CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Syllabus - Free PDF Download
CBSE Syllabus 2025-26 Class 12: The CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Syllabus for the examination year 2025-26 has been released by the Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE. The board will hold the final examination at the end of the year following the annual assessment scheme, which has led to the release of the syllabus. The 2025-26 CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Board Exam will entirely be based on the most recent syllabus. Therefore, students must thoroughly understand the new CBSE syllabus to prepare for their annual exam properly.
The detailed CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Syllabus for 2025-26 is below.
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CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Revised Syllabus
CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT and their Unit wise marks distribution
CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Course Structure 2025-26 With Marking Scheme
| # | Unit/Topic | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| I | Kaliedoscope | 32 |
| 1.1 | I Sell My Dreams | |
| 1.2 | Eveline | |
| 1.3 | A Wedding in Brownsville | |
| 1.4 | Tomorrow | |
| 1.5 | One Centimetre | |
| 2.1 | A Lecture Upon the Shadow | |
| 2.2 | Poems by Milton | |
| 2.3 | Poems by Blake | |
| 2.4 | Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream: a Fragment | |
| 2.5 | Trees | |
| 2.6 | The Wild Swans of Coole | |
| 2.7 | Time and Time Again | |
| 2.8 | Blood | |
| 3.1 | Freedom | |
| 3.2 | The Mark on the Wall | |
| 3.3 | Film-making | |
| 3.4 | Why the Novel Matters | |
| 3.5 | The Argumentative Indian | |
| 3.6 | On Science Fiction | |
| 4.1 | Chandalika | |
| 4.2 | Broken Images | |
| II | Fiction Section by R.K. Narayan (Novel) | |
| 2.1 | A Tiger for Malgudi | 5 |
| 2.2 | The Financial Expert | 5 |
| 3 | Grammar | 8 |
| 4 | Writing Skills | 20 |
| 5 | Reading Skills | 20 |
| Total | - |
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Syllabus
CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Syllabus for Chapter 1: Kaliedoscope
1.1 I Sell My Dreams
- I Sell My Dreams
1.2 Eveline
- Eveline
1.3 A Wedding in Brownsville
- A Wedding in Brownsville
1.4 Tomorrow
- Tomorrow
1.5 One Centimetre
- One Centimetre
2.1 A Lecture Upon the Shadow
- A Lecture Upon the Shadow
2.2 Poems by Milton
- On Time
- On Shakespear. 1630
2.3 Poems by Blake
- The Divine Image
- The Human Abstract
2.4 Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream: a Fragment
- Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream: a Fragment
2.5 Trees
- Trees
2.6 The Wild Swans of Coole
- The Wild Swans of Coole
2.7 Time and Time Again
- Time and Time Again
2.8 Blood
- Blood
3.1 Freedom
- Freedom
3.2 The Mark on the Wall
- The Mark on the Wall
3.3 Film-making
- Film-making
3.4 Why the Novel Matters
- Why the Novel Matters
3.5 The Argumentative Indian
- The Argumentative Indian
3.6 On Science Fiction
- On Science Fiction
4.1 Chandalika
- Chandalika
4.2 Broken Images
- Broken Images
CBSE Class 12 English Elective - NCERT Syllabus for Chapter 2: Fiction Section by R.K. Narayan (Novel)
2.1 A Tiger for Malgudi
- A Tiger for Malgudi
2.2 The Financial Expert
- The Financial Expert
3 Grammar
- Grammar
- Parallelism
- Syllables
- Figures of Speech
- Alliteration
- Antithesis
- Personification
- Climax
- Imagery
- Hyperbole
- Inversion
- Metaphor
- Oxymoron Parody
- Punctuation
- Parts of Speech
- Pronoun
- Types of Pronoun: Relative pronoun, Possessive pronoun, Reflexive pronoun, Demonstrative Pronoun, Interrogative Pronoun, Indefinite Pronoun, Personal Pronoun, Subject Pronoun, Object Pronoun, Reciprocal Pronoun, Intensive Pronoun
- Verb
- A verb is a term that expresses an action, an occurrence, or a state of being (exist).
- Types of Verb: main verb, auxiliary verb, modal verb, transitive verb, intransitive verb, finite verbs, infinitives, gerund, participles, phrasal verbs
- Pronoun
- Rhyme Scheme
- Pronunciation
- Vocabulary
- Capitalization
- Direct-Indirect Speech
- Types of Sentences
- Positive and Negative Statements
- Commands Statements
- Questions Statements
- Exclamations Statements
- Simple Statements
- Complex Statements
- Compound Statements
- Idioms and Phrases
- Tense
- Orthography
- Clauses
4 Writing Skills
- Writing Skills
- Article Writing
- Speech Writing
- Report Writing
- Note Making
- Notice Writing
- Letter Writing
5 Reading Skills
- Reading Skills
- Unseen Passage Comprehension
- Unseen Poem Comprehension
