ISC 2025 Kannada Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Kannada paper (code 806) 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 of 40 marks each. Section A (Language) is compulsory: a composition of about 400 words, with topics such as one’s aim in life, the effect of travel on personality, natural calamities and an original story; an unseen passage on courage; and ten one-mark items on grammar, idioms and proverbs. In Section B (Literature) candidates answer four of twelve questions, from any three of the four prescribed books: Kannada Kirana, Kavya Sudhe, the novel Prema Bhikshu and the play Hebberalu. The questions below are translated from Kannada.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Kannada

Year

2025

Paper code

806

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

15

Pages

12

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A, Question 1

  15 marks

  Composition of about 400 words in Kannada on one of six topics, the last an original story

• Section A, Question 2

  15 marks

  Unseen passage on courage, answered in the candidate’s own words in Kannada: three 3-mark questions and six 1-mark items

• Section A, Question 3

  10 marks

  Ten one-mark items on grammar, idioms and proverbs

• 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

• Essay and story writing in Kannada
• Unseen passage comprehension
• Grammar, idioms and proverbs
• Kannada Kirana
• Swami Vivekananda at Kanyakumari
• Kavya Sudhe
• Kurudu Kanchana
• Purandaradasa’s Udara Vairagya
• Prema Bhikshu
• Angulimala and the Buddha
• Hebberalu
• Ekalavya and Drona

Questions from this paper

1. What is the aim of your life? Write an essay explaining the reasons for it and the preparation you would make.
2. “Travel influences our personality.” Write your thoughts on this statement.
3. Write an essay on natural calamities and the ways of dealing with them.
4. By which route did Swami Vivekananda reach Kanyakumari, and what is special about the rock on which he meditated?
5. How has the poet described the exploitation of the poor by the rich in the poem Kurudu Kanchana?
6. Narrate the story of Mahapingala that the Buddha told.