CBSE Class 12 - English (Core) Sample Question Paper + Marking Scheme - (2020-21)(#class12English)(#cbse2020)(#class12QuestionPapers)(#eduvictors)

CBSE Class 12 - English (Core) Sample Question Paper + Marking Scheme - (2020-21)

For a large number of students, the higher secondary stage will be a preparation for the university, where a fairly high degree of proficiency in English may be required. But for another large group, the higher secondary stage may be a preparation for entry into the professional domain. The Core Course should cater to both groups by promoting the language skills required for academic study as well as the language skills required for the workplace.

1. CBSE New Pattern 15 Sample Paper English Core Class 12 for 2021 Exam with reduced Syllabus

2. Oswaal CBSE Sample Question Paper Class 12 English Core Book (Reduced Syllabus for 2021 Exam)

3. Educart CBSE Class 12 English Core Sample Question Papers 2021 (As Per 9th Oct CBSE Sample Paper)

Here follows the class 12  English sample question paper along with marking scheme and answers helping you in your studies. This paper is divided into two parts: A and B. All questions are compulsory.

Class 12 - English Core - Chapter: Indigo (Flamingo) - Questions and Answers (#class12English)(#eduvictors)(#cbse2020)

Class 12 - English Core - Chapter: Indigo (Flamingo) - Questions and Answers 

Q1: Why did Gandhiji feel that it was useless for the peasants to go to law courts?

Answer: The peasants are crushed and fear-stricken. The lawyers charged a high fee. 

Q2: How did Rajkumar Shukla establish that he was resolute?

Answer: Rajkumar Shukla the Champaran Sharecropper requested Gandhiji at Congress Session in Lucknow to fix a date to visit Champaran where the sharecroppers were being subjected to injustice. Till Gandhiji fixed date to go with him, he did not leave him rather he accompanied him where ever he went Gandhiji was impressed by his tenacity and determination and finally agreed to go there from Calcutta.

CBSE Class 12 Sample Question Papers (2020-21) With Marking Schemes PDF Files (#cbsepapers)(#cbse2020)(#eduvictors)

CBSE Class 12 Sample Question Papers (2020-21) With Marking Schemes PDF Files

CBSE has issued new CBSE Sample Papers 2020-21 on Oct 9, 2020 and has also issued a notification regarding this. CBSE Sample Papers 2020-21 for tenth and twelfth are presently the most significant assets for the up and coming CBSE Board Exams 2021 readiness.With the new CBSE Making Scheme 2020-21, students will get a total thought regarding the method of composing good responses in the answer sheet. It also helps undoubtedly comprehending the significant points that must be written in answer books to score maximum marks.

You can download the Question Papers and Marking Scheme PDF files from here: 

My Mother At Sixty Six - Comprehension Based Questions - CBSE Class 12 - English Core - Flamingo - Poetry (#class12English)(#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

My Mother At Sixty Six - Comprehension Based Questions

CBSE Class 12 - English Core - Flamingo - Poetry 

Directions: Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow.

Question 1: 

“Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday

Morning, I saw my mother, beside me, doze,

open-mouthed, her face ashen like that

Of a corpse and realized with pain

That looked as old as she was

But soon put that thought far away.”

Q1: Where is the poet at present?

Answer: The poet is on her way from her ancestral home to Cochin Airport, travelling by car with her aged mother dozing off leaning against her body.

Class 12 English - Important Topics For Articles/Speech (2019-2020)(#eduvictors)(#class12English)

Class 12 English - Important Topics For Articles/Speech (2019-2020)

Here are important topics for articles or speeches suggested:


1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media

2. Advantages and social disadvantages of mobile phones/Social networking sites.
    OR
    Staying Vigilant While On Social Media

3. Cyber crime

4. Artificial Intelligence

5. PUB (Games) Addition and Harmful effects on children

6. Need to strengthen measures to curb bullying

7. Demonetisation - Its impact on Indian Society and Economy

English Vocabulary - Commonly Confused Words (Part-5) (#eduvictors)(#EnglishVocabulary )

Commonly Confused Words 

(Part-5)

English Vocabulary 

English is full of phrases or words, which sound the same or comparable yet have distinctive meanings and are sometimes confusing too. Here is the third list of commonly confused words.

Biannual, Biennial
Biannual is twice in one year,
Biennial means every two years

English Vocabulary - Commonly Confused Words (Part-3)(#eduvictors)(#englishvocabulary)

Commonly Confused Words 

(Part-3)

English Vocabulary 

English is full of phrases or words, which sound the same or comparable yet have distinctive meanings and are sometimes confusing too. Here is the third list of commonly confused words.

Amoral, Immoral
Amoral not concerned with right or wrong
Immoral means not following the accepted moral standards

Commonly Confused Words (Part-2) - English Vocabulary (#EnglishVocabulary)(#eduvictors)

Commonly Confused Words 

(Part-2)

English Vocabulary 

Hope you have read and liked the Part-1 post. Here is another list of the most common confusing words.

All right, Alright

All right is the correct form, it means 'in a satisfactory manner' or 'fairly well'

Alright is grammatically incorrect, often used in informal communication.

CBSE Class 12 Sample Question Papers With Marking Scheme (2019-20)(#cbsepapers)(#eduvictors)

CBSE Class 12 Sample Question Papers With Marking Scheme (2019-20)

CBSE has released sample question papers along with marking scheme based on the new curriculum. Sample Papers for Class 12 are taken into consideration as the best option to understand the question paper pattern very well.  

Eduvictors provide collection of sample question papers prepared by various schools and institutes 

that help you to practice and get familiar with the question paper pattern. Solving an ample variety of sample papers, together with the last years' pattern papers, has been the recommendation to students.

Here are links of SQPs and Marking Schemes for various subjects:

Learn English Vocabulary - Varying Degrees of Fear (#cbsenotes)(#vocabulary)(#eduvictors)

Learn English Vocabulary - Varying Degrees of Fear

Fear is an emotional response induced by a perceived threat, which causes a change in brain and behaviour.


1. Apprehensive


Meaning: worried or filled with fear.


Example: Sumita was apprehensive meeting her abusive husband even after much assurance from her in-laws.



2. Alarmed

Meaning: sudden fear or anxiety, especially when caused by the possibility of danger.

Example: The government is alarmed by the sudden increase in milk prices.

CBSE Class 11/12 - English Writing: Article vs Speech vs Debate - Guidelines (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

English Writing: Article vs Speech vs Debate

Tips of Writing

Article:
An article is a written work published in a print/digital medium for the motive of propagating the news, analysis of result or for educational motive. Such a composition shall be associated with one subject matter concern or theme.

While writing an article students are advised to keep the following points in mind:

1. First of all deal with the given subject matter and additionally examine intensively the given verbal input. Some new ideas will also strike your thoughts. Arrange all those thoughts inside the sequence you need to broaden them for your piece of composition.
2. Now start writing your piece of composition. Develop your thoughts one at a time into a well knit sequence.

CBSE Class 12 / Class 10 Date Sheet (2018-2019)(#eduvictors)(#cbsenotes)

CBSE Class 12 / Class 10 Date Sheet
(2018-2019)

CBSE has declared and released the date sheet for Class 12 and Class 10 examination. The Class 12 board exams will begin on February 15 and end on April 3, while the CBSE Class 10 board exams will begin on February 21 and go on till March 29.

Class 10 Main Subjects Examination Date Sheet.

SNo.	Date	Subject
1.	07 March 2019	Maths
2.	13 March 2019	Science
3.	16 March 2019	Sanskrit
4.	19 March 2019	Hindi
5.	23 March 2019	English
6.	23 March 2019	FIT
7.	Social Science	29 March 2019

Here is the link for class 12 datesheet from CBSE site

Here is the link for class 10 date sheet from CBSE site.

CBSE Class 12 - English (Core) Sample Question Paper + Solution- (2018-19)(#eduvictors)(#cbsepapers)

CBSE Class 12 - English (Core)
 Sample Question Paper + Solution- (2018-19)

Learning English is vital and those everywhere in the world decide to study it as a 2nd language. Many countries include English as a 2nd language of their school and undergraduate syllabus and youngsters start studying English at a younger age.

English is the most normally spoken language inside the global. One out of five people can talk or at the least understand English!  English is the language of technology, of aviation, computers, diplomacy, and tourism. Knowing English increases your chances of getting a great activity in a multinational company inside your house country or of locating work

Here follows the class 12  English (Core) sample question paper along with marking scheme and answers help you in studies.

CBSE Class 12 - English (Core) - Sample Question Paper - (2018-19)(#cbsepapers)(#eduvictors)

CBSE Class 12 - English (Core)
 - Sample Question Paper - (2018-19)

Consequent upon the feedback received from the various stakeholders and subsequent deliberation in the meetings of Committee of Courses of the Board and the subject experts, CBSE has decided to change the question paper pattern for English (Core) subject for the current session (2018-2019).

For detail, you may see the notification.  

In Section A,  the No. of Passages has been reduced to two. 

In Passage 1, there will be: 

• 5-MCQs (1 mark each) 
• 9-Very short answer type questions including 3 Qs on vocabulary for 1 mark each 
• 3-Short answer type question (2 marks each)

The Passage - 2, there will be 2 Long answer type questions (5 marks each).

Section A will have 19 questions of 30 marks while the question paper will have 35 as total number of questions. Here follows the sample question paper and marking scheme of English (Core):

English - How to solve Reading Comprehension Passages? (#eduvictors)(#cbsenotes)

How to solve Reading Comprehension Passages?

Section - A of English question papers test your reading skills. Here are the strategies to attempt this section. Before reading a passage, students are suggested to follow the steps listed below.

1. Quickly run through the passage once. This is called skimming.

2. Note all capitalized words, numbers, names, scientific/medical terms.

3. New read the questions and go back to the passage to find the appropriate answers. This strategy is called Scanning.

4. Once you locate the paragraph where you think a particular answer is, read that particular paragraph.

CBSE Class 6-12 - ENGLISH GRAMMAR - Common Errors in Verbs and Tenses (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

Common Errors in Verbs and Tenses

(Worksheet)

Directions: Following sentences have error(s) in verb tense. Find the error and write the correct sentence.

1. He go to school every day.
2. We often writing a letter.
3. He drive a taxi.
4. She comes here yesterday.
5. I buy this car last year.
6. We go to Chennai on Friday.
7. He reaches here in the afternoon.
8. They learn their lesson tomorrow.
9. I construct a house next year.
10. He is write a letter now.

CBSE Class 6-12 - English Grammar - Idioms and Phrases Test (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

IDIOMS AND PHRASES QUIZ

(English Grammar)

Directions: Given below are some idioms/phrases followed by four alternative meanings to each. Choose the response (a), (b), (c) or (d) which is the most appropriate expression.


Q1: Cry over spilt milk

(a) Complaining about a loss in the past
(b) Too much inquisitive about something
(c) When something is done badly to save money
(d) Dealing with a problem only in an emergency situation


Q2: Cut the mustard

(a) Prepare spices out of mustard seeds
(b) To come up to expectations
(c) Making absurd expectations
(d) Very enthusiastic

Vocabulary - 10 The Most Confusing Words (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

Vocabulary - 10 The Most Confusing Words

① Ability, Capacity

Ability refers to the power to do something.
e.g. Citrus foods are said to have the ability to prevent colds.

Capacity refers to the ability to hold or contain something.
e,g. This hall has a capacity of 5,000 seats.


② About, Approximately, Around

About refers to a rough estimate. Commonly used in face to face speech.
e.g.  We waited about 30 minutes for the bus.

Approximately refers to near accuracy.
e.g.  This school enrolls approximately 4,000 students.

Around refers to a physical proximity or surrounding.
e.g.  We’ll look for you around the front of the building.

CBSE Class 10/11/12/NTSE/Entrance Exams - English - Cloze Test and Error Correction (#ntse)(#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

English - Cloze Test and Error Correction

(Questions 1 to 8) Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option from each list according to the corresponding number in the passage.

For Ananya, Mathematics was extremely(1) hard to understand. In order to keep her results high enough to succeed and to satisfy her parents, Ananya attempted a number of strategies(2). The answer(3) though(4) was simple. She had to work constantly and dilajentley(6) at applying the different formulas to a range of contexts. Often she was envious of(7) her peers to whom comprehension came easily. However, at the end of the year, it seemed her relentless work was rewarded(8) when her results put her amongst the leading scholars of her class.

Q 1. Which of these would be the best word to use to replace the word ‘extremely’ as it is used in the passage above?

CBSE Class 12 - Final Examination Date Sheet - (2017-18) (#eduvictors)(#cbsenotes)

CBSE Class 12 - Final Examination Date Sheet - (2017-18)