5. Appreciating short stories/ poems(identifying theme, subject-matter and interpretation)
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HSC English 2nd Paper
The NCTB has recently published the new syllabus of the HSC English 2nd Paper. This new syllabus will be applied to the students who are going to appear at the HSC examination of 2016.
Subject : English
Test Items of Paper 2 and distribution of marks
Total marks 100
Grammar 60
Compoition 40
Grammar test items
marks
1
Gap filling activities without clues (for articles)
5
2
Gap filling activities without clues (for preposition)
5
3
Gap filling with clues ( Special uses : was born, have to/has to, would rather, had better, let alone, what if, as if, as soon as, what’s —- like, what does —- look like, introductory ‘there’ or ‘it’)
5
4
Completing sentences (use of conditionals, phrase, and clause)
5
5
Use of verbs (right form of verbs and subject verb agreement as per context)
5
6
Changing sentences ( change of voice, sentence types, degrees)
5
7
Narrative style (direct to indirect and vice versa)
5
8
Pronoun reference/ pronoun agreement
5
9
Use of modifiers
5
10
Use of sentence connectors
5
11
Use of synonym and antonym
5
12
Punctuation
5
Note: Question setter will use all items from the above list and make questions of 5 marks for each question item. Test items must have contexts. Sentences which are isolated and out of context cannot be given as questions. Question setters will prepare the test items. No questions will be set from the textbook or/and any help books.
