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DETAILS OF TOPICS/CHAPTERS

WEIGHTAGE

SECTION A Advanced Reading Skills

1.     An unseen passage of 150 words followed by questions.

10 Marks

SECTION B Effective Writing Skills

1.     Report – Writing for Newspapers

2.     Précis Writing (approximately in1/3 of the given length)

3.     An Essay on current topics in 200/250 words

20 Marks

SECTION C

GRAMMAR

1.     Transformation of Sentences-positive, Negative

2.     Formation of Words: (samanarthi, Viruddharthi from the prescribed lessons)

3.     Correction of Sentences

4.     Idioms (from the prescribed lessons)

5.     Proverbs (from the prescribed lessons)

6.     Punctuation marking in a small paragraph

20 Marks

SECTION D

LITERATURE

Prose: (Essay, Travelogues, Novel, Short story, drama etc.)

1.  Critical Appreciation, Comprehension (5 short ques.)

2    Explanation with reference to context (Who said to whom, when or why, name of the lesson)

3.  Answer in details (any two)

Poetry:

1.  Poetry comprehension (from the text)

2.  Two long question out of four questions the prescribed poems only)

3.  Answer in two three sentence (Any three)

4.  Ras darshan of a complete poem

50 Marks