Bihar Board Class 12 English Question Paper PDF with Solutions is available for download. The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) conducted the Class 12 examination for a total duration of 3 hours 15 minutes, and the question paper was of a total of 100 marks.
Bihar Board Class 12 English 2025 Question Paper with Solutions
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Have you .................... Amrita? (Choose the correct option)
She .................... know the answer. (Choose the correct option)
The house caught fire. All the books were burnt. (Choose the correct option)
Chose the correctly spelt word: (Choose the correct option)
Veena had written a letter. (Choose the correct passive sentence)
He is wiser than you. (Choose the correct negative sentence)
Her employer always finds fault .................... her. (Choose the correct option)
Let us have .................... drink now. (Choose the correct option)
My friend and I .................... our homework everyday. (Choose the correct option)
The cat is hiding .................... the bed. (Choose the correct option)
.................... of my friends are coming to the party. (Choose the correct option)
I can’t believe .................... my purse at home. (Choose the correct option)
He is the .................... of the two brothers. (Choose the correct option)
The cake tasted .................... sweet that I couldn’t finish it. (Choose the correct option)
The teacher said, “Is anyone there?” (Choose the correct indirect speech)
We .................... be punctual. (Choose the correct option)
Is Hindi spoken by them? (Choose the correct active voice)
Smita is rich. Smita is a miser. (Choose the correct combination)
Shyam teaches Mathematics .................... English. (Choose the correct option)
You take it very easy, .................... ? (Choose the correct option)
I am going to .................... (Choose the correct option)
Choose the correct spelling: (Choose the correct option)
He speaks .................... French nor English. (Choose the correct option)
The synonym of ‘Genuine’ is (Choose the correct option)
The antonym of ‘Admit’ is (Choose the correct option)
The synonym of ‘Strategy’ is (Choose the correct option)
The antonym of ‘Common’ is (Choose the correct option)
The synonym of ‘Justify’ is (Choose the correct option)
The antonym of ‘Duplicate’ is (Choose the correct option)
He is a straightforward man and keeps flatterers .................... . (Choose the correct option)
He declared his .................... . (Choose the correct option)
They were surprised .................... hear him sing. (Choose the correct option)
He has properly .................... the rules and regulations. (Choose the correct option)
...................., a borrower nor a lender be.
(Choose the correct option)
India is progressing ______________.
(Choose the correct option)
I want to take __________ classes this year.
(Choose the correct option)
Do you think we will be unhappy _________ ?
(Choose the correct option)
I have nothing ___________ to say.
(Choose the correct option)
London is the _________ city in England.
(Choose the correct option)
I am not ill, but I am _________ tired.
(Choose the correct option)
Are they not cheating us?
(Choose the correct passive voice)
He said, “I am going to college just now.”
(Choose the correct indirect narration)
Have some more tea, ___________ ?
(Choose the correct option)
The rise and fall of the tide _________ due to lunar influence.
(Choose the correct option)
The children locked __________ up in the cupboard.
(Choose the correct option)
The synonym of ‘Concealed’ is
(Choose the correct option)
The antonym of ‘Urban’ is
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‘To make both ends meet’ means
(Choose the correct option)
The examination will begin _________ Monday.
(Choose the correct option)
I sing __________.
(Choose the correct option)
Choose the correct sentence:
(Choose the correct option)
A variety of music __________ available here.
(Choose the correct option)
I have lived in this town _________ childhood.
(Choose the correct option)
Choose the correct spelling:
(Choose the correct option)
We arrived on _________ fourth of July.
(Choose the correct option)
The ladder leaned _________ the wall.
(Choose the correct option)
Choose the correct spelling:
(Choose the correct option)
I __________ swim across the river.
(Choose the correct option)
_________ they played well, they could not win.
(Choose the correct option)
I always __________ the poor.
(Choose the correct option)
Gandhiji completely dominated Indian politics
(Choose the correct option)
Nanukaka went to the _________ Auto Dealers.
(Choose the correct option)
_________ got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1950.
(Choose the correct option)
_________ is the chief source of revenue of a newspaper.
(Choose the correct option)
Who became the President of India in 1967?
(Choose the correct option)
Who was one of the greatest orators in American history?
(Choose the correct option)
_________ is told by an aunt.
(Choose the correct option)
H. E. Bates belonged to _________.
(Choose the correct option)
The food in Indian villages was served on _________ leaves.
(Choose the correct option)
Chubukov is a ________.
(Choose the correct option)
________ wants to gladly accept death.
(Choose the correct option)
‘Leaves of Grass’ was published in ________.
(Choose the correct option)
‘Nature without check with original ________.’
(Choose the correct option)
Autumn starts with the departure of ________ season.
(Choose the correct option)
________ wrote a number of children-poems.
(Choose the correct option)
‘A pulse in the eternal mind’ is from
(Choose the correct option)
Macavity is called
(Choose the correct option)
Tower of Silence is related to
(Choose the correct option)
A ________ is mentioned in the poem ‘Snake’.
(Choose the correct option)
________ spent her childhood days with her grandmother.
(Choose the correct option)
The English language is much younger than ________.
(Choose the correct option)
T. S. Eliot is a ________ poet.
(Choose the correct option)
Old English Period covers
(Choose the correct option)
Who wrote ‘Endymion’ and ‘Hyperion’?
(Choose the correct option)
In England Printing Press was invented in ________.
(Choose the correct option)
Who wrote ‘Mac Flecknoe’?
(Choose the correct option)
About ________ Christianity began to spread in England.
(Choose the correct option)
Who is known as ‘The Nightingale of India’?
(Choose the correct option)
The name ‘Augustan’ was given to ________ Century.
(Choose the correct option)
Chaucer, Langland and Wycliffe are important writers of ________.
(Choose the correct option)
A snake appeared on a trough of the ________ to sip water.
(Choose the correct option)
Who was born in the U.S.A. but eventually settled in England?
(Choose the correct option)
Lomov is a man of ________ temperament.
(Choose the correct option)
The redness of the fire appears ________ to the poet.
(Choose the correct option)
“A Child is Born” is taken from ________.
(Choose the correct option)
The last of the pre-historic invention was ________.
(Choose the correct option)
Nanukaka managed to travel in 2nd class on a ________ ticket.
(Choose the correct option)
Dr. Radhakrishnan never lost his faith in ________.
(Choose the correct option)
The curio-dealer sold the gourd to a wealthy ________.
(Choose the correct option)
Which language is the second language of India?
(Choose the correct option)
Write an essay on any one of the following in about 150–200 words:
(a) Clean India Movement
(b) Climate Change
(c) Social Justice
(d) Education for Everyone
(e) Bihar of your Dreams
Explain any one of the following:
(a) I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
(b) Justice was tolerably fair. The ordinary rule was to avoid courts.
(c) You two’d better hurry up and get married — Have me in peace.
(d) I went to India to see and listen to two groups of people, the young intellectuals in the cities and the peasants in the villages.
Explain any one of the following:
(a) The voice of my education said to me / He must be killed
(b) Can you, that I lived in such a house and / Was proud, and loved \ldots
(c) There shall be / In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; / A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware
(d) Nurses to the graves are gone, / And the prams go rolling on.
(a) Letter to Sister – Congratulating on NEET Success
(b) Application to Principal – Leave for Yoga Workshop
Answer any five of the following in about 40–50 words each:
(a) What, according to Gandhiji, is the ‘sheet anchor of our hope’?
(b) What is the business of education?
(c) What are the ‘trials and tribulations’ that Martin Luther King Jr. talks about?
(d) What do free people take for granted?
(e) Who are the ‘whispering neighbours’?
(f) What does the speaker, in ‘Song of Myself’, observe in summer?
(g) How did the snake drink water?
(h) In what sense does the fire forget its dead?
(i) Write a note on the development of Indian poetry in English.
(j) Who were known as the University Wits?
Write the summary of any one of the following poems in about 100–120 words:
(i) My Grandmother’s House — Summary (≈115 words)
(ii) Ode to Autumn — Summary (≈110 words)
(iii) Snake — Summary (≈115 words)
Write the summary of any \textit{one of the following prose-pieces in about 100–120 words:
(i) The Artist — Summary (≈115 words)
(ii) How Free is the Press — Summary (≈110 words)
(iii) Indian Civilization and Culture — Summary (≈115 words)
Write a note on any \textit{one of the following in about 100–120 words:
(i) The Dialects of Middle English — Note (≈115 words)
(ii) English as a Second Language of India — Note (≈110 words)
(iii) American English — Note (≈115 words)
Match the names of the poems given in List–A with their poets in List–B:
% Table
\begin{tabular{|c|l|c|l|
\hline
Sl. No. & List–A (Poem) & Match & List–B (Poet)
\hline
(i) & An Epitaph & \(\rightarrow\) & W. H. Auden
(ii) & Snake & \(\rightarrow\) & Walter de la Mare
(iii) & Song of Myself & \(\rightarrow\) & D. H. Lawrence
(iv) & Now the Leaves are Falling Fast & \(\rightarrow\) & K. N. Daruwalla
(v) & Fire-Hymn & \(\rightarrow\) & Walt Whitman
\hline
\end{tabular
Translate any five of the following sentences into English:
Match the names of the prose-pieces in List–A with their authors in List–B:
% Table
\begin{tabular{|c|l|c|l|
\hline
Sl. No. & List–A (Prose-piece) & Match & List–B (Author)
\hline
(i) & How Free is the Press & \(\rightarrow\) & Martin Luther King, Jr.
(ii) & Bharat is My Home & \(\rightarrow\) & Bertrand Russell
(iii) & The Artist & \(\rightarrow\) & Dr. Zakir Hussain
(iv) & I Have a Dream & \(\rightarrow\) & Dorothy L. Sayers
(v) & Ideas That Have Helped Mankind & \(\rightarrow\) & Shiga Naoya
\hline
\end{tabular
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Passage:
The smile is the best tonic for our mind and body. It takes thirteen muscles to smile, but forty-three to be angry. To be cheerful, we have to create positive thoughts. On the other hand, if we constantly think about negative things, we feel unhappy. So the best way to avoid a negative idea is to replace it with a positive one. When we are relaxed and in bed, we should practise putting some cheerful thoughts.
(a) What is the best tonic for our mind and body?
Write a précis of the following passage and give a suitable title:
Passage:
The character of good men is like that of trees. They live for others and do not lose their qualities even in losing their lives. They always follow the right path. Praise is immaterial to them. To live for one’s own sake is to lead the life of beasts. Only those who lay down their lives for others will live forever in a world of bliss.
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