ISC Class 12 English Syllabus 2025-2026: Download PDFs Here!

ISC Syllabus Class 12 English 2025-26: For students in the academic year 2024–2025, the updated syllabus has been made available by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) Board. Our ISC Class 12th English Syllabus 2025 includes a comprehensive syllabus, required textbooks, internal assessment information, course structure, and more. You can also find out what kinds of questions will be asked on the test. The curriculum is released by the board before the beginning of the school year so that students are aware of the chapters to be studied, the topics to be covered, and the books to be utilized. 

Teachers also receive a sense of the chapters and subjects that will be taught over the school year. Based on the syllabus established by the board, a thorough plan for covering the material is created and implemented. 

ISC Class 12 English Syllabus 2025-26: Highlights

ISC Class 12 English: Detailed Syllabus 2025-26

There will be two papers in the subject: 

Paper I - Theory: 3 hours: 80 marks 

Paper II- Project Work : 20 marks

ISC Class 12 English Syllabus 2025-26

Check the CISCE Board Class 12th English Syllabus 2025-2026 below along with specific mentions of topics and chapters to be covered for the exam. 

ISC Class 12 English Literature 2025-26: Syllabus To Be Covered

1. DRAMA: Macbeth: William Shakespeare

• Acts III, IV & V

2. PRISM: A  Collection  of  ISC Short  Stories (Evergreen Publications (India) Ltd. New Delhi)

• Atithi/ Guest - Rabrindranath Tagore
• The Cookie Lady - Philip K Dick
• There Will Come Soft Rains - Ray Bradbury
• Indigo - Satyajit Ray
• The Medicine Bag - Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

3. RHAPSODY: A Collection of ISC Poems (Evergreen Publications (India) Ltd. New Delhi)

• Telephone Conversation - Wole Soyinka
• Tithonus - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Beethoven - Shane Koyczan
• Small Towns and the River - Mamang Dai
• Death be not Proud - John Donne 

NOTE: 

The ISC (Class XII) Examination paper will be set ONLY on the portion of the syllabus that is prescribed for Class XII.

ISC Board Class 12th English 2025-26: Assessment Pattern

Each topic, English Language and English Literature, is graded out of 100. Below, students can learn about the evaluation scheme, marks division, and assessment pattern. 

• Students will have to appear for 80 marks paper in their end-term exams (boards).
• The internal assessment has been marked for 20 marks and students will have to submit the project within the deadline (as asked by school). 

ISC Class 12th English Project Work Evaluation Scheme

The project, which is worth 20 marks, is further broken down into 10 marks each. The visiting examiner must analyze the remaining 10 marks, while the subject instructor must review the first 10. To learn more about the project, review the evaluation scheme below.

The distribution of marks (out of a total of 20) should be as follows:

To download the ISC Class 12 English Syllabus 2025-26, click on the link below

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