brings the practical file and viva up to standard.

Can I prepare class 10 AI in one month?

For the theory paper, yes, if you have met the units at school: revise Units 2 and 3 first, then 6, 1 and 5, with Part A in short blocks, and sit at least two full timed mocks. The practical is harder in a month if the file is far from 15 programs, so start that on day one.

What should I study in the last month for AI class 10?

Practise rather than read. Numericals in Units 3 and 6 (confusion matrix, bag of words, TFIDF), four-mark answer shapes, Part A short answers, and two full timed mocks with every lost mark rewritten. Keep the last two days for the error list and your file programs.

How many mock tests should I take before the AI board exam?

Two full timed papers is the useful minimum, with a review after each. This plan adds a Section A diagnostic, a final half paper on weak units and two practical mocks. More papers without reviews add little; the review is where the marks come from.

Is a crash course enough to score 90 in AI 417?

It can be, for a student who already understands most units and needs practice, marking and timing. It is not enough for someone meeting the topics for the first time, or whose file and project are not started. We do not promise a score; the diagnostic in the first class gives an honest view.

When does the AI 417 revision batch start?

The batch moves into revision and full mocks from December. A crash student can join at any point; one to one starts the six-week plan on the day you join, counted back from your exam or practical date.

What if my practical exam is before the crash course ends?

The plan is reordered: file programs, the practical mock and both viva rehearsals come first, and theory revision follows. Your school sets the practical date, so tell the mentor at the free demo.

Is the AI class 10 fast track only for weak students?

No. Many students taking it have done well in school tests but have never sat a full two-hour 417 paper or rehearsed a viva. The mocks and reviews are what they need most.

Do I get the mock papers and marking?

Yes. Every mock is set in the paper's format, marked against the scheme and reviewed in class, and each lost written answer is rewritten. All of it is part of the monthly fee shown on this page.

When is the CBSE Class 10 AI exam in 2027?

On Wednesday 24 February 2027, from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM IST, according to the CBSE date sheet released 6 November 2026. In 2026, the AI 417 paper was held on 27 February. Counted back from 24 February, the six-week plan starts in the week of 11 January 2027, or earlier if your school's practical date comes first.

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