Marks Distribution

NCTB marks distribution

English Paper Two

Total marks: 50 

Grammar: 30

Composition: 20 

Grammar Test Items:  30 Marks

  1.  -Gap filling activities with and without clues (parts of speech, right forms of verbs, use of articles, etc.)
  2. -Cloze test with and without clues
  3. -Substitution table
  4. -Changing sentences (affirmative to negative and interrogative and vice versa, from positive to comparative or superlative and vice versa)
  5. -Completing sentences
  6. -Uses of suffixes and prefixes
  7. -Correcting mistakes (covering grammar items from paper two) 

* Question setters will choose six items from the above list according to students’ class/grade and make questions for 5 marks (one for each question) for each item. Test items should be placed within appropriate context 

Composition Test Items: 20 Marks

Group-A

  • -Informal letter   
  • -Formal letter 

Group-B

  • - Completing a story   
  • -Short paragraph 

Group-C  

  • -CV writing
  • -Email 

* Question setters will choose any one item from each group comprising 20 marks (6+8+6).