UP Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2025

 

UP Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2025

(Based on the latest syllabus by UPMSP – Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad)

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📌 Section-Wise Syllabus Breakdown

🔹 Section A: Reading (15 Marks)

• Unseen Passage (Factual, Discursive, Literary)

  • Comprehension questions (8 Marks)

  • Vocabulary-based questions (7 Marks)

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🔹 Section B: Writing (20 Marks)

• Essay Writing (250 words) – Topics related to current affairs, literature, environment, etc.

• Formal Letter Writing – Application, complaint, inquiry, letter to the editor, etc.

• Report or Article Writing – Based on an event or issue.

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🔹 Section C: Grammar (10 Marks)

• Tenses (Past, Present, Future)

• Active & Passive Voice

• Direct & Indirect Speech (Narration)

• Transformation of Sentences (Simple, Complex, Compound)

• Modals & Determiners

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🔹 Section D: Literature (45 Marks)

📖 (A) Flamingo – Prose (15 Marks)

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 – A. R. Barton

📖 (B) Flamingo – Poetry (10 Marks)

1. My Mother at Sixty-Six – Kamala Das

2. Keeping Quiet – Pablo Neruda

3. A Thing of Beauty – John Keats

4. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers – Adrienne Rich

📖 (C) Vistas – Supplementary Reader (20 Marks)

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. Should Wizard Hit Mommy? – John Updike

6. On the Face of It – Susan Hill

7. Evans Tries an O-Level – Colin Dexter

8. Memories of Childhood – Zitkala-Sa & Bama

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📌 Exam Pattern & Marking Scheme

Section	Marks
Reading	15
Writing	20
Grammar	10
Literature	45
Total	90

(+ 10 Marks for Internal Assessment / Project Work)

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✅ Study Tips for UP Board Class 12 English

✔ Focus on NCERT Books – Follow Flamingo & Vistas thoroughly.
✔ Practice Writing Skills – Essays, Letters & Reports.
✔ Improve Grammar – Solve previous year questions.
✔ Read and Summarize – Each chapter in simple language.
✔ Solve Previous Year Papers – Helps in understanding question patterns.