JAC Class 12 English Core Question Paper 2015 with Answer

About this paper

This is the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) Class 12 English Core (compulsory) paper from the 2015 examination, with answers written under most questions (the 'or' alternatives are mostly left unanswered). It has 12 questions in three sections: Section A, reading comprehension and note-making (20 marks), with a story about a Chinese king who tests young people with boiled seeds and a passage on greenhouse gases; Section B, advanced writing skills (35 marks); and Section C, literature (45 marks). The writing tasks include a lost-phone notice, a multiplex film experience, an application and an article on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Section C covers poems such as Keeping Quiet and Aunt Jennifer's Tigers and prose from Flamingo and Vistas.

Exam

JAC Class 12

Subject

English Core

Year

2015

Questions

12

Pages

3

Answers included

Yes

Paper pattern

• Section A

  20 marks

  Reading comprehension and note-making: a story with short questions and word meanings, and a passage on greenhouse gases for notes and a summary

• Section B

  35 marks

  Advanced writing skills: notice or note (50 words), description or report, application or letter to the editor (125 words), and an article or essay

• Section C

  45 marks

  Literature: a poetry extract, short answers on poems and prose (35 words each), and long answers (about 125 words) with 'or' options

Topics covered

• Reading comprehension
• Note-making and summary writing
• Notice writing
• Report writing
• Letter to the principal
• Article writing
• Keeping Quiet
• Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
• Indigo
• The Rattrap
• The Enemy
• Journey to the End of the Earth

Questions from this paper

1. You have lost your mobile phone in the school/college campus. Write a notice for the notice board. (50 words)
2. There was a Blood Donation Camp in your school/college. Write a report of the event to be published in the school/college magazine. (125 words)
3. Write an article on 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'.
4. How did the British officials treat Gandhiji at Motihari and Champaran?
5. Why and how did Dr Sadao help the prisoner of war to escape? Do you find him guilty of harbouring an enemy?
6. What was Gondwana? What happened to it?