MP Board Class 12th English Syllabus 2025-26 for English Medium with PDF

MP Board of Secondary Education

Higher Secondary Examination, Year – 2025-26

English Language Syllabus

Class – XII

Subject – English

Section A

Reading Skill

· Reading comprehension through unseen passage.

Two unseen passage to assess comprehension, interpretation, inference and vocabulary.

The passage may be factual, descriptive, literary or case based. Multiple choice

questions/ objective type questions will be asked.

Section – B

Writing Skills

· Note Making

· Summarizing

· Sub-titling

· Essay writing

· Letter writing

· Creative writing

. Note Making based on a passage.

· Notice/ Advertisement/ Poster making. Creative writing skills aid in developing abilities in critical thinking and creative problem solving.

· Letter writing. Formal / informal letter to enable the students to identify the elements of a letter and to apply them and compose a letter. They must be able to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.

· Long Composition

Writing an essay/ article/ paragraph to enable the students to learn presentation of a coherent argument in response to a stimulus or question and develop research, communication skills, creative and critical thinking, organization of thoughts etc.

Section – C

Grammar

(I) Questions on gap filling, Tenses, Prepositions, Verbs, Conjunctions, Articles, Modals, Determiners etc.

(II) Do as directed: Voices, Transformation of sentences, Clauses etc.

Section D

Textbooks

This section will have the variety of assessment items including multiple choice questions, objective type questions, short answer type questions and long answer type questions to assess comprehension, analysis, interpretation and extrapolation of the textbooks.

The following chapters from prescribed textbook-Flamingo for 2025-26.

S No      Topics            Writer                     Genre

1. The Last Lesson      Alphonse Daudet             Prose
2. Last Spring         Anees Jung                   Prose
3. Deep Water         William Douglas               Prose
4. The Rattrap        Selma Lagerlof                 Prose
5. Indigo           Louis Fischer                    Prose
6. Poets And Pancakes  Asokamitran                Prose
7. The Interview       Prose

Part-I Christopher Silvester

Part-II  An Interview with Umberto Eco

8. Going Places             A.R. Barton               Prose

S No           Topics          Writer               Genre

1. My Mother At Sixty-Six   Kamala Das            Poetry
2.  Keeping Quiet          Pablo Neruda           Poetry
3.  A Thing Of Beauty        Jhon Keats            Poetry
4.  A Roadside Stand       Robert Frost           Poetry
5.  Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers   Adrienne Rich         Poetry

The following chapters from prescribed supplementary reader-Vistas for 2025-26.

S No       Topics                                                          Writer

1.   The Third Level                                                  Jack Finney
2.  The Tiger King                                                        Kalki
3.  Journey to the end of the Earth              Tishani Doshi
4. The Enemy                                                      Pearl S.Buck
5. On the face of It                                             Susan Hill

6. Memories of Childhood                                  Zitkala-Sa Bama

      – The Cutting of My Long Hair                      Zitkala-Sa

– We Too are Human Beings                              Zitkala-Sa