CBSE Class 12 - Maths- Sample Question Paper with Marking Scheme (2016)

CBSE Class 12 - Maths- Sample Question Paper (2016)  with Marking Scheme

CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm)- SA2- Sample Question Paper and Marking Scheme(2016)

CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm)- SA2- Sample Question Paper and Marking Scheme(2016) 

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies- SA2- Sample Question Paper with Marking Scheme(2016)

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies- SA2- Sample Question Paper with Marking Scheme(2016) 

CBSE Class 12 - Physics- Marking Scheme- Sample Question Paper (2016)

CBSE Class 12 - Physics- Marking Scheme- Sample Question Paper (2016) 

CBSE Class 6/7/8/9 - संस्कृत - शब्दरूप (आकारांत स्त्रीलिंग)

संस्कृत - शब्दरूप (आकारांत स्त्रीलिंग) 

लता (बेल)

Class 12 - English - Aunt Jennifer's Tiger (Q and A)

Aunt Jennifer's Tiger

-By Adrienne Rich

Memory Card

Introduction

• The poem portrays an image of a wife dismayed with her married life.
• Aunt Jennifer is an abused wife unable to escape her husband's brutality.
• The poem focuses on Aunt Jennifer's dreams and the harsh world she calls her reality.
• She escapes her harsh world through her stitching and needlepoint, and the tigers that she creates are everything that she is not.
• Rich uses comparison to convey to us the difference between Aunt Jennifer and her tigers.
• Women who are dominated by their husbands live their lives in a state of mental confinement.
• The poet Adrienne Rich expresses the life Aunt Jennifer wishes to lead through artistic creations as she is trapped in an abusive marriage.
• Her tapestries portray her inner feelings conveying the constant terror she's living in.
• The only way for Aunt Jennifer to escape the expectations of her husband is to live on, after death, through her artwork.
• Rich reveals, through the simple lines of Aunt Jennifer's Tigers,a woman's struggles with expressions, rebellion, and a society where power is defined as masculine.

Stanza 1
   
   The first stanza serves to explain what the tigers represent.

• Rich begins her poem with a beautiful picture, setting the scene for the dream world of Aunt Jennifer.
• We see that Aunt Jennifer has ownership over the tigers in some way.
• They are free to "prance" and run across the screen.
• The tigers are bright like "topaz" and they inhabit a world that is green.
• Aunt Jennifer's tigers do not fear men.
• They conduct themselves in a heroic, manly fashion.
• The tigers that Aunt Jennifer owns are confident and certain of who they are and what they want.

Stanza 2
   The second stanza explains who Aunt Jennifer is.

• Aunt Jennifer is described to be working with a piece of wool.
• She is doing needlepoint to a panel that will be placed in a pillow, quilt, or screen of some kind for the home.
• Her fingers are fluttering to create the beautiful image of the tigers.
• Aunt Jennifer is expressing herself through the creation of her tigers.
• She wants to be confident and fearless.
• However, she finds it difficult to create those tigers and express those feelings.
• Those feelings are repressed by the weight of marriage, gender roles, and a dominating society.
• "Uncle's wedding band" represents a particular society in which she lives.
• This weight is not something she enjoys as the band is described to sit "heavily" on her hand and keeps her from the only sense of expression she has, her needlepoint.

Class 12 - English - My Mother At Sixty-Six (Q and A)

My Mother at Sixty-Six

-By Kamla Das

Questions and Answers

Memory Card

• Poetess is travelling back in a car from her parent's place to Cochin 
• Old mother also accompanying-to see her off at the airport 
• Poetess notices that she has dozed off and mouth remained open 
• Her face has a dull, colourless appearance- reminds her of a corpse 
• Thought is painful, realizes she is now an old woman and could be nearing death 
• Turns to look at the racing green trees outside, sees happy children running out of their homes 
• A welcome change from the gloomy thoughts that grip her 
• Reaches the airport, after the security checking, looks at the mother again 
• Sees her pale and ageing face, is reminded of the winter moon with all the vitality and brightness gone 
• Feels pained at being reminded of a childhood fear- had always been scared of losing her mother one day 
• Does not want to show her agony and fear to her mother now 
• Tells her that she would see her soon and bids her goodbye with a fake bright smile 

Q1: What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?

Answer: Kamla Das is in pain by seeing her mother pale and weak like that of a corpse. The fear of losing her mother was her familiar ache, which she was unable to accept.


Q2: Why are the young trees described as 'sprinting' ?

Answer: Poetess has used Personification in "Young Trees sprinting". It personifies the youth who is rushing and running so fast, which is a contrast to the ageing process of her old mother.

CBSE Class 10 - Science- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016) and Marking Scheme

CBSE Class 10 - Science- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016) and Marking Scheme

CBSE Class 12 - Computer Science- Marking Scheme- Sample Question Paper (2015-16)

CBSE Class 12 - Computer Science- Marking Scheme- Sample Question Paper (2015-16) 

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2015)

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2015) 

CBSE Class 10 - Geography - Chapter 6 - Manufacturing Industries (Very Short Q and A)

Manufacturing Industries

Steel Factory

VSQA based on NCERT Chapter

Q1: Which industry uses limestone as raw material?


Answer: Cement



Q2: Enterprises like BHEL, SAIL etc. are categorised as which type of industrial sector?

Answer: Pubic sector enterprises


Q3: What is agglomeration economy?

Answer: Cities provide markets and other facilities like banking, insurance, transport, labour, consultants etc. to various sectors of business and industries. Many industries come together and make use of services offered by these urban institutions. This is known as agglomeration economy.


Q4: What is the full form of NTPC?

Answer: National Thermal Power Corporation



Q5: Give an example of agro-based industry?

Answer: Sugar industry, Textile industry.

CBSE Class 6/7/8/9/10 - संस्कृत - शब्दरूप (इकारांत पुल्लिंग)

शब्दरूप (इकारांत पुल्लिंग)

मुनि (ऋषि)

CBSE Class 12 - Economics- Sample Question Paper (2015)

CBSE Class 12 - Economics- Sample Question Paper (2015) 

CBSE Class 10 - Science - Four New Elements Added In Periodic Table

Four New Elements Added In 

Periodic Table

Time to update Chemistry Textbooks. On December 30, IUPAC completes the verification of discoveries of four new chemical elements. It completes the 7 periodic row.

The atomic numbers of these four new elements are 113, 115, 117 and 118. Soon the new names will be given to these elements. At present these elements have temporary names i.e.

Ununtrium 113, 
Ununpentium 115, 
Ununseptium 117, 
Ununoctium 118 

CBSE Class 6/7/8/9/10 - संस्कृत - शब्दरूप (अकारांत पुल्लिंग)

संस्कृत - शब्दरूप (अकारांत पुल्लिंग)

देव (देवता)

CBSE Announces Date Sheet For Class 12 (Mar 1, 2016)

CBSE Announces Date Sheet For Class 12 

(Mar 1, 2016)

CBSE Announces Date Sheet For Senior School Certificate Examination (Class 12)

All the best!

See below the date sheet announced by CBSE.

CBSE Class 7 - Science - CH16 - Water - A Precious Resource (MCQs)

Water - A Precious Resource

MCQs based on NCERT Chapter

जल है तो कल है
image credits: openclipart

Q1: Tubewells and Springs are the examples of 

(a) surface water
(b) underground water
(c) potable water
(d) all of these


Q2: Which of the following will not help in conservation of water?

(a) drip irrigation
(b) planting more trees
(c) water treatment plant
(d) cutting trees to check water loss due to transpiration



Q3: Ground water accumulates between layers of hard rock. It is known as

(a) aquifer
(b) pond
(c) water table
(d) surface water



Q4: Which of the following is the reason for depletion of water table?

(a) Planting more trees
(b) Heavy Rainfall
(c) Industrialization
(d) Rainwater harvesting

CBSE Class 9 - Economics - Food Security In India (Important Terms)

Food Security In India

Important Definitions and concepts

Q1: How does World Summit 1995 define 'Food Security'?


Answer: Food Security at he individual, household, regional, national and global levels exists when
all the people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.



Q2: List the three A's Food security implies to?


Answer: Availability, accessibility and affordability of food of all times.



Q3: What is buffer stock?


Answer: It is the stock of food grains namely wheat and rice procured by government through Food Corporation of India.



Q4: Define Famine.

CBSE Class 10 - Science - CH 16 - Management Of Natural Resources (Question Bank)

 Management Of Natural Resources 

Nature Conservation is Our Duty

(Question Bank)

Very Short Questions (1 Mark Each)

Q1: What is a natural resource? Give two examples.

Q2: Define sustainable development.

Q3: What does the three R’s stand for to save the environment?

Q4: What do you mean by water – shed management?

Q5: Name the award recently instituted by govt. of India in the memory of Amrita Devi Bishnoi.

Q6: Name the bacteria whose presence in the water indicates its contamination with disease causing microbes.

Q7: Define Bio-diversity.

Q8: Why fossil fuels should be used judiciously?

Q9: Which canal has brought greenery to the areas of Rajasthan?

Q10: State the advantage of constructing a dam across a river?

Q11: Name the place where “Chipko Andolan” organised.

CBSE Class 12 - Chemistry- Sample Question Paper (2015)

CBSE Class 12 - Chemistry- Sample Question Paper (2015)