ISC 2025 Hindi Improvement Examination Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Hindi paper (code 1225-805-IE) from CISCE's 2025 Improvement Examination. It carries 80 marks, runs for three hours plus fifteen minutes of reading time, and has fifteen questions. Section A (Language, 40 marks) has a 400-word composition, with topics such as working in a home for the elderly and sweet speech versus harsh speech, a passage about a fruit-seller named Sitaram who asks the buyer to weigh the fruit because he must care for his sick mother, 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 Mohan Rakesh's 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 short-answer questions and 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 comprehension
• Sentence correction
• Hindi idioms
• Gadya Sankalan
• Kavya Manjari
• Sara Akash
• Ashadh Ka Ek Din

Questions from this paper

1. You have joined an organisation that runs a home for elderly people living with helplessness and loneliness. What would you keep in mind while working with them, and what change would you want to bring about in society?
2. "For children's mental health, taking the advice of teachers and parents is more important than psychological counselling." Present your arguments for or against this statement.
3. Review the storyteller's art in "Sharanagat", keeping at the centre the idea that protecting a person who comes seeking refuge was regarded as the highest duty.
4. "Hard-working people do not sit relying on fate; they create their own fate." Review this statement, with examples, on the basis of the poem "Udyami nar".
5. Explain the statement that in Sara Akash, Babuji has been drawn as a traditional father, and write his character traits.
6. Show that Ashadh Ka Ek Din presents together the sensibility of a historical background and of the modern age, and that through Kalidasa, Mohan Rakesh has raised the problems of the modern age.