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Statistics CBSE Class 10 PYQ Chapter Wise (2016–2026)

Statistics CBSE Class 10 PYQs: all 20 questions from 40 official papers (2016–2026), by concept. Asked in 8 of 10 years.

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Full name
CBSE Class 10 Board Examination
Conducted by
Central Board of Secondary Education
Frequency
Annual board exams (as notified)
Sections
Subject-wise theory papers (as opted)
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Statistics PYQs (previous year questions) for CBSE Class 10: Statistics (Mathematics) had 20 questions across the 40 official CBSE Class 10 papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 8 of them. Asked in 8 of 10 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Mean of Grouped Data, Median of Grouped Data, Mean.

Year-wise question count

Asked in 8 of 10 years.

Most-asked concepts

Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.

ConceptQuestionsPapersYears
Mean of Grouped Data552026, 2025, 2022, 2020, 2018
Median of Grouped Data552024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018
Mean332024, 2023, 2020
Mode of Grouped Data332023, 2022, 2019
Mean Median Mode Relation222026, 2025
Median112024
Ogive112020

How to practise Statistics PYQs

  1. Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
  2. Solve one year’s Statistics questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
  3. Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
  4. Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.

Questions by year

Each line gives the question number and paper, type, concept, our one-line summary, with a link to the official PDF.

CBSE Class 102026

  • Q.17 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · MCQ · Mean Median Mode Relation: Median from given mean and mode PDF
  • Q.35 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Long answer · Mean of Grouped Data: Missing frequencies x and y from mean and total PDF

CBSE Class 102025

  • Q.12 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · MCQ · Mean Median Mode Relation: Median from given mode and mean PDF
  • Q.35 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Long answer · Mean of Grouped Data: Missing frequency from mean, then the mode PDF

CBSE Class 102024

  • Q.9 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · MCQ · Mean: Value of sum of f times deviations from mean PDF
  • Q.14 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · MCQ · Median: Name of the middle observation of ordered data PDF
  • Q.37 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Case-based · Median of Grouped Data: BINGO data: median class, probability, median PDF

CBSE Class 102023

  • Q.11 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · MCQ · Mode of Grouped Data: Modal class from a less-than cumulative table PDF
  • Q.15 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · MCQ · Mean: Effect on mean of adding 3 to each observation PDF
  • Q.37 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Case-based · Median of Grouped Data: Rainfall data: modal class, median, good-rainfall count PDF

CBSE Class 102022

  • Q.4 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Short answer · Mode of Grouped Data: Mode of a grouped frequency distribution PDF
  • Q.7 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Short answer · Median of Grouped Data: Missing frequency given the median PDF
  • Q.10 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Short answer · Mean of Grouped Data: Mean daily lunch expenditure from grouped data PDF

CBSE Class 102020

  • Q.20 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Very short answer · Mean: Find n when mean of first n natural numbers is 15 PDF
  • Q.26 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Short answer · Mean of Grouped Data: Mean of a grouped frequency distribution PDF
  • Q.40 (Mathematics Standard (30/1/1)) · Long answer · Ogive: Convert to more-than distribution and draw ogive PDF

CBSE Class 102019

  • Q.22 (Mathematics (30/1/1)) · Short answer · Mode of Grouped Data: Mode of a grouped frequency distribution PDF
  • Q.30 (Mathematics (30/1/1)) · Long answer · Median of Grouped Data: Missing frequencies given median and total PDF

CBSE Class 102018

  • Q.22 (Mathematics (30/1)) · Short answer · Median of Grouped Data: Median salary from a grouped frequency table PDF
  • Q.30 (Mathematics (30/1)) · Long answer · Mean of Grouped Data: Missing frequency given mean of a distribution PDF

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FAQ

How many Statistics questions come in CBSE Class 10?

In the official papers we tagged: 2 in 2026, 2 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 3 in 2020, 2 in 2019 and 2 in 2018. Not asked in the other 2 years. That is 20 questions in all, about 6% of Mathematics.

Which Statistics topics repeat in CBSE Class 10?

Asked in the most papers: Mean of Grouped Data, Median of Grouped Data, Mean. The concept table lists every one with its count.

Are these official CBSE Class 10 questions?

Yes. Every question is from an official CBSE Class 10 paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.