JAC Class 12 English Core Question Paper 2012 with Answer

About this paper

This is the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) Class 12 English Core (compulsory) paper from the 2012 board examination, with a model answer under every question. It has 12 questions in three sections: Reading Comprehension and Note Making (20 marks), Advanced Writing Skills (35 marks) and Literature (45 marks). The reading passages are on computers and automation and on information technology and village libraries. The writing tasks are a notice, a letter, a report on a cricket match and an article on the hazards of smoking. The literature questions draw on the Flamingo and Vistas textbooks, from 'My Mother at Sixty-six' and 'Keeping Quiet' to 'Indigo', 'The Enemy' and 'Evans Tries an O-Level'. Time is not printed on this copy.

Exam

JAC Class 12

Subject

English Core

Year

2012

Questions

12

Pages

4

Answers included

Yes

Paper pattern

• Section A

  20 marks

  Reading comprehension and note making, Questions 1–2: a passage with questions and antonyms, and a passage for notes and a summary

• Section B

  35 marks

  Advanced writing skills, Questions 3–6: notice, letter, report and article

• Section C

  45 marks

  Literature, Questions 7–12: poem extract, short answers on poems and prose, two long answers with a choice of one, and short answers on supplementary readers

Topics covered

• Reading comprehension
• Note making and summary
• Notice writing
• Letter writing
• Report writing
• Article writing
• My Mother at Sixty-six
• Keeping Quiet and A Thing of Beauty
• The Last Lesson, Lost Spring and Deep Water
• The Rattrap and Indigo
• Poets and Pancakes
• Vistas: The Third Level, The Tiger King, Journey to the End of the Earth, The Enemy, On the Face of It, Evans Tries an O-Level

Questions from this paper

1. Make notes on the passage about information technology and village libraries, using headings and subheadings, give it a suitable title, and write a summary.
2. The Government has banned smoking in public places. Write an article on 'Hazards of Smoking' in about 150 words for your school magazine.
3. Why was the mother compared to the 'late winter's moon'?
4. Who was Saheb? What was his full name? What was the irony about his name?
5. Who was Rajkumar Shukla? How did he take Gandhiji to Champaran, and why?
6. What do you know about the geological history of Gondwana? How did Antarctica become cold and barren?