JAC Class 12 Hindi Question Paper 2017 with Answer

About this paper

This is the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) Class 12 Hindi (Elective) paper from the 2017 examination, with an answer written in Hindi under every question; the sample questions below are translated from Hindi. It has 14 questions. It opens with an unseen prose passage and an unseen poem, followed by an essay, a formal letter, a question on mass media and an article. The literature questions cover the Antra Bhag 2 textbook, including Tulsidas's 'Bharat-Ram ka Prem', Kedarnath Singh's 'Banaras', Jaishankar Prasad, Vishnu Khare's 'Satya' and Hazari Prasad Dwivedi's 'Kutaj'. The paper ends with questions on the supplementary reader Antral. No marks or time are printed on this copy.

Exam

JAC Class 12

Subject

Hindi

Year

2017

Questions

14

Pages

6

Answers included

Yes

Paper pattern

• Questions 1–2

  Unseen prose passage and unseen poem with short questions, a title and a suffix question

• Questions 3–6

  Writing: essay (choice of four topics), application or letter, mass media or qualities of an editor, and an article or editorial

• Questions 7–12

  Antra: explanation of poetry with reference to context, poetry questions, poetic beauty, prose explanation, prose questions, and a literary introduction of Vidyapati or Phanishwar Nath Renu

• Questions 13–14

  Antral: short questions and one longer answer with an 'or' option

Topics covered

• Unseen passage and unseen poem
• Essay writing
• Application and formal letter
• Mass media and journalism
• Article and editorial writing
• Bharat-Ram ka Prem (Tulsidas)
• Banaras (Kedarnath Singh)
• Devsena ka Geet (Jaishankar Prasad)
• Satya (Vishnu Khare)
• Kutaj (Hazari Prasad Dwivedi)
• Vidyapati and Phanishwar Nath Renu
• Antral: Surdas ki Jhopdi, Aarohan, Apna Malwa

Questions from this paper

1. Write an essay on any one of these topics: Communalism versus Secularism; Demonetisation and the Demon of Black Money; The Growing Reach of the Internet; My Favourite Book.
2. Write an application to the principal of your school for a merit-cum-means scholarship.
3. Introduce the different media of mass communication.
4. Discuss the reasons for Devsena's defeat and despair.
5. Write a literary introduction of the poet Vidyapati or the story-writer Phanishwar Nath Renu.
6. Explain how the industrial civilisation of development has become a 'civilisation of destruction'.