Organic is 26 of the 70. Physical is 23. Inorganic is 14, and Biomolecules is 7 on its own. If you are short on time, that ordering is your ordering — and it is not the order the textbook is in, which is why people who study front-to-back run out of time inside Physical and never give Organic a proper pass.

Biomolecules is the anomaly worth exploiting. Seven marks, essentially no problem-solving, almost entirely recall. It is the single best marks-per-hour unit in the subject and it is routinely left until the night before, at which point people are too tired to memorise anything.

Electrochemistry is nine marks on its own — more than any other unit — and it is where the 2026 paper concentrated. It is also the unit most people are weakest at, because it is the one where the numericals actually bite.

I only found this by adding up my own evaluated script. Chemistry had eleven half-marks in it — more than any of my other four papers, which had ten, four, two and none. Physics is the only other one that comes close.

That tells you something about how the subject is marked. Long answers are broken into small scoring points and a half mark is awarded for each fragment you got — the correct reagent, the correct condition, the balanced equation, the right final product. You are not being awarded a mark for a good answer. You are being awarded fragments.

The practical consequence is that a half-finished organic conversion is worth real marks and a beautifully explained wrong answer is worth none. Write the reagent above the arrow even if you cannot finish the chain. Write the condition. Balance the equation even if the mechanism defeated you.

My script says 51.5 out of 70 before rounding, which is not a good score, and I know exactly what caused it: I treated Chemistry as the subject I would deal with later, all year, and later turned out to be about four days.

Organic was the part that survived, because it is pattern-based and patterns can be crammed. Physical was where I bled — the numericals need to have been done before, and you cannot acquire that in a week. That maps almost exactly onto what the 2026 cohort reported: organic scoring, physical numericals tricky.

If I were doing it again the only change I would make is doing Electrochemistry and Kinetics numericals through the year instead of in the last week. Not the whole subject. Just the numericals, because they are the only part that does not respond to cramming.

The syllabus was rationalised and a meaningful amount of Class 12 Chemistry is no longer examinable. Older question banks, older one-shots and most YouTube playlists still contain it, so you can lose a genuine weekend studying topics that cannot be asked.

I am deliberately not listing the deleted topics here, because the lists that circulate on coaching sites contradict each other and I have not verified any of them against the source. Open CBSE’s own rationalised curriculum PDF and check your chapter against it before you start. It takes two minutes and it is the highest-value two minutes in your preparation.