UP Board Class 12 English Question Paper 2025 PDF (Code 316 HX) is available for download here. The Mathematics exam was conducted on March 12, 2025 in the Evening Shift from 2:00 PM to 5:15 PM. The total marks for the theory paper are 100. Students reported the paper to be easy to moderate.
UP Board Class 12 English Question Paper 2025 (Code 316 HX) with Solutions
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
We know it well that language is used for more than one purpose. The man who hits his
thumb-nails with a hammer and utters a string of curses uses language to relieve his feeling
and needs no audience but himself. But when a philosopher uses language to clarify his ideas
on a subject, he uses it as an instrument of thought. When the two women gossip over the
fence or two men exchange greetings as they pass in the street, language is used to strengthen
the bonds between the members of society. It seems that language is a multipurpose
instrument. Language enables us to influence people’s behaviour and help develop human
co-operation. The human co-operation would be unthinkable without language as it makes
human co-operation more thorough, more effective and more wide-ranging.
Question 1:
(a) How does language help relieve the man hitting his finger-nails with a hammer?
(b) How is language used by a philosopher?
(c) How can language be said to be a multipurpose instrument?
(d) How does language help promote human co-operation?
(e) (i) Which word in the passage is opposite of 'weaken'?
e.(ii) Find a word from the passage that means 'listeners'.
e.(iii) Write the adjective form of the word 'clarify'.
Write an article on any one of the following topics in about 100-150 words:
(a) Unemployment in India and its reasons.
(b) Freedom of Speech
(c) Soaring prices and measures to control it.
Write a letter to the Health Officer complaining against insanitary conditions of the locality you live in.
Write a letter to your friend inviting him to attend your elder brother's marriage.
Choose the correct option to answer the following questions:
(a) Government by the officials is called:
(b) The phrase 'null and void' means:
(c) The synonym for 'bold' is:
(d) Deepu studies since 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. daily. Which word is an error in the sentence?
(e) The antonym of 'cruel' is:
a.Change any one of the following into indirect speech:
(i) Ram said to me, "God is everywhere."
(ii) Rita said, "She can do this work."
b.Combine any one of the following as directed (synthesis):
(i) This mango is sweet. That mango is sweet. Only one mango of them is sweet. (Compound Sentence)
(ii) Some teachers command respect. They are good. (Complex Sentence)
c.Transform any one of the following as directed:
(i) He has done his work. (Passive Voice)
(ii) Renu is the most beautiful girl of this locality. (Comparative Degree)
d.Correct any one of the following sentences:
(i) Mohan's father purse has been stolen.
(ii) Ram Pal is junior than me.
e.Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear:
(i) Birth – Berth
(ii) Career – Carrier
Translate the following passage into English:
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Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(a) Who are the inhabitants of Seemapuri? What do they do for their livelihood?
(a) What did Rajkumar Shukla do to bring Gandhiji to Champaran?
(b) What changes did the order from Berlin cause in school that day?
(b) What did Hamel say about the language and its importance?
Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(a) What did Gandhiji do to change the plight of the peasants of Champaran?
(b) What did Douglas decide to do to overcome his fear of water?
(a) What are the feelings of the poet about a thing of beauty?
(b) Why does the poet say, "It will never pass into nothingness"?
(c) What do you understand by ‘bower’?
Write the central idea of any one of the following poems:
(a) Keeping Quiet
(b) My Mother at Sixty-Six
(c) Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Answer the following questions in about 40 words each:
(a) Who was Hana? How did she meet Sadao?
What will Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
What is that draws Derry towards Lamb in spite of himself?
What was the third level? Where was it situated?
Who was Dr. Sadao? How did he meet and marry Hana?
What does the third level refer to?
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