ISC 2025 Mizo Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Mizo paper (code 808) 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 40-mark sections. Section A (Language) has a 400-word essay, a passage on honesty in Mizo society and the old custom of securing doors with only a wooden bar, and a grammar and idiom question. In Section B (Literature) candidates answer four of twelve questions from three of the four prescribed books: Ṭhi-hna Bu, Thlahrang, Hawilopari and the play Lalngaihawmi. Sample questions below are translated from Mizo.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Mizo

Year

2025

Paper code

808

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

15

Pages

8

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A, Question 1

  15 marks

  Essay of about 400 words in Mizo on one of six topics

• Section A, Question 2

  15 marks

  Unseen passage with three 3-mark answers, three fill-in-the-blanks and three multiple-choice items

• Section A, Question 3

  10 marks

  Grammar: tenses, multiple-choice items on punctuation, number and adjectives, fill in the blank, and explaining two 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

• Essay writing in Mizo
• Unseen passage comprehension
• Tense and number
• Punctuation
• Adjectives
• Mizo idioms and phrases
• Ṭhi-hna Bu
• Thlahrang
• Hawilopari
• Lalngaihawmi (play)

Questions from this paper

1. Write an essay of about 400 words in Mizo on the role of young people in the national integration of India.
2. Name the tense shown by each of these words: nakinah and tunah.
3. Write down the differences between 'them' and 'us' that Pu Siakima describes in 'Anni leh Keini'.
4. Using the story, show that Hawilopari is a woman of fine and graceful character.
5. Imagine yourself in the position of Hminga and his siblings and describe how you would behave.
6. Give an account of Sanga's story in the play Lalngaihawmi.