UP Board Class 12 English Question Paper with Answer Key (February 24, Code 316 ZZ)

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UP Board Class 12 English Question Paper with Answer Key Code 316 ZZ is available for download. The exam was conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) on February 24, 2023 in Afternoon Session 2 PM to 5:15 PM. The medium of paper was English. In terms of difficulty level, UP Board Class 12 English paper was . The question paper comprised a total of 12 questions.

UP Board Class 12 English (Code 316 ZZ) Question Paper with Answer Key (February 24)

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UP Board Class 12 English (Code 316 ZZ) Question Paper with Answer Key (February 24)

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Whatever your task may be, concentrate your whole mind upon it, throw into it all the energy of which you are capable. The faultless completion of small tasks leads inevitably to larger tasks. See to it that you rise by steady climbing and you will never fall. And herein lies the secret of true power. Learn, by constant practice, how to husband your resources, and to concentrate them, at any moment, upon a given point. The foolish waste all their mental and spiritual energy in frivolity, foolish chatter, or selfish argument, not to mention wasteful physical excesses.

Question 1:

(a) How should we do our task?


Question 2:

(b) When shall we never fall?


Question 3:

(c) Wherein lies the secret of true power?


Question 4:

How do the foolish waste their energy?


Question 5:

Which word in the passage is the opposite of 'false'?


Question 6:

What is meant by 'to concentrate'?


Question 7:

Give the antonym of 'foolish'.


Question 8:

Write an article on any one of the following topics in about 100–150 words:

  • (a) Importance of Games and Sports
  • (b) Steps for Making Cities Clean
  • (c) Your Aim in Life

Question 9:

Write a letter to the Principal of your college to provide library books to students.


Question 10:

Write a letter to the Editor of a national daily showing your concern over increasing ‘Price Rise’.


Question 11:

One who sees the dark side of a thing is called:

  • (A) optimist
  • (B) pessimist
  • (C) darky
  • (D) hopeless

Question 12:

‘The apple of one’s eye’ means:

  • (A) the most tender part of an eye
  • (B) a tearful eye
  • (C) very dear
  • (D) a costly treatment of an eye

Question 13:

The synonym of ‘destroy’ is:

  • (A) finish
  • (B) demolish
  • (C) stop
  • (D) end

Question 14:

“What is the time in your watch?” Which word in this sentence is an error?

  • (A) what
  • (B) time
  • (C) in
  • (D) watch

Question 15:

The antonym of ‘better’ is:

  • (A) good
  • (B) bad
  • (C) worse
  • (D) worst

Question 16:

Change any one of the following into indirect narration:

  • (i) Mahesh said to Reeta, “What are you doing here?”
  • (ii) The teacher said to the students, “Do not quarrel with one another.”

Question 17:

Combine any one of the following as directed:

  • (i) Where are you going? I do not know. (Complex sentence)
  • (ii) He was fined. He was imprisoned. (Compound sentence)

Question 18:

Transform any one of the following as directed:

  • (i) Jammu is not so hot as Delhi. (Comparative degree)
  • (ii) Who can do it? (Passive voice)

Question 19:

Correct any one of the following sentences:

  • (i) There am large number of girls in this school.
  • (ii) He is tired in doing this work.

Question 20:

Use any one of the following pairs of words in your own sentences to make the difference in their meanings clear:

  • (i) idle – ideal
  • (ii) birth – berth

Question 21:

Translate the following passage into English:


Question 22:

Whom did M. Hamel blame for not paying proper attention to the study of French?


Question 23:

Who was the rattrap seller? How did he make them?


Question 24:

What was the importance of garbage for children in Seemapuri?


Question 25:

What did Gandhiji do for Champaran?


Question 26:

What did Douglas decide to overcome his fear of water?


Question 27:

Describe the plight of ragpickers as depicted in the lesson ‘Lost Spring’.


Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever :
Its loveliness increases, it will never
Pass into nothingness; but will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Question 28:

What does the poet feel about a thing of beauty?


Question 29:

What does the poet mean by ``It will never pass into nothingness''?


Question 30:

In what sense ``A thing of beauty is a joy forever''?


Question 31:

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

Question 32:

Who was Hana? How did Hana meet Sadao?


Question 33:

Describe the environment of Antarctica.


Question 34:

What was the third level? Where was it situated?


Question 35:

What was the astrologer’s prediction about the Tiger King’s death?


Question 36:

How did Dr. Sadao save the life of the American war prisoner and how did Hana help in doing so?


Question 37:

Who was Sam Weiner? What did he write in his letter to Charley?

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