CBSE Class 12 English Core Syllabus 2024-25

CBSE Class 12 English Core Syllabus

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CBSE Class 12 English Core Syllabus

CBSE Class 12
English Core (Code No. 301)
Syllabus (2024-25)

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Section A – 22 Marks
Reading Skills

I. Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage (12 + 10 = 22 Marks)

1. One unseen passage to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis and inference. Vocabulary assessment will also be assessed via inference. The passage may be factual, descriptive or literary.
2. ​​​​​​One unseen case-based factual passage with verbal/visual inputs like statistical data, charts etc. to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation.
   Note: The combined word limit for both the passages will be 700-750 words. Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions and Short Answer type Questions (to be answered in 40-50 words) will be asked.

Section B – 18 Marks
Creative Writing Skills

II. Creative Writing Skills

3. Notice up to 50 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered. (4 Marks: Format: 1 / Content: 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar: 1).
4. Formal/Informal Invitation and Reply up to 50 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered.
   (4 Marks: Format: 1 / Content: 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar: 1).
5. Letters based on verbal/visual input, to be answered in approximately 120-150 words. Letter types include application for a job with bio data or resume. Letters to the editor (giving suggestions or opinion on issues of public interest). One out of the two given questions to be answered.
   (5 Marks: Format : 1 / Organisation of Ideas: 1/Content : 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar :1).
6. Article/ Report Writing, descriptive and analytical in nature, based on verbal inputs, to be answered in 120-150 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered.
   (5 Marks: Format : 1 / Organisation of Ideas: 1/Content: 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar: 1).

Section C (40 Marks)
Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text

This section will have variety of assessment items including Multiple Choice Questions, Objective Type Questions, Short Answer Type Questions and Long Answer Type Questions to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation and extrapolation beyond the text.

7. One Poetry extract out of two, from the book Flamingo, to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and appreciation. (6 × 1 = 6 Marks)
8. One Prose extract out of two, from the book Vistas to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation and appreciation. (4 × 1 = 4 Marks)
9. One prose extract out of two, from the book Flamingo to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation. (6 × 1 = 6Marks)
10. Short answer type question (from Prose and Poetry from the book Flamingo), to be answered in 40-50 words each. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. Five questions out of the six given, are to be answered. (5 × 2 = 10 Marks)
11. Short answer type question, from Prose (Vistas), to be answered in 40- 50 words each. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. Any two out of three questions to be done. (2 × 2 = 4 Marks)
12. One Long answer type question, from Prose/Poetry (Flamingo), to be answered in 120-150 words. Questions can be based on incident / theme / passage / extract / event as reference points to assess extrapolation beyond and across the text. The question will elicit analytical and evaluative response from student. Any one out of two questions to be done. (1 × 5 = 5 Marks)
13. One Long answer type question, based on the chapters from the book Vistas, to be answered in 120-150 words to assess global comprehension and extrapolation beyond the text. Questions to provide analytical evaluative and responses using incidents, events, themes as reference points. Any one out of two questions to be done. (1 × 5 = 5 Marks)

Prescribed Books

1. Flamingo: English Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi
(Prose)

• The Last Lesson
• Lost Spring
• Deep Water
• The Rattrap
• Indigo
• Poets and Pancakes
• The Interview
• Going Places

(Poetry)

• My Mother at Sixty-Six
• Keeping Quiet
• A Thing of Beauty
• A Roadside Stand
• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

2. Vistas: Supplementary Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi

• The Third Level
• The Tiger King
• Journey to the end of the Earth
• The Enemy
• On the Face of It
• Memories of Childhood
• The Cutting of My Long Hair
• We Too are Human Beings

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
Assessment of Listening Skills	05 Marks
Assessment of Speaking Skills	05 Marks
Project Work	10 Marks

Question Paper Design

Section	Competencies	Total marks
Reading Skills	Conceptual understanding, decoding, Analyzing, inferring, interpreting, appreciating, literary, conventions and vocabulary, summarizing and using appropriate format/s.	22
Creative Writing Skills	Conceptual Understanding, application of rules, Analysis, Reasoning, appropriacy of style and tone, using appropriate format and fluency, inference, analysis, evaluation and creativity.	18
Literature Text Books and Supplementary Reading Texts	Recalling, reasoning, critical thinking, appreciating literary convention, inference, analysis, creativity with fluency	40
	Total	80
Internal Assessment	Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills	10
	Listening Speaking	5+5
	Project Work	10
	GRAND TOTAL	100

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