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by Bjram Araj on Friday, February 18, 2011 at 10:16pm

रास न आती जुदाई

फिर भी ये दस्तूर है

कौन समझाए इसे

ये दिल बडा मजबूर है....

वक्त के सागीर्द हम सब

ये बडा अनमोल है

जिन्दगी के हर कदम पर

इसका न कोइ मोल है

देती रहती है ये दस्तक

हर नये अन्जाम को

जिसने पहचाना इसे

उसकी न मन्जिल दूर है.........रास न आती जुदाई

सपने सच करता समय

दिखलाता नई राह भी

दूर अन्धियारे को कर

उपजाता नई चाह भी

समय की अवहेलना

करता अभागा ही यहा

वक्त है ओ मणि कि जिसका

पथ पे फैला नूर है..........रास न आती जुदाई

वक्त के फूलो से अब

जीवन सवारा किजीए

हर घडी की आरती

ख्श्रम से उतारा किजीए

आदमी को है बनाता

औ’ मिटाता वक्त ही

कद्र जो करता नही है

वक्त का मगरूर है..........रास न आती जुदाई

गम मे खुशी मे, हमने तुमसे

मुह कभी मोडा नही

भाग्य उज्जव्ल हो तुम्हारा

कसर कुछ छोडा नही

है भरी आखे हमारी

इस विदाई की घडी मे

पर खुशी है तुममे से

दिल से न कोई दूर है..........रास न आती जुदाई....फिर भी ये दस्तूर है...

THE ADVENTURE

The Adventure- an overview

By

B J Ram PGT ENGLISH K V VIKASPURI

It is an unconventional narrative style- an admixture of history and sciencemuddle

and reality.

Prof. Gaitonde, a historian, is going to deliver his 1000th presidential lecture on

the implications of Catastrophe Theory in the Third Battle of Panipat on what

would have been the course of Indian history had Marathas won the battle of

Panipat in 1761. On the way his car collides with a truck and he was unconscious

and disappeared in the thin layer as reported by the truck driver. His body was

passive and mind was actice. But he experiences another world where history is

different from how we know in the real world- in the Third Battle of Panipat, in

reality, Afghans defeated Marathas killing their leader Viswas Rao. But in the

parallel world, Marathas win the war as Viswas Rao escapes narrowly from the

bullet. The victory of Marathas brings about diverse changes and reforms in the

country. He gains consciousness and his friend Rajendra Deshpande rationalizes

his strange experience on the basis of two scientific therories, viz. Catastrophe

Theory and the lack of determinism in Quantum Theory.

The Parallel world

Professor Gaitonde is on his way to Bombay from Pune. It is the pre-independent

Bombay where he finds Anglo-indians and Union Jack. He goes to a library and

reads four volumes of history starting from the period of Asoka upto the Third

Battle of Panipat. The fifth volume of the Book (Bhausahebanchi Bakhar) tells a

different story where Marathas win the war against Afghans in the Third Battle of

Panipat. After their victory India moved towards democracy. Absent mindedly, he

tucks into his pocket a copy of the book. He reaches Azad Maidan where a lecture

is going on. The absence of the chairman for the meeting makes it strange but the

crowd doesn’t want one though the Professor protests. He gets on to the stage,

snatches the mike and starts speaking. The crowd showers eggs and tomatoes

on him and finally throws him out. He is lost in the crowd.

This is where the Professor’s strange experience ends. Next we find him talking

to his friend Rajendra in the real world.

Rajendra’s explanation

Rajendra explains the bizarre experience of the Professor on the basis of two

scientific theories, viz. Catastrophe Theory and the lack of determinism in

Quantum theory.

Catastrophe theory states that a small change in circumstance can bring sudden

shift in behaviour. If we apply this theory to the battle of Panipat, we can find that

there was a crucial moment when the Marathas lost both their leaders-Viswas

Rao and Bhausaheb. So, the Marathas lost their morale and lost the battle. But in

the parallel world Prof. Gaitonde saw the bullet missing Viswas Rao and Marathas

winning the battle. A crucial event gone other way can change the course of

history(the bullet missing/hitting the leader). The Professor produces a torn page

of Bhausahebanchi bakhar from his pocket. This is nothing but the notes he had

prepared for his lecture where he had imagined the fate of the battle to be

otherwise. The bullet hitting Viswas rao was the catastrophic incident in the

battle. The present state of affairs has been reached because of such

catastrophic incidents in history. We can apply this theory to any other battle or

historical incident and see how history takes a different course.

Lack of determinism in Quantum theory

The behaviour of electrons orbiting the nucleus in an atom cannot be predicted.

There are different states of energy-higher and lower. It can make a jump from

high to low energy level and send out a pulse of radiation or a pulse of radiation

can knock it out of state no.2 to state no.1. These states can apply to the world

too. The transitions are common in microscopic systems. If it happened on a

macroscopic level, it could be an interesting food for thought.

Professor Gaitonde made a transition from the world we live in to a parallel world.

One world has the history we know, the other a different history. He neither

traveled to the past nor to the future. He was in the present but experiencing a

different world. At the time of the collision with the truck, he was thinking about

the catastrophe theory and its implications in war. He was probably wondering

about the battle of Panipat. Perhaps the neurons in his brain acted as a trigger.

Like the electron jumping from one state to another, he made a jump from this

world to the parallel world. Any catastrophic situation will provide various

alternatives for us to proceed. But only one can be accepted by us at one time as

we live in a unique world with a unique history. But why did he make such a

transition? An interaction is must for any such transition. The collision and the

thoughts at that moment brought it about.

The incident at Azad maidan is just to show how meetings can be arranged

without chairman unlike in the real world.

The Adventure- an overview

By

B J Ram PGT ENGLISH K V VIKASPURI

It is an unconventional narrative style- an admixture of history and sciencemuddle

and reality.

Prof. Gaitonde, a historian, is going to deliver his 1000th presidential lecture on

the implications of Catastrophe Theory in the Third Battle of Panipat on what

would have been the course of Indian history had Marathas won the battle of

Panipat in 1761. On the way his car collides with a truck and he was unconscious

and disappeared in the thin layer as reported by the truck driver. His body was

passive and mind was actice. But he experiences another world where history is

different from how we know in the real world- in the Third Battle of Panipat, in

reality, Afghans defeated Marathas killing their leader Viswas Rao. But in the

parallel world, Marathas win the war as Viswas Rao escapes narrowly from the

bullet. The victory of Marathas brings about diverse changes and reforms in the

country. He gains consciousness and his friend Rajendra Deshpande rationalizes

his strange experience on the basis of two scientific therories, viz. Catastrophe

Theory and the lack of determinism in Quantum Theory.

The Parallel world

Professor Gaitonde is on his way to Bombay from Pune. It is the pre-independent

Bombay where he finds Anglo-indians and Union Jack. He goes to a library and

reads four volumes of history starting from the period of Asoka upto the Third

Battle of Panipat. The fifth volume of the Book (Bhausahebanchi Bakhar) tells a

different story where Marathas win the war against Afghans in the Third Battle of

Panipat. After their victory India moved towards democracy. Absent mindedly, he

tucks into his pocket a copy of the book. He reaches Azad Maidan where a lecture

is going on. The absence of the chairman for the meeting makes it strange but the

crowd doesn’t want one though the Professor protests. He gets on to the stage,

snatches the mike and starts speaking. The crowd showers eggs and tomatoes

on him and finally throws him out. He is lost in the crowd.

This is where the Professor’s strange experience ends. Next we find him talking

to his friend Rajendra in the real world.

Rajendra’s explanation

Rajendra explains the bizarre experience of the Professor on the basis of two

scientific theories, viz. Catastrophe Theory and the lack of determinism in

Quantum theory.

Catastrophe theory states that a small change in circumstance can bring sudden

shift in behaviour. If we apply this theory to the battle of Panipat, we can find that

there was a crucial moment when the Marathas lost both their leaders-Viswas

Rao and Bhausaheb. So, the Marathas lost their morale and lost the battle. But in

the parallel world Prof. Gaitonde saw the bullet missing Viswas Rao and Marathas

winning the battle. A crucial event gone other way can change the course of

history(the bullet missing/hitting the leader). The Professor produces a torn page

of Bhausahebanchi bakhar from his pocket. This is nothing but the notes he had

prepared for his lecture where he had imagined the fate of the battle to be

otherwise. The bullet hitting Viswas rao was the catastrophic incident in the

battle. The present state of affairs has been reached because of such

catastrophic incidents in history. We can apply this theory to any other battle or

historical incident and see how history takes a different course.

Lack of determinism in Quantum theory

The behaviour of electrons orbiting the nucleus in an atom cannot be predicted.

There are different states of energy-higher and lower. It can make a jump from

high to low energy level and send out a pulse of radiation or a pulse of radiation

can knock it out of state no.2 to state no.1. These states can apply to the world

too. The transitions are common in microscopic systems. If it happened on a

macroscopic level, it could be an interesting food for thought.

Professor Gaitonde made a transition from the world we live in to a parallel world.

One world has the history we know, the other a different history. He neither

traveled to the past nor to the future. He was in the present but experiencing a

different world. At the time of the collision with the truck, he was thinking about

the catastrophe theory and its implications in war. He was probably wondering

about the battle of Panipat. Perhaps the neurons in his brain acted as a trigger.

Like the electron jumping from one state to another, he made a jump from this

world to the parallel world. Any catastrophic situation will provide various

alternatives for us to proceed. But only one can be accepted by us at one time as

we live in a unique world with a unique history. But why did he make such a

transition? An interaction is must for any such transition. The collision and the

thoughts at that moment brought it about.

The incident at Azad maidan is just to show how meetings can be arranged

without chairman unlike in the real world.

SAMPLE PAPER

ENGLISH CORE
CODE NO.: 301
Class-XII
SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER I

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20
Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow: 12 marks
1 In spite of all the honours that we heaped upon him, Pasteur, as has been said,
remained simple at heart. Perhaps the imagery of his boyhood days, when he drew
the familiar scenes of his birthplace, and the longing to be a great artist, never
wholly left him. In truth he did become a great artist, though after his sixteenth
year he abandoned the brush for ever. Like every artist of worth, he put his whole
soul and energy into his work, and it was this very energy that in the end wore
him out. For to him, each sufferer was something more than just a case that was
to be cured. He looked upon the fight against hydrophobia as a battle, and he was
absorbed in his determination to win. The sight of injured children, particularly,
moved him to an indescribable extent. He suffered with his patients, and yet he
would not deny himself a share in that suffering. His greatest grief was when
sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work. He retired to the
estate at Villeneuve Etang, where he had his kennels for the study of rabies, and
there he passed his last summer, as his great biographer, Vallery Radot, has said,
“practicing the Gospel virtues.”
2 “He revered the faith of his fathers, “says the same writer, “and wished without
ostentation or mystery to receive its aid during his last period.”
3 The attitude of this man to the science he had done so much to perfect can be best
summed up in a sentence that he is reputed once to have uttered, concerning the
materialism of many of his contemporaries in similar branches of learning to his
own: “The more I contemplate the mysteries of Nature, the more my faith
becomes like that of a peasant.”
4 But even then in retirement he loved to see his former pupils, and it was then he
would reiterate his life principles: “Work, “ he would say, “never cease to work.”
So well had he kept this precept that he began rapidly to sink from exhaustion.
5 Finally on September 27, 1895, when someone leant over his bed to offer him a
cup of milk, he said sadly: “I cannot, “ and with a look of perfect resignation and
peace, seemed to fall asleep. He never again opened his eyes to the cares and
sufferings of a world, which he had done so much to relieve and to conquer. He
was within three months of his seventy-third birthday.
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6 Thus passed, as simply as a child, the man whom the French people were to vote
at a plebiscite as the greatest man that France had ever produced. Napoleon, who
has always been considered the idol of France, was placed fifth.
7 No greater tribute could have been paid to Louis Pasteur, the tanner’s son, the
scientist, the man of peace, the patient worker for humanity.
487 words
1.1 Answer the following questions:
a. Even accolades and honours did not change the simple man that
Pasteur was. Why? 2 marks
b. How did Pasteur view those who suffered from diseases? 1 mark
c. How did Pasteur engage himself in the estate? 2 marks
d. What advice did he always give to his pupils? 2 marks
e. How did France, the country of his birth, honour this great scientist? 2 marks
1.2 Find the words from the passage which mean the same as: 3 marks
a. To give up (para 1)
b. People belonging to the same period (para 3)
c. Vote by the people of the country to decide a matter of
national importance (para 6)
Question 2. Read the passage given below: 8 marks
Residents of the Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, where Ustad Bishmillah Khan was born
on March 21, 1916, were in shock. His cousin, 94-year -old Mohd Idrish Khan
had tears in his eyes. Shubhan Khan, the care-taker of Bismillah’s land, recalled
: “Whenever in Dumaraon, he would give rupees two to the boys and rupees five
to the girls of the locality”.
He was very keen to play shehnai again in the local Bihariji’s Temple where he
had started playing shehnai with his father, Bachai Khan, at the age of six. His
original name was Quamaruddin and became Bishmillah only after he became
famous as a shehnai player in Varanasi.
His father Bachai Khan was the official shehnai player of Keshav Prasad Singh,
the Maharaja of the erstwhile Dumaraon estate, Bismillah used to accompany
him. For Bishmillah Khan, the connection to music began at a very early age. By
his teens, he had already become a master of the shehnai. On the day India gained
freedom, Bismillah Khan, then a sprightly 31 year-old, had the rare honour of
playing from Red Fort. But Bishmillah Khan won’t just be remembered for
elevating the shehnai from an instrument heard only in weddings and naubatkhanas
to one that was appreciated in concert halls across the world. His life was a
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testimony to the plurality that is India. A practicing Muslim, he would take a daily
dip in the Ganga in his younger days after a bout of kusti in Benia Baga Akhada.
Every morning, Bishmillah Khan would do riyaaz at the Balaji temple on the
banks of the river. Even during his final hours in a Varanasi hospital, music didn’t
desert Bishmillah Khan. A few hours before he passed away early on Monday, the
shehnai wizard hummed a thumri to show that he was feeling better. This was
typical of a man for whom life revolved around music.
Throughout his life he abided by the principle that all religions are one. What
marked Bishmillah Khan was his simplicity and disregard for the riches that come
with musical fame. Till the very end, he used a cycle rickshaw to travel around
Varanasi. But the pressure of providing for some 60 family members took its toll
during his later years.
2.1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes using headings and
sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations where necessary.
2.2 Make a summary of the above passage in not more than 80 words using the notes
made and also suggest a suitable title.
Section B: Advanced Writing Skills 35 marks
Q.3 A.K International School is looking for a receptionist for the school. Write an
advertisement on behalf of the adminstrative officer in the classified columns of
the local newspaper giving necessary details. Draft the advertisement in not more
than 50 words.
OR
Suman/Suresh has cleared the Pre-Medical Pre-Dental entrance examination. The
family is elated at the achievement and they decide to have a get-together for all
friends. Draft an informal invitation for the get-together.
Q.4. You are Shekhar/Tripta a student of A.P Public School. Principals of two schools
from Pakistan visited your school as part of a cultural exchange programme.
Students of the school put up a cultural show in their honour. Write a report about
it for your school magazine. (100-125 words).
OR
As you were driving back home from work you were witness to an accident
between a Maruti car and a truck. The driver of the car was seriously injured.
There was confusion and chaos prevailing on the road. Describe the scene in
about 100 to 125 words. You are Sameer/Samiksha.
5 marks
3 marks
5 marks
5 marks
10 marks
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5. You are Nitin/Natasha a student of Class XII at K.P.N. Public School Faridabad.
The student is required to cope with lot of pressure in today’s competitive
environment. Write a letter to the editor of a national daily highlighting the
increasing stress faced by students and suggest ways to combat the same.
OR
You are Suresh/Smita. You come across the following advertisement in a national
daily. You consider yourself suitable and eligible for the post. Write an application
in response to the advertisement.
Applications are invited for the post of a Nursery teacher in a reputed school of Delhi.
The candidate must have at least 5 years experience of teaching tiny-tots. The applicant
must have a pleasant personality. He/she should be creative and innovative. Attractive
salary. Interested candidates should apply to The Principal, AKS International, Indirapuram,
New Delhi within 10 days with detailed resume.
6. Some colleges conduct entrance test for admission to under-graduate courses like
English (Hons.) and Journalism (Hons.). Do you think that the entrance test is the
right method of selecting students? Write an article in about 150-200 words. You
are Rohan/Rachita, a student of class XII at A.P. International School Agra.
OR
Computer games and video games have become popular with children today. As
a result outdoor games seem to have no place in their life anymore. You are
Satish/Sakshi. You had the opportunity of playing Hide-n-Seek when you visited
your cousins in a small town. You decide to write an article on your experiences
about the joys of playing outdoor games for the school magazine. Write the article
in 150-200 words.
Q.7. They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
a. Are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers real ? Give reasons for your answer. 2
b. Why do the tigers not fear the man beneath the tree? 1
c. What do you understand by ‘chivalric certainty’? 1
Or
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness; but will keep
A bower quiet for us.
a. ‘A thing of beauty is joy for ever’. Explain. 2
b. Why does a beautiful thing ‘pass into nothingness’? 1
c. What does poet mean by ‘a bower quiet for us’ 1
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b) Answer any three of the following questions in about 30-40 words. 2*3= 6 marks
1. According to Pablo Neruda, what is it that human beings can learn
from Nature?
2. Why does Spender call Shakespeare wicked and the map a bad example?
3. What kind of ordeals is Aunt Jennifer surrounded by?
4. What is the significance of the parting words of the poet and her smile, in
My Mother at Sixty-six?
Q.8. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. (2*5= 10 marks)
a. For Franz, what was much more tempting than going to school and why?
b. Mention any two hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.
c. How did Douglas overcome the old terror?
d. The crofter can be called as a good host. Why?
e. What was unique and distinctive about Ecos academic writing style ?
Q.9. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 10 marks
Franz’s attitude towards school as well as towards M. Hamel changes when he
comes to know about the take over of his village by Prussians. Do you agree ?
Discuss with reference to the The Last Lesson.
OR
How did the Chamaparan episode prove to be a turning point in Gandhiji’s life?
Explain with the reference to the text, Indigo.
Q.10. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 7 marks
The modern consumerist world is full of fear, insecurities, stress and wars. What
are the ways in which we try to combat them? Answer with reference to The Third
Level.
OR
How can we say that Antartica is the best place to study and understand about
Earth’s present, past and future ? Answer with reference to, journey to the end of
the Earth.
Q.11. Answer the following briefly (30-40 words) 8 marks
(1) Even though the Maharaja lost Rs. 3 lac, he was still happy. Why?
(The Tiger King)
(2) In a short span of 12 thousand years man has managed to create a ruckus
on this earth. How? (Journey to the End of the Earth)
(3) Why did Roger Skunk go in search of the wizard? (Should Wizard hit
Mommy)
(4) Mention any two reasons because of which it would take thirty minutes to
an hour for Bama to reach home? (Memories of Childhood- We Too are
Human Beings.)

SAMPLE PAPER AND MARKING SCHEME

1 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE - XII

Section Type of Marks Total Testing objectives

Question marks

READING 20

Q.1 1.1 a) SA 2M Comprehension

b) VSA 1M Comprehension

c) SA 2M Comprehension

d) SA 2M Comprehension

e) SA 2M Comprehension

1.2 a) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing

b) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing

c) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing

Q.2 2.1 Note - Making 5M Study Skills (Comprehending &

Note Making)

2.2 Summary Writing 3M Summarising Skills

WRITING 35

Providing factual

Q.3 (1

st

Option) Short Writing 5M details, organization,

Skill fluency and

coherence

or or or or

Providing factual

details, organization,

(2

nd

option) Short Writing 5M fluency and

Skill coherence

Q.4 (1

st

option) Long Writing Task 10M Presenting factual details,

format, fluency and coherence

(Report writing)

or or or or

2

nd

Option Long Writing Task 10M Presenting factual details,

(Factual Reporting) format, fluency and coherence

Q.5 (1

st

option) Letter writing 10M Formating, organization,

(Long Writing Task) coherence, fluency.

or or or or

(2

nd

option) Letter Writing 10M Formating, organization,

(Long Writing Task) coherence, fluency

Q.6 (1

st

option) Article (LWS) 10M Organisation, coherence,

fluency

or or or or

(2

nd

option) Article (LWS) 10M Organisation, coherence,

fluency2 ENGLISH CORE - XII

TEXT BOOKS 45

Q.7 a) (1

st

Option) or a) SA 2M Poetry appreciation

b) VSA 1M Interpretation

c) VSA 1M Interpretation

or or or or

(2

nd

option) a) SA 2M Poetry appreciation

b) VSA 1M Interpretation

c) VSA 1M Interpretation

Q.7 b) Any three 1) SA 2M Comprehension

2) SA 2M Interpretation

3) SA 2M Understanding

4) SA 2M Interpretation

Q.8 All five a) SA 2M Comprehension

b) SA 2M Comprehension

c) SA 2M Interpretation

d) SA 2M Understanding

e) SA 2M Understanding and

interpretation

Q.9 (1

st

Option) Long answer 10M Content organization

Fluency, Coherence,

Understanding

or or or or

(2

nd

Option) Long answer 10 M Content organization,

fluency, coherence,

understanding

Q.10 (1

st

Option) Long answer 07M Content organization,

fluency, coherence,

understanding

or Or or Or

(2

nd

Option) Long answer 07M Content organization,

Fluency, coherence,

understanding

Q.11 a) SA 2M Understanding

b) SA 2M Understanding

c) SA 2M Interpretation

d) SA 2M Understanding3 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER I

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow: 12 marks

1 In spite of all the honours that we heaped upon him, Pasteur, as has been said,

remained simple at heart. Perhaps the imagery of his boyhood days, when he drew

the familiar scenes of his birthplace, and the longing to be a great artist, never

wholly left him. In truth he did become a great artist, though after his sixteenth

year he abandoned the brush for ever. Like every artist of worth, he put his whole

soul and energy into his work, and it was this very energy that in the end wore

him out. For to him, each sufferer was something more than just a case that was

to be cured. He looked upon the fight against hydrophobia as a battle, and he was

absorbed in his determination to win. The sight of injured children, particularly,

moved him to an indescribable extent. He suffered with his patients, and yet he

would not deny himself a share in that suffering. His greatest grief was when

sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work. He retired to the

estate at Villeneuve Etang, where he had his kennels for the study of rabies, and

there he passed his last summer, as his great biographer, Vallery Radot, has said,

“practicing the Gospel virtues.”

2 “He revered the faith of his fathers, “says the same writer, “and wished without

ostentation or mystery to receive its aid during his last period.”

3 The attitude of this man to the science he had done so much to perfect can be best

summed up in a sentence that he is reputed once to have uttered, concerning the

materialism of many of his contemporaries in similar branches of learning to his

own: “The more I contemplate the mysteries of Nature, the more my faith

becomes like that of a peasant.”

4 But even then in retirement he loved to see his former pupils, and it was then he

would reiterate his life principles: “Work, “ he would say, “never cease to work.”

So well had he kept this precept that he began rapidly to sink from exhaustion.

5 Finally on September 27, 1895, when someone leant over his bed to offer him a

cup of milk, he said sadly: “I cannot, “ and with a look of perfect resignation and

peace, seemed to fall asleep. He never again opened his eyes to the cares and

sufferings of a world, which he had done so much to relieve and to conquer. He

was within three months of his seventy-third birthday.4 ENGLISH CORE - XII

6 Thus passed, as simply as a child, the man whom the French people were to vote

at a plebiscite as the greatest man that France had ever produced. Napoleon, who

has always been considered the idol of France, was placed fifth.

7 No greater tribute could have been paid to Louis Pasteur, the tanner’s son, the

scientist, the man of peace, the patient worker for humanity.

487 words

1.1 Answer the following questions:

a. Even accolades and honours did not change the simple man that

Pasteur was. Why? 2 marks

b. How did Pasteur view those who suffered from diseases? 1 mark

c. How did Pasteur engage himself in the estate? 2 marks

d. What advice did he always give to his pupils? 2 marks

e. How did France, the country of his birth, honour this great scientist? 2 marks

1.2 Find the words from the passage which mean the same as: 3 marks

a. To give up (para 1)

b. People belonging to the same period (para 3)

c. Vote by the people of the country to decide a matter of

national importance (para 6)

Question 2. Read the passage given below: 8 marks

Residents of the Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, where Ustad Bishmillah Khan was born

on March 21, 1916, were in shock. His cousin, 94-year -old Mohd Idrish Khan

had tears in his eyes. Shubhan Khan, the care-taker of Bismillah’s land, recalled

: “Whenever in Dumaraon, he would give rupees two to the boys and rupees five

to the girls of the locality”.

He was very keen to play shehnai again in the local Bihariji’s Temple where he

had started playing shehnai with his father, Bachai Khan, at the age of six. His

original name was Quamaruddin and became Bishmillah only after he became

famous as a shehnai player in Varanasi.

His father Bachai Khan was the official shehnai player of Keshav Prasad Singh,

the Maharaja of the erstwhile Dumaraon estate, Bismillah used to accompany

him. For Bishmillah Khan, the connection to music began at a very early age. By

his teens, he had already become a master of the shehnai. On the day India gained

freedom, Bismillah Khan, then a sprightly 31 year-old, had the rare honour of

playing from Red Fort. But Bishmillah Khan won’t just be remembered for

elevating the shehnai from an instrument heard only in weddings and naubatkhanas

to one that was appreciated in concert halls across the world. His life was a5 ENGLISH CORE - XII

testimony to the plurality that is India. A practicing Muslim, he would take a daily

dip in the Ganga in his younger days after a bout of kusti in Benia Baga Akhada.

Every morning, Bishmillah Khan would do riyaaz at the Balaji temple on the

banks of the river. Even during his final hours in a Varanasi hospital, music didn’t

desert Bishmillah Khan. A few hours before he passed away early on Monday, the

shehnai wizard hummed a thumri to show that he was feeling better. This was

typical of a man for whom life revolved around music.

Throughout his life he abided by the principle that all religions are one. What

marked Bishmillah Khan was his simplicity and disregard for the riches that come

with musical fame. Till the very end, he used a cycle rickshaw to travel around

Varanasi. But the pressure of providing for some 60 family members took its toll

during his later years.

2.1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes using headings and

sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations where necessary.

2.2 Make a summary of the above passage in not more than 80 words using the notes

made and also suggest a suitable title.

Section B: Advanced Writing Skills 35 marks

Q.3 A.K International School is looking for a receptionist for the school. Write an

advertisement on behalf of the adminstrative officer in the classified columns of

the local newspaper giving necessary details. Draft the advertisement in not more

than 50 words.

OR

Suman/Suresh has cleared the Pre-Medical Pre-Dental entrance examination. The

family is elated at the achievement and they decide to have a get-together for all

friends. Draft an informal invitation for the get-together.

Q.4. You are Shekhar/Tripta a student of A.P Public School. Principals of two schools

from Pakistan visited your school as part of a cultural exchange programme.

Students of the school put up a cultural show in their honour. Write a report about

it for your school magazine. (100-125 words).

OR

As you were driving back home from work you were witness to an accident

between a Maruti car and a truck. The driver of the car was seriously injured.

There was confusion and chaos prevailing on the road. Describe the scene in

about 100 to 125 words. You are Sameer/Samiksha.

5 marks

3 marks

5 marks

5 marks

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5. You are Nitin/Natasha a student of Class XII at K.P.N. Public School Faridabad.

The student is required to cope with lot of pressure in today’s competitive

environment. Write a letter to the editor of a national daily highlighting the

increasing stress faced by students and suggest ways to combat the same.

OR

You are Suresh/Smita. You come across the following advertisement in a national

daily. You consider yourself suitable and eligible for the post. Write an application

in response to the advertisement.

Applications are invited for the post of a Nursery teacher in a reputed school of Delhi.

The candidate must have at least 5 years experience of teaching tiny-tots. The applicant

must have a pleasant personality. He/she should be creative and innovative. Attractive

salary. Interested candidates should apply to The Principal, AKS International, Indirapuram,

New Delhi within 10 days with detailed resume.

6. Some colleges conduct entrance test for admission to under-graduate courses like

English (Hons.) and Journalism (Hons.). Do you think that the entrance test is the

right method of selecting students? Write an article in about 150-200 words. You

are Rohan/Rachita, a student of class XII at A.P. International School Agra.

OR

Computer games and video games have become popular with children today. As

a result outdoor games seem to have no place in their life anymore. You are

Satish/Sakshi. You had the opportunity of playing Hide-n-Seek when you visited

your cousins in a small town. You decide to write an article on your experiences

about the joys of playing outdoor games for the school magazine. Write the article

in 150-200 words.

Q.7. They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

a. Are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers real ? Give reasons for your answer. 2

b. Why do the tigers not fear the man beneath the tree? 1

c. What do you understand by ‘chivalric certainty’? 1

Or

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

Its loveliness increases, it will never

Pass into nothingness; but will keep

A bower quiet for us.

a. ‘A thing of beauty is joy for ever’. Explain. 2

b. Why does a beautiful thing ‘pass into nothingness’? 1

c. What does poet mean by ‘a bower quiet for us’ 17 ENGLISH CORE - XII

b) Answer any three of the following questions in about 30-40 words. 2*3= 6 marks

1. According to Pablo Neruda, what is it that human beings can learn

from Nature?

2. Why does Spender call Shakespeare wicked and the map a bad example?

3. What kind of ordeals is Aunt Jennifer surrounded by?

4. What is the significance of the parting words of the poet and her smile, in

My Mother at Sixty-six?

Q.8. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. (2*5= 10 marks)

a. For Franz, what was much more tempting than going to school and why?

b. Mention any two hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.

c. How did Douglas overcome the old terror?

d. The crofter can be called as a good host. Why?

e. What was unique and distinctive about Ecos academic writing style ?

Q.9. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 10 marks

Franz’s attitude towards school as well as towards M. Hamel changes when he

comes to know about the take over of his village by Prussians. Do you agree ?

Discuss with reference to the The Last Lesson.

OR

How did the Chamaparan episode prove to be a turning point in Gandhiji’s life?

Explain with the reference to the text, Indigo.

Q.10. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 7 marks

The modern consumerist world is full of fear, insecurities, stress and wars. What

are the ways in which we try to combat them? Answer with reference to The Third

Level.

OR

How can we say that Antartica is the best place to study and understand about

Earth’s present, past and future ? Answer with reference to, journey to the end of

the Earth.

Q.11. Answer the following briefly (30-40 words) 8 marks

(1) Even though the Maharaja lost Rs. 3 lac, he was still happy. Why?

(The Tiger King)

(2) In a short span of 12 thousand years man has managed to create a ruckus

on this earth. How? (Journey to the End of the Earth)

(3) Why did Roger Skunk go in search of the wizard? (Should Wizard hit

Mommy)

(4) Mention any two reasons because of which it would take thirty minutes to

an hour for Bama to reach home? (Memories of Childhood- We Too are

Human Beings.)8 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER I

Marking Scheme

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Answer Key 1.1

a. • he continued to live in his childhood/ He remained a simple-hearted (2 marks)

person.

• when he used to paint and always wished to be a painter

b. Pasteur believed (1 mark)

• that the sufferer was something more than just a case to be dealt with

and cured.

c. Pasteur retired to the estate at Villeneuve Estang (2 marks)

• conducted study on rabies

• practiced the gospel virtues

d. • he would tell his pupils never to stop working. (2 marks)

• Working according to him, was the most important of life principles.

• the French people voted him as the greatest man that France had ever

produced.

• This was the greatest tribute that could have been paid to Louis Pasteur. (2 marks)

1.2 a- abandoned (3 marks)

b- contemporaries

c- Plebiscite

2.1. Title: Tribute to Bismillah Khan 5 marks

Notes

1. Shock at the demise

(a) Cousin- tears in eyes.

(b) Care-taker recalled-

(ii) Giving two Rs. - boys

(iii) Five Rs. to girls

2. His early life

(a) Org. name Quamaruddin

(b) Play shehnai at temp. - with father

(c) Recognized as Bismillah- at Vns.9 ENGLISH CORE - XII

3. Music as Family heritage:

(a) Father - court poet at Dumaraon

(b) Pld. shehnai from age six

(c) At 31- played shehnai - Red Fort- 1947.

4. Daily routine in Vns.

(a) Taking dip in the Ganga

(b) Riyaaz at Balaji Temp.

(c) Before his last breath- hummed thumri

(d) used cycle rickshaw to travel

(e) bread-winner for 60 fml. mem.

5. Bismillah beyond religion

(a) Main principle- all religions one

(b) Life -testimony of plurality

(c) Pract. Muslim

Key to Abbreviations used:

Temp. Temple

Vns. Varanasi

Pract. Practicising

Rs. Rupees

Pld. Played

Fml. family

Mem. member

2.2. Summary of the passage 3 marks

Ustad Bismillah Khan born and bought up at Dumaraon got the taste of music at

a very early stage of life. He started accompanying his honour who was an official

musician at the Estate of Dumaraon. He got an honour to play his thumri tune at

Red Fort on the occasion of Independence. He believed that all religions are one.

He led a life of simplicity. Music was his soul and even on his deathbed he played

his last thumri in the hospital at Varanasi.

3. Option -I

Objectives: To draft a classified advertisement giving all the necessary details.

Marking: 5 marks

Title : Situation Vacant 1 mark10 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Content: Details 3 marks

• Educational Qualifications

• Spoken English

• Age

• Pleasant personality

• Whom to apply to and contact address

• Last date

Expression 1 mark

Option II

Format Address of self

Date

Salutation 1 mark

Content: Details

• What is the occasion 2 marks

• Date and time

• Venue

• Theme for the party

Expression: Coherence, Relevance 1 mark

Grammatical accuracy, spelling 1 mark

Marking Scheme

Option I

Report

Format Heading/Title

Name and class of the student ½ + ½ mark

Content What? 4 marks

When?

Where?

Who organized it?

Highlights of the guest’s speech

Any other relevant information

Expression Spelling, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

Coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks11 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Option II

Factual Description

Content Value Points 4 marks

• Description of accident site

• Condition of occupants

• Number of occupants

• Condition of the vehicle

• Presence of ambulance

Expression Coherence and relevance 3 marks

Grammar and spelling 3 marks

5. Marking Scheme

Format Writer’s address, receiver’s address, date, subject, salutation and

complementary close 2 marks

Content Reasons for stress 5 marks

• The increasing competition among students to score high marks

• No time for recreation

• Manifestation of stress in the form of anger, violent behaviour

• Indulging in games, practising yoga, can combat stress

• Listening to music etc are also ways of combating stress

Expression Coherence, relevance 3 marks

spelling, grammatical accuracy

Option II

Format Writer’s address, receiver’s address, date, subject, salutation and 2 marks

complementary close.

Content Covering letter 3 marks

Reference to advertisement

Conveying suitability for the post

Submission of application

Resume/ Biodata as separate enclosure

Profile of self

Educational Qualifications12 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Professional Qualifications

Experience

Any other relevant information

Expression Spellings, grammatical accuracy, relevance 2 ½ marks

Coherence and cohesion 2 ½ marks

6. Article- Argumentative/ Imaginative

Format Title, writer’s name 1 mark

Title - Entrance tests at colleges

Content 4 marks

• Language acquisition till class XII does not test their true abilities.

• Language not taken seriously by students

• Board results do not reveal the true potential

• Entrance test try to bring out their true capabilities

• Only students serious about the course will take the test

• So, these tests should be conducted

• Entrance test a burden on students

• Board results are fairly good as a yardstick as they judge 14 years of

language acquisition.

• Students under lot of stress after studying for the whole year in class

XII

• Unfair to put so much of pressure- no entrance test.

Expression - Coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

Spelling, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

Option II

• Outdoor games make us physically active, agile and alert

• Playing and running around with friends makes us happy

• It is exciting when we play , fight, agree and disagree

• Lot of exchange of ideas and thoughts

• Increase in number of friends hence social circle is broadened

• More joyful than sitting alone on computers and chatting13 ENGLISH CORE - XII

7. (a) Objectives : To test the studentís comprehension of the poem, their ability to interpret,

evaluate and respond to the lines of the poem.

Option - 1 Value points:

(a) No,

• they are on a screen

• can be seen on a panel

(b) Symbol of chivalry

• they are powerful

(c) they are sure of their power

• and the strength they possess

OR

(a) Long lasting impact

• never move into emptiness

• we even think of them in our dream

(b) long standing impression

• not subject to time

(c) a shady place for one to sit and ponder

7(b) 1. to be quiet and still

• to grow at our own place

• to be contented what we had (any two points)

2. He says so

• These have no meaning for children of slum

• They will tempt them to steal

3. Constraints of married life

• The dominance of women by their husbands

• The compulsion of their domestic life

• Responsibility towards family (any two)

4. It signifies hope

• Promise of visiting the mother again

• To leave a smiling face behind for her mother, (any two)

8. Objectives: To test the student’s ability for local comprehension of the prose texts.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark14 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Value Point

(a) Going out to play in bright warm sun

• With birds chirping in the open field

• To see the Prussians soldiers practicing drill

• More tempting than learning the rules for participles

(b) the chances of losing one’s eye- sight

• There is possibility of skin burn too

(c) he confidently continued to swim on

• The next morning he dived into the lake, swam across to the other shore and

back. This way he conquered his fear of water.

• The will to live helped him in conquering his fear.

(d) he welcomed the tramp

• Offered him hot supper

• Gave him tobacco to smoke

• Played cards with him

(e) his academic writing style is playful and personal

• Uses narrative style

9. Objectives : To test global comprehension of prose texts

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value Points:

• Franz decided to pay attention to the lesson

• School became very important for him

• Felt he would miss his school from next day

• M. Hamel became a good teacher from a boring one.

• Genuinely upset that Hamel was leaving the village

• Cranky Hamel seemed a good gentle man

• Liking developed for history and grammar.

OR

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value Points:

• Gandhiji was appalled at the condition of the share-croppers in Champaran15 ENGLISH CORE - XII

• Got a doctor for the village to help sick people

• Made the people understand the value of self-reliance

• Got support from lawyers to fight the case of share-croppers

• Tried to alleviate the distressed peasants.

• Made the ordinary people to contribute in national freedom.

This became a turning point in his career.

10. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1½ + 1½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points

Present world rat race

• Every body running after power, money or success.

• One gets stressed out

• Feeling of being a failure develops

• To overcome such insecurities and fears one starts imagining

• Charley starts imagining his grandfather and the village he came from

• He starts believing that there is a third level at the grand station, New York

from where trains went to Galesburg, Illinois, where his grand father used to

live

OPTION II

Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1½ + 1½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points

Visit to Antarctica

• will give a grasp of where we have come from and where we could possibly be heading

• it will suggest the future possibilities( in millions years afterwards)

• study about the future climate change easily and more effectively

• tell us about the repercussions of environmental changes

• Realization of the appearance of the Future world (any four)16 ENGLISH CORE - XII

11. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark

Value Points

(1) Maharaja had bought fifty diamond rings

• sent it to the wives of British officers to choose from

• they kept all of them

• but managed to retain his kingdom

• this made him happy

(2) Man has created villages, towns, cities and mega-cities by destroying nature

• rapid increase of human population resulting in burning of fossil fuels

• global warming

(3) Every body made fun of Roger Skunk because he gave out a bad smell.

• he was upset about this

• He met the old owl who advised him to go to the wizard, which would help

him and give him a pleasant smell.

(4) The two reasons are:

• She would watch all the fun and games that were going on the road

• She would look at the shops and the bazaars

• Used to look at the snake charmers and the monkey performing, (any two)17 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER II

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow: 12 marks

1 To make our life a meaningful one, we need to mind our thoughts, for our

thoughts are the foundation, the inspiration, and the motivating power of our

deeds. We create our entire world by the way we think. Thoughts are the causes

and the conditions are the effects.

2 Our circumstances and conditions are not dictated by the world outside; it is the

world inside us that creates the outside. Self-awareness comes from the mind,

which means soul. Mind is the sum total of the states of consciousness grouped

under thought, will and feeling. Besides self-consciousness we have the power to

choose and think. Krishna says: “no man resteth a moment inactive”. Even when

inactive on the bodily plane, we are all the time acting on the thought plane.

Therefore if we observe ourselves, we can easily mould our thoughts. If our

thoughts are pure and noble, naturally actions follow the same. If our thoughts are

filled with jealousy, hatred and greed, our actions will be the same.

3 Karmically, however, thought or intent is more responsible and dynamic than an

act. One may perform a charitable act, but if he does not think charitably and is

doing the act just for the sake of gain and glory, it is his thoughts that will

determine the result. Theosophy teaches us that every thought, no matter how

fleeting, leaves a seed in the mind of the thinker. These small seeds together go

to make up a large thought seed and determine one’s general character. Our

thoughts affect the whole body. Each thought once generated and sent out

becomes independent of the brain and mind and will live upon its own energy

depending upon its intensity.

4 Trying to keep a thought from our mind can produce the very state we are trying

to avoid. We can alter our environment to create the mood. When, for instance,

we are depressed, if we sit by ourselves trying to think cheerful thoughts, we often

do not succeed. But if we mix with people who are cheerful we can bring about

a change in our mood and thoughts. Every thought we think, every act we

perform, creates in us an impression, like everything else, is subject to cyclic law

and becomes repetitive in our mind. So, we alone have the choice to create our

thoughts and develop the kind of impressions that make our action more positive.18 ENGLISH CORE - XII

5 Let us choose the thought seeds of right ideas, noble and courageous aspirations

that will be received by minds of the same nature. Right introspection will be

required of us to determine what we really desire to effect. Everything in the

universe is inter-related and inter-dependent, that we live in one another and by

accepting the grand principle of universal brotherhood we shall be in a position

to appreciate what a heavy responsibility is ever ours to think right. Let us reflect

and send loving and helpful thoughts and lighten the load of the world’s suffering.

1.1 Answer the following questions:

a. How can we make our life meaningful? 1 mark

b. Why does Krishna say, “No man resteth a moment inactive?” 2 marks

c. How do our thoughts affect the whole body? 2 marks

d. How can we change our mood when we are depressed? 2 marks

e. How can we bring about the desired effect? 2 marks

1.2 Find the words from the passage which mean the same as: 3 marks

a. Full of activity (Para 3) (Para 3)

b. Happening in cycles (Para 4)

c. to look into one’s own thoughts and feelings (Para 5)

Question 2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 8 Marks

The small village of Somnathpur contains an extraordinary temple, built around

1268 A.D. by the Hoyasalas of Karnataka-one of the most prolific templebuilders. Belur and Helebid are among their-better-known works. While these

suffered during the invasions of the 14

th

century, the Somnathpur temple stands

more or less intact in near-original condition.

This small temple captivates with the beauty and vitality of its detailed sculpture,

covering almost every inch of the walls, pillars, and even ceilings. It has three

shikharas and stands on a star-shaped, raised platform with 24 edges. The outer

walls have a profusion of detailed carvings: the entire surface run over by carved

plaques of stone. There were vertical panels covered by exquiste figures of gods

and goddesses. with many incarnations being depicted. There were nymphs too,

some carrying an ear of maize (a symbol of plenty and prosperity. The elaborate

ornamentation, very characteristic of Hoyasala sculptures, was a remarkable

feature. On closer look - and it is worth it - the series of friezes on the outer walls

revealed intricately carved caparisoned elephants, charging horsemen, stylized

flowers, warriors, musicians, crocodiles, and swans.

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The temple was actually commissioned by Soma Dandanayaka or Somnath (he

named the village after himself), the minister of the Hoyasala king, Narasimha the

Third. The temple was built to house three versions of Krishna. The inner center

of the temple was the kalyana mandapa. Leading from here were three corridors,

each ending in a shrine, one for each kind of Krishna-Venugopala, Janardana and

Prasanna Keshava, though only two remain in their original form. In the darkness

of the sanctum sanctorum, I tried to discern the different images. The temple’s

sculptural perfection is amazing and it includes the doors of the temple and the

three elegantly carved towers.

324 words

2.1 Make notes of the above passage using an acceptable format including

abbreviations, with suitable titles 5 marks

2.2 Make a summary of the above passage in not more than 80 words. 3 marks

Section B: Advanced Writing Skills Max. Marks: 35

Q.3. You are the President of your school theatre club. Your club is organizing a play

The Miser to help the victims of earthquake. Design a poster informing the

students about this play. Invent necessary details.

Or

The students’ council of your school has organized an excursion to Goa for

students of class XII during the Autumn Break. As President of the council, write

a notice in not more than fifty words informing the students about this excursion.

Sign yourself as Ravi / Raveena.

Q.4. You are Rahul, the Headboy of Creative Public School, Delhi. Recently your

school hosted the Regional Level CBSE Science Exibition. Write a report of this

event for your school newsletter in about 125 words.

Or

The International Book Fair was inaugurated by the Chairman of Children’s Book

Trust, Dr. Kumar. The theme this year was Illustrated Works of Children. You are

Akshay/Akanksha a class XII student of A.K. International School Mathura. You

visited the exhibition and were impressed with the range of books on display.

Write a factual description in about 125 words.

Q.5. You are Naresh/Neetu. Recently, you came across a newspaper report on the

burning of a young woman as her parents could not meet the dowry demands. You

feel that even after 60 years of independence we have not really progressed as a

nation. Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper expressing your views and

also giving suggestions to improve the status of women in Indian Society.

5 marks

10 marks

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OR

You are Satish/Sonali, the student prefect incharge of the school library. You have

been asked to place an order for children’s story books (Ages 10-13 yrs). Write

a letter to M.S. Book Depot Ramnagar, Bikaner placing an order for the books.

Invent the necessary details.

Q.6. India is a country with diverse cultures, traditions, religious and political beliefs.

To keep such a country together, to bind the people and take the nation ahead on

the path of progress, democracy is the most suitable form of government. Write

an article in about 150-200 words. You are Akshay/Asha a class XII student at

Rosary Senior Secondary School Lucknow.

OR

You are Amit/Amita a student of class XII at K.N. Senior Secondary School

Nagpur. You recently visited a hill station alongwith your parents. It was an

exhilarating, adventrous and joyful experience. Write an article for the school

magazine sharing your experience in 150-200 words.

And Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool

Q7. a) Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.

The massive weight of uncle’s wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.

(a) Why were Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering? 1 mark

(b) What is suggested by the image the massive weight of uncle’s wedding

band? 1 mark

(c) Why did Aunt Jennifer create animals which were so different from her

own character? 2 marks

OR

And yet, for these

Children, these windows, not this map, their world,

Where all their future’s painted with a fog,

A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky

Far far from rivers, capes and stars of words.

(a) What does the map on the wall signify? 1

(b) Who are these children? What is their world like? 2

(c) What kind of future does the poet foresee for them? 1

(b) Answer any three of the following questions in about 30-40 words. 6 marks

(a) What does Stephen Spender want for the children of the slums?

How can their lives change?

(b) How will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us?

(c) What is the childish longing that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’ ?

(d) Why is grandeur associated with the mighty dead?

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Q.8. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. 10 marks

(a) Why was Franz afraid when he was going to school that day?

(b) What is the misadventure that William Douglas speaks about?

(c) Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?

(d) Why was Sophie jealous of her brother’s silence?

(e) Why did Rajkumar Shukla go to meet Gandhi?

Q.9. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 10 marks

The life of bangle makers of Firozabad was full of obstacles which forced them

to lead a life of poverty and deprivation. Discuss with reference to Lost Spring.

Or

Asokamitran has used humor and satire effectively in Poets and Pancakes.

Discuss.

Q.10. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 7 marks

Individuals who belong to enemy countries tend to hate each other even if they

do not know each other personally. At times it is seen that some of them rise

above such prejudices. What makes a human being do so?

Or

An adult’s perspective is different from that of a child. Why? Answer with

reference to the story Should Wizard hit his Mommy?

Q.11. Answer the following briefly (30-40 words) 8 marks

(1) Why does Charley say that grand station is growing like a tree in the story

The Third level?

(2) Why does Derry tell Mr. Lamb that he is afraid of seeing himself in the mirror

in the story On the Face of It?

(3) Why did people doubt Evan’s sincerity towards taking the ‘O’ Level Exam,

Evan Tries an O-Level?

(4) Why was the girl tied to a chair in Memories of Childhood?22 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER II

Marking Scheme

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Answer Key

1. a. to mind our thoughts, for our thoughts are the foundation, the inspiration, the

motivating power of our deeds, and are the causes and the conditions of the effects.

b. Krishna says this because even when inactive on the bodily plane, we are all the time

acting on the thought plane. Therefore, if we observe ourselves, we can easily mould

our thoughts,

c. our thoughts affect the whole body. Each thought once generated and sent out

becomes independent of the brain and mind and we live upon its energy depending

upon its intensity

d. We can change our mood by mixing with people who are cheerful. We can bring

about the desired result by following:

• by choosing the thought seeds of right ideas, noble and courageous aspirations

that will be received by minds of the same nature,

a. Right introspection will be required of us to determine what we really desire

to effect.

1.2 a. Dynamic

b. Cyclic

c. introspection

2.1 Title: Temple of Somnathpur

Notes 1. Prominent temples at Somnathpur

i. built around 1268 A.D. by the Hoyasalas.

ii. built by the most prolific temple-builders.

(ii) Belur and Helebid

(iii) suffered during the invasions of the 14 century

2. Temple: the beauty and vitality

(a) Detailed sculpture- covering walls, pillars, ceilings.

(b) Three shikharas- stands star-shaped, raised platform - 24 edges

(c) The outer walls- detailed carvings

(d) the entire surface- carved plaques of stone,

(e) Vertical panels covered by exq.

3. Temple as representation of Hinduism:

(a) with many incarnations

(b) many deties23 ENGLISH CORE - XII

4. Characteristic of Hoyasala sculptures

(a) the series of friezes on the outer walls

(b) revealed intricately carved caparisoned elephants .

(c) charging horsemen

(d) stylized flowers

(e) warriors, musicians, crocodiles, and swans.

5. Temple in the History

(a) actually comm.. Soma Dandanayaka or Somnath

(b) The inner center of the temple was the kalyana mandapa.

(c) Leading - three corridors, each ending in a shrine

(d) Each kind of Krishna-Venugopala, Janardana and Prasanna Keshava, Life-test, of plu.

Key to Abbreviations used

Inc. includes

Exq. exquisite

Fig. figures

Test. testimony

Plu. Plurality

Comm.. commissioned

1.2 Summary temple of Somnathpur is extraordinary due to the

The sculptures on the walls, pillars, and even the ceiling which covered by

exquiste figures of gods and goddesses. The sculptures have a series of fniehes on

the outer walls. The various molifs are carved elephants, charging horsemen and

stylized flowers.

Section B

3. ANSWER KEY

Poster

Caption - Theatre Club presents ‘The Miser’ 1 mark

Presentation (Content) 3 marks

Date, Time, Venue

Help the victims of earthquake

Expression 1 mark

Or

Notice

Format - Title, Date, Signature with Designation 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When, amount to be deposited, 2 marks

Letter of Consent (Word Limit - 50)24 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Expression - coherence, relevance 1 mark

spellings, grammatical accuracy 1 mark

4. Report

Format - Title, Writer’s Name 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When,

Chief Guest, Number of participating schools,

Details about the exhibits,

Result 4 marks

Expression- coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

OR

Format - Title, Writer’s Name 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When,

International Book Fair

As many as 125 countries of the world participated

Lakhs of books on varied topics

Attractive books for children

Everyone should visit

Expression- coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

B-2: Factual Description

Format - Title, Writer’s name (Place and date optional) 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When

Presence of important dignitaries

Mayawati’s address gave hope to the people

Expression- Coherence, relevance 2 ½ mark

Spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ mark

5. B-3 : Letter

Format - Writer’s add, receiver’s add, date, subject, salutation and 2 marks

complementary close

Content - gender bias prevailing

- girls not given education

- considered inferior

- social evils like dowry system25 ENGLISH CORE - XII

- laws should be made

- awareness programmes

- need to change the mindset 3 marks

Expression - spellings, grammatical accuracy, Coherence, Cohesion

Or

Format - Writer’s address, receiver’s address, date, subject, salutation,

complementary close 3 marks

Content - details about the books,

- No. of copies,

- Mode of payment 3 marks

Expression - Spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

Coherence, Cohesion 2 ½ marks

6. Article- Argumentative/ Imaginative

Format - Title, writer’s name 1 mark

Title - Democracy

Content -

• Democracy provides equal opportunity to one and all

• It facilitates true harmony in the society

• It guarantees social equality and brotherhood

For • It acknowledges participation of every citizen

• It is a form of government where universal adult franchise is available

• Provides equal growth opportunity to all its members

• It has become a shelter of unscruplans elements

• Social equality is only a myth- no where near reality

• Casteism, racialism, distinction among religion is the key words on which

politicians are winning elections

Against • Illiterate people seem to be interested in the election as middle and upper middle

classes have lost interest

• Democracy is no better than a social anarchy now a days

• Own conclusion

Option II

Summer vacation on a hill station is really a wonderful experience

• Relaxing expenence

• Far away from hustle - bustle of life

• No tension of office/school/college

• Enjoying the picturesque landscape.

• Rejuvenates you peace and calm of nature26 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Expression - Coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

Spelling, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

7.(a) Objectives: To test the student’s comprehension of the poem, their ability to interpret,

evaluate and respond to the lines of the poem.

Option -1

Value points:

a. Simile: Mother’s face was as ashen as a dead body

b. Cochin airport

• Pangs of separation

c. By looking out of the car at young trees

Or

a. Map significs a limitless world of opportunities but it is far removed for the

slum children

b. These children are poor and deprived children - slum school, dismal,

impoverised world, authorities - apathetic unfair

c. future-break’fog’ uncertaing no way out.

(b) a. Wants true education for them

• Should be given opportunities in life

• People in authority should work for their upliftment

b. It will help us to think about ourselves

• about the world around us

• the chaos we humans have created

• tt will help us introspect

c. When a person dies we put him on a pedestal

• we worship him

• we elevate him in stature

8. Objectives: To test the student’s ability for local comprehension of the prose texts.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark

Value Point

a. was late

• had not prepared his lesson on participles

b. the incident when Douglas was thrown into the deep end of the pool by a boy

who was about eighteen years old.27 ENGLISH CORE - XII

c. it is an unwarranted intrusion into their lives.

• feel that the interview diminishes them.

d. When he wasn’t speaking it was as though he was away in a world which

Sophie had never visited.

e. To complain about injustice of the landlord system in Bihar.

9. Objectives : To test global comprehension of prose texts

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value Points:

• Bangle makers born in poverty, live in poverty, die in poverty.

• For generations people have been engaged in this trade.

• Work in inhuman conditions.

• Although they work hard but the profit is meager.

• Their hovels have crumbing walls, wobbly doors and no windows.

• They are overcrowded with humans and animals.

• Social customs, traditions, stigma of caste and people in authority combine so that

they remain poor and uneducated

• Money lenders, middlemen, politicians and policemen are all against them.

• Unable to organize themselves into a co-operative due to lack of a leader.

• They have lost the ability to dream.

• They can only talk but not act to improve their lot.

Or

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value points:

• Author uses gentle human and mild satire.

• He has a chatty style which quickly changes from one thought to the other.

• Makes fun of the make-up applied to the artists which changes a decent person into

a monster.

• Sets required the actors to look ugly so that they look presentable in the movie.

• Characters of the office boy, Subbu No. 2 and the legal adviser has many subtle

touches of humor.

• Purpose of the visits of Moral Re-Armament Army and the English Poet baffles

everyone.

• Baffled reaction of the staff Gemini studio arouses humor.

• Satire is also directed towards people who are against communism and would do

anything to oppose it.28 ENGLISH CORE - XII

10. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1 ½ + 1 ½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points

• The feeling of hatred for enemy country is created by the system/ government

• People are made to hate each other

• It is considered to be patriotic/ nationalistic

• Personally knowing or not knowing has no meaning in such cases.

• These are people who rise above such petty thoughts

• Like doctor Sadao- for him saving the patient was most important

• As a doctor that was his first duty-the sick, injured needed attention and the

country to which the patient belongs did not matter to him.

OPTION II

Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1 ½ + 1 ½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points:

• Adult is mature, experienced and has a practical approach

• Adult responses are tutored and actions reflect the thought

• Children are spontaneous

• Their responses are natural, not tutored

• They want excitement

• Their idea of story is very different from adults

• The girl wanted Wizard to hit Skunk’s mother as she had forced Skunk to get back

the offensive smell.

• The girl did not approve this, for her the baby Skunk was right

• From her perspective, it was fine if the Wizard hits Mommy.29 ENGLISH CORE - XII

11. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark

Value Points

1. Charley had been the station for long

• But each time he bumped into new doorways, stairs and corridors

• Once had entered a long tunnel and came out near Roosevelt hotel

2. Derry was a boy of fourteen

• Has a burn scar on his face which makes him feel low

• He is scared of looking at himself in the mirror

3. Evans was an experienced thief

• Had broken the jail many times

• People saw this as his way to escape from prison

4. She was refusing to accept their decision

• They wanted to cut her long hair

• She felt insulted because of this.

SAMPLE PAPER AND MARKING SCHEME

1 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE - XII

Section Type of Marks Total Testing objectives

Question marks

READING 20

Q.1 1.1 a) SA 2M Comprehension

b) VSA 1M Comprehension

c) SA 2M Comprehension

d) SA 2M Comprehension

e) SA 2M Comprehension

1.2 a) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing

b) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing

c) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing

Q.2 2.1 Note - Making 5M Study Skills (Comprehending &

Note Making)

2.2 Summary Writing 3M Summarising Skills

WRITING 35

Providing factual

Q.3 (1

st

Option) Short Writing 5M details, organization,

Skill fluency and

coherence

or or or or

Providing factual

details, organization,

(2

nd

option) Short Writing 5M fluency and

Skill coherence

Q.4 (1

st

option) Long Writing Task 10M Presenting factual details,

format, fluency and coherence

(Report writing)

or or or or

2

nd

Option Long Writing Task 10M Presenting factual details,

(Factual Reporting) format, fluency and coherence

Q.5 (1

st

option) Letter writing 10M Formating, organization,

(Long Writing Task) coherence, fluency.

or or or or

(2

nd

option) Letter Writing 10M Formating, organization,

(Long Writing Task) coherence, fluency

Q.6 (1

st

option) Article (LWS) 10M Organisation, coherence,

fluency

or or or or

(2

nd

option) Article (LWS) 10M Organisation, coherence,

fluency2 ENGLISH CORE - XII

TEXT BOOKS 45

Q.7 a) (1

st

Option) or a) SA 2M Poetry appreciation

b) VSA 1M Interpretation

c) VSA 1M Interpretation

or or or or

(2

nd

option) a) SA 2M Poetry appreciation

b) VSA 1M Interpretation

c) VSA 1M Interpretation

Q.7 b) Any three 1) SA 2M Comprehension

2) SA 2M Interpretation

3) SA 2M Understanding

4) SA 2M Interpretation

Q.8 All five a) SA 2M Comprehension

b) SA 2M Comprehension

c) SA 2M Interpretation

d) SA 2M Understanding

e) SA 2M Understanding and

interpretation

Q.9 (1

st

Option) Long answer 10M Content organization

Fluency, Coherence,

Understanding

or or or or

(2

nd

Option) Long answer 10 M Content organization,

fluency, coherence,

understanding

Q.10 (1

st

Option) Long answer 07M Content organization,

fluency, coherence,

understanding

or Or or Or

(2

nd

Option) Long answer 07M Content organization,

Fluency, coherence,

understanding

Q.11 a) SA 2M Understanding

b) SA 2M Understanding

c) SA 2M Interpretation

d) SA 2M Understanding3 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER I

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow: 12 marks

1 In spite of all the honours that we heaped upon him, Pasteur, as has been said,

remained simple at heart. Perhaps the imagery of his boyhood days, when he drew

the familiar scenes of his birthplace, and the longing to be a great artist, never

wholly left him. In truth he did become a great artist, though after his sixteenth

year he abandoned the brush for ever. Like every artist of worth, he put his whole

soul and energy into his work, and it was this very energy that in the end wore

him out. For to him, each sufferer was something more than just a case that was

to be cured. He looked upon the fight against hydrophobia as a battle, and he was

absorbed in his determination to win. The sight of injured children, particularly,

moved him to an indescribable extent. He suffered with his patients, and yet he

would not deny himself a share in that suffering. His greatest grief was when

sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work. He retired to the

estate at Villeneuve Etang, where he had his kennels for the study of rabies, and

there he passed his last summer, as his great biographer, Vallery Radot, has said,

“practicing the Gospel virtues.”

2 “He revered the faith of his fathers, “says the same writer, “and wished without

ostentation or mystery to receive its aid during his last period.”

3 The attitude of this man to the science he had done so much to perfect can be best

summed up in a sentence that he is reputed once to have uttered, concerning the

materialism of many of his contemporaries in similar branches of learning to his

own: “The more I contemplate the mysteries of Nature, the more my faith

becomes like that of a peasant.”

4 But even then in retirement he loved to see his former pupils, and it was then he

would reiterate his life principles: “Work, “ he would say, “never cease to work.”

So well had he kept this precept that he began rapidly to sink from exhaustion.

5 Finally on September 27, 1895, when someone leant over his bed to offer him a

cup of milk, he said sadly: “I cannot, “ and with a look of perfect resignation and

peace, seemed to fall asleep. He never again opened his eyes to the cares and

sufferings of a world, which he had done so much to relieve and to conquer. He

was within three months of his seventy-third birthday.4 ENGLISH CORE - XII

6 Thus passed, as simply as a child, the man whom the French people were to vote

at a plebiscite as the greatest man that France had ever produced. Napoleon, who

has always been considered the idol of France, was placed fifth.

7 No greater tribute could have been paid to Louis Pasteur, the tanner’s son, the

scientist, the man of peace, the patient worker for humanity.

487 words

1.1 Answer the following questions:

a. Even accolades and honours did not change the simple man that

Pasteur was. Why? 2 marks

b. How did Pasteur view those who suffered from diseases? 1 mark

c. How did Pasteur engage himself in the estate? 2 marks

d. What advice did he always give to his pupils? 2 marks

e. How did France, the country of his birth, honour this great scientist? 2 marks

1.2 Find the words from the passage which mean the same as: 3 marks

a. To give up (para 1)

b. People belonging to the same period (para 3)

c. Vote by the people of the country to decide a matter of

national importance (para 6)

Question 2. Read the passage given below: 8 marks

Residents of the Bhirung Raut Ki Gali, where Ustad Bishmillah Khan was born

on March 21, 1916, were in shock. His cousin, 94-year -old Mohd Idrish Khan

had tears in his eyes. Shubhan Khan, the care-taker of Bismillah’s land, recalled

: “Whenever in Dumaraon, he would give rupees two to the boys and rupees five

to the girls of the locality”.

He was very keen to play shehnai again in the local Bihariji’s Temple where he

had started playing shehnai with his father, Bachai Khan, at the age of six. His

original name was Quamaruddin and became Bishmillah only after he became

famous as a shehnai player in Varanasi.

His father Bachai Khan was the official shehnai player of Keshav Prasad Singh,

the Maharaja of the erstwhile Dumaraon estate, Bismillah used to accompany

him. For Bishmillah Khan, the connection to music began at a very early age. By

his teens, he had already become a master of the shehnai. On the day India gained

freedom, Bismillah Khan, then a sprightly 31 year-old, had the rare honour of

playing from Red Fort. But Bishmillah Khan won’t just be remembered for

elevating the shehnai from an instrument heard only in weddings and naubatkhanas

to one that was appreciated in concert halls across the world. His life was a5 ENGLISH CORE - XII

testimony to the plurality that is India. A practicing Muslim, he would take a daily

dip in the Ganga in his younger days after a bout of kusti in Benia Baga Akhada.

Every morning, Bishmillah Khan would do riyaaz at the Balaji temple on the

banks of the river. Even during his final hours in a Varanasi hospital, music didn’t

desert Bishmillah Khan. A few hours before he passed away early on Monday, the

shehnai wizard hummed a thumri to show that he was feeling better. This was

typical of a man for whom life revolved around music.

Throughout his life he abided by the principle that all religions are one. What

marked Bishmillah Khan was his simplicity and disregard for the riches that come

with musical fame. Till the very end, he used a cycle rickshaw to travel around

Varanasi. But the pressure of providing for some 60 family members took its toll

during his later years.

2.1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes using headings and

sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations where necessary.

2.2 Make a summary of the above passage in not more than 80 words using the notes

made and also suggest a suitable title.

Section B: Advanced Writing Skills 35 marks

Q.3 A.K International School is looking for a receptionist for the school. Write an

advertisement on behalf of the adminstrative officer in the classified columns of

the local newspaper giving necessary details. Draft the advertisement in not more

than 50 words.

OR

Suman/Suresh has cleared the Pre-Medical Pre-Dental entrance examination. The

family is elated at the achievement and they decide to have a get-together for all

friends. Draft an informal invitation for the get-together.

Q.4. You are Shekhar/Tripta a student of A.P Public School. Principals of two schools

from Pakistan visited your school as part of a cultural exchange programme.

Students of the school put up a cultural show in their honour. Write a report about

it for your school magazine. (100-125 words).

OR

As you were driving back home from work you were witness to an accident

between a Maruti car and a truck. The driver of the car was seriously injured.

There was confusion and chaos prevailing on the road. Describe the scene in

about 100 to 125 words. You are Sameer/Samiksha.

5 marks

3 marks

5 marks

5 marks

10 marks6 ENGLISH CORE - XII

5. You are Nitin/Natasha a student of Class XII at K.P.N. Public School Faridabad.

The student is required to cope with lot of pressure in today’s competitive

environment. Write a letter to the editor of a national daily highlighting the

increasing stress faced by students and suggest ways to combat the same.

OR

You are Suresh/Smita. You come across the following advertisement in a national

daily. You consider yourself suitable and eligible for the post. Write an application

in response to the advertisement.

Applications are invited for the post of a Nursery teacher in a reputed school of Delhi.

The candidate must have at least 5 years experience of teaching tiny-tots. The applicant

must have a pleasant personality. He/she should be creative and innovative. Attractive

salary. Interested candidates should apply to The Principal, AKS International, Indirapuram,

New Delhi within 10 days with detailed resume.

6. Some colleges conduct entrance test for admission to under-graduate courses like

English (Hons.) and Journalism (Hons.). Do you think that the entrance test is the

right method of selecting students? Write an article in about 150-200 words. You

are Rohan/Rachita, a student of class XII at A.P. International School Agra.

OR

Computer games and video games have become popular with children today. As

a result outdoor games seem to have no place in their life anymore. You are

Satish/Sakshi. You had the opportunity of playing Hide-n-Seek when you visited

your cousins in a small town. You decide to write an article on your experiences

about the joys of playing outdoor games for the school magazine. Write the article

in 150-200 words.

Q.7. They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

a. Are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers real ? Give reasons for your answer. 2

b. Why do the tigers not fear the man beneath the tree? 1

c. What do you understand by ‘chivalric certainty’? 1

Or

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

Its loveliness increases, it will never

Pass into nothingness; but will keep

A bower quiet for us.

a. ‘A thing of beauty is joy for ever’. Explain. 2

b. Why does a beautiful thing ‘pass into nothingness’? 1

c. What does poet mean by ‘a bower quiet for us’ 17 ENGLISH CORE - XII

b) Answer any three of the following questions in about 30-40 words. 2*3= 6 marks

1. According to Pablo Neruda, what is it that human beings can learn

from Nature?

2. Why does Spender call Shakespeare wicked and the map a bad example?

3. What kind of ordeals is Aunt Jennifer surrounded by?

4. What is the significance of the parting words of the poet and her smile, in

My Mother at Sixty-six?

Q.8. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. (2*5= 10 marks)

a. For Franz, what was much more tempting than going to school and why?

b. Mention any two hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.

c. How did Douglas overcome the old terror?

d. The crofter can be called as a good host. Why?

e. What was unique and distinctive about Ecos academic writing style ?

Q.9. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 10 marks

Franz’s attitude towards school as well as towards M. Hamel changes when he

comes to know about the take over of his village by Prussians. Do you agree ?

Discuss with reference to the The Last Lesson.

OR

How did the Chamaparan episode prove to be a turning point in Gandhiji’s life?

Explain with the reference to the text, Indigo.

Q.10. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 7 marks

The modern consumerist world is full of fear, insecurities, stress and wars. What

are the ways in which we try to combat them? Answer with reference to The Third

Level.

OR

How can we say that Antartica is the best place to study and understand about

Earth’s present, past and future ? Answer with reference to, journey to the end of

the Earth.

Q.11. Answer the following briefly (30-40 words) 8 marks

(1) Even though the Maharaja lost Rs. 3 lac, he was still happy. Why?

(The Tiger King)

(2) In a short span of 12 thousand years man has managed to create a ruckus

on this earth. How? (Journey to the End of the Earth)

(3) Why did Roger Skunk go in search of the wizard? (Should Wizard hit

Mommy)

(4) Mention any two reasons because of which it would take thirty minutes to

an hour for Bama to reach home? (Memories of Childhood- We Too are

Human Beings.)8 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER I

Marking Scheme

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Answer Key 1.1

a. • he continued to live in his childhood/ He remained a simple-hearted (2 marks)

person.

• when he used to paint and always wished to be a painter

b. Pasteur believed (1 mark)

• that the sufferer was something more than just a case to be dealt with

and cured.

c. Pasteur retired to the estate at Villeneuve Estang (2 marks)

• conducted study on rabies

• practiced the gospel virtues

d. • he would tell his pupils never to stop working. (2 marks)

• Working according to him, was the most important of life principles.

• the French people voted him as the greatest man that France had ever

produced.

• This was the greatest tribute that could have been paid to Louis Pasteur. (2 marks)

1.2 a- abandoned (3 marks)

b- contemporaries

c- Plebiscite

2.1. Title: Tribute to Bismillah Khan 5 marks

Notes

1. Shock at the demise

(a) Cousin- tears in eyes.

(b) Care-taker recalled-

(ii) Giving two Rs. - boys

(iii) Five Rs. to girls

2. His early life

(a) Org. name Quamaruddin

(b) Play shehnai at temp. - with father

(c) Recognized as Bismillah- at Vns.9 ENGLISH CORE - XII

3. Music as Family heritage:

(a) Father - court poet at Dumaraon

(b) Pld. shehnai from age six

(c) At 31- played shehnai - Red Fort- 1947.

4. Daily routine in Vns.

(a) Taking dip in the Ganga

(b) Riyaaz at Balaji Temp.

(c) Before his last breath- hummed thumri

(d) used cycle rickshaw to travel

(e) bread-winner for 60 fml. mem.

5. Bismillah beyond religion

(a) Main principle- all religions one

(b) Life -testimony of plurality

(c) Pract. Muslim

Key to Abbreviations used:

Temp. Temple

Vns. Varanasi

Pract. Practicising

Rs. Rupees

Pld. Played

Fml. family

Mem. member

2.2. Summary of the passage 3 marks

Ustad Bismillah Khan born and bought up at Dumaraon got the taste of music at

a very early stage of life. He started accompanying his honour who was an official

musician at the Estate of Dumaraon. He got an honour to play his thumri tune at

Red Fort on the occasion of Independence. He believed that all religions are one.

He led a life of simplicity. Music was his soul and even on his deathbed he played

his last thumri in the hospital at Varanasi.

3. Option -I

Objectives: To draft a classified advertisement giving all the necessary details.

Marking: 5 marks

Title : Situation Vacant 1 mark10 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Content: Details 3 marks

• Educational Qualifications

• Spoken English

• Age

• Pleasant personality

• Whom to apply to and contact address

• Last date

Expression 1 mark

Option II

Format Address of self

Date

Salutation 1 mark

Content: Details

• What is the occasion 2 marks

• Date and time

• Venue

• Theme for the party

Expression: Coherence, Relevance 1 mark

Grammatical accuracy, spelling 1 mark

Marking Scheme

Option I

Report

Format Heading/Title

Name and class of the student ½ + ½ mark

Content What? 4 marks

When?

Where?

Who organized it?

Highlights of the guest’s speech

Any other relevant information

Expression Spelling, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

Coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks11 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Option II

Factual Description

Content Value Points 4 marks

• Description of accident site

• Condition of occupants

• Number of occupants

• Condition of the vehicle

• Presence of ambulance

Expression Coherence and relevance 3 marks

Grammar and spelling 3 marks

5. Marking Scheme

Format Writer’s address, receiver’s address, date, subject, salutation and

complementary close 2 marks

Content Reasons for stress 5 marks

• The increasing competition among students to score high marks

• No time for recreation

• Manifestation of stress in the form of anger, violent behaviour

• Indulging in games, practising yoga, can combat stress

• Listening to music etc are also ways of combating stress

Expression Coherence, relevance 3 marks

spelling, grammatical accuracy

Option II

Format Writer’s address, receiver’s address, date, subject, salutation and 2 marks

complementary close.

Content Covering letter 3 marks

Reference to advertisement

Conveying suitability for the post

Submission of application

Resume/ Biodata as separate enclosure

Profile of self

Educational Qualifications12 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Professional Qualifications

Experience

Any other relevant information

Expression Spellings, grammatical accuracy, relevance 2 ½ marks

Coherence and cohesion 2 ½ marks

6. Article- Argumentative/ Imaginative

Format Title, writer’s name 1 mark

Title - Entrance tests at colleges

Content 4 marks

• Language acquisition till class XII does not test their true abilities.

• Language not taken seriously by students

• Board results do not reveal the true potential

• Entrance test try to bring out their true capabilities

• Only students serious about the course will take the test

• So, these tests should be conducted

• Entrance test a burden on students

• Board results are fairly good as a yardstick as they judge 14 years of

language acquisition.

• Students under lot of stress after studying for the whole year in class

XII

• Unfair to put so much of pressure- no entrance test.

Expression - Coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

Spelling, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

Option II

• Outdoor games make us physically active, agile and alert

• Playing and running around with friends makes us happy

• It is exciting when we play , fight, agree and disagree

• Lot of exchange of ideas and thoughts

• Increase in number of friends hence social circle is broadened

• More joyful than sitting alone on computers and chatting13 ENGLISH CORE - XII

7. (a) Objectives : To test the studentís comprehension of the poem, their ability to interpret,

evaluate and respond to the lines of the poem.

Option - 1 Value points:

(a) No,

• they are on a screen

• can be seen on a panel

(b) Symbol of chivalry

• they are powerful

(c) they are sure of their power

• and the strength they possess

OR

(a) Long lasting impact

• never move into emptiness

• we even think of them in our dream

(b) long standing impression

• not subject to time

(c) a shady place for one to sit and ponder

7(b) 1. to be quiet and still

• to grow at our own place

• to be contented what we had (any two points)

2. He says so

• These have no meaning for children of slum

• They will tempt them to steal

3. Constraints of married life

• The dominance of women by their husbands

• The compulsion of their domestic life

• Responsibility towards family (any two)

4. It signifies hope

• Promise of visiting the mother again

• To leave a smiling face behind for her mother, (any two)

8. Objectives: To test the student’s ability for local comprehension of the prose texts.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark14 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Value Point

(a) Going out to play in bright warm sun

• With birds chirping in the open field

• To see the Prussians soldiers practicing drill

• More tempting than learning the rules for participles

(b) the chances of losing one’s eye- sight

• There is possibility of skin burn too

(c) he confidently continued to swim on

• The next morning he dived into the lake, swam across to the other shore and

back. This way he conquered his fear of water.

• The will to live helped him in conquering his fear.

(d) he welcomed the tramp

• Offered him hot supper

• Gave him tobacco to smoke

• Played cards with him

(e) his academic writing style is playful and personal

• Uses narrative style

9. Objectives : To test global comprehension of prose texts

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value Points:

• Franz decided to pay attention to the lesson

• School became very important for him

• Felt he would miss his school from next day

• M. Hamel became a good teacher from a boring one.

• Genuinely upset that Hamel was leaving the village

• Cranky Hamel seemed a good gentle man

• Liking developed for history and grammar.

OR

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value Points:

• Gandhiji was appalled at the condition of the share-croppers in Champaran15 ENGLISH CORE - XII

• Got a doctor for the village to help sick people

• Made the people understand the value of self-reliance

• Got support from lawyers to fight the case of share-croppers

• Tried to alleviate the distressed peasants.

• Made the ordinary people to contribute in national freedom.

This became a turning point in his career.

10. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1½ + 1½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points

Present world rat race

• Every body running after power, money or success.

• One gets stressed out

• Feeling of being a failure develops

• To overcome such insecurities and fears one starts imagining

• Charley starts imagining his grandfather and the village he came from

• He starts believing that there is a third level at the grand station, New York

from where trains went to Galesburg, Illinois, where his grand father used to

live

OPTION II

Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1½ + 1½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points

Visit to Antarctica

• will give a grasp of where we have come from and where we could possibly be heading

• it will suggest the future possibilities( in millions years afterwards)

• study about the future climate change easily and more effectively

• tell us about the repercussions of environmental changes

• Realization of the appearance of the Future world (any four)16 ENGLISH CORE - XII

11. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark

Value Points

(1) Maharaja had bought fifty diamond rings

• sent it to the wives of British officers to choose from

• they kept all of them

• but managed to retain his kingdom

• this made him happy

(2) Man has created villages, towns, cities and mega-cities by destroying nature

• rapid increase of human population resulting in burning of fossil fuels

• global warming

(3) Every body made fun of Roger Skunk because he gave out a bad smell.

• he was upset about this

• He met the old owl who advised him to go to the wizard, which would help

him and give him a pleasant smell.

(4) The two reasons are:

• She would watch all the fun and games that were going on the road

• She would look at the shops and the bazaars

• Used to look at the snake charmers and the monkey performing, (any two)17 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER II

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow: 12 marks

1 To make our life a meaningful one, we need to mind our thoughts, for our

thoughts are the foundation, the inspiration, and the motivating power of our

deeds. We create our entire world by the way we think. Thoughts are the causes

and the conditions are the effects.

2 Our circumstances and conditions are not dictated by the world outside; it is the

world inside us that creates the outside. Self-awareness comes from the mind,

which means soul. Mind is the sum total of the states of consciousness grouped

under thought, will and feeling. Besides self-consciousness we have the power to

choose and think. Krishna says: “no man resteth a moment inactive”. Even when

inactive on the bodily plane, we are all the time acting on the thought plane.

Therefore if we observe ourselves, we can easily mould our thoughts. If our

thoughts are pure and noble, naturally actions follow the same. If our thoughts are

filled with jealousy, hatred and greed, our actions will be the same.

3 Karmically, however, thought or intent is more responsible and dynamic than an

act. One may perform a charitable act, but if he does not think charitably and is

doing the act just for the sake of gain and glory, it is his thoughts that will

determine the result. Theosophy teaches us that every thought, no matter how

fleeting, leaves a seed in the mind of the thinker. These small seeds together go

to make up a large thought seed and determine one’s general character. Our

thoughts affect the whole body. Each thought once generated and sent out

becomes independent of the brain and mind and will live upon its own energy

depending upon its intensity.

4 Trying to keep a thought from our mind can produce the very state we are trying

to avoid. We can alter our environment to create the mood. When, for instance,

we are depressed, if we sit by ourselves trying to think cheerful thoughts, we often

do not succeed. But if we mix with people who are cheerful we can bring about

a change in our mood and thoughts. Every thought we think, every act we

perform, creates in us an impression, like everything else, is subject to cyclic law

and becomes repetitive in our mind. So, we alone have the choice to create our

thoughts and develop the kind of impressions that make our action more positive.18 ENGLISH CORE - XII

5 Let us choose the thought seeds of right ideas, noble and courageous aspirations

that will be received by minds of the same nature. Right introspection will be

required of us to determine what we really desire to effect. Everything in the

universe is inter-related and inter-dependent, that we live in one another and by

accepting the grand principle of universal brotherhood we shall be in a position

to appreciate what a heavy responsibility is ever ours to think right. Let us reflect

and send loving and helpful thoughts and lighten the load of the world’s suffering.

1.1 Answer the following questions:

a. How can we make our life meaningful? 1 mark

b. Why does Krishna say, “No man resteth a moment inactive?” 2 marks

c. How do our thoughts affect the whole body? 2 marks

d. How can we change our mood when we are depressed? 2 marks

e. How can we bring about the desired effect? 2 marks

1.2 Find the words from the passage which mean the same as: 3 marks

a. Full of activity (Para 3) (Para 3)

b. Happening in cycles (Para 4)

c. to look into one’s own thoughts and feelings (Para 5)

Question 2. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 8 Marks

The small village of Somnathpur contains an extraordinary temple, built around

1268 A.D. by the Hoyasalas of Karnataka-one of the most prolific templebuilders. Belur and Helebid are among their-better-known works. While these

suffered during the invasions of the 14

th

century, the Somnathpur temple stands

more or less intact in near-original condition.

This small temple captivates with the beauty and vitality of its detailed sculpture,

covering almost every inch of the walls, pillars, and even ceilings. It has three

shikharas and stands on a star-shaped, raised platform with 24 edges. The outer

walls have a profusion of detailed carvings: the entire surface run over by carved

plaques of stone. There were vertical panels covered by exquiste figures of gods

and goddesses. with many incarnations being depicted. There were nymphs too,

some carrying an ear of maize (a symbol of plenty and prosperity. The elaborate

ornamentation, very characteristic of Hoyasala sculptures, was a remarkable

feature. On closer look - and it is worth it - the series of friezes on the outer walls

revealed intricately carved caparisoned elephants, charging horsemen, stylized

flowers, warriors, musicians, crocodiles, and swans.

495 words19 ENGLISH CORE - XII

The temple was actually commissioned by Soma Dandanayaka or Somnath (he

named the village after himself), the minister of the Hoyasala king, Narasimha the

Third. The temple was built to house three versions of Krishna. The inner center

of the temple was the kalyana mandapa. Leading from here were three corridors,

each ending in a shrine, one for each kind of Krishna-Venugopala, Janardana and

Prasanna Keshava, though only two remain in their original form. In the darkness

of the sanctum sanctorum, I tried to discern the different images. The temple’s

sculptural perfection is amazing and it includes the doors of the temple and the

three elegantly carved towers.

324 words

2.1 Make notes of the above passage using an acceptable format including

abbreviations, with suitable titles 5 marks

2.2 Make a summary of the above passage in not more than 80 words. 3 marks

Section B: Advanced Writing Skills Max. Marks: 35

Q.3. You are the President of your school theatre club. Your club is organizing a play

The Miser to help the victims of earthquake. Design a poster informing the

students about this play. Invent necessary details.

Or

The students’ council of your school has organized an excursion to Goa for

students of class XII during the Autumn Break. As President of the council, write

a notice in not more than fifty words informing the students about this excursion.

Sign yourself as Ravi / Raveena.

Q.4. You are Rahul, the Headboy of Creative Public School, Delhi. Recently your

school hosted the Regional Level CBSE Science Exibition. Write a report of this

event for your school newsletter in about 125 words.

Or

The International Book Fair was inaugurated by the Chairman of Children’s Book

Trust, Dr. Kumar. The theme this year was Illustrated Works of Children. You are

Akshay/Akanksha a class XII student of A.K. International School Mathura. You

visited the exhibition and were impressed with the range of books on display.

Write a factual description in about 125 words.

Q.5. You are Naresh/Neetu. Recently, you came across a newspaper report on the

burning of a young woman as her parents could not meet the dowry demands. You

feel that even after 60 years of independence we have not really progressed as a

nation. Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper expressing your views and

also giving suggestions to improve the status of women in Indian Society.

5 marks

10 marks

10 marks20 ENGLISH CORE - XII

OR

You are Satish/Sonali, the student prefect incharge of the school library. You have

been asked to place an order for children’s story books (Ages 10-13 yrs). Write

a letter to M.S. Book Depot Ramnagar, Bikaner placing an order for the books.

Invent the necessary details.

Q.6. India is a country with diverse cultures, traditions, religious and political beliefs.

To keep such a country together, to bind the people and take the nation ahead on

the path of progress, democracy is the most suitable form of government. Write

an article in about 150-200 words. You are Akshay/Asha a class XII student at

Rosary Senior Secondary School Lucknow.

OR

You are Amit/Amita a student of class XII at K.N. Senior Secondary School

Nagpur. You recently visited a hill station alongwith your parents. It was an

exhilarating, adventrous and joyful experience. Write an article for the school

magazine sharing your experience in 150-200 words.

And Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool

Q7. a) Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.

The massive weight of uncle’s wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.

(a) Why were Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering? 1 mark

(b) What is suggested by the image the massive weight of uncle’s wedding

band? 1 mark

(c) Why did Aunt Jennifer create animals which were so different from her

own character? 2 marks

OR

And yet, for these

Children, these windows, not this map, their world,

Where all their future’s painted with a fog,

A narrow street sealed in with a lead sky

Far far from rivers, capes and stars of words.

(a) What does the map on the wall signify? 1

(b) Who are these children? What is their world like? 2

(c) What kind of future does the poet foresee for them? 1

(b) Answer any three of the following questions in about 30-40 words. 6 marks

(a) What does Stephen Spender want for the children of the slums?

How can their lives change?

(b) How will counting up to twelve and keeping still help us?

(c) What is the childish longing that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’ ?

(d) Why is grandeur associated with the mighty dead?

10 marks21 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Q.8. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words. 10 marks

(a) Why was Franz afraid when he was going to school that day?

(b) What is the misadventure that William Douglas speaks about?

(c) Why do most celebrity writers despise being interviewed?

(d) Why was Sophie jealous of her brother’s silence?

(e) Why did Rajkumar Shukla go to meet Gandhi?

Q.9. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 10 marks

The life of bangle makers of Firozabad was full of obstacles which forced them

to lead a life of poverty and deprivation. Discuss with reference to Lost Spring.

Or

Asokamitran has used humor and satire effectively in Poets and Pancakes.

Discuss.

Q.10. Answer any one of the following in about 125-150 words. 7 marks

Individuals who belong to enemy countries tend to hate each other even if they

do not know each other personally. At times it is seen that some of them rise

above such prejudices. What makes a human being do so?

Or

An adult’s perspective is different from that of a child. Why? Answer with

reference to the story Should Wizard hit his Mommy?

Q.11. Answer the following briefly (30-40 words) 8 marks

(1) Why does Charley say that grand station is growing like a tree in the story

The Third level?

(2) Why does Derry tell Mr. Lamb that he is afraid of seeing himself in the mirror

in the story On the Face of It?

(3) Why did people doubt Evan’s sincerity towards taking the ‘O’ Level Exam,

Evan Tries an O-Level?

(4) Why was the girl tied to a chair in Memories of Childhood?22 ENGLISH CORE - XII

ENGLISH CORE

CODE NO.: 301

Class-XII

SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER II

Marking Scheme

Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20

Answer Key

1. a. to mind our thoughts, for our thoughts are the foundation, the inspiration, the

motivating power of our deeds, and are the causes and the conditions of the effects.

b. Krishna says this because even when inactive on the bodily plane, we are all the time

acting on the thought plane. Therefore, if we observe ourselves, we can easily mould

our thoughts,

c. our thoughts affect the whole body. Each thought once generated and sent out

becomes independent of the brain and mind and we live upon its energy depending

upon its intensity

d. We can change our mood by mixing with people who are cheerful. We can bring

about the desired result by following:

• by choosing the thought seeds of right ideas, noble and courageous aspirations

that will be received by minds of the same nature,

a. Right introspection will be required of us to determine what we really desire

to effect.

1.2 a. Dynamic

b. Cyclic

c. introspection

2.1 Title: Temple of Somnathpur

Notes 1. Prominent temples at Somnathpur

i. built around 1268 A.D. by the Hoyasalas.

ii. built by the most prolific temple-builders.

(ii) Belur and Helebid

(iii) suffered during the invasions of the 14 century

2. Temple: the beauty and vitality

(a) Detailed sculpture- covering walls, pillars, ceilings.

(b) Three shikharas- stands star-shaped, raised platform - 24 edges

(c) The outer walls- detailed carvings

(d) the entire surface- carved plaques of stone,

(e) Vertical panels covered by exq.

3. Temple as representation of Hinduism:

(a) with many incarnations

(b) many deties23 ENGLISH CORE - XII

4. Characteristic of Hoyasala sculptures

(a) the series of friezes on the outer walls

(b) revealed intricately carved caparisoned elephants .

(c) charging horsemen

(d) stylized flowers

(e) warriors, musicians, crocodiles, and swans.

5. Temple in the History

(a) actually comm.. Soma Dandanayaka or Somnath

(b) The inner center of the temple was the kalyana mandapa.

(c) Leading - three corridors, each ending in a shrine

(d) Each kind of Krishna-Venugopala, Janardana and Prasanna Keshava, Life-test, of plu.

Key to Abbreviations used

Inc. includes

Exq. exquisite

Fig. figures

Test. testimony

Plu. Plurality

Comm.. commissioned

1.2 Summary temple of Somnathpur is extraordinary due to the

The sculptures on the walls, pillars, and even the ceiling which covered by

exquiste figures of gods and goddesses. The sculptures have a series of fniehes on

the outer walls. The various molifs are carved elephants, charging horsemen and

stylized flowers.

Section B

3. ANSWER KEY

Poster

Caption - Theatre Club presents ‘The Miser’ 1 mark

Presentation (Content) 3 marks

Date, Time, Venue

Help the victims of earthquake

Expression 1 mark

Or

Notice

Format - Title, Date, Signature with Designation 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When, amount to be deposited, 2 marks

Letter of Consent (Word Limit - 50)24 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Expression - coherence, relevance 1 mark

spellings, grammatical accuracy 1 mark

4. Report

Format - Title, Writer’s Name 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When,

Chief Guest, Number of participating schools,

Details about the exhibits,

Result 4 marks

Expression- coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

OR

Format - Title, Writer’s Name 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When,

International Book Fair

As many as 125 countries of the world participated

Lakhs of books on varied topics

Attractive books for children

Everyone should visit

Expression- coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

B-2: Factual Description

Format - Title, Writer’s name (Place and date optional) 1 mark

Content - What, Where, When

Presence of important dignitaries

Mayawati’s address gave hope to the people

Expression- Coherence, relevance 2 ½ mark

Spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ mark

5. B-3 : Letter

Format - Writer’s add, receiver’s add, date, subject, salutation and 2 marks

complementary close

Content - gender bias prevailing

- girls not given education

- considered inferior

- social evils like dowry system25 ENGLISH CORE - XII

- laws should be made

- awareness programmes

- need to change the mindset 3 marks

Expression - spellings, grammatical accuracy, Coherence, Cohesion

Or

Format - Writer’s address, receiver’s address, date, subject, salutation,

complementary close 3 marks

Content - details about the books,

- No. of copies,

- Mode of payment 3 marks

Expression - Spellings, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

Coherence, Cohesion 2 ½ marks

6. Article- Argumentative/ Imaginative

Format - Title, writer’s name 1 mark

Title - Democracy

Content -

• Democracy provides equal opportunity to one and all

• It facilitates true harmony in the society

• It guarantees social equality and brotherhood

For • It acknowledges participation of every citizen

• It is a form of government where universal adult franchise is available

• Provides equal growth opportunity to all its members

• It has become a shelter of unscruplans elements

• Social equality is only a myth- no where near reality

• Casteism, racialism, distinction among religion is the key words on which

politicians are winning elections

Against • Illiterate people seem to be interested in the election as middle and upper middle

classes have lost interest

• Democracy is no better than a social anarchy now a days

• Own conclusion

Option II

Summer vacation on a hill station is really a wonderful experience

• Relaxing expenence

• Far away from hustle - bustle of life

• No tension of office/school/college

• Enjoying the picturesque landscape.

• Rejuvenates you peace and calm of nature26 ENGLISH CORE - XII

Expression - Coherence, relevance 2 ½ marks

Spelling, grammatical accuracy 2 ½ marks

7.(a) Objectives: To test the student’s comprehension of the poem, their ability to interpret,

evaluate and respond to the lines of the poem.

Option -1

Value points:

a. Simile: Mother’s face was as ashen as a dead body

b. Cochin airport

• Pangs of separation

c. By looking out of the car at young trees

Or

a. Map significs a limitless world of opportunities but it is far removed for the

slum children

b. These children are poor and deprived children - slum school, dismal,

impoverised world, authorities - apathetic unfair

c. future-break’fog’ uncertaing no way out.

(b) a. Wants true education for them

• Should be given opportunities in life

• People in authority should work for their upliftment

b. It will help us to think about ourselves

• about the world around us

• the chaos we humans have created

• tt will help us introspect

c. When a person dies we put him on a pedestal

• we worship him

• we elevate him in stature

8. Objectives: To test the student’s ability for local comprehension of the prose texts.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark

Value Point

a. was late

• had not prepared his lesson on participles

b. the incident when Douglas was thrown into the deep end of the pool by a boy

who was about eighteen years old.27 ENGLISH CORE - XII

c. it is an unwarranted intrusion into their lives.

• feel that the interview diminishes them.

d. When he wasn’t speaking it was as though he was away in a world which

Sophie had never visited.

e. To complain about injustice of the landlord system in Bihar.

9. Objectives : To test global comprehension of prose texts

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value Points:

• Bangle makers born in poverty, live in poverty, die in poverty.

• For generations people have been engaged in this trade.

• Work in inhuman conditions.

• Although they work hard but the profit is meager.

• Their hovels have crumbing walls, wobbly doors and no windows.

• They are overcrowded with humans and animals.

• Social customs, traditions, stigma of caste and people in authority combine so that

they remain poor and uneducated

• Money lenders, middlemen, politicians and policemen are all against them.

• Unable to organize themselves into a co-operative due to lack of a leader.

• They have lost the ability to dream.

• They can only talk but not act to improve their lot.

Or

Marking Scheme:

Content : 6 marks

Expression : 4 marks

Value points:

• Author uses gentle human and mild satire.

• He has a chatty style which quickly changes from one thought to the other.

• Makes fun of the make-up applied to the artists which changes a decent person into

a monster.

• Sets required the actors to look ugly so that they look presentable in the movie.

• Characters of the office boy, Subbu No. 2 and the legal adviser has many subtle

touches of humor.

• Purpose of the visits of Moral Re-Armament Army and the English Poet baffles

everyone.

• Baffled reaction of the staff Gemini studio arouses humor.

• Satire is also directed towards people who are against communism and would do

anything to oppose it.28 ENGLISH CORE - XII

10. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1 ½ + 1 ½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points

• The feeling of hatred for enemy country is created by the system/ government

• People are made to hate each other

• It is considered to be patriotic/ nationalistic

• Personally knowing or not knowing has no meaning in such cases.

• These are people who rise above such petty thoughts

• Like doctor Sadao- for him saving the patient was most important

• As a doctor that was his first duty-the sick, injured needed attention and the

country to which the patient belongs did not matter to him.

OPTION II

Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark for each value point (4 points)

Expression : 3 marks (1 ½ + 1 ½ accuracy and fluency)

Value Points:

• Adult is mature, experienced and has a practical approach

• Adult responses are tutored and actions reflect the thought

• Children are spontaneous

• Their responses are natural, not tutored

• They want excitement

• Their idea of story is very different from adults

• The girl wanted Wizard to hit Skunk’s mother as she had forced Skunk to get back

the offensive smell.

• The girl did not approve this, for her the baby Skunk was right

• From her perspective, it was fine if the Wizard hits Mommy.29 ENGLISH CORE - XII

11. Objectives : To be able to comprehend incidents and evaluate it.

Marking Scheme:

Content : 1 mark

Expression : 1 mark

Value Points

1. Charley had been the station for long

• But each time he bumped into new doorways, stairs and corridors

• Once had entered a long tunnel and came out near Roosevelt hotel

2. Derry was a boy of fourteen

• Has a burn scar on his face which makes him feel low

• He is scared of looking at himself in the mirror

3. Evans was an experienced thief

• Had broken the jail many times

• People saw this as his way to escape from prison

4. She was refusing to accept their decision

• They wanted to cut her long hair

• She felt insulted because of this.