Bihar Board Class 12 English 2025 Question Paper (Available): Download Bihar Board Class 12 Question Paper with Solution PDF (SET I)

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Updated on - Nov 24, 2025

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 Bihar Board Class 12 English question paper was of a total of 100 marks.

Bihar Board Class 12 English 2025 Question Paper with Solutions Set I

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Question 1:

Do you think we will be unhappy ......... ?

  • (A) ever
  • (B) forever
  • (C) never
  • (D) not

Question 2:

I have nothing ......... to say.

  • (A) further
  • (B) neither
  • (C) farther
  • (D) either

Question 3:

London is the ......... city in England.

  • (A) larger
  • (B) largest
  • (C) more large
  • (D) large

Question 4:

I am not ill, but I am ......... tired.

  • (A) a little
  • (B) a few
  • (C) some
  • (D) few

Question 5:

Are they not cheating us ?

  • (A) Are we not being cheated ?
  • (B) Are we being not cheated ?
  • (C) Are not we being cheated ?
  • (D) Are we being cheated ?

Question 6:

He said, “I am going to college just now."

  • (A) He said that he was going to college just now.
  • (B) He asked that he was going to college just then.
  • (C) He said that he was going to college just then.
  • (D) He asked that he was going to college just now.

Question 7:

Have you ......... Amrita ?

  • (A) see
  • (B) saw
  • (C) seeing
  • (D) seen

Question 8:

She ......... know the answer.

  • (A) have
  • (B) ought
  • (C) might
  • (D) did

Question 9:

The house caught fire. All the books were burnt.

  • (A) As the house caught fire and all the books were burnt
  • (B) The house having caught fire, all the books were burnt
  • (C) All the books were burnt, the house caught fire
  • (D) As the books burnt, the house caught fire

Question 10:

Chose the correctly spelt word :

  • (A) Genuine
  • (B) Genune
  • (C) Gennuine
  • (D) Gennune

Question 11:

Veena had written a letter.

  • (A) A letter had been written by Veena
  • (B) A letter is wrote by Veena
  • (C) A letter was written by Veena
  • (D) Write a letter by Veena

Question 12:

He is wiser than you.

  • (A) He is not wise than you
  • (B) He is not the wisest man
  • (C) You are not so wise as he
  • (D) You are not wiser than you

Question 13:

The examination will begin ......... Monday.

  • (A) from
  • (B) at
  • (C) in
  • (D) on

Question 14:

I sing ......... .

  • (A) badly
  • (B) lately
  • (C) largely
  • (D) orderly

Question 15:

Choose the correct sentence:

  • (A) Neither of the girls solves its task
  • (B) Neither of the girls solves her task
  • (C) Neither of the girls solves their task
  • (D) Neither of the girls solve her tasks

Question 16:

A variety of music ......... available here.

  • (A) is
  • (B) are
  • (C) has
  • (D) have

Question 17:

I have lived in this town ......... childhood.

  • (A) in
  • (B) for
  • (C) at
  • (D) since

Question 18:

Choose the correct spelling :

  • (A) Terrorism
  • (B) Turrism
  • (C) Taerorism
  • (D) Tearism

Question 19:

The antonym of ‘Admit’ is

  • (A) Confess
  • (B) Accept
  • (C) Deny
  • (D) Comply

Question 20:

The synonym of 'Strategy' is

  • (A) Fame
  • (B) Criminal
  • (C) Plan
  • (D) Invasion

Question 21:

The antonym of 'Common' is

  • (A) Ordinary
  • (B) Rare
  • (C) Natural
  • (D) Beautiful

Question 22:

The synonym of 'Justify' is

  • (A) Attack
  • (B) Explain
  • (C) React
  • (D) Erase

Question 23:

The antonym of 'Duplicate' is

  • (A) Copy
  • (B) Clone
  • (C) Original
  • (D) Photostat

Question 24:

He is a straightforward man and keeps flatterers .................... .

  • (A) at any rate
  • (B) at arm's length
  • (C) all the rage
  • (D) all told

Question 25:

He is the .................... of the two brothers.

  • (A) younger
  • (B) more young
  • (C) young
  • (D) youngest

Question 26:

The cake tasted .................... sweet that I couldn't finish it.

  • (A) so
  • (B) very
  • (C) such
  • (D) too

Question 27:

The teacher said, "Is anyone there ?"

(Choose the correct indirect speech)

  • (A) The teacher asked if anyone was there
  • (B) The teacher will ask if anyone was there
  • (C) The teacher had said if anyone was there
  • (D) The teacher will say if anyone was there

Question 28:

We .................... be punctual.

  • (A) ought
  • (B) might
  • (C) may
  • (D) must

Question 29:

Is Hindi spoken by them?

(Choose the correct active voice)

  • (A) Do they speak Hindi ?
  • (B) Speak Hindi will they?
  • (C) Should they speak Hindi ?
  • (D) Hindi must they speak?

Question 30:

Smita is rich. Smita is a miser.

(Choose the correct combination)

  • (A) Smita is rich, still she is not a miser
  • (B) Smita is rich, still she is a miser
  • (C) Smita is not rich, still she is a miser
  • (D) Smita is rich, still she was a miser

Question 31:

Shyam teaches Mathematics .................... English.

  • (A) across
  • (B) besides
  • (C) beside
    (D) over

Question 32:

You take it very easy, .................... ?

  • (A) didn't you
  • (B) mustn't you
  • (C) won't you
  • (D) don't you

Question 33:

I am going to .................... ,

  • (A) cutting my hair
  • (B) hair cut
  • (C) have my hair cut
  • (D) cut my hair up

Question 34:

Choose the correct spelling:

  • (A) Suced
  • (B) Sicued
  • (C) Succeed
  • (D) Suceud

Question 35:

He speaks .................... French nor English.

  • (A) either
  • (B) and
  • (C) or
  • (D) neither

Question 36:

The synonym of 'Genuine' is

  • (A) Pleasant
  • (B) Angry
  • (C) Graceful
  • (D) Real

Question 37:

We arrived on .................... fourth of July.

  • (A) a
  • (B) the
  • (C) an
  • (D) none

Question 38:

The ladder leaned .................... the wall.

  • (A) against
  • (B) for
  • (C) at
  • (D) in

Question 39:

Choose the correct spelling:

  • (A) Exploiete
  • (B) Expluit
  • (C) Exploit
  • (D) Expleat

Question 40:

I .................... swim across the river.

  • (A) can
  • (B) dare
  • (C) need
  • (D) may have

Question 41:

.................... they played well, they could not win.

  • (A) Though
  • (B) Even though
  • (C) Even if
  • (D) May though

Question 42:

I always .................... the poor.

  • (A) help
  • (B) helped
  • (C) helping
  • (D) has helping

Question 43:

Her employer always finds fault .................... her.

  • (A) by
  • (B) in
  • (C) with
  • (D) to

Question 44:

Let us have .................... drink now.

  • (A) a
  • (B) the
  • (C) an
  • (D) any

Question 45:

My friend and I .................... our homework everyday.

  • (A) do
  • (B) does
  • (C) have
  • (D) has done

Question 46:

The cat is hiding .................... the bed.

  • (A) in
  • (B) under
  • (C) on
  • (D) between

Question 47:

.................... of my friends are coming to the party.

  • (A) The number
  • (B) Much
  • (C) Most
  • (D) Mere

Question 48:

I can't believe .................... my purse at home.

  • (A) I forget
  • (B) I have forget
  • (C) I forgotten
  • (D) I forgot

Question 49:

He declared his .................... .

  • (A) innocence
  • (B) innocently
  • (C) innocent
  • (D) by innocent

Question 50:

They were surprised .................... hear him sing.

  • (A) by
  • (B) to
  • (C) at
  • (D) of

Question 51:

He has properly .................... the rules and regulations.

  • (A) understand
  • (B) to understand
  • (C) understood
  • (D) understanding

Question 52:

.................... a borrower nor a lender be.

  • (A) Either
  • (B) Nor
  • (C) Neither
  • (D) Or

Question 53:

India is progressing .................... .

  • (A) by leaps and bounds
  • (B) by fits and starts
  • (C) by body and soul
  • (D) by hook or by crook

Question 54:

I want to take .................... classes this year.

  • (A) less
  • (B) little
  • (C) fewer
  • (D) any

Question 55:

Have some more tea, .................... ?

  • (A) won't you
  • (B) must you
  • (C) can you
  • (D) should you

Question 56:

The rise and fall of the tide .................... due to lunar influence.

  • (A) are
  • (B) is
  • (C) were
  • (D) have

Question 57:

The children locked .................... up in the cupboard.

  • (A) their
  • (B) himself
  • (C) them
  • (D) themselves

Question 58:

The synonym of 'Concealed' is

  • (A) Covered
  • (B) Sealed
  • (C) Closed
  • (D) Hidden

Question 59:

The antonym of 'Urban' is

  • (A) Rustic
  • (B) Rural
  • (C) Civil
  • (D) Foreign

Question 60:

'To make both ends meet' means

  • (A) to buy costly articles
  • (B) to live within one's income
  • (C) live a luxurious life
  • (D) to please all people

Question 61:

In England Printing Press was invented in

  • (A) 1475
  • (B) 1477
  • (C) 1476
  • (D) 1478

Question 62:

Who wrote 'Mac Flecknoe'?

  • (A) John Dryden
  • (B) Lord Byron
  • (C) Alexander Pope
  • (D) John Keats

Question 63:

About .................... Christianity began to spread in England.

  • (A) AD 400
  • (B) AD 600
  • (C) AD 500
  • (D) AD 700

Question 64:

Who is known as 'The Nightingale of India'?

  • (A) Toru Dutt
  • (B) Anita Desai
  • (C) Kamala Das
  • (D) Sarojini Naidu

Question 65:

Gandhiji completely dominated Indian politics

  • (A) from 1915 till 1948
  • (B) from 1917 till 1947
  • (C) from 1920 till 1950
  • (D) from 1930 till 1952

Question 66:

Nanukaka went to the .................... Auto Dealers.

  • (A) Sikka
  • (B) Alankar
  • (C) Rikka
  • (D) Kia

Question 67:

.................... got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1950.

  • (A) Mahatma Gandhi
  • (B) Dr. Zakir Hussain
  • (C) H. E. Bates
  • (D) Bertrand Russell

Question 68:

.................... is the chief source of revenue of a newspaper.

  • (A) Companies
  • (B) Donation
  • (C) Advertisement
  • (D) Government

Question 69:

Lomov is a man of .................... temperament.

  • (A) happy
  • (B) negative
  • (C) sad
  • (D) nervous

Question 70:

The redness of the fire appears .................... to the poet.

  • (A) nice
  • (B) cruel
  • (C) acceptable
  • (D) comfortable

Question 71:

"A Child is Born" is taken from

  • (A) Human Fertility
  • (B) The Change
  • (C) Sex and Destiny
  • (D) The Female Eunuch

Question 72:

The last of the pre-historic invention was

  • (A) hunting
  • (B) cooking
  • (C) writing
  • (D) taming

Question 73:

Macavity is called

  • (A) The Hidden Paw
  • (B) The Naughty Paw
  • (C) The Mysterious Paw
  • (D) The Exposed Paw

Question 74:

Tower of Silence is related to

  • (A) Parsis
  • (B) Sikhs
  • (C) Hindus
  • (D) Christians

Question 75:

A .................... is mentioned in the poem 'Snake'.

  • (A) Peepal Tree
  • (B) Mango Tree
  • (C) Banyan Tree
  • (D) Carob Tree

Question 76:

.................... spent her childhood days with her grandmother.

  • (A) Indira Gandhi
  • (B) Mamta Kalia
  • (C) Kamala Das
  • (D) Mahadevi Verma

Question 77:

The food in Indian villages was served on .................... leaves.

  • (A) banana
  • (B) banyan
  • (C) papaya
  • (D) mango

Question 78:

Choobookov is a

  • (A) teacher
  • (B) landowner
  • (C) doctor
  • (D) farmer
Correct Answer: (B) landowner
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Step 1: Understanding the Concept

This question asks for the profession or social status of the character Chubukov (misspelled as Choobookov).


Step 2: Detailed Explanation

Stepan Stepanovitch Chubukov is a central character in Anton Chekhov's famous one-act play, "The Proposal". He is the father of Natalya Stepanovna and the neighbor of Ivan Lomov. The entire plot revolves around Lomov's attempt to propose to Natalya. Chubukov is depicted as a landowner, concerned with property, social status, and marrying off his daughter.


Step 3: Final Answer

Chubukov is a landowner in the play "The Proposal".
Quick Tip: Remembering the basic details of main characters in famous plays and stories (like their names, relationships, and professions) is key to answering literature-based questions.


Question 79:

.................... wants to gladly accept death.

  • (A) John Keats
  • (B) John Donne
  • (C) Walt Whitman
  • (D) T. S. Eliot

Question 80:

'Leaves of Grass' was published in

  • (A) 1892
  • (B) 1855
  • (C) 1860
  • (D) 1872

Question 81:

'Nature without check with original ...................'

  • (A) human beings
  • (B) birds
  • (C) energy
  • (D) spear

Question 82:

Autumn starts with the departure of .................... season.

  • (A) spring
  • (B) winter
  • (C) rainy
  • (D) summer

Question 83:

.................... wrote a number of children-poems.

  • (A) T. S. Eliot
  • (B) W. B. Yeats
  • (C) D. H. Lawrence
  • (D) Walter de la Mare

Question 84:

'A pulse in the eternal mind' is from

  • (A) Snake
  • (B) Song of Myself
  • (C) Ode to Autumn
  • (D) The Soldier

Question 85:

Nanukaka managed to travel in 2nd class on a .................... ticket.

  • (A) 1st class
  • (B) General class
  • (C) 3rd class
  • (D) Sleeper class

Question 86:

Dr. Radhakrishnan never lost his faith in

  • (A) essential wealth
  • (B) essential knowledge
  • (C) essential humanity of man
  • (D) essential experience

Question 87:

The curio-dealer sold the gourd to a wealthy

  • (A) teacher
  • (B) farmer
  • (C) collector
  • (D) doctor

Question 88:

Which language is the second language of India ?

  • (A) English
  • (B) Hindi
  • (C) Sanskrit
  • (D) Bhojpuri

Question 89:

Who became the President of India in 1967 ?

  • (A) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
  • (B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
  • (C) Dr. Zakir Hussain
  • (D) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Question 90:

Who was one of the greatest orators in American history ?

  • (A) H. E. Bates
  • (B) Johnson
  • (C) Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • (D) Walt Whitman

Question 91:

.................... is told by an aunt.

  • (A) Jupthoka
  • (B) Rupthoka
  • (C) Supthoka
  • (D) Tupthoka

Question 92:

H. E. Bates belonged to .................... .

  • (A) Austria
  • (B) Germany
  • (C) France
  • (D) Britain

Question 93:

The English language is much younger than

  • (A) Latin
  • (B) Persian
  • (C) Greek
  • (D) All of these

Question 94:

T. S. Eliot is a .................... poet.

  • (A) 20th Century
  • (B) 17th Century
  • (C) 18th Century
  • (D) 16th Century

Question 95:

Old English Period covers

  • (A) AD 449 – AD 1066
  • (B) AD 1100 – AD 1149
  • (C) AD 1067 – AD 1099
  • (D) AD 1150 – AD 1500

Question 96:

Who wrote 'Endymion' and 'Hyperion'?

  • (A) William Wordsworth
  • (B) P. B. Shelley
  • (C) John Keats
  • (D) S. T. Coleridge

Question 97:

The name 'Augustan' was given to .................... Century.

  • (A) 17th
  • (B) 18th
  • (C) 19th
  • (D) 20th

Question 98:

Chaucer, Langland and Wycliffe are important writers of

  • (A) Old English Period
  • (B) Modern English Period
  • (C) Middle English Period
  • (D) Post-Modern English Period

Question 99:

A snake appeared on a trough of the .................... to sip water.

  • (A) teacher
  • (B) lawyer
  • (C) poet
  • (D) doctor

Question 100:

Who was born in the U.S.A. but eventually settled in England ?

  • (A) T. S. Eliot
  • (B) John Donne
  • (C) Walt Whitman
  • (D) John Keats

Question 101:

Write an essay on the following in about 150-200 words:
Clean India Movement


Question 102:

Write an essay on the following in about 150-200 words:
Climate Change


Question 103:

Write an essay on the following in about 150-200 words:
Social Justice


Question 104:

Write an essay on the following in about 150-200 words:
Education for Everyone


Question 105:

Write an essay on the following in about 150-200 words:
Bihar of your Dreams


Question 106:

Explain the following:
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.


Question 107:

Explain the following:
Justice was tolerably fair. The ordinary rule was to avoid courts.


Question 108:

Explain the following:
You two'd better hurry up and get married — Have me in peace.


Question 109:

Explain the following:
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.


Question 110:

Explain the following:
The voice of my education said to me
He must be killed


Question 111:

Explain the following:
Can you, that I lived in such a house and
Was proud, and loved ....................


Question 112:

Explain the following:
There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed ;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware


Question 113:

Explain the following:
Nurses to the graves are gone,
And the prams go rolling on.


Question 114:

Write a letter to your sister congratulating her on her success in the NEET.


Question 115:

Write an application to the Principal asking him / her for leave to attend a workshop on Yoga.


Question 116:

What, according to Gandhiji, is the 'sheet anchor of our hope'?


Question 117:

What is the business of education?


Question 118:

What are the 'trials and tribulations' that Martin Luther King Jr. talks about?


Question 119:

What do free people take for granted?


Question 120:

Who are the 'whispering neighbours'?


Question 121:

What does the speaker, in 'Song of Myself', observe in summer?


Question 122:

How did the snake drink water?


Question 123:

In what sense does the fire forget its dead?


Question 124:

Write a note on the development of Indian poetry in English.


Question 125:

Who were known as the University Wits?


Question 126:

Write the summary of the following poem: My Grandmother's House


Question 127:

Write the summary of the following poem: Ode to Autumn


Question 128:

Write the summary of the following poem: Snake


Question 129:

Write the summary of the following prose-piece: The Artist


Question 130:

Write the summary of the following prose-piece: How Free is the Press


Question 131:

Write the summary of the following prose-piece: Indian Civilization and Culture


Question 132:

Write a note on the dialects of Middle English.
OR
Write a note on English as a second language of India.
OR
Write a note on American English.


Question 133:

Match the names of the poems given in List-A with their poets in List-B

List-A

i) An Epitaph

ii) Snake

iii) Song of Myself

iv) Now the Leaves are Falling Fast

v) Fire-Hymn

List-B

a) W. H. Auden

b) Walter de la Mare

c) D. H. Lawrence

d) K. N. Daruwalla

e) Walt Whitman


Question 134:

Translate any five into English:


Question 135:

Match the names of the prose-pieces in List-A with their authors in List-B

List-A

i) How Free is the Press

ii) Bharat is My Home

iii) The Artist

iv) I Have a Dream

v) Ideas That Have Helped Mankind

List-B

a) Martin Luther King, Jr.

b) Bertrand Russell

c) Dr. Zakir Hussain

d) Dorothy L. Sayers

e) Shiga Naoya


Question 136:

What is the best tonic for our mind and body?


Question 137:

What should we practise when we are relaxed in bed?


Question 138:

What should we do to be cheerful?


Question 139:

What happens when we constantly think about negative things?


Question 140:

Write a précis of the following passage and give a suitable title:

\textit{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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