CBSE Class 12 English Syllabus for Board Exam 2025, Download PDF

CBSE Class 12th English Syllabus 2024-25: Find here CBSE Class 12th English Syllabus 2024-2025 along with PDF download link of the same. Review the syllabus to focus on key topics, manage time effectively, and maximize your scores in board exam 2025.

Mar 10, 2025, 22:48 IST
Class 12 English Syllabus 2024-25 for CBSE Board
Class 12 English Syllabus 2024-25 for CBSE Board

Class 12th English Syllabus 2025: With the CBSE Class 12 English Exam scheduled for March 11, 2025, students must thoroughly review the syllabus to ensure they have covered all important topics. The CBSE Class 12 English Syllabus outlines the section-wise topics, exam pattern and marking scheme, helping students streamline their final revision. We have provided the latest CBSE Class 12th English Syllabus 2025 here, along with a PDF download link for easy access.

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CBSE Class 12th English Syllabus 2025

Find the class 12th English syllabus 2024-2025 below. 

Section A  (Reading Skills)                         

1. Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage (12+10 = 22 Marks) 

  • One unseen passage to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis and inference. Vocabulary assessment will also be assessed via inference. The passage may be factual, descriptive or literary. 
  • One unseen case-based factual passage with verbal/visual inputs like statistical data, charts etc. to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation. 

Note: The combined word limit for both the passages will be 700-750 words. Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions and Short Answer Type Questions (to be answered in 40-50 words) will be asked. 

Section B (Creative Writing Skills)

2. Creative Writing Skills

  • Notice, up to 50 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered. (4 Marks: Format :1 / Content: 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar: 1)
  • Formal/Informal Invitation and Reply, up to 50 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered. (4 Marks: Format: 1 / Content: 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar :1)
  • Letters based on verbal/visual input, to be answered in approximately 120-150 words. Letter types include application for a job with bio data or resume. Letters to the editor (giving suggestions or opinion on issues of public interest). One out of the two given questions to be answered. (5 Marks: Format: 1 / Organisation of Ideas: 1/Content: 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar :1)
  • Article/ Report Writing, descriptive and analytical in nature, based on verbal inputs, to be answered in 120-150 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered. (5 Marks: Format: 1 /Organisation of Ideas: 1/Content: 2 / Accuracy of Spelling and Grammar :1)

Section C (Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text) 

3. Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text

This section will have variety of assessment items including Multiple Choice Questions, Objective Type Questions, Short Answer Type Questions and Long Answer Type Questions to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation and extrapolation beyond the text. 

  • One Poetry extract out of two, from the book Flamingo, to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and appreciation. (6x1=6 Marks)
  • One Prose extract out of two, from the book Vistas, to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation and appreciation. (4x1=4 Marks)
  • One prose extract out of two from the book Flamingo, to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation. (6x1=6Marks)
  • Short answer type questions (from Prose and Poetry from the book Flamingo), to be answered in 40-50 words each. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. Five questions out of the six given, are to be answered. (5x2=10 Marks)
  • Short answer type questions, from Prose (Vistas), to be answered in 40- 50 words each. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. Any two out of three questions to be done. (2x2=4 Marks)
  • One Long answer type question, from Prose/Poetry (Flamingo), to be answered in 120- 150 words. Questions can be based on incident/theme/passage/extract/event as reference points to assess extrapolation beyond and across the text. The question will elicit analytical and evaluative response from the student. Any one out of two questions to be done. (1x5=5 Marks)
  • One Long answer type question, based on the chapters from the book Vistas, to be answered in 120-150 words, to assess global comprehension and extrapolation beyond the text. Questions to provide analytical and evaluative responses using incidents, events, themes, as reference points. Any one out of two questions to be done. (1x5=5 Marks)

Books And Chapters 

  1. Flamingo: English Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi 

(Prose)  

  • The Last Lesson 
  • Lost Spring 
  • Deep Water  
  • The Rattrap  
  • Indigo  
  • Poets and Pancakes  
  • The Interview  
  • Going Places 

(Poetry)  

  • My Mother at Sixty-Six  
  • Keeping Quiet  
  • A Thing of Beauty  
  • A Roadside Stand 
  • Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
  1. Vistas: Supplementary Reader published by National Council of Education Research and Training, New Delhi 
  • The Third Level  
  • The Tiger King  
  • Journey to the End of the Earth  
  • The Enemy  
  • On the Face of It 
  • Memories of Childhood  
  • The Cutting of My Long Hair  
  • We Too are Human Beings

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CBSE Class 12 English Marking Scheme 2024-2025

Check the CBSE 12th English Marking Scheme 2025 in the table below. 

Assessment Type

Marks

Theory Exam

Reading Skills
  • Creative Writing Sills
  • Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text

(22+18+40=80)

22

18

40

Internal Assessment

  • Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills
  • Project Work

(10+10=20)

10 (5+5)

10

 

100

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CBSE Class 12 Syllabus 2024-2025 (All Subjects)

 

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