UP Board Class 12 English Question Paper 2025 PDF (Code 316 RM) 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 RM) with Solutions
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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The first thing that a scholar should bear in mind is that a book ought not to be read
for mere amusement. Half-educated persons read for amusement, and are not to be
blamed for it; they are incapable of appreciating the deeper qualities that belong to a
really great literature. But a young man who has passed through a course of university
training should discipline himself at an early day never to read for mere amusement.
And once the habit of this discipline has been formed, he will find it impossible to read
for mere amusement. He will then impatiently throw down any book from which he
cannot obtain intellectual food, any book that does not make an appeal to the higher
emotions and to his intellect. But on the other hand, the habit of reading for amusement
becomes with thousands of people exactly the same kind of habit as wine-drinking or
opium-smoking; it is like a narcotic; something that helps to pass the time, something
that keeps up a perpetual condition of dreaming, something that eventually results in
destroying all capacity for thought, giving exercise only to the surface parts of the mind,
and leaving the deeper springs of feeling and the higher faculties of perception unem-
ployed.
Question 1:
What sort of people read for amusement?
What does the truly educated person read?
What are the ill effects of reading for mere amusement?
When should one train oneself for reading the right kind of books?
Explain the phrase 'intellectual food'.
Write the opposite word of 'discipline'.
Which word in the passage is nearest in meaning to 'entertainment'?
Write an article on the topic: Women in New India.
Write an article on the topic: My Hero in History.
Write an article on the topic: Problem of Corruption.
Write an application to the principal of your college requesting him to grant you full concession in fee.
Write a letter to your younger brother warning him against some of his undesirable companions.
Choose the correct option to correct the sentence: "He always gave me a valuable advice."
Choose the correct option to correct the sentence: "No one besides you brother know the fact."
'I prefer a pen than a pencil.' Which word in this sentence is an error?
"The poem has many obscure illusions" Which word in this sentence is an error?
"What is the time in your watch?" Which word in this sentence is an error?
Change the following into indirect speech: He said, "This is my book."
Combine the following into a Compound sentence: "Everything decays. Books survive."
Transform the following into the Positive Degree: "Bangalore is the cleanest of Indian towns."
Correct the following sentence: "I am confident to win."
Use the following pair of words in your sentences to make their meanings clear: Apposite - Opposite
Translate the following passage into English:
\texthindi{हैदराबाद की जलवायु बहुत अच्छी है। न यहाँ अधिक गर्मी पड़ती है और न ही अधिक जाड़ा। यहाँ वर्षा खूब होती है लेकिन सड़कों पर कीचड़ नहीं दिखाई देता। पठारी इलाका होने की वजह से यहाँ पानी बह जाता है और कहीं सड़कों पर इकट्ठा नहीं होता। अब तो जनसंख्या बढ़ जाने से कुछ अधिक गर्मी पड़ने लगी है। बसन्त के आने पर प्रकृति की शोभा यहाँ बढ़ जाती है। रास्तों पर वृक्षों की ठंडी छाया रहती है। वाटिकाओं से फूलों की सुगन्ध आती रहती है। दूर-दूर तक हरियाली दिखाई पड़ती है। देखकर मन आनन्दित होता है।}
(a) (A) What did M. Hamel speak first in the class that day about the last lesson?
(a) (B) Why did Gandhiji chide the lawyers?
(b) (B) What christmas present did Edla receive from the peddler? Why did she give a little cry fo joy?
(a) How did the announcement of the last lesson affect Franz?
(b) Describe Douglas's struggle at the pool? What strategy did he make to save his life?
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
\textit{Now we will count to twelve.
and we will all keep still.
for once on the face of the Earth
let's not speak in any language,
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
(a) What does the poet say in the first two lines?
(b) What does the poet want once on the face of the Earth?
(c) What does the poet want for one second?
Write the central idea of any one of the following poems:
(a) My Mother at Sixty six
(b) A Thing of Beauty
(c) Keeping Quiet
(a) What was the third level? Where was it situated?
(a) OR Who was Geoff Green? What did he offer to the students?
(b) What did the astrologers tell when the tiger king was born?
(b) OR Why was Sadao sent to America and why was later kept in Japan?
Answer any one of the following questions in about 80 words:
(a) Describe the third level as per Charley. What did he do to make sure that he was in 1894? Why did he want to buy tickets?
(b) Assess the human impact on Antarctica.
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