JAC Class 12 English Core Question Paper 2017 with Answer

About this paper

This is the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) Class 12 English Core (compulsory) paper from the 2017 examination, with answers written under most questions (a few parts and 'or' options are left blank). It has 12 questions in three sections: Section A, reading comprehension and note-making (20 marks), with a story about a grandfather and a wooden bowl and a passage on conserving plants and animals; Section B, advanced writing skills, with a notice against chewing tobacco, a used-car advertisement, a Teacher's Day or fire-accident report, letters and an article on price hike; and Section C, literature (45 marks), with poetry extracts from Keeping Quiet and Aunt Jennifer's Tigers and prose from Flamingo and Vistas.

Exam

JAC Class 12

Subject

English Core

Year

2017

Questions

12

Pages

4

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 wildlife conservation for notes and an 80-word summary

• Section B

  Advanced writing skills: notice or advertisement, report, letter to the editor or application, and an article, each with an 'or' option

• Section C

  45 marks

  Literature: a poetry extract, short answers on poems and prose (35 words each), and long answers (about 100 words) with 'or' options

Topics covered

• Reading comprehension
• Note-making and summary writing
• Notice and advertisement writing
• Report writing
• Letter writing
• Article writing
• Keeping Quiet
• A Thing of Beauty
• The Last Lesson
• Lost Spring
• The Tiger King
• The Enemy

Questions from this paper

1. You are the principal of a +2 school in Ranchi. Write a notice for the school notice board advising the students to stop chewing tobacco products.
2. You are disturbed by loud music played at night. Write a letter to the Editor of the Times of India expressing your feelings.
3. Write an article on the performance of the Indian team in the Olympic Games, 2016.
4. Draw a character sketch of Franz.
5. Describe life in Seemapuri.
6. When were India and Antarctica part of the same landmass?