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For students
How to start, practise, remember, and recover when a question feels difficult.
- For students
Class 10 maths question patterns: 8 shapes to recognise before you solve
Eight patterns that Class 10 maths questions are built on, each with the move that starts it and the trap inside it. Learn to name the pattern before you solve.
- For students
Quadratic equations in Class 10: how to choose the right method in ten seconds
Work out the discriminant first and it tells you which method to use. Seven fully worked examples with fresh numbers, including finding k for equal roots.
- For students
How to solve competency-based questions in Class 10 Maths
A competency-based question is an old idea with the chapter label removed. Five moves to find the familiar maths, plus the free official CBSE practice.
- For students
Trigonometric identities: the five moves that solve almost all of them
Identity questions do not need inspiration. Five moves, tried in order, open almost every Class 10 trigonometric identity, plus the two rules that decide where to start.
- For students
How to remember maths formulas, by memorising fewer of them
Most Class 10 formulas are not separate facts. Understand a few root ideas and the rest can be rebuilt, which means one slip no longer costs you the question.
- For students
How to study maths, because it is not like your other subjects
Re-reading works for subjects that ask you to reproduce information. Maths asks you to produce something new. The four changes that make maths study actually work, and what to stop doing.
- For students
How to stop making silly mistakes in maths
Silly mistakes are a short list of slips that repeat, mostly in the steps you find easy. How to find yours and the six habits that prevent most of them.
- For students
What to do when you look at a maths question and have no idea where to start
Going blank is not a memory problem. Four questions that get you to a first line, and the default first move for each Class 10 question type.
- For students
Angle Bisector Theorem: find BD and DC step by step
Use the Angle Bisector Theorem to divide a 5 cm base when adjacent sides are 6 cm and 4 cm, with every algebra step shown.
- For students
Why dividing by x loses a root in x² − 5x = 0
Solve x² − 5x = 0 by factoring with every step shown, then identify exactly why dividing by x removes a valid case.
- For students
Inscribed angle trap: choosing the correct reflex central angle
Solve the 130-degree inscribed-angle problem step by step by choosing the major arc, finding the reflex central angle and using equal radii.
- For students
BPT find-x problem: why the quadratic terms disappear
Solve a Class 10 BPT find-x problem step by step, see why the x-squared terms cancel, and verify every triangle segment.
- For students
Angle in a semicircle: complete theorem proof and exam method
Find the angle in a semicircle through a complete Class 10 proof using equal radii, isosceles triangles and the triangle-angle sum.
- For students
Well and embankment volume: model the ring before calculating
Solve the classic well-and-embankment volume problem by modelling the embankment as a hollow cylinder, with an interactive visual and exam shortcut.
- For students
Shaded leaf area in a square: the double-counting trick
Find the leaf-shaped overlap of two quadrants in a 14 cm square using double counting, then verify it with the segment method.
- For students
Broken tree height: why the sloping part is not the whole answer
Solve the Class 10 broken-tree height problem step by step and avoid the common mistake of reporting only the fallen part.
Prerequisite gaps
The earlier ideas to revise before a Class 10 chapter begins.
- Prerequisite gaps
What to revise before Class 10 Circles
Circles feels unpredictable because the question gives you nothing to compute until you add a line. The one fact the chapter rests on, and the earlier angle facts it silently assumes.
- Prerequisite gaps
What to revise before Class 10 Coordinate Geometry
Coordinate Geometry is not three formulas to memorise. The four earlier skills it assumes, why the distance formula is really the Pythagoras theorem, and how to check each one.
- Prerequisite gaps
What to revise before Class 10 Quadratic Equations
Quadratic Equations is a high-scoring chapter that students lose marks in for reasons that trace back to Class 8. The four prerequisites to check, and how to check each one.
- Prerequisite gaps
The earlier topics your child needs before Class 10 Trigonometry
Trigonometry is four older ideas stacked together. The exact prerequisites from Classes 6 to 9 that decide whether Class 10 Trigonometry feels simple or impossible, and how to check each one.
Common mistakes
The tempting mistakes that make correct-looking work go wrong.
- Common mistakes
Why probability answers feel wrong even when they are right
Probability is short, highly scoring, and lost to three specific misconceptions: that coins remember, that all outcomes are equally likely, and misreading at least and at most.
- Common mistakes
The surface area mistake that costs the most marks
Curved surface, top disc, base disc: count only the surfaces the object actually has. How to choose curved or total surface area in Class 10 questions.
- Common mistakes
Why your triangle proof loses marks even when the answer is right
In Class 10 Triangles the board pays for reasoning, not for the ratio. Where the marks actually sit in a similarity proof, the correspondence trap, and when to use BPT versus its converse.
Board exam strategy
Practical ways to revise, show working, and protect marks.
- Board exam strategy
How to write maths answers in the Class 10 board exam: one answer, marked line by line
See one five-mark CBSE-style answer marked line by line, then learn the six writing habits that keep step marks safe in every type of question.
- Board exam strategy
How to complete the Class 10 Maths paper in three hours
A section-by-section time plan for the 3-hour CBSE Class 10 Maths paper: two passes, a time ceiling for each question and a final 15-minute check.
- Board exam strategy
How to revise Class 10 Maths in the last 30 days
A 30-day CBSE Class 10 Maths revision plan built on finding the cheapest marks first. Day-by-day phases, the four-bucket diagnostic, and what to deliberately leave out.
For parents
Clear answers for parents deciding how best to support their child.
- For parents
Is NCERT enough for Class 10 Maths Standard? The honest answer
NCERT is enough to learn the course. Whether it is enough for you shows when the book is closed. Four checks to run before buying another book.
- For parents
How to help your child with maths when you are not good at maths
The things that help a struggling maths student most do not require you to do maths. What to say instead, the weekly ritual worth building, and the one sentence to retire.
- For parents
Why your child goes blank in the maths exam even though they knew it at home
Going blank in a maths exam is usually not nerves and not a memory failure. One question tells you which of the three causes you are dealing with, and each needs different help.
- For parents
How to tell whether your child’s maths progress report is honest
Most progress reports measure how busy your child was, not whether they can solve alone. Four questions that separate a useful report from a reassuring one.
- For parents
Maths tuition or self-study for Class 10: how to actually decide
A ten-minute test that tells you whether your child needs tuition, structured self-practice, or something else entirely. Written by people who build a self-learning app, with the bias declared.
- For parents
My child understands maths in class but cannot solve alone
Why a Class 10 student can follow every maths lesson and still freeze on the question paper, how to tell which of the two causes you are dealing with, and what actually fixes it.
Short maths explainers, twice a week
The same ideas in 30 seconds, on whichever app you already have open.