ICSE 2016 Hindi Question Paper for Class 10

About this paper

This is the ICSE Class 10 Hindi (Second Language) paper, code T16 051, for the 2016 board examination. Writing time is three hours after 15 minutes of reading, and Section A and Section B are of 40 marks each. Section A is compulsory: a composition of about 250 words (one option is based on a photograph of two men at a tap), a letter of about 120 words, an unseen passage and grammar, including sentence transformation. Section B asks for any four questions, at least one from each of the two books studied, from Gadya Sankalan, Chandragupt Vikramaditya by Prakash Nagayach, Ekanki Suman and Kavya Chandrika. The questions below are translated from Hindi. No answers are printed.

Exam

ICSE Class 10

Subject

Hindi

Year

2016

Paper code

T16 051

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

16

Pages

11

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  40 marks

  Questions 1–4, all compulsory: composition (15), letter (7), unseen passage and grammar

• Section B

  40 marks

  Questions 5–16 on Gadya Sankalan, Chandragupt Vikramaditya, Ekanki Suman and Kavya Chandrika, ten marks each; any four, with at least one from each of the two books studied

Topics covered

• Hindi essay and picture composition
• Letter writing
• Unseen comprehension
• Grammar and sentence transformation
• Bholaram ka Jeev (Harishankar Parsai)
• Chandal (Kamleshwar)
• Sachchi Veerta (Sardar Purn Singh)
• Chandragupt Vikramaditya
• Ekanki Suman
• Uday ka Bhan (Bhawani Prasad Mishra)
• Swadesh Prem (Ramnaresh Tripathi)

Questions from this paper

1. Write a composition of about 250 words on how the growing fashion for Western dress and display is creating problems and harming moral values.
2. Write a letter of about 120 words to the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting about television programmes on tantra-mantra that spread superstition.
3. In Bholaram ka Jeev, who speaks the given lines, to whom, and when?
4. In Bhawani Prasad Mishra’s Uday ka Bhan, what does the moment of rise contain, and what does the poet ask the birds to do?
5. According to Ramnaresh Tripathi in Swadesh Prem, what is true love, and why is love without sacrifice only a waste of life?
6. In Mel-Milap, why is the speaker worried about Biradari, and what does she want her husband to understand?