KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN, DELHI REGION

Pre Board I Examination- 2024 – 25 English Core - XII Maximum Marks- 80 Time- 3 hours
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Typology Section Testing Competencies Objective Type Short Answer Short Long Answer Tot
Questions, Questions Answer Question al
MCQs, Very (2 Marks each) Questions word limit 120- ma
Short Answer (4 150 rks
Type Word limit 40-50 marks
(1 Mark each) each) (5 marks each)

Reading
I. Unseen Passage
(Factual, descriptive Conceptual understanding, 6x1=6 3x2=6
A - Reading decoding, analyzing, inferring, (Descriptive (Descriptive
or literary)
Comprehension interpreting, appreciating literary
2. Case-Based Unseen passage) passage)
conventions and vocabulary, --- ---
(Factual)Passage 12+10=
summarizing and using 6x1=6 2x2=4
appropriate format/s. (Case-Based 22
(Case-Based
Passage) Passage)

Short Composition 2x4 = 8

3. Notice (Short 2x5= 10
Conceptual
4.Formal/Informal writing task) (Writing skills)
Invitation and Reply (01 out of (01 out of 02
understanding, application of
B-Creative Long Composition 02 Notices, letters,
rules, analysis, reasoning, 18
Writing 5. Letter to the 01 out of 02 01 out of 02
Skills appropriacy of style and tone,
Editor/ Article/
using appropriate
Job Application Report)
format and fluency, inference,
6. Report/ Article
analysis, evaluation, Invitations (Word limit 120 –

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 and / 150 words)
creativity. Replies)
(50 words
each)

5X2=10
(6x1=6 05 out of 06 1x5=5
(One Poetry questions from One out of two
C- Literature extract out of two Prose and Poetry questions from
from the book
Prose
‘Flamingo’)
Textbooks Recalling, reasoning, – Flamingo and Poetry-
4x1=4
appreciating literary (One Prose Flamingo
and 2x2=4 40
convention, inference, extract out of two
Supplementary analysis, and creativity with from the book 02 out of 03 ------- 1x5=5
Reading Text fluency ‘Vistas’) 6x1=6 questions- One out of
(One prose extract Vistas two
(Flamingo out of two from questions
the book from
and ‘Flamingo’)
Vistas) Prose- Vistas

TOTAL 38 14 8 20 80
Prescribed Syllabus
1. Reading Comprehension- The combined word limit for both the passages will be 700-750 words.
a- Unseen Passage for Comprehension (Factual, Descriptive or Literary)
b- Unseen Case- Based Passage (Factual)
2. Creative Writing Section
a. Notice
b. Formal/Informal Invitation/ Replies

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 c. Letter to Editor and Job Application (based on verbal/visual input)
d. Article/ Report Writing (based on verbal input)
3. Literature Section
Flamingo - Prose Poetry Vistas

● My Mother at Sixty-Six. ● Chapter 1 - The Third Level.

● Chapter 1: The Last Lesson. ● Keeping Quiet. ● Chapter 2 - The Tiger King.
● Chapter 2: Lost Spring. ● A Thing of Beauty. ● Chapter 3 - Journey to the end of the
● Chapter 3: Deep Water. ● A Roadside Stand Earth.
● Chapter 4: The Rattrap. ● Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers ● Chapter 4 - The Enemy.
● Chapter 5: Indigo.
● Chapter 6 : Poets and
Pancakes
● Chapter 7: The Interview
● Chapter 8: Going Places

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