CBSE Class 12 English Core Sample Paper 2013 Set A

SECTION –A READING 

1. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: 

a) 1. It means brave acts make us brave not merely talking about or thinking brave things.

2. It becomes an appropriate emotion when we stand face to face with fearful things.

3a) A reckless person is an utterly fearless person. So he is more dangerous than a coward. 

b) A coward overreacts to fear and lacks confidence.

4.They roused public conscience against injustice. However in doing so they suffered silently at a personal level. 

5.We need wisdom or power to judge what is right or wrong for success. 

6. The children are afraid of darkness. The elders know that it is not so. So they can stage a brave front before their young and tell them so. 

b) 1. Inspire  2. Appropriate  3. Safe 

2. a) Accept any and every correct notes made by the students in the prescribed formats with abbreviations and a suitable heading. 

b) Accept a suitable summary within the prescribed word limit.

SECTION –WRITING 

3.Poster Designing 

Content -3 (use of jingles, slogans etc) Accuracy-2

Classified ad.

Content – 4 accuracy-2

4.Accept all correct answers.

Format-1

Content-4

Accuracy -5 (spellings, grammar, fluency and expression.)

5.Accept all correct answer.

Format-2

Content-5

Expression, fluency, accuracy -3

6.Accept the correct answer. 10

Format- 1

Content -5

Expression, fluency, accuracy-4

SECTION-C 

7.Objectives- To test the comprehension of the poem, their ability to interpret, evaluate and respond to the lines of the poem.

a) 1.To think that the farmer was seeking alms when he constructed the stand. 

2.The farmer’s. 

3.Imagery of a garden. The city is synonymous to the garden, the city-folk to the flowers and the money they earn to water. 

b) 1.‘They’ refers to the tigers. They have all the qualities that their creator doesn’t namely mastery over their life, courage confidence and elegance. 

2.elegant,courage and valour, confidence.

Please refer to attached file for CBSE Class 12 English Core Sample Paper 2013 Set A