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English Core Set 2 · Code 301
3:00:00 M.M. 80 0 attempted

Central Board of Secondary Education

Practice Question Paper — not an official CBSE document

Class 12 · English Core

Subject Code 301 · Set 2 of 3

Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum marks: 80 11 questions

Theory 80 + Assessment of Listening & Speaking 20.

General instructions

  1. This practice paper follows English Core: Reading 22, Creative Writing 18, Literature 40.
  2. Section A has one discursive / factual passage (12) and one case-based passage (10).
  3. Section B has notice or invitation (4), a formal letter (5) and an article or report (9).
  4. Section C uses Flamingo prose and poetry. Vistas should still be revised from the school book — it is not listed as a separate catalog here.

Practice questions aligned to NCERT topics used in CBSE classrooms. These are original exam-oriented questions for revision — not official CBSE board papers and not a guarantee of any exam question. Always match the textbook issued by your school and the latest PDFs on ncert.nic.in and cbseacademic.nic.in.

Section A — Reading Skills

Unseen passage 12 · Case-based 10 · Q1–2 · 22 marks · 22 marks

Q.1Reading[12]
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow (12 marks).
Rivers that remember factories
A river downstream of an old industrial belt does not look like the poem in a middle-school reader. Foam gathers at the bend. The smell changes before the colour does. Fishers who have worked the same stretch for thirty years speak of seasons that no longer arrive on the old calendar. A water test can name the ions. It cannot name the memory of a clean month.

Regulation on paper is not the same as regulation at 6 a.m. when a valve is easier to open than a treatment plant. Communities that win a case in court still have to win the next dry summer, when water is low and waste is concentrated. Students who only learn the names of rivers for a map question miss the quieter skill: reading a local water report and asking who is responsible for the number that failed.

None of this asks you to hate industry. It asks you to treat a river as infrastructure and as a neighbour — something that can be repaired only if someone is in charge after the camera team leaves.

(A) Fishers in the passage mainly notice that [1]

(B) A water test, according to the writer, can name [1]

(C) The 6 a.m. image is used to show that [1]

(D) The quieter skill students should learn is [1]

(E) The last paragraph asks readers to treat a river as [1]

(F) Why is a court victory not the end of the story? [2]

(G) What two appearances of a polluted stretch are named first? [2]

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A. B
B. B
C. A
D. B
E. B
F. Communities still have to face the next dry summer when waste is more concentrated.
G. Foam at the bend; a smell that changes before the colour does.

(A) B. seasons no longer arrive on the old calendar

(B) B. the ions

(C) A. laws on paper may fail at the valve

(D) B. reading a local water report and asking who is responsible

(E) B. infrastructure and a neighbour

(F) Communities still have to face the next dry summer when waste is more concentrated.

(G) Foam at the bend; a smell that changes before the colour does.

Note

Read the passage twice. Attempt the MCQs first, then the short answers in your own words.

Q.2Reading[10]
Read the case-based passage and answer the questions that follow (10 marks).
Case: A blood-donation camp on campus
On 1 December the NCC and the Science club hosted a blood-donation camp with a government hospital team. 140 students registered. 28 were deferred (low haemoglobin, recent fever, or age below the cut-off). 96 units were collected. The team ran a 10-minute counselling desk so that first-time donors were not left alone after the donation. Two students fainted briefly; both recovered after rest and glucose.

A week later the clubs published only the 96 figure on social media. The Biology teacher asked them to publish the deferral number too, so that classmates would not treat donation as a casual dare. The next camp poster added a line: ‘Eat iron-rich food this week if you plan to donate — this is not a competition.’ Registrations fell to 110; deferrals fell to 11.

(A) How many units were collected at the first camp? [1]

(B) Students were deferred for reasons that included [1]

(C) The teacher wanted the public post to include [1]

(D) After the poster change, deferrals [1]

(E) What extra desk did the hospital team run, and why? [2]

(F) Why did the new poster say donation is not a competition? [2]

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A. C
B. A
C. B
D. B
E. A 10-minute counselling desk so first-time donors were not left alone after donating.
F. To stop classmates treating it as a dare and to prepare bodies (iron-rich food) before the camp.

(A) C. 96

(B) A. low haemoglobin, recent fever, or age

(C) B. the deferral number as well

(D) B. fell to 11

(E) A 10-minute counselling desk so first-time donors were not left alone after donating.

(F) To stop classmates treating it as a dare and to prepare bodies (iron-rich food) before the camp.

Note

Read the passage twice. Attempt the MCQs first, then the short answers in your own words.

Section B — Creative Writing Skills

Notice/Invitation 4 · Letter 5 · Article/Report 9 · Q3–5 · 18 marks · 18 marks

Q.3Notice / Invitation[4]
Draft a formal invitation (50 words) from the Principal to parents for the Annual Day on 18 December, 5:00 p.m., school auditorium. Mention RSVP and dress code for the stage photographs.
OR
Write the other short writing task of 4 marks in the same format (notice if you chose invitation, or invitation if you chose notice).
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From Principal; occasion, date, time, venue; RSVP; one line on dress; formal third-person or card style.

Note

50 words. Box the notice if you are writing a notice.

Q.4Letter[5]
Write a letter to the Editor (120–150 words) on the need for safe walking paths to coaching centres that open before sunrise. You are Rohan / Rhea of Indore.
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Editor; city paper; two risks (dark stretches, missing footpath); two asks (lights, police beat, painted path); no abuse of any institute.

Note

Format + content. Formal English.

Q.5Article / Report[9]
Write a report (150–200 words) for the school newsletter on an inter-school Science exhibition hosted by your school. Include headline, date-line, who inaugurated, two stalls, one problem, and a closing line. Treat this as the 9-mark long writing task.
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Headline; place/date; facts first; two stalls; one logistics problem; result or thank-you; third person, past tense.

Note

150–200 words. Title / headline required.

Section C — Literature

Flamingo extracts, short and long answers · Q6–11 · 40 marks · 40 marks

Q.6Extract (Flamingo prose)Indigo[8]
A student is revising Indigo and notes: “Mix MCQs with short answers so you remember both facts and explanations from Indigo.” Using this case, answer: (i) Name the idea. (ii) State it in your own words. (iii) Give one classroom or daily-life use.
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(i) Practice.
(ii) Mix MCQs with short answers so you remember both facts and explanations from Indigo.
(iii) Apply it in a school experiment, a labelled diagram, or a situation described in the NCERT chapter.

Note

Case-based items recycle a short story. Pull the fact out first, then apply it. This is original practice in CBSE case style — not a copied board paper.

Q.7Extract (Flamingo poem)Keeping Quiet[6]
A student is revising Keeping Quiet and notes: “Introspection.” Using this case, answer: (i) Name the idea. (ii) State it in your own words. (iii) Give one classroom or daily-life use.
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(i) Keeping Quiet.
(ii) Introspection.
(iii) Apply it in a school experiment, a labelled diagram, or a situation described in the NCERT chapter.

Note

Case-based items recycle a short story. Pull the fact out first, then apply it. This is original practice in CBSE case style — not a copied board paper.

Q.8Short Answer — Flamingo[10]
Answer any five of the following in 40–50 words each (5 × 2 = 10 marks).

(A) Give two points to explain Deep Water as used in Deep Water.
(B) Give two points to explain Going Places as used in Going Places.
(C) Give two points to explain Textbook first as used in Deep Water.
(D) Give two points to explain Diagrams as used in Going Places.
(E) Give two points to explain Practice as used in Deep Water.
(F) Give two points to explain Going Places as used in Going Places.
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(A) 1. Misadventure at YMCA.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.
(B) 1. Coming of age.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.
(C) 1. Read the definitions, diagrams and solved examples in the NCERT textbook before practising extra questions.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.
(D) 1. If the chapter has a diagram, practise labelling it — many school tests ask for labelled figures.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.
(E) 1. Mix MCQs with short answers so you remember both facts and explanations from Deep Water.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.
(F) 1. Family realism vs dream.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.

Q.9Short Answer — Vistas style[4]
Vistas-style practice (Vistas is not a separate catalog here). Answer any two in 40–50 words (2 × 2 = 4).

(A) Give two points to explain Deep Water as used in Deep Water.
(B) Give two points to explain Textbook first as used in The Rattrap.
(C) Give two points to explain Diagrams as used in The Last Lesson.
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(A) 1. Fear can be overcome.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.
(B) 1. Read the definitions, diagrams and solved examples in the NCERT textbook before practising extra questions.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.
(C) 1. If the chapter has a diagram, practise labelling it — many school tests ask for labelled figures.
2. Keep the NCERT wording and add one daily-life example from the same chapter.

Note

Revise Vistas from the school book.

Q.10Long Answer — FlamingoThe Last Lesson[6]
Write a long answer on Accuracy. Include definition, explanation and one application.

OR

Write a long answer on The Rattrap. Include definition, explanation and one application.
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Answer / marking points

Accuracy — Use the terms used in the NCERT book; do not replace them with unofficial names. Explain the idea in order (definition → working → result). End with one application from daily life or a numerical/diagram if the chapter has one.

Note

Long answers are marked for structure. Use headings or numbered steps so the examiner can see each part.

OR — marking points

The Rattrap — Irony. Explain the idea in order (definition → working → result). End with one application from daily life or a numerical/diagram if the chapter has one.

Q.11Long Answer — Vistas styleLost Spring[6]
Write a long answer on Lost Spring. Include definition, explanation and one application.

OR

Write a long answer on Accuracy. Include definition, explanation and one application.
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Lost Spring — Mukesh in Firozabad. Explain the idea in order (definition → working → result). End with one application from daily life or a numerical/diagram if the chapter has one.

Note

Long answers are marked for structure. Use headings or numbered steps so the examiner can see each part.

OR — marking points

Accuracy — Use the terms used in the NCERT book; do not replace them with unofficial names. Explain the idea in order (definition → working → result). End with one application from daily life or a numerical/diagram if the chapter has one.

*** End of paper ***

This practice paper follows the 2025-26 CBSE sample-paper design. Questions are original. Official papers: https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/SQP/ClassXII_2025_26/EnglishCore-SQP.pdf

FAQs

Is this the official CBSE paper?

No. The layout (sections, question numbers, marks and time) follows the 2025-26 sample paper. The questions are original GKSchools practice.

How is the paper scored here?

MCQ, assertion–reason and reading MCQ parts are auto-scored when you submit. Written answers are for self-check against the key.

Where is the official SQP?

Download it from CBSE Academic: https://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/SQP/ClassXII_2025_26/EnglishCore-SQP.pdf

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