Class 10 AI Paper Analysis 2026 and Answer Key (417)

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The CBSE Class 10 AI (417) paper of 27 February 2026 was moderate overall. Section A, 24 marks of objective items with no negative marking, was mostly direct but had a few traps in two-statement and assertion-reason items. Section B, 26 marks, rewarded exact terms: a confusion matrix case, Bag of Words on two short documents, and AI, ML and DL with a Venn diagram were the four-mark anchors, and teachers called the matrix and Bag of Words items scoring. The 2027 paper is on 24 February 2027, 10:30 AM. Modern Age Coders prepares students live, Monday and Wednesday at 9:00 PM IST, or one to one.

Q1. Was it easy?

Class 10 AI paper analysis 2026: was the AI paper easy?

It was moderate: easy to start, with marks lost in a handful of precise items rather than in hard topics. The paper kept the familiar frame, 21 questions with 15 to answer in two hours for 50 marks, and covered every theory unit. Our section-by-section reading of set 4, from CBSE's own marking scheme, is below.

Section	Marks counted (printed)	Our difficulty rating	Where the marks were won or lost
A, Q1: employability skills objective	4 (6)	Easy	Two items needed a written line, a definition and a fill-in, not just a choice
A, Q2 to Q5: AI objective	20 (24)	Easy to moderate	One two-statement item, two assertion-reason items and a domain question with an unexpected answer
B, Q6 to Q10: employability two-markers	6 (10)	Easy	Lists with partial marks, so a full list mattered more than neat prose
B, Q11 to Q16: AI two-markers	8 (12)	Moderate	Each wanted a difference or a definition plus an example; half a mark rode on each example
B, Q17 to Q21: AI four-markers	12 (20)	Moderate	Two calculation-style questions were the safest picks; the theory four-markers needed structure

What teachers said on the day

Teachers quoted by India TV and Careers360 on 27 February 2026 described the paper as balanced and within the syllabus, with an overall moderate level. They called the four-mark Bag of Words and confusion matrix questions scoring, said most objective items were application-based, and noted that a couple of objective items had closely related options. One school also reported that two written questions needed careful interpretation.

How we read it

Choice was generous. 72 marks were printed for a 50-mark paper, so a student could skip the item they disliked in every block.
Precision decided the top band. Close options and exact terms separated a high score from a full one, not knowledge of extra topics.
No unit was skipped. Every theory unit appeared in both sections, so dropping one unit was a gamble.
Only set 4 was read. Other sets carried different items of the same type; our ratings describe set 4.

Q2. What were the right answers?

CBSE class 10 AI answer key 2026 for Section A, set 4, in our words

Every objective item of set 4 (question paper code 104/4), with what it tested described in our words and the answer CBSE's marking scheme keyed. We do not reprint the questions or options; the answer is given as the idea, so it can be checked against any copy of the paper.

Q1, employability skills (any 4 of 6)

Item	Tested	Keyed answer
1 (i)	Spotting the sentence type that gives an order	The command sentence
1 (ii)	Which SMART quality small steps give a big goal	Achievable
1 (iii)	A one-line meaning of time management	Any sound definition
1 (iv)	What a strong password contains	Letters, numbers and special characters together
1 (v)	A myth about entrepreneurs, as a fill-in	Born, not made (other fair pairs accepted)
1 (vi)	The odd one out among UN goals	Population

Q2, AI (any 5 of 6)

Item	Tested	Keyed answer
2 (i)	Naming a fruit in a photo with one label	Classification
2 (ii)	A colour word used for anger	Meaning depends on context
2 (iii)	The purpose of ethical frameworks	Avoiding unintended harm
2 (iv)	Two statements: overfitting, and testing on training data	First true, second false; "both correct" also accepted
2 (v)	Teaching a car to park	Reinforcement learning
2 (vi)	Project-cycle stage that tests on fresh data	Evaluation

Q3, AI (any 5 of 6)

Item	Tested	Keyed answer
3 (i)	The costliest error for a self-driving safety system	False negative
3 (ii)	Pixel value range in a byte image	0 to 255
3 (iii)	"Bought this, also bought that" suggestions	Association model
3 (iv)	What quietly shapes design decisions	Intuition and values
3 (v)	Speech turned into text live	Auto-generated video captions
3 (vi)	Why a testing set exists	To evaluate the model's accuracy

Q4 and Q5, AI (any 5 of 6 in each)

Item	Tested	Keyed answer
4 (i)	An alarm for a fire that is not there	False positive
4 (ii)	Assertion and reason on bioethics	Assertion false, reason true: bioethics is sector-based
4 (iii)	Which scenario is regression	Forecasting a temperature
4 (iv)	Pixels and resolution	Resolution is the number of pixels
4 (v)	Definition of precision	True positives over all predicted positives
4 (vi)	Chatbot that needs coding and large databases	Smart bot
5 (i)	Domain for a price comparison site	Statistical Data
5 (ii)	Assertion and reason on lowercasing text	Both true, reason explains it
5 (iii)	Computer vision against image processing	Computer vision is the wider field
5 (iv)	True or false on what error measures	True
5 (v)	Reading satisfaction from reviews	Sentiment analysis
5 (vi)	Correct predictions from four matrix counts	800 (200 + 600)

Two items are worth a second look. In 2 (iv), the scheme accepted a second answer because each statement could be judged true on its own wording, which shows CBSE adjusting the key when an item reads two ways. In 4 (ii), the trap was the word "value-based": bioethics belongs to one sector, healthcare, so the assertion fails while the reason holds. Original practice in these formats is on assertion reason questions for Class 10 AI and the Class 10 AI MCQ bank.

Q3. How were the written answers marked?

AI question paper solution: what CBSE rewarded in each written answer

The marking scheme gives examiners value points, not model essays, and it splits the marks inside each answer. Knowing that split is the real solution to Section B, because it tells you what to write first. Here is set 4, described in our words.

Question	What it asked, in our words	How the marks were split	Our note
6	The seven Cs of communication	2 for all seven, 1.5 for five or six, 1 for three or four, 0.5 for one or two	A pure list; every C named was worth something
7	Emotional intelligence: meaning, and two of its skills	1 for the meaning, 0.5 per skill	Easy if the skill names were learnt
8 to 10	Uses of ICT skills; qualities of an entrepreneur; sustainable development defined	1 per relevant point, or 2 for a sound definition	Generous; most students lose nothing here
11	Sector-based against value-based frameworks, an example of each	1 for a difference, 0.5 per example	Bioethics as the sector example; rights, virtue or utility as the value one
12	Two features of a classification model	1 per feature	Supervised, labelled, discrete classes
13	How a computer stores a colour image	2 for a correct account	Three channels, each pixel holding three values from 0 to 255
14	Two differences between supervised and unsupervised learning	1 per difference; 0.5 per example if only examples given	Labels, and what the model is trying to find
15	The train-test split	2 for a correct account	Mention the unseen data and a ratio such as 80 to 20
16	Stemming against lemmatisation, shown on an irregular plural	1 for the difference, 0.5 for the stem, 0.5 for the lemma	The stem may not be a real word; the lemma always is
17	AI, ML and DL told apart, with a labelled Venn diagram	1 per term, 1 for the diagram	Nested circles, DL inside ML inside AI
18	Two scenarios, each matched to an AI domain with a reason	1 for the domain, 1 for the reason, in each	Essay feedback was NLP; a vehicle-counting camera was computer vision
19	A cyber-attack detector: matrix, true negatives, precision	2 for the matrix, 1 for TN, 1 for precision	Either matrix orientation accepted if the labels were right
20	CNN and ANN expanded and defined; two boxes in a network diagram	0.5 per full form, 1 per definition, 0.5 per box	The boxes were the input and hidden layers
21	Bag of Words on two short documents, all four steps	1 per step	Steps three and four could be combined without loss

Question 19, worked from the scenarioattack = positive

1500 network activities tested.
Correct "attack": 1000      TP = 1000
Correct "no attack": 250    TN = 250
Said attack, was not: 200   FP = 200
Said safe, was attack: 50   FN = 50

               Reality: Yes  Reality: No
Predicted Yes    1000          200
Predicted No       50          250

Precision = 1000 / (1000 + 200)
          = 1000 / 1200 = 0.833

Not asked, but worth knowing: recall 1000 / 1050 = 0.952 and accuracy 1250 / 1500 = 0.833. Here precision and accuracy round to the same value, which is a coincidence, not a rule.

Question 21's method, on our own sentencesfour steps

Doc 1: Robots sort mail quickly.
Doc 2: Mail reaches people quickly.

1. Normalise: lowercase, drop the full stop
   [robots, sort, mail, quickly]
   [mail, reaches, people, quickly]
2. Dictionary: robots, sort, mail,
   quickly, reaches, people
3. Vector for Doc 1: 1 1 1 1 0 0
4. Table:     ro so ma qu re pe
   Doc 1      1  1  1  1  0  0
   Doc 2      0  0  1  1  1  1

The 2026 paper's pair shared three of their words, so its dictionary had five entries and each document vector had four ones and one zero. One mark per step means a student who stops after the dictionary still keeps two.

The scheme also gave half a mark for writing the precision formula alone and told examiners not to penalise the arithmetic, so the formula should always go down first. How these value points are applied across every question type is on the CBSE Class 10 AI marking scheme page; more matrices with fresh numbers are on confusion matrix numericals for Class 10 AI.

Q4. What does it mean for 2027?

AI exam review: six lessons from the 2026 paper for the 2027 candidate

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Learn the frameworks by type

Two items turned on whether a framework is sector-based or value-based. Students who knew bioethics only as "an ethics example" fell into the assertion trap.

Expect the unusual domain

A price comparison website belongs to Statistical Data, not NLP. Domain questions reward reasoning from the data the system uses, not from what it looks like.

Pick the calculation four-markers

The matrix and Bag of Words questions gave a mark per step, so a methodical student was close to certain of eight marks from two choices.

Draw what can be drawn

A labelled Venn diagram carried a full mark, and two network boxes another. A clean sketch is the quickest mark in Section B.

Give the example every time

Several two-markers split their marks between a point and an example. An answer with the right idea and no example stopped at half.

Read both statements on their own

Two-statement items ask about each statement separately. Judge statement one, then statement two, then choose; do not let one colour the other.

Every theory unit, with written answers of each length, is practised on CBSE Class 10 AI important questions, and full timed papers on the sample paper and mock tests page.

Q5. What happens on 24 February 2027?

Class 10 AI paper analysis 2027: what this page adds on exam day

The 2027 AI paper is on Wednesday 24 February 2027, from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM IST, on the same morning as Computer Applications and Information Technology. This address does not change: the 2027 analysis is added here, in stages, and the 2026 analysis stays below it for comparison.

When	What is added	Source
Exam day, afternoon	The section-by-section shape of the paper and our first difficulty notes	Students and teachers we speak to after the paper
Within the following days	An answer key for the objective items, written in our words, and solution notes for the written questions	Our teachers working the paper in full
When CBSE posts its marking scheme	Any item where the official key differs from ours, corrected and noted	CBSE's marking scheme page
If CBSE issues a 2026-27 sample paper	How the real paper compared with it	cbseacademic.nic.in; the latest 417 sample paper there is still the 2025-26 one

What will not be added

No copy of the question paper and no reproduced question text. The analysis and the answer key describe each item in our words, as on this page. We also do not post "expected" questions before the paper: the 2027 paper is unpublished until the morning it is sat.

Until then, in the live batch

Monday classes take each theory unit through the shapes analysed above, and Wednesday classes keep the practical file and project moving. From January, full papers are written at 10:30 AM on weekends to match the exam slot, then reviewed live against the value points. The run-in plan is on the CBSE Class 10 AI revision plan.

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

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Was the CBSE class 10 AI paper 2026 easy?

It was moderate. Teachers quoted on the day called it balanced and within the syllabus, and the objective section was mostly direct. Marks were lost on precision rather than hard topics: a two-statement item, two assertion-reason items, an unexpected domain question, and written answers that left out an example or a step.

Where can I find the CBSE class 10 AI answer key 2026?

This page gives the answer to every objective item of set 4 (question paper code 104/4), with what each item tested described in our own words. It is based on CBSE's own marking scheme for the 2026 main examination, which CBSE has posted on its marking scheme page. Other sets carried different items of the same types.

When is the class 10 AI paper analysis 2027 coming?

On the day of the paper. CBSE's 2027 date sheet puts the Artificial Intelligence (417) paper on Wednesday 24 February 2027, from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM IST. This page will add the section-by-section shape and difficulty notes that afternoon, then an answer key in our own words in the following days.

How many questions were in the 2026 AI paper?

Twenty-one, of which students answered fifteen, in two hours for 50 marks. Section A had five objective questions of six parts each, answer any four or five parts. Section B had sixteen written questions, of which ten were answered: three employability two-markers, four AI two-markers and three AI four-markers.

Which questions were the most scoring in the AI paper?

Teachers named the four-mark Bag of Words and confusion matrix questions, and the marking scheme supports that: Bag of Words gave a mark per step, and the matrix question split its four marks between the matrix, one cell and precision. A methodical student could expect most of those eight marks.

Did the 2026 AI paper have assertion reason questions?

Yes. Set 4 had two assertion-reason items in Section A, one on bioethics and one on lowercasing text, plus a two-statement item on overfitting. CBSE has not said how many such items a 2027 paper will carry, so treat them as one of several Section A formats.

Was there any mistake or change in the AI answer key?

In set 4, the two-statement item on overfitting was keyed as first statement true and second false, but the marking scheme also accepted "both correct", noting that each statement could be read as true on its own. No other multiple-choice item in set 4 was keyed with a second accepted option.

Did the AI paper ask Python questions?

No. Statistical Data and Advance Python are assessed only in the practical, so the 2026 theory paper had no code. Statistical Data appeared only as an AI domain, in a question about which domain suits a price comparison website. Python is examined through the practical file, practical exam and viva.

Is this page a copy of the question paper?

No. We do not reproduce the paper, its options or its wording. Each item is described in our own words, the answers are stated as ideas, and worked methods use our own example sentences except where a figure, such as the confusion matrix counts, is needed to show the arithmetic.

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Class 10 AI paper analysis 2026: was the AI paper easy?

What teachers said on the day

How we read it

CBSE class 10 AI answer key 2026 for Section A, set 4, in our words

Q1, employability skills (any 4 of 6)

Q2, AI (any 5 of 6)

Q3, AI (any 5 of 6)

Q4 and Q5, AI (any 5 of 6 in each)

AI question paper solution: what CBSE rewarded in each written answer

AI exam review: six lessons from the 2026 paper for the 2027 candidate

Learn the frameworks by type

Expect the unusual domain

Pick the calculation four-markers

Draw what can be drawn

Give the example every time

Read both statements on their own

Class 10 AI paper analysis 2027: what this page adds on exam day

What will not be added

Until then, in the live batch

Practise for the next paper in the Monday and Wednesday batch, or one to one

Group batch, Monday and Wednesday 9 PM

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The same AI paper for CBSE students in the Gulf and abroad

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Was the CBSE class 10 AI paper 2026 easy?

Where can I find the CBSE class 10 AI answer key 2026?

When is the class 10 AI paper analysis 2027 coming?

How many questions were in the 2026 AI paper?

Which questions were the most scoring in the AI paper?

Did the 2026 AI paper have assertion reason questions?

Was there any mistake or change in the AI answer key?

Did the AI paper ask Python questions?

Is this page a copy of the question paper?

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