Who conducts the 50-mark practical for CBSE Class 10 AI?
The school, in the weeks before the theory paper, following CBSE's Part C scheme: 15 marks for the practical file, 15 for a practical examination on Units 4 to 7, five for a viva, ten for the project, field visit or portfolio, and five for a viva on that project. The school announces its own dates, and because they fall before the theory exam, everything on this page needs to be finished by the end of December in a normal year.
Can the project be built in Orange rather than in Python?
Yes. CBSE's own sample project, predicting Palmer penguin species from statistical data, is the Orange Data Mining case study from the Statistical Data unit, and the curriculum names Orange, Teachable Machine and Lobe as tools for the practical units. A project in Orange is fully legitimate; what earns the marks is the documented project cycle and the student's ability to explain each stage, not the tool. Students comfortable in Python may prefer it, and either is fine.
What are the field visit and portfolio alternatives to a project?
CBSE lets the ten marks come from any one of project work, a field visit or a student portfolio. A field visit means visiting an organisation that uses AI and reporting on it; a portfolio is a curated collection of the student's AI work across the year. Most students choose the project because it is the easiest to control from home and the easiest to defend in the viva, and our batch prepares that route by default while helping any student who has a genuine field-visit opportunity.
Does the project have to relate to the Sustainable Development Goals?
The curriculum asks that the project, field visit or portfolio relate to the Sustainable Development Goals, so yes, and the link should be explicit in the report's problem scoping rather than a line added at the end. It is not a constraint in practice: a classifier that sorts waste photos serves responsible consumption, a dataset on rainfall and crop yield serves zero hunger, a sentiment model on a city's park reviews serves sustainable cities. The scoping stage of the project cycle is exactly where the goal is chosen.
How long should the project report be?
As long as the six stages of the project cycle need and no longer: problem scoping with the goal and the 4Ws, data acquisition with the source named, data exploration with a chart or two, modelling with the tool and the model chosen, evaluation with real numbers, and a reflection on what the model gets wrong. Schools set their own formatting rules, but a report that documents those stages honestly in a few pages beats a thick report that pads them. The viva examiner is looking for the cycle.
Should the practical file be handwritten or printed?
That is the school's decision and it varies, so ask early and follow it exactly. What does not vary is the anatomy of a good entry: a serial number, the aim, the program, the output actually produced, and a one-line remark, all indexed at the front. We build the file in Jupyter first, where the program and its output sit together, and then produce whatever physical form the school asks for from that source.
What does the viva examiner actually ask?
For the file viva, questions about specific programs: what a line does, what would change if an input changed, why a library was used. For the project viva, questions about decisions: why this goal, why this data, why this model, what the evaluation number means and what the model gets wrong. Both vivas reward a student who made the choices and remember why, which is the entire reason our batch has students explain every program aloud in one sentence every week.
Do you provide datasets for the project?
We help students find open datasets that fit the goal they chose, and we teach them to say where the data came from in the report, which is a scoping-stage requirement. Students who collect their own small dataset, photos of classroom waste or a survey of their building, are encouraged, because a dataset the student gathered is the easiest thing in the world to defend in a viva.
What does the practical preparation cost?
The practical work is part of the standard batch, not an add-on: the group batch, the mini batch and one to one are shown on this page in your own currency, billed monthly with no admission fee. The free demo class is a Wednesday-style practical session, so a family sees exactly how the file gets built before deciding anything.
My child's file is behind. Can it be recovered?
Almost always, if the recovery starts before November. A student with a real understanding of the eight suggested programs can write the whole file in a few focused weeks with someone checking each entry, and the project can be scoped to something small enough to finish. From December, one to one is the honest route, because the school practical is close and the theory revision needs the January weeks. The free demo tells you which situation you are in.
