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CBSE Class 12 English Core 2025

257 questions · 970 marks · every one with the board’s own marking-scheme answer.

What 2025 actually asked, chapter by chapter

Marks we counted in the 2025 papers themselves. CBSE allocates marks per unit, not per chapter — this is what was observed, not an official CBSE weightage.

ChapterMarksShare
Writing: Notice24 questions969.9%
Writing: Formal Invitation and Reply24 questions969.9%
Writing: Job Application with Bio-data18 questions909.3%
Writing: Report18 questions909.3%
Writing: Letter to the Editor18 questions909.3%
Writing: Article17 questions858.8%
Vistas: The Enemy14 questions464.7%
Vistas: On the face of It12 questions424.3%
Vistas: Journey to the end of the Earth15 questions424.3%
Vistas: The Third Level17 questions373.8%
Vistas: Memories of Childhood9 questions363.7%
Flamingo: Indigo7 questions262.7%
Flamingo: The Last Lesson7 questions262.7%
Vistas: The Tiger King9 questions212.2%
Flamingo: A Thing of Beauty7 questions202.1%
Flamingo: The Interview6 questions181.9%
Flamingo: Deep Water4 questions171.8%
Flamingo: Keeping Quiet5 questions161.6%
Flamingo: Going Places6 questions151.5%
Flamingo: My Mother at Sixty-six3 questions151.5%
Flamingo: The Rattrap2 questions101.0%
Flamingo: A Roadside Stand5 questions101.0%
Flamingo: Lost Spring3 questions90.9%
Flamingo: Poets and Pancakes4 questions80.8%

All 257 questions from 2025

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Answers come from CBSE’s own marking schemes. How we source them.

CBSE Class 12 English Core 2025 question paper with solutions | SolveIt