ISC 2024 Tibetan Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Tibetan paper, code 835, from the 2024 CISCE board examination. It carries 80 marks and runs for three hours, with fifteen minutes extra for reading only. All six questions are compulsory. Question 1 is a composition of about 400 words in Tibetan. Questions 2 and 4 are multiple-choice translation, each way, and Questions 3 and 5 are passage translations. The English passage for translation is about the sacred lake Lhamoi Latso at Chokhorgyal. Question 6 is a comprehension to be answered in Tibetan. Composition topics include a good dream, helping people in a natural calamity, one's parents, and young people in wartime. This copy has the questions only. Tibetan questions below are translated.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Tibetan

Year

2024

Paper code

835

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

6

Pages

7

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Question 1

  20 marks

  Composition of about 400 words in Tibetan on any one of four topics

• Question 2

  8 marks

  Eight multiple-choice items: choose the correct English translation of the Tibetan sentence

• Question 3

  12 marks

  Translate a Tibetan passage into English

• Question 4

  8 marks

  Eight multiple-choice items: choose the correct Tibetan translation of the English sentence

• Question 5

  12 marks

  Translate an English passage into Tibetan

• Question 6

  20 marks

  Read a Tibetan passage and answer four questions in Tibetan, five marks each

Topics covered

• Composition in Tibetan
• A good dream
• Helping people in a natural calamity
• Parents and gratitude
• Youth in time of war
• Translation from Tibetan to English
• Translation from English to Tibetan
• Livelihood and agriculture
• The Karmapa and monasteries
• Lhamoi Latso
• Tibet's neighbouring countries

Questions from this paper

1. Write about a good dream you saw.
2. Write about your experience of helping people when a natural calamity occurred.
3. Write about your parents, to whom you owe a great debt of kindness.
4. Write about how the young people of the country can protect the people in time of war.
5. Translate into Tibetan the passage beginning: The sacred lake of Lhamoi Latso at Chokhorgyal is about ninety miles southeast of Lhasa.
6. Write the names of the countries that neighbour Tibet.