KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN

Blue-Print
Pre-Board-I Examination- 2023 – 24
English Core -XII
Maximum Marks- 80

Typology Section Testing Competencies Objective Type Short Answer Short Long Answer Total
Questions, MCQs, Questions Answer Question marks
Very Short Answer (2 Marks each) Questions word limit 120-150
Type (4 marks
(1 Mark each) Word limit 40-50 each) (5 marks each)
Reading
I. Unseen Passage
3×2=6
(Factual, descriptive or Short answer
literary) 6x1=6 questions from
Conceptual understanding,
2. Case-Based Unseen (Descriptive Descriptive
decoding, Analysing, inferring,
(Factual)Passage passage) Passage
interpreting, appreciating,
Comprehension 6x1=6 22
literary conventions and
(Case-Based 2×2 =4
vocabulary, summarising and
Passage) Short answer
using appropriate format/s.
[12+10=22] questions from
Case-Based
Passage

Short Composition
Conceptual Understanding,
3. Notice 2x5= 10
application of rules, Analysis, 2x4 = 8
4.Formal/Informal (Writing skills)
Reasoning, appropriacy of style (Short
Creative Writing Invitation and Reply (01 out of 2)
and tone, using appropriate writing task) 18
Sills Long Composition (Word limit 120 –
format and fluency, inference, (50 words
5. Letter to the Editor/ 150 words)
analysis, evaluation and each)
Job Application
creativity.
6. Report/ Article

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 (6x1=6 5X2=10
(One Poetry extract 05 out of 06 1x5=5
out of two from the Prose and Poetry One out of two from
Literature
book Flamingo) – Flamingo Prose and Poetry-
Textbooks and
Recalling, reasoning, 4x1=4 Flamingo
Supplementary
appreciating literary (One Prose extract 2x2=4
Reading Text 40
convention, inference, analysis, out of two from the Two out of three - 1x5=5
and creativity with fluency book Vistas) Vistas (One out of two
(Flamingo and 6x1=6 Prose from Vistas)
Vistas) (One prose extract
out of two from the
book Flamingo)
TOTAL 38 14 8 20 80

Prescribed Syllabus
1. Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passage for Comprehension ( Factual, Descriptive or Literary)
Unseen Case- Based Passage (Factual)
2. Creative Writing Section
Notice
Formal/Informal Invitation/ Replies
Letter to Editor and Job Application
Article/ Report Writing
3. Literature Section

Flamingo

Prose

 Chapter 1: The Last Lesson.

Vistas
 Chapter 1 - The Third Level.
 Chapter 2 - The Tiger King.
 Chapter 3 - Journey to the end of the Earth.
 Chapter 4 - The Enemy.
 Chapter 5- On The Face Of It
 Chapter 6- Memories of Childhood
* The Cutting of My Long Hair
* We Too Are Human Beings

PREPARED BY : APARAJITA DEVI, PGT ENGLISH

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