KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN
BANGALORE REGION
HALF YEARLY EXAM -2023-24- BLUE PRINT
CLASS XII – ENGLISH CORE (301) TIME: 3HRS MM: 80
TYPOLOGY Testing Q No. Question Type MCQ VERY Short SHORT Answer SHORT LONG MARKS
competencies/learning 1 mark Answer TYPE TYPE Answer TYPE Answer
outcomes 1 MARKS 2 MARKS 4 MARKS TYPE
5 MARKS
READING SKILLS Conceptual understanding, Q1 One unseen passage 6 6 12
22-Marks decoding analysing, inferring, Q2 One unseen case-based 5 5 10
critical thinking and factual passage
vocabulary.
CREATIVE Expressing an opinion Q3 Notice 1 4
WRITING AND reasoning, justifying Q4 Formal/Informal 1 4
GRAMMAR illustrating, appropriacy of Invitation / Reply
18-Marks style and tone, using Q5 Letters writing –Letter 1 5
appropriate format, applying types include application
conventions, using integrated for a job with resume/
structures, accuracy and Letters to the editor
fluency Q6 Article/ Report Writing 1 5
LITERATURE Recalling, reasoning, applying Q7 One Poetry extract out of 3 3 6
TEXT AND literary conventions, two, from Flamingo
EXTENDED extrapolating, identifying Q8 One Prose extract out of 2 2 4
READING TEXT central themes, illustrating, two, from the book Vistas,
40-Marks justifying etc. Q9 One prose extract out of 2 4 6
two from the book
Flamingo,
Q10 Short answer type 5
questions (from Prose and 10
Poetry from the book
Flamingo)
Q11 Short answer type 2 4
questions, from Prose
(Vistas)
Q12 One Long answer type 1 5
question, from
Prose/Poetry (Flamingo)
Q13 One Long answer type 1 5
question, based on the
chapters from Vistas
TOTAL 17*1=17 21*1=21 7 *2 = 14 2 *4 = 8 4*5=20 80
Section Competencies Total marks
Reading Skills Conceptual understanding, decoding, Analyzing, inferring, interpreting, 22
appreciating, literary, conventions and vocabulary, summarizing and
using appropriate format/s.
Creative Writing Sills Conceptual Understanding, application of rules, Analysis, Reasoning, 18
appropriacy of style and tone, using appropriate format and fluency,
inference, analysis, evaluation and creativity.
Literature Text Book and Recalling, reasoning, critical thinking, appreciating literary convention, 40
Supplementary Reading Text inference, analysis, creativity with fluency.
TOTAL 80