ISC 2025 Hindi Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Hindi paper (code 805) from the 2025 board examination set by CISCE. It carries 80 marks, runs for three hours plus fifteen minutes of reading time, and has fifteen questions in two sections. Section A (Language, 40 marks) has a 400-word composition, with topics such as Indian cuisine, the first vote at eighteen and artificial intelligence, a passage in which Kalidasa is not recognised when he asks a girl and an old woman for water, and ten one-mark items on sentences and idioms. In Section B candidates answer four ten-mark questions from any three of Gadya Sankalan, Kavya Manjari, the novel Sara Akash and the play Ashadh Ka Ek Din. Sample questions below are translated from Hindi.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Hindi

Year

2025

Paper code

805

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

15

Pages

11

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A, Question 1

  15 marks

  Composition of about 400 words in Hindi on one of six topics, the last a choice of two moral stories

• Section A, Question 2

  15 marks

  Unseen passage with three 3-mark questions and six one-mark multiple-choice questions

• Section A, Question 3

  10 marks

  Ten one-mark items: five on sentence correction and word choice, and five on idioms

• Section B

  40 marks

  Literature: four of twelve questions (Questions 4–15), ten marks each, from any three of the four prescribed textbooks

Topics covered

• Composition and story writing in Hindi
• Unseen passage on Kalidasa
• Sentence correction
• Hindi idioms
• Gadya Sankalan
• Kavya Manjari
• Sara Akash
• Ashadh Ka Ek Din

Questions from this paper

1. Cooking is called an art in Indian culture. Which features of Indian cuisine attract you, and why is this varied food becoming popular so quickly in many parts of the world?
2. "The growing use of artificial intelligence will enable students to face the challenges of the modern age." Present your views for or against this statement.
3. Review, with reference to the story "Outsider", the statement that a daughter is not given the same status as a son in her parents' home and is treated as paraya dhan.
4. On the basis of the poem, explain the unique picture of natural beauty that Nagarjun has drawn in "Badal ko ghirte dekha hai".
5. "Sara Akash is the story of the tension, division and suffering born of the traditional middle-class joint family, and of the distortions that follow." Explain the purpose of the novel in the light of this statement.
6. Kalidasa feels no pain that, even after returning to the village, he will not meet Mallika and is to marry Princess Priyangumanjari. Why might this be, and is there a language of true love? Answer on the basis of the play.