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The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has released the JAC Class 12 English Syllabus 2024-25 on its official website. The syllabus is divided into 3 sections. The 3 sections comprise Literature Text, Supplementary Reading Text, Reading Skills, and Creative Writing Skills. The goal of the reading skills section is to help students become more proficient readers and comprehenders of a variety of materials, including news items, literary works, and other nonfiction writings. Students' comprehension of a text's main ideas, ability to find supporting information, and capacity for inference will all be evaluated. The goal of the creative writing skills section is to help students become more proficient writers of essays, stories, and poetry, among other types of texts.
Students must be thorough with the entire JAC 12th Syllabus as well as the
JAC 12th Exam Pattern 2024-25
. Class 12th English examination will held for a total of 80 marks where the Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills comprises 20 Marks which can be further divided into Listening Skills 5 Mark, Speaking Skills 5 Marks, and Project Work 10 Marks. Students must note that the Jharkhand Board refers to NCERT books to prepare the students for the 12th board exams. Thus, students must go through the NCERT books thoroughly before referring to any other books. The JAC 12th English syllabus 2025 can be downloaded from the links provided at the end of this page.
JAC Class 12 English Syllabus 2024-25
Section A: Reading Skills
1. One unread passage will be used to evaluate vocabulary, interpretation, analysis, inference, and comprehension. The paragraph could be literary, descriptive, or factual.2. To evaluate understanding, interpretation, analysis, inference, and evaluation, one case-based factual passage that has not been seen before, along with verbal and visual inputs like statistical data, charts, etc.
Note: The two passages will have a combined word limit of 600–750 words. There will be multiple-choice and objective-type questions.
Section B: Writing
II Grammar (7 Marks)3. Questions about Clauses and Tenses in Gap Filling
4. Sentence reordering and transformation questions (a total of seven out of the eight provided questions must be completed).
III Creative Writing Skills (16 Marks)
5. Write a 50-word classified advertisement as a brief writing assignment. One of the two questions that must be answered (3 Points) One format, one piece of content, one expression
6. A brief writing assignment: a 50-word poster. Please respond to one of the two questions that were provided. (3 points)One format, one piece of content, one expression
7. Long Writing Task: 120–150 word speech based on visual and verbal cues about topics that are current and age-appropriate. Please respond to one of the two questions that were provided. (5 Points: 1 for Format; 2 for Content; 2 for Expression)
8. Long Writing Task: In 120–150 words, debate a topical issue that is current and relevant based on verbal and visual inputs. Answer one of the two questions that were provided. (5 Points) Content: 2 / Expression: 1 / Format: 1)
Section C: Literature Text Book and Supplementary Reading Text
There will be a range of assessment items in this section to gauge understanding, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and extrapolation beyond the text, such as multiple choice questions, objective type questions, short answer questions, and long answer questions.9. One of the two poetry extracts from Hornbill to evaluate understanding, appreciation, analysis, inference, and interpretation. (3 Marks = 1x1)
10. One of the two prose excerpts from the book Hornbill is used to gauge understanding, appreciation, analysis, and interpretation. (3 Marks = 1x1)
11. One of the two prose extracts from the book Snapshots will be evaluated for appreciation, understanding, interpretation, analysis, and inference. (4*1= 4 Marks) 12. Out of four questions, two short answer questions (one from poetry and one from prose in the book Hornbill) must be answered to in 40–50 words.
13. Critical thinking should lead to inferential answers to questions. (3x2=6 Marks)
14. One 40–50 answer to a short answer question from the book Snapshots. Critical thinking should lead to inferential answers to questions. You need to answer one of the two questions. (3 Marks = 1x1)
15. One long question (between 120 and 150 words) based on a passage from Hornbill's poetry or prose. Answers may be framed around incident, theme, passage, extract, or event as benchmarks to evaluate extrapolation within and outside of the text. The student will respond to the question with analysis and evaluation. Whoever answers both questions correctly. 1 x 6 = 6 Marks
16. One long answer question (120–150 words) to evaluate overall comprehension and extrapolation beyond the text, based on the chapters from the book Snapshots. Utilizing incidents, events, and themes as points of reference, provide analytical and evaluative answers to the following questions. Whoever answers both questions correctly. 1 x 6 = 6 Marks
JAC 12th English Syllabus 2025: How to Download?
Students can follow the steps mentioned below to download the JAC Class 12 English Syllabus 2025:- Visit the official website of the JAC Board at jac.jharkhand.gov.in
- Navigate to 'Others' Click on 'Syllabus'
- Click on the relevant link and the PDF will appear on the screen
- Download the JAC 12th English Syllabus 2024-25 and save it for future reference.
JAC Class 12 English Syllabus 2025 - Download PDF
The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has released the official JAC Class 12 English Syllabus 2024-25 PDF for the academic session 2024-25 on its official website at jac.jharkhand.gov.in. Candidates should download the Class 12 English Syllabus and prepare accordingly. To Make things Easier, we have provided the direct links to download the JAC Class 12 English Syllabus 2024-25 Core and Elective here.| JAC Class 12 English Core 2025 Syllabus Download PDF |
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