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THE MOST IMPORTANT
QUESTIONS FOR BOARD EXAM
CLASS 12
APRIL 2023
QUESTION PATTERN & GUIDANCE
Q No DESCRIPTION / DETAILS MARKS CHOICE XII -
TEXTBOOK
PAGES
Part – I (14x1=14)
1–3 Synonyms 3X1= NO All prose
4–6 Antonyms 3 CHOICE Glossary
3X1=
3

7-20 Topics for testing 7 X 14 NO

=14 CHOICE

Compound Words (formation 118

combining two lexemes)
Prefixes and suffixes (2) 7
Abbreviations and Acronyms 139
Clipped Words (2) ---
Definitions of Words 148
Phrasal Verbs (substitute with single 7,118
words and vice versa) (2)
Common Idioms 109,117
Confusables 6,72,148
Foreign Words and Phrases ---
Substitute words/phrases with polite 148
alternatives (Eg. Housewife –
Homemaker)
Modal Verbs and Semi-modals 12 ,215
Prepositions 43, 216
Question Tags 79 , 217
Topics for testing - learnt in lower
classes
Syllabification (finding number of ---
syllables)
American English and British English 181
Singular and Plural ---
Sentence Patterns
Blending words 72
Part – II(7x2=14)

21–26 Poetry Appreciation / Figures of Speech 4X2= 4 out of 6 Any 4 poems

8 have to be
mastered
27-30 Do as Directed:
(Grammar topics to be tested under 3X2= 3 out of 4
Transformation and Synthesis) 6

Direct and Indirect Speech 14 ,215

 Active – Passive Voice 76 ,217
Simple, Compound and Complex 121 ,218
sentences
Conditional Clauses 124
Degrees of comparison 156
Part – III(7x3=21)

31–33 (i) Explain any two of the following 2X3= 2 out of 3 Any 4 poems
with Reference to the Context (Poetry) 6 have to be
mastered
34–36 (ii) Answer any two of the following 2X3= 2 out of 3 Any 4 prose
questions briefly (Prose short answer 6 have to be
questions) mastered

37–40 Topics for testing 3X3= 3 out of 4

9
Dialogue Writing of minimum three 73
exchanges (completion / Fill in the
blanks)
Verbal and Non – verbal Representation 41,126 ,153
(tables, pie-charts, graphs, maps – ,160
asking questions or analytical
interpretation of data)

Describing a Process 119 ,187

Completion of Proverbs / 119
Match with meanings /
Semantic Fields 119
Notice Writing ---
Expansion of Headlines. ---
E-mail Writing ---
Spot the Errors / Fill in the blanks – 73 ,220
Homophones, 72 ,142
Link words, 46 ,216
Concord, 184
Framing questions, ---
Words with different grammatical 39
functions,
Tenses, 10 ,215
Determiners, 156
Prepositions ---
Rearrange the words and phrases to 219
make meaningful sentences.
Part –
IV(7x5=35)
Paragraph Questions from Prose 1X5=
41–47 Paragraph Questions from Poetry 5 [Either/Or First three
Paragraph Questions from 1X5= Questions] units and sixth
Supplementary Reader 5 unit is safer
 1X5= side
5

Topics for testing 4X5= [Either/Or]

20

Note-making / Summarizing / 9
Writing Biographical sketch from the ---
given information /
Writing a report using information ---
given.
Prose Comprehension /
Poetry Comprehension ---
Letter-writing (personal/official/ 16
job application with Bio-data) /
Paragraph writing on a general topic / 160
Expansion of Proverbs / 49
Article Writing /
Construction of dialogues for the given 74
situation /
Developing hints into a story – 82
unknown passage Prose / Poem
Comprehension
MOST EXPECTED QUESTIONS:
In order to face the board examination in April 2023, students have to prepare the following questions
without fail. Let us hope for the best.

Synonyms:

Slackened, artless, vexation, intrude, rubble, curious, virtues, despised, liable, mysterious, prevalent,
agony, perforated, mutilating, wriggle, tantalize, crampooned, peril, chaos, curtailed, insolence,
accommodate, conventional

Antonyms:

Brisk, cautious, eager, persuade, scarce, despised, virtues, controversial, inferior, primitive, fiction,
diffidence, criticize, persisted, scrambled, sparingly, liberty, curtailed, conventional

PROSE Q &A:

1. Why did the driver not approve of the narrator buying fruits from the boys?
2. What was Lucia suffering from?
3. What made the boys work so hard?
4. Describe the appearances of Nicola and Jacobo.
5. How does the army tea taste?
6. According to the author, what does the phrase ‘ a nice cup of tea’ refer to?
7. Why does the author refer to himself as being in ‘a minority’?
8. What were Dr. Barnard’s feelings when he was hospitalised after an accident?
9. How was the unattended trolley put to use?
10. What was the profound lesson that Dr. Barnard learnt from the boys?
11. What does the rule of the road mean?
12. Define liberty as perceived by the author.
13. How can we sweeten our life’s journey?
14. What is the foundation of social conduct?
15. What does the traffic policeman symbolise?
16. How did the mountaineers belay?
17. Why were the chairs compared to Rama Lakshmana?
18. What was the trick played by Pedanna and the narrator?
19. How were the two boys helpful to the author?
20. What was offered to Mammanar by Amma?

APPRECIATION QUESTIONS:

1. How safe was the castle?

2. What happened to the castle?
3. What was the firm belief of the soldiers?
4. What was challenging?
5. Who is the giant here?
6. What does the expression ‘fain’ mean?
7. Why is the scarf colourful?
8. Explain “bubble reputation”
9. Whom does justice refer to?
10. Describe the appearance of the justice.
11. How should one face life?
12. Why does the poet suggest that time can be wasted?
13. How does free imagination help the world?
14. What is meant by prone brow?
15. Who is compared to the mother eagle? Explain the comparison.
16. Why was his pride touched?
17. What was the purpose of Ulysses in his life?
18. What do you mean by ‘satchel’?
19. What do ‘thunder’ and ‘sunshine’ refer to?
20. Bring out the significance of the ‘sceptre’

POETIC DEVICES

POEM – 1 THE CASTLE

SIMILE Grew thin and treacherous as air
METAPHOR Oh then our maze of tunnelled stone
PERSONIFICATION Our only enemy was gold
TRANSFERRED EPITHET A little wicked wicket gate
RHETORICAL QUESTION
How can this shameful tale be told?
ANAPHORA
Our gates were strong, our walls were thick
POEM – 2 OUR CASUARINA TREE
SIMILE
Like a huge python winding round and round - Zoomorphism
A grey baboon sits statue-like alone
The water lilies spring, like snow enmassed
Like the sea breaking on a shingle beach.
With deathless trees – like those in Barrowdale. (Allusion – Wordsworth)
What is that dirge like murmur that I hear.
Apostrophe :
Thy form, O Tree, as in my happy prime.
METAPHOR
Fear trembling hope and death
And Time the shadow
PERSONIFICATION
But gallantly the giant wears the scarf It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech
And the waves gently kissed the classic shore Of France or Italy
When earth lay trancèd in a dreamless swoon
CONTRAST
Unknown, yet well-known to the eye of faith
EUPHEMISM
Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose
HYPERBOLE
Upto its very summit near the stars.
IMAGERY
In crimson clusters all the boughs among.
POEM – 3 ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
SIMILE
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard
INTERNAL RHYME
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
METAPHOR
All the world’s a stage
And all the men and women merely players
Seeking the bubble reputation
Is second childishness
REPETITION / REFRAIN
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
HYPERBOLE
Even in the cannon’s mouth
TRANSFERRED EPITHET His youthful hose
POEM – 4 ULYSSES
SIMILE
To follow knowledge like a sinking star
METAPHOR
And drunk delight of battle with my peers
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
PERSONIFICATION
Vext the dim sea For always roaming with a hungry heart
The vessel puffs her sail
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil
Death closes all The deep moans round with many voices
EUPHEMISM From that eternal silence
HYPERBOLE Moved earth and heaven
POEM – 5 A FATHER TO HIS SON
SIMILE Tell him time as a stuff
METAPHOR
Life is hard; be steel; be rock
Life is soft loam; be gentle; go easy
PERSONIFICATION
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong
TRANSFERRED EPITHET
And left them dead years before burial Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives
Bringing changes into a world resenting change
ANAPHORA
Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives
Let him seek deep for where he is born natural
Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted
Tell him to be a fool ever so often
ANTITHESIS
Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed
The growth of a frail plant in a path up Has sometimes shattered and split a rock
REPETITION / REFRAIN
 Tell himself and no lies about himself
POEM – 6 INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP
SIMILE
Soared up again like fire.
As sheathes a film the mother eagle’s eye.
As if to balance the prone brow.
REPETITION A rider, bound and bound
SYNECHDOCHE You know, we French stormed Ratisbon
METAPHOR To see your flag-bird flap his vans
PERSONIFICATION Perched him

TIME MANAGEMENT
QUESTION NO MARKS TIME TO BE TAKEN

IN MINUTES

1 – 20 20 30
21 – 30 14 30
31 – 40 21 40
41 – 47 35 60
Revision 20
Total 90 180 ( 3HRS)

TIPS TO SCORE MINIMUM OF 40 MARKS

Q Nos 1 to 3 Synonyms Glossary Unit 1 to 6

Q Nos 4 to 6 Antonyms Textual Exercises for Unit 1 to 6

Q Nos 7 to 20 Lexical competencies Be thorough with all the textual exercises

Q Nos 21 to 26 Appreciation questions and poetic devices read at least 1 to 4 poem

Q Nos 27 to 30 Prepare Revision Exercises Page 215 to 223

Q Nos 34 to 36 Prose Q & A Read the first four units Level 1 questions only

Q Nos. 31 to 33 Poem ERC Read the first four poems

Q No. 41 Prose Paragraph Prepare the first 3 units

Q No 42 Poem Paragraph Prepare the first 3 units

Q No 43 Supplementary Paragraph Prepare the first 3 units

PREPARED BY K. RAMESH, STATE LEVEL RESOURCE PERSON IN ENGLISH