CBSE Curriculum for Senior School Certificate Examination (XI-XII) English – Elective NCERT (class XII) 2018-19
| ENGLISH ELECTIVE NCERT (Code No. 001) CBSE | ||||||||||
| CLASS-XII | ||||||||||
| SECTION – A( 20 marks) | ||||||||||
| Reading an unseen passage and a poem:- 60 Periods | ||||||||||
| 10 Very Short Answer Questions from a literary or discursive passage of about 950-1000 words .( 1×10=10 marks) | ||||||||||
| 05 Short Answer Questions to be answered in 50-60 words from a poem of about 24 – 28 lines to test interpretation and appreciation.(2×5=10 marks) | ||||||||||
| SECTION –B( 30 marks) | ||||||||||
| A.Creative Writing Skills and Applied Grammar:- 60 Periods | ||||||||||
| Two Long Answer Question to be answered in 80-100 words: A short discursive, interpretative writing(5×2=10 marks) | ||||||||||
| One Very Long Answer Question out of two to be answered in 150-200 words: An essay on an argumentative/discursive topic such as an article/report/speech.(10×1=10 marks) | ||||||||||
| Very Short Answer Questions: Transformation of Sentences: (10 marks) | ||||||||||
| SECTION – C (30 marks) | ||||||||||
| Literature Textbook: Kaleidoscope(30 marks) 60 Periods | ||||||||||
| Four Short Answer Questions to be answered in 50-60 words each , taken from two extracts out of the three given to test understanding and appreciation.(2×4=8 marks) | ||||||||||
| Two Long Answer Question out of three to be answered in 80-100 words to test deeper understanding, interpretation, appreciation(5×2=10 marks) | ||||||||||
| Two Long Answer Questions out of three to be answered in 120-150 words to test the drawing of | ||||||||||
| inferences and evaluation.(6×2=12 marks) | ||||||||||
| Section D( 20 Marks) | ||||||||||
| Fiction 40 Periods | ||||||||||
| Students can select one of the two prescribed texts. | ||||||||||
| Two Long Answer Questions out of three to be answered in 80-100 words to seek comments, interpretation, evaluation and appreciation of characters,events, episodes and interpersonal relationships.(2×5=10 marks) | ||||||||||
| One Very Long Answer Question out of two to be answered in 150-200 words to test deeper understanding, interpretation, appreciation and drawing inferences.1×10=10 marks) | ||||||||||
| Prescribed Books: | ||||||||||
| 1. Kaleidoscope – Text book published by NCERT | ||||||||||
| 2. Fiction: A Tiger for Malgudi or The Financial Expert by R.K. Narayan (Novel) Fiction | ||||||||||
| Question Paper Design 2018-19 | ||||||||||
| CBSE ENGLISH ELECTIVE NCERT XII (Code No. 001) Marks -100 | ||||||||||
| Typology | Testing | VSA | Short | Long | Long | Very | Total | Over | ||
| Competencies/learning | 1 | Answer | Answer- | Answer- | Long | marks | all % | |||
| Outcomes | marks | 50-60 | 1 | 2 | Answer | |||||
| words | 80 – 100 | 120-150 | 150 – | |||||||
| 2 marks | words 5 marks |
words 6 marks |
200 words (HOTS) |
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| 10 | ||||||||||
| marks | ||||||||||
| Reading Comprehension | Conceptual understanding, decoding, analysing, inferring, interpreting, appreciating or literary conventions and vocabulary. |
10 | 5 | — | — | — | 20 | 20 | ||
| Creative Writing Skills | Reasoning appropriacy of Style and tone, using appropriate format, infererring, analysing, evaluating, creativity with Fluency Applying appropriate language Conventions, Comprehension using structures interactively, application, accuracy and fluency |
10 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 30 | 30 | ||
| Literature Texts | Recalling, reasoning, appreciating literary conventions illustrating with relevant quotations from the texts, giving opinions and justifying, infererring, analysing, evaluating, creativity and Fluency | — | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | 30 | 30 | ||
| Fiction | Recalling, reasoning, appreciating literary conventions, Illustrating with relevant quotations from the texts, infererring, analysing, evaluating and creating, giving opinions, justifying with fluency | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | 20 | 20 | ||
| TOTAL | 20×1= 20 |
9×2=18 | 6×5=30 | 2×6=12 | 2×10= 20 |
100 | 100 | |||
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