Maths Sample paper

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ENGLISH CORE - XII
Design of Sample Paper 2010
Section Type of Marks Total Testing objectives
Question marks
READING 20
Q.1 1.1 a) SA 2M Comprehension
b) VSA 1M Comprehension
c) SA 2M Comprehension
d) SA 2M Comprehension
e) SA 2M Comprehension
1.2 a) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing
b) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing
c) VSA 1M Vocabulary testing
Q.2 2.1 Note - Making 5M Study Skills (Comprehending &
Note Making)
2.2 Summary Writing 3M Summarising Skills
WRITING 35
Providing factual
Q.3 (1
st Option) Short Writing 5M details, organization,
Skill fluency and
coherence
or or or or
Providing factual
details, organization,
(2
nd option) Short Writing 5M fluency and
Skill coherence
Q.4 (1
st option) Long Writing Task 10M Presenting factual details,
format, fluency and coherence
(Report writing)
or or or or
2
nd Option Long Writing Task 10M Presenting factual details,
(Factual Reporting) format, fluency and coherence
Q.5 (1
st option) Letter writing 10M Formating, organization,
(Long Writing Task) coherence, fluency.
or or or or
(2
nd option) Letter Writing 10M Formating, organization,
(Long Writing Task) coherence, fluency
Q.6 (1
st option) Article (LWS) 10M Organisation, coherence,
fluency
or or or or
(2
nd option) Article (LWS) 10M Organisation, coherence,
fluency

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TEXT BOOKS 4 5
Q.7 (1
st Option) a) SA 2M Poetry appreciation
b) VSA 1M Interpretation
c) VSA 1M Interpretation
or or or or
(2
nd option) a) SA 2M Poetry appreciation
b) VSA 1M Interpretation
c) VSA 1M Interpretation
Q.8 Any three 1) SA 2M Comprehension
2) SA 2M Interpretation
3) SA 2M Understanding
4) SA 2M Interpretation
Q.9 All five a) SA 2M Comprehension
b) SA 2M Comprehension
c) SA 2M Interpretation
d) SA 2M Understanding
e) SA 2M Understanding and
interpretation
Q.10 (1
st Option) Long answer 10M Content organization
Fluency, Coherence,
Understanding
or or or or
(2
nd Option) Long answer 10 M Content organization,
fluency, coherence,
understanding
Q.11 (1
st Option) Long answer 07M Content organization,
fluency, coherence,
understanding
or Or or Or
(2
nd Option) Long answer 07M Content organization,
Fluency, coherence,
understanding
Q.12 a) SA 2M Understanding
b) SA 2M Understanding
c) SA 2M Interpretation
d) SA 2M Understanding

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ENGLISH CORE
CODE NO.: 301
Class-XII
SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER I
Section A: Reading Max. Marks : 20
Read the passage given below and then answer the questions which follow:12 marks
1 In spite of all the honours that we heaped upon him, Pasteur, as has been said,
remained simple at heart. Perhaps the imagery of his boyhood days, when he drew
the familiar scenes of his birthplace, and the longing to be a great artist, never
wholly left him. In truth he did become a great artist, though after his sixteenth
year he abandoned the brush for ever. Like every artist of worth, he put his whole
soul and energy into his work, and it was this very energy that in the end wore
him out. For to him, each sufferer was something more than just a case that was
to be cured. He looked upon the fight against hydrophobia as a battle, and he was
absorbed in his determination to win. The sight of injured children, particularly,
moved him to an indescribable extent. He suffered with his patients, and yet he
would not deny himself a share in that suffering. His greatest grief was when
sheer physical exhaustion made him give up his active work. He retired to the
estate at Villeneuve Etang, where he had his kennels for the study of rabies, and
there he passed his last summer, as his great biographer, Vallery Radot, has said,
“practicing the Gospel virtues.”
2 “He revered the faith of his fathers, “says the same writer, “and wished without
ostentation or mystery to receive its aid during his last period.”
3 The attitude of this man to the science he had done so much to perfect can be best
summed up in a sentence that he is reputed once to have uttered, concerning the
materialism of many of his contemporaries in similar branches of learning to his
own: “The more I contemplate the mysteries of Nature, the more my faith
becomes like that of a peasant.”
4 But even then in retirement he loved to see his former pupils, and it was then he
would reiterate his life principles: “Work, “ he would say, “never cease to work.”
So well had he kept this precept that he began rapidly to sink from exhaustion.
5 Finally on September 27, 1895, when someone leant over his bed to offer him a
cup of milk, he said sadly: “I cannot, “ and with a look of perfect resignation and
peace, seemed to fall asleep. He never again opened his eyes to the cares and
sufferings of a world, which he had done so much to relieve and to conquer. He
was within three months of his seventy-third birthday.

4 6 Thus passed, as simply as a child, the man whom the French people were to vote
at a plebiscite as the greatest man that France had ever produced. Napoleon, who
has always been considered the idol of France, was placed fifth.
7 No greater tribute could have been paid to Louis Pasteur, the tanner’s son, the
scientist, the man of peace, the patient worker for humanity.
487 words
1.1 Answer the following questions:
a. Even accolades and honours did not change the simple man that
Pasteur was. Why? 2 marks
b. How did Pasteur view those who suffered from diseases? 1 mark
c. How did Pasteur engage himself in the estate? 2 marks
d. What advice did he always give to his pupils? 2