English Core Class 12 Syllabus 2025-26 – Updated CBSE Curriculum

Section-wise Weightage

Section

Title

Weightage

A

Reading Skills 

22

B

Creative Writing Skills

18

C

Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text

40

TOTAL

80

Section A Reading Skills

Marks

Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage 

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.

12

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 passages will be 700-750 words. Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions and Short Answer Type Questions (to be answered in 40-50 words) will be asked.

10

Total

22

Creative Writing Skills

Marks

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). 

Letters based on verbal/visual input, are to be answered in approximately 120-150 words. Letter types include applications for a job with bio-data or a resume. Letters to the editor (giving suggestions or opinions 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). 

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).

Total 

18

Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text

Marks

One Poetry extracts out of two, from the book Flamingo, to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and appreciation. 

(6x1=6 Marks)

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

(4x1=4 Marks)

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

(6x1=6 Marks)

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.

(5x2=10 Marks)

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.

(2x2=4 Marks)

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 responses from the student. Any one out of two questions to be done. 

(1x5=5 Marks)

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, and themes, as reference points. Any one out of two questions to be done. 

(1x5=5 Marks)

Sections

Competencies

Marks 

Reading Skills Internal Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills  Listening  Speaking 10 5+5  Project Work 10 GRAND TOTAL 100

Conceptual understanding, decoding, Analysing, inferring, interpreting, appreciating, literary, conventions and vocabulary, summarizing and using appropriate format/s.

22

Creative Writing Skills

Conceptual Understanding, application of rules, Analysis, Reasoning, appropriacy of style and tone, using appropriate format and fluency, inference, analysis, evaluation and creativity.

18

Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text

Recalling, reasoning, critical thinking, appreciating literary convention, inference, analysis, creativity with fluency. 

40

TOTAL 

80

Internal Assessment   

Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills

• Listening  

• Speaking 

5+5

Project Work

10 

GRAND TOTAL 

100

Class 12 English Core Syllabus 2025-26 Chapters (Flamingo)

Prose

Poem

The Last Lesson     

My Mother at Sixty-Six     

Lost Spring

Keeping Quiet

Deep Water

A Thing of Beauty

The Rattrap

A Roadside Stand

Indigo

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Poets and Pancakes

The Interview

Going Places

Class 12 English Core Syllabus 2025-26 Chapters (Vistas)

The Third Level

The Tiger King

Journey to the End of the Earth

The Enemy

On the Face of It Memories of Childhood

The Cutting of My Long Hair

We Too are Human Beings

S. No

Related Topic Pages for Class 12 English

1.

Grammar

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English - Grammar, Essay Writing & Letter Writing

3.

Tenses

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Conditional Clause

5.

Non Finite Verbs

6.

Verb Concord

7.

Determiners

S. No

Important Study Material for English Class 12

1

Class 12 English NCERT Books

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Class 12 English Revision Notes

3

Class 12 English Important Questions

4

Class 12 English Sample Papers

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Class 12 English NCERT Solutions

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Class 12 English Grammar

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Class 12 English Syllabus

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Class 12 English PYQP