CBSE Sample Papers for Class 8 All Subjects (2026-27 Exam)

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• Class 8 Science Sample Papers (2026-27)
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Class 8 is the final year of CBSE’s Middle Stage before students step into the Secondary Stage in Class 9. Along with Classes 4, 5 and 7, NCERT has replaced nearly every Class 8 textbook under the NEP 2020 rollout: Ganita Prakash for Mathematics (continuing the same series from Classes 6 and 7), Curiosity for Science, Poorvi for English, Malhar for Hindi, Exploring Society: India and Beyond for Social Science, and Deepakam for Sanskrit. The change is substantial — Class 8 Science alone has gone from 18 chapters in the old book down to 13 in Curiosity — so practice papers written for the earlier textbooks no longer reflect what’s actually taught in classrooms this year.

This page brings together 5 fully solved sample papers for every Class 8 subject, built directly from the current NCERT textbooks, so students get realistic, exam-accurate practice instead of material based on a syllabus that’s already been phased out.

Because Class 8 is the bridge year into Class 9’s board-style assessment pattern, getting comfortable with the newer question formats now genuinely helps later. A few things worth knowing before you start:

• Chapter titles across Maths, Science and Social Science have changed entirely – a student searching for an older chapter name like “Crop Production and Management” won’t find it anywhere in Curiosity.
• Ganita Prakash now arrives in two parts (14 chapters total), so it’s worth checking whether your school has moved on to Part 2 yet.
• Case-based, source-based and assertion-reason questions show up far more often, mirroring the style used in Class 9–10 CBSE papers.
• Students who’ve already used the new Class 7 sample papers will find the format familiar, but the subject matter itself is entirely different at Class 8 level.

Every subject below comes with five full-length papers covering the complete current syllabus, following the CBSE competency-based blueprint.

Ganita Prakash Class 8 arrives in two parts and takes the number-sense foundation from Classes 6–7 into more formal algebra and geometry. The five sample papers draw from:

1. A Square and A Cube
2. Power Play
3. A Story of Numbers
4. Quadrilaterals
5. Number Play
6. We Distribute, Yet Things Multiply
7. Proportional Reasoning
8. (Part 2) Pythagoras’ Theorem, deeper Proportional Reasoning and Algebraic Expressions

Sections follow the usual MCQ / short-answer / long-answer / case-based split used across CBSE papers.

Curiosity weaves Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Earth Science together across 13 chapters instead of teaching them as separate blocks. Sample-paper coverage includes:

• Exploring the Investigative World of Science
• The Invisible Living World: Beyond Our Naked Eye
• Health: The Ultimate Treasure
• Electricity: Magnetic and Heating Effects
• Exploring Forces
• Pressure, Winds, Storms and Cyclones
• Particulate Nature of Matter
• Nature of Matter: Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
• How Nature Works in Harmony
• Our Home: Earth, a Unique Life-Sustaining Planet

Each paper mixes activity-based “Probe and Ponder” style questions with diagram-based and case-study items, matching the book’s inquiry-first approach.

Download Class 8 Science Curiosity Sample Papers (2026-27) PDF for half-yearly or first and second term exam preparation.

Poorvi replaces both Honeydew and the supplementary reader It So Happened. Sample papers are built around:

• Reading comprehension (unseen passage and poem)
• Grammar (voice, narration, clauses, modals)
• Writing skills (formal/informal letter, article, story writing)
• Literature-based questions from the prescribed prose and poetry

Malhar replaces Vasant – Bhag 3 and pushes into denser prose and more reflective poetry than the Class 7 book. The five sample papers cover:

• अपठित गद्यांश और पद्यांश
• व्याकरण (समास, अलंकार, वाक्य शुद्धि, मुहावरे)
• पाठ-आधारित प्रश्न
• लेखन कौशल (पत्र लेखन, निबंध, अनुच्छेद लेखन)

Continuing the integrated model started in Class 7, this book merges History, Geography, Civics and Economics into one series rather than three separate textbooks.

Class 8 Social Science Sample Papers (2026-27) – Exploring Society: India and Beyond – for first and second term preparation.

For schools offering Sanskrit, five sample papers based on Deepakam cover shloka comprehension, शब्द रूप, धातु रूप and translation practice at Class 8 difficulty.

1. Match each paper to a finished chapter rather than saving all five for the last week before exams.
2. Time every attempt using the full duration (typically 2–3 hours) to build real exam pace.
3. Correct the paper the same day, while the reasoning behind each mistake is still fresh.
4. Loop back to the Ganita Prakash / Curiosity chapter for any topic that trips you up more than once.
5. Re-attempt the same paper after 7–10 days to confirm the concept has actually stuck.
6. Log scores across all five papers per subject – a rising trend is the clearest sign of real readiness.

• Builds direct familiarity with Curiosity’s and Ganita Prakash’s actual chapter names and structure.
• Gets students used to case-based and assertion-reason formats before they meet the same style in Class 9.
• Surfaces weak topics early enough to still fix them before the annual exam.
• Improves pacing across MCQs, short answers, long answers and case studies.
• Gives parents a subject-by-subject readiness picture rather than a vague overall impression.

With Ganita Prakash, Curiosity, Poorvi, Malhar, Deepakam and Exploring Society: India and Beyond now firmly in place for Class 8, students need textbook solutions and practice material built around what’s actually being taught – not papers carried over from textbooks that have already been phased out. The five sample papers per subject here are designed to match the real exam pattern, help students self-assess honestly and build genuine confidence heading into the CBSE Class 8 academic year.