📊 Exam Pattern – Class 12 English
- Total Marks: 100
- Question Paper: One
- Books Prescribed: Flamingo & Vistas
📚 UP Board class 12 english syllabus 2025-
🔹 Section A – Reading (15 Marks)
- One unseen passage
- Short answer questions – 12 marks
- Vocabulary based questions – 3 marks
👉 Focus on comprehension, inference and vocabulary.
🔹 Section B – Writing Skills (20 Marks)
- Article Writing (Descriptive / Argumentative / Autobiographical) – 150 words (10 marks)
- Letter Writing
- Letter to the Editor
- Complaint / Business Letters (order, enquiry, cancellation, booking) – 10 marks
🔹 Section C – Grammar (25 Marks)
- Grammar topics (MCQ & very short answer type) – 20 marks
- Narration
- Synthesis
- Transformation of sentences
- Idioms & Phrases / Phrasal Verbs
- Synonyms, Antonyms
- One-word substitution
- Homophones
- Translation (Hindi to English – 7–8 sentences) – 5 marks
📌 No fixed grammar book prescribed.
🔹 Section D – Literature (40 Marks)
📖 Flamingo – Textbook
Prose
- Two short answer questions – 8 marks
- One long answer question – 7 marks
Poetry
- Three very short answer questions from extract – 6 marks
- Central idea of poem – 4 marks
Figures of Speech included:
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Oxymoron, Apostrophe, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia
📖 Vistas – Supplementary Reader
- Two short answer questions – 8 marks
- One long answer question – 7 marks
📘 Prescribed Books & Chapters
Flamingo – Prose
- The Last Lesson – Alphonse Daudet
- Lost Spring – Anees Jung
- Deep Water – William Douglas
- The Rattrap – Selma Lagerlof
- Indigo – Louis Fischer
- Poets and Pancakes – Ashokamitran
- The Interview (Part I & II) – Christopher Silvester
- Going Places – A.R. Barton
Flamingo – Poetry
- My Mother at Sixty-Six – Kamala Das
- Keeping Quiet – Pablo Neruda
- A Thing of Beauty – John Keats
- A Roadside Stand – Robert Frost
- Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers – Adrienne Rich
Vistas – Supplementary Reader
- The Third Level – Jack Finney
- The Tiger King – Kalki
- Journey to the End of the Earth – Tishani Doshi
- The Enemy – Pearl S. Buck
- On the Face of It – Susan Hill
- Memories of Childhood – Zitkala-Sa & Bama
🎯 Preparation Tips for Students – gurugyanm.online
✔ Practice writing formats regularly
✔ Read prose and poetry with themes & keywords
✔ Learn figures of speech with examples
✔ Improve vocabulary daily
✔ Write answers in clear and correct English
🔚 Conclusion
UP Board class 12 english syllabus 2025-26 is well-structured to test students’ language proficiency, grammar accuracy and literary understanding. With proper planning and regular practice, English can become a high-scoring subject.
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