ISC 2024 Elective English Question Paper for Class 12
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Elective English2024Download the official ISC Class 12 Elective English question paper from the 2024 board examination conducted by CISCE (paper code 850). Practise with the actual 2024 paper to revise for the final ISC examination.
Official question paper published by CISCE.
About this paper
This is the ISC Class 12 Elective English paper from the 2024 board examination, code 1224-850. It carries 80 marks and lasts three hours, with fifteen minutes extra for reading. Section A is worth 20 marks: any ten of twenty multiple-choice items, and any five of ten short answers, taken from any three of the five prescribed texts. Section B is worth 60 marks: any three long questions, on three different texts. Each long question carries 20 marks, with a choice between one essay and two short notes. The texts are Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse edited by Chris Woodhead. This copy has the questions only.
- Exam
- ISC Class 12
- Subject
- Elective English
- Year
- 2024
- Paper code
- 1224-850
- Maximum marks
- 80
- Time allowed
- 3 hours + 15 min reading
- Questions
- 7
- Pages
- 7
- Answers included
- No, questions only
Paper pattern
Section A
20 marksQuestion 1: any ten of twenty multiple-choice items, one mark each, from any three texts. Question 2: any five short answers, two marks each, from any three texts
Section B
60 marksAny three of Questions 3–7, one on each of three texts, 20 marks each, with a choice between an essay and two short notes
Topics covered
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Hungry Tide
- A Doll's House
- Death of a Salesman
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse
- Bavarian Gentians
- Piano
- Punishment
Questions from this paper
- Why did Mayella find it offensive when Atticus Finch called her “ma’am” and “Miss Mayella”?
- Why was it important for Krogstad to get his job at the bank back?
- How old was Ben when he entered the jungle, and how old was he when he came out?
- How does D. H. Lawrence describe the flowers in the poem Bavarian Gentians?
- Comment, with textual evidence, on the tea party Aunt Alexandra hosts for her missionary circle in To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Critically comment on the title of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
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