Write a story beginning with the given lines in about 200-250 words and give it an appropriate title. As the spring arrived and the schools reopened for all after a long time,almost two years,there was a spring in every step and a song in every heart. Who knew the new year would welcome yet another surprise for us and thankfully not a horrifying one like the pandemic but a joyful one……
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EXAMINATION SPECIFICATIONS
Class X
One Paper 3 Hrs. Marks : 100
Section - A : Reading 20 Marks
1 & 2 two unseen passage of total 500 words with a variety of questions including 4 marks for vocabulary.
Only prose passage will be used. One will be factual and the other will be literary.
Passage 1 - 200 words (8 marks) - Four or five comphrehension questions.
Passage 2 - 300 words (12 marks) - Four or five comprehension questions and two questions on
vocabulary. Marks for vocabulary will not exceed 4 marks.
SECTION - B : WRITING (20 Marks)
3. Letter Writing - One letter based on provided verbal stimulus and context 8 marks
Type of letter : Informal : Personal such as to family and friends
Formal : Letter of complaints, enquiries, requests, applications.
4. Writing a short paragraph on a given outline / topic in about 60 words 4 marks
5. Composition : A short writing task based on a verbal and / visual stimulus. (diagram, picture, graph,
map, chart, table, flow chart etc.) Maximum words 80 8 marks
SECTION C : GRAMMAR (15 Marks)
Question No. 6-9
A variety of short questions involving the use of particular structures within a context. Test types
used will include cloze, gap-filling, sentence-completion, sentence-recordering, dialogue-completion and
sentence-transformation (including combining sentences). The Grammar syllabus will include the following
areas for teaching :
1. Use of non-finites.
2. Sentence connectors : as, since, while, then, just because, just until,
3. Clauses with what, where and how.
4. Past Tense.
5. Modals : can, could, may, must, might
Note : All other areas covered in Class IX will also be tested in Class X as this is an integrated course for
this area of learning.
(2) X-English
SECTION D : TEXT BOOKS (45 Marks)
First Flight : NCERT Text book for class X
Prose 20 Marks
10 & 11 Two extracts from different prose lessons included in Textbook
(Approximately 100 words each) 5×2 10 marks
These extracts chosen from different lessons will be literary and discursive in nature.
Each extract will be of 5 marks. One mark in each extract will be for vocabulary. 4 marks in each
passage will be used for testing local and global comprehension besides a question on interpretation.
12. One out of two questions extrapolative in nature based on any one of the prose lessons from
Textbook to be answered in about 80 words. 6 marks
13. Two out of three questions on prose lessons including Drama (local and global comprehension
questions) (30-40 words) 4 Marks
Poetry
14. One extract from a poem from the prescribed reader followed by two or three questions to test the
local and global comprehension of the set text. 4 Marks.
15. Two out of three short answer type questions on interpretation of themes and ideas contained in
the poems to be answered in 30-40 words each. 6 Marks
Foot Prints without Feet - NCERT Supplementary Reader for Class X 15 Marks
16. One out of two questions from Supplementary Reader to interpret, evaluate and analyse character,
plot or situations occuring in the lessons to be answered in about 100 words. 8 Marks
17. One out of two short answer type questions of interpretative and evaluative nature based on lessons
to be answered in 30-40 words. 4 Marks.
18. One out of two short answer type questions based on factual aspects of the lessons to be answered
in 20-30 words. 3 Marks
Prescribed Books
1. First Flight - Textbook for Class X Published by NCERT
2. Foot Prints without Feet - Supplementary Reader for Class X Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi
(3) X-English
IMPORTANT
This Question Bank is prepared keeping in view the CBSE Examination 2009 and its pattern
matches the examination pattern in letter and spirit. It is important to note that the question
nos. (as per the examination paper) are given in the beginning of the context and the same
type of questions will be asked in the same order. This will certainly help the students
practise on the examination pattern. Moreover, Hots (Higher order
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