School and tuition teach class 12 accounts formats differently. Which one does the board accept?

mango_balcony_111020 Sept 2026

Class 12 commerce, CBSE. My daughter's accountancy tuition teacher shows ledger and cash flow answers in a shorter format. Her school teacher insists on the full working notes and a slightly different layout, and cut marks for the tuition way in the half-yearly. She is now confused about which one to use in the board exam, and the pre-boards are not far. Is there a clear answer to this, or does it really depend on who corrects the paper?

4 comments

linen_pool_402520 Sept 2026
not much help from me, son's only 7. but i remember my own class 12 accounts teacher saying the board takes any format if the working is complete and consistent. but that was decades back, so check
plum_puzzle_301020 Sept 2026
IB here, so I cannot help on the CBSE format itself. What I would do is ask her school teacher to mark one answer written the tuition way and explain what is missing. Then she knows instead of guessing ♥
- mango_balcony_111021 Sept 2026
  She took one answer to her school teacher on Monday. It was accepted with a note to always include the working notes. So the shorter layout is fine as long as nothing is skipped. Thank you, that settled it more quickly than I expected.
ochre_pool_75521 Sept 2026
Not commerce myself, but I'm a teacher at a CBSE school. From what our accounts colleagues say, they correct strictly against the marking scheme, and the board's sample papers show the format they expect. Have her compare both versions against those. Saves a lot of arguing 😄
sage_paper_221921 Sept 2026
We have the opposite problem in maths. Tuition teaches a faster method, school insists on the long one. My daughter writes the school method in exams and uses the fast one to check her answer. Maybe the two formats can work like that for her too.
- willow_notebook_125121 Sept 2026
  checking with the other method is underrated. i still do the same with spreadsheets at work