ISC 2026 Hindi Improvement Examination Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Hindi paper (code 1226-805-I.E.) from CISCE's 2026 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 losing something important before a competition and the loneliness of social media, a passage in which a guru tests a man with balls of glass, clay and rubber, 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

2026

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 went to the city for a competition and lost something important after arriving. What efforts did you make to find it, what difficulties did you face, and what lesson did the experience give you?
2. "Social media, instead of connecting people, is increasing distance and loneliness." Present your views for or against this statement.
3. Thinking over the statement that every character in "Majboori" has found a place and yet feels helpless, write the aim of the story in your own words.
4. In the poem "Nadi ke deep", the individual, society and the divine are seen in their mutual relation from an entirely new point of view. Analyse the poem on the basis of this statement.
5. "Prabha is one of those ideal Indian women who are self-reliant, yet never proud, and who remain a true companion to their husband." Draw Prabha's character on the basis of this statement.
6. "Politics is not literature. In it, a moment has the importance of an age." In the light of the speaker's role, write for whom he has come and what the real purpose of his coming is.