THE INDIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
PRE-BOARD 2 EXAMINATION
ENGLISH (CORE)
2024-25
Section A 22 Marks
Reading Skills
I Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage (12+10 = 22 Marks)
1. 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.
2. 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 18 Marks
Creative Writing Skills
II. Creative Writing Skills
3. 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).
4. 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).
5. 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).
6. 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).
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Section C 40 Marks
Literature Textbook 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.
7. One Poetry extract out of two, from the book Flamingo, to assess comprehension,
interpretation, analysis, inference and appreciation. (6x1=6 Marks)
8. One Prose extract out of two, from the book Vistas, to assess comprehension,
interpretation, analysis, evaluation and appreciation. (4x1=4 Marks)
9. One prose extract out of two from the book Flamingo, to assess comprehension,
interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation. (6x1=6Marks)
10. 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)
11. 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)
12. 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)
13. 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)
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These lessons will be tested in the Pre-board 2 examination.
1. Flamingo (Main Reader)
(Prose)
• The Last Lesson Lost Spring Deep Water
• The Rattrap
• Indigo
• Poets and Pancakes
• The Interview
• Going Places
(Poetry)
• My Mother at Sixty-Six by Kamala Das
• Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
• A Thing of Beauty by John Keats
• A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost
• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich
2. Vistas (Supplementary Reader)
• 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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