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
- The Last Lesson Alphonse Daudet Prose
- Last Spring Anees Jung Prose
- Deep Water William Douglas Prose
- The Rattrap Selma Lagerlof Prose
- Indigo Louis Fischer Prose
- Poets And Pancakes Asokamitran Prose
- 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
- My Mother At Sixty-Six Kamala Das Poetry
- Keeping Quiet Pablo Neruda Poetry
- A Thing Of Beauty Jhon Keats Poetry
- A Roadside Stand Robert Frost Poetry
- Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Adrienne Rich Poetry
The following chapters from prescribed supplementary reader-Vistas for 2025-26.
S No Topics Writer
- The Third Level Jack Finney
- The Tiger King Kalki
- Journey to the end of the Earth Tishani Doshi
- The Enemy Pearl S.Buck
- 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


