Specification Grid of English for NEB (11 and 12)

 

Class 11 and 12

Subject: English

Specification Grid

1. Reading (35 Marks)

• Reading Comprehension Test (15 Marks)

a.      Unseen prose text of about 600 words (book/film reviews, news reports and articles, stories, reports, letters or emails, essays, biographies/auto-biographies, product guides, blogs, brochures, travelogues/memoire, etc.

                                                    i.     Multiple choice, true/false/not given

                                                   ii.     Sentence completion

                                                  iii.     Matching

                                                  iv.     Ordering

                                                   v.     Summary completion

                                                  vi.     Short answer questions

•        Text Based Questions (20 marks)

Genres	Types of Questions
	Short answer questions	Long answer questions
Short stories	5	2
Poems
Essays
One act plays
Total	Short Answer Question = 5×2=10 Short Answer Question = 2×5=10

•        Question Items

•        Comprehending, narrating, summarizing, writing character sketch, paraphrasing, writing theme/central idea of the text, comparing and contrasting, making judgement (e.g. title justification), arguing, analyzing and interpreting, explaining with reference to context, literary interpreting, critical appreciation

2. Writing (25 Marks)

•        Task 1 (7 marks): paragraph writing, summary writing, interpreting graphic text, news story writing, note taking, and skeleton stories (150 words)

•        Task 2 (8 marks): personal letter, job application letter, letter to the editor, business letter, emails, writing a CV. (180 words)

•        Task 3 (10 marks): essay, travelogue/memoir, book/film review, biography, diary entry, communique and press release. (300 words)

3. Grammar and vocabulary (15 marks)

•        Grammar (10 marks)

1.      Adjectives and adverbs

2.      Concord/subject verb agreement

3.      Prepositions

4.      Modal auxiliaries

5.      Tense and aspect

6.      Infinitives and gerunds

7.      Conjunctions

8.      Relative clause

9.      Voice

10.   Reported speech

•        Vocabulary (5 marks)

•        Sound system of English: consonants and vowels (Only for grade 12)

•        Vocabulary study

•        Stem/root, suffixes, prefixes, derivation, inflexion, synonyms/antonyms, parts of speech, idioms and phrases, nouns-number, verb conjugation, spellings, punctuation

•        Dictionary Use

•        Idioms and phrasal verbs

Internal Assessment (25 Marks)

S.N.	Areas	Marks
1.	Participation	3
2.	Listening Test	6
3.	Speaking Test	10
4.	Score from Terminal Exams	6