Name: Arihant CBSE Chapterwise Question Bank 2025-2016 English Core for Class 12th
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Master the CBSE Class 12 English Core curriculum and approach your board examinations with unshakeable confidence using the Arihant CBSE Chapterwise Question Bank (2025-2016) for Class 12th. This meticulously compiled resource is specifically engineered to provide exhaustive, syllabus-aligned practice and strategic preparation for the academic year. It serves as an all-in-one solution for students aiming to excel in their CBSE Board Exams 2025, offering a decade-long analysis of questions, trends, and patterns.

Aligned strictly with the latest CBSE syllabus, this question bank is structured into three core sections, mirroring the exam format: Section A: Reading Skills, Section B: Creative Writing Skills, and Section C: Literature. This logical division ensures focused and systematic study, allowing students to tackle each segment of the English Core Class 12 paper methodically.

Section A: Reading Skills is dedicated to honing the essential competency of reading comprehension. It provides extensive practice on unseen passages, including factual, descriptive, literary, and case-based factual passages with verbal/visual inputs like charts and data. This section is crucial for mastering vocabulary assessment, inference, interpretation, and analysis—key skills for securing high marks in the objective and short answer questions.

Section B: Creative Writing Skills offers comprehensive guidance and practice for the writing portion of the exam. It covers every prescribed format in detail: notice writing, formal and informal invitation and reply, letter writing (including job applications and letters to the editor), and article/report writing. Each chapter provides format guidelines, content tips, and ample questions to build proficiency and ensure accuracy in spelling and grammar, which are explicitly assessed as per the marking scheme.

Section C: Literature forms the most substantial part of the book, delivering an in-depth chapterwise question bank for both the Flamingo and Vistas books. It includes detailed coverage of all prose pieces, such as The Last Lesson, Lost Spring, Indigo, The Rattrap, The Tiger King, and The Enemy. The poetry section covers all poems, including My Mother at Sixty-Six, Keeping Quiet, A Thing of Beauty, and Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. This section features a wide array of questions—extract-based questions, short answer type questions, and long answer type questions—designed to test comprehension, critical thinking, evaluation, and extrapolation beyond the text. Practicing with these questions ensures a deep understanding of themes, characters, and literary devices.

A defining feature of this CBSE Question Bank is its inclusion of previous years' papers from 2016 to 2025. This allows students to familiarize themselves with the CBSE Board Exam pattern, question typology, and difficulty level. Solving these papers aids in identifying important topics and frequently asked questions. Furthermore, the book includes sample papers and the latest CBSE sample paper for current-year exam simulation, enabling effective self-assessment and time management practice.

Published by Arihant Prakashan, a trusted name in educational publishing, this book is an indispensable Class 12 English Guide and Board Exam Preparation tool. It functions as both a practice book and a revision guide, consolidating a decade's worth of exam-centric material into a single, structured volume. By integrating syllabus-oriented practice, previous year questions, and model test papers, the Arihant CBSE Chapterwise Question Bank empowers students to build conceptual clarity, enhance writing skills, and ultimately, achieve outstanding results in their CBSE Class 12 English Core examination.

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Q1

Does this book cover both the Flamingo and Vistas textbooks for Class 12 English Core?

A1

Yes, it comprehensively covers all chapters, prose, and poems from both the Flamingo and Vistas textbooks as per the latest CBSE syllabus.
Q2

Are the writing skill sections (like letters and reports) explained with formats?

A2

Absolutely. Section B provides clear format guidelines, content points, and marking scheme breakdowns for Notice, Invitation/Reply, Letter (Job Application & Editor), Article, and Report Writing.
Q3

Is the poetry section covered with extract-based questions?

A3

Yes, the Poetry section includes extract-based questions from all poems in Flamingo to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, and appreciation.
Q4

Is this book useful for scoring well in the creative writing section?

A4

Definitely. It dedicates an entire section to Creative Writing Skills with numerous practice questions, focusing on format, content, and grammatical accuracy as per the CBSE marking scheme.
Q5

Does it help in improving vocabulary and reading comprehension skills?

A5

Yes, the dedicated Reading Skills section with multiple unseen passages of varied types is designed to enhance comprehension, inference, interpretation, and vocabulary.
Q6

Are there questions that promote critical thinking and extrapolation beyond the text?

A6

Yes, as per CBSE requirements, the literature section includes inferential and evaluative questions that encourage critical thinking and extrapolation based on themes and events from the texts.
Q7

Is the book updated with the latest CBSE syllabus and marking scheme for 2024-25?

A7

Yes, the content is meticulously crafted and structured according to the latest CBSE English Core syllabus, exam pattern, and marking scheme for the 2024-25 academic session.
Q8

Can this book be used as the sole resource for English Core board exam preparation?

A8

It is a highly comprehensive resource covering theory-based practice, previous papers, and sample tests. However, it is designed to complement the NCERT textbooks and is most effective when used alongside them for thorough preparation.
Q9

Does it include the chapter "Memories of Childhood" from Vistas?

A9

Yes, all chapters from the Vistas supplementary reader, including "Memories of Childhood," are covered with relevant questions.
Q10

How does this question bank help in time management during the exam?

A10

By practicing with the variety of questions and solving the timed sample papers, students can develop speed, accuracy, and an effective strategy for allocating time across different sections of the board exam.

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Section A: Reading Skills

1. Reading Comprehension

Section B: Creative Writing Skills

1. Notice

2. Invitations and Replies

3. Letter Writing

4. Article Writing

5. Report Writing

Section C: Literature

Prose

1. The Last Lesson - Alphonse Daudet

2. Lost Spring - Anees Jung

3. Deep Water—William Douglas

4. The Rattrap - Selma Lagerlöf

5. Indigo - Louis Fischer

6. Poets and Pancakes—Asokamitran

7. The Interview—Christopher Silvester

8. Going Places - AR Barton

Poetry

1. My Mother at Sixty-Six—Kamala Das

2. Keeping Quiet—Pablo Neruda

3. A Thing of Beauty—John Keats

4. A Roadside Stand—Robert Frost

5. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers - Adrienne Rich

Supplementary

1. The Third Level - Jack Finney

2. The Tiger King - Kalki

3. Journey to the End of the Earth - Tishani Doshi

4. The Enemy - Pearl S. Buck

5. On the Face of It - Susan Hill

6. Memories of Childhood

- Sample Paper

- Latest CBSE Sample Paper

- CBSE Board Paper 2025

Latest CBSE Syllabus of English Core for Class 12th

Section A

Reading Skills

I Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage

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

Section B

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).

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).

Section C

Literature TextBook and Supplementary Reading Text

This section will have a 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.

8. One Prose extract out of two, from the book Vistas, to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation and appreciation.

9. One prose extract out of two from the book Flamingo, to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation.

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.

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.

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.

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.