Revised Syllabus for HSC Examination 2025 (According to Revised Syllabus 2023)
Subject: English 2nd Paper
Subject Code: 108
Subject: English |
Revised Syllabus for HSC Examination 2025 due to Covid-19 Pandemic |
Paper: II |
Subject code: 108 |
Full marks: 100 |
Title | Learning outcome | Content | No of classes require d | Serial of classes | Comment |
The Sentence | Describe a process (speaking, writing) narrate incidents and events in a logical sequence (speaking, writing) | types of sentences, affirmative, negative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory, simple, complex, compound) modifier, sentence connectors, punctuation, conditionals, questions (WH-words and action verb), statement question, tag question | 10 | 1st ,2nd, 3 rd, 4th 5th, 6th, 7th 8th.9th,10th |
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Word formation | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | synonym and antonyms, compound | 4 | 11th,12th, 13th,14th |
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The Phrases | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | noun phrase, prepositional phrase, verb phrase, adjective Phrase, infinitive phrase | 6 | 15th,16th ,17th,18th, 19th,20th |
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The Clause | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) read, understand and follow authentic texts and signs i.e. | main clause, subordinate clause, coordinate clause, noun clause, adjective clause adverbial | 8 | 21st.22nd. 23rd,24th, 25th,26th, 27th,28th |
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| instructions, directions, signposts and notices (reading, listening) |
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Use of Nouns | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | countable uncountable , abstract , common | 3 | 29th,30th, 31st |
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Use of Pronouns | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | pronoun referencing | 3 | 32nd,33rd, 34th |
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Use of Preposition | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | selected by the teacher | 5 | 35th,36th, 37th,38th, 39th |
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Subject -verb Agreement Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | selected by the teacher | 5 | 40th,41st, 42nd,43rd, 44th, |
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Study of verbs | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | regular and irregular verbs • Be verbs • finite verbs, non-finite verbs • transitive and intransitive verbs • infinitives, gerund, participles • modals | 5 | 45th,46th, 47th,48th, 49th, |
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Use of Tenses | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | selected by the teacher | 10 | 50th 51st,52nd, 53rd,54th, 55th,56th ,57th,58t h,59th |
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Adverb and Adverbials | speak, read, and write English accurately in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) | selected by the teacher | 6 | 60th,61st, 62nd,63rd, 64th,65th, |
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Direct and Indirect | speak, read, and write English accurately | selected by the teacher | 5 | 66th,67th, |
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Speech Special Uses | in all aspects of communication. (speaking, reading, writing) read, understand and follow authentic texts and signs i.e. instructions, directions, signposts and notices (reading, listening) |
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| 68th,69th, 70th, |
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Composition | • write formal, informal, academic, professional and other genres of texts e.g. descriptive, narrative, argumentative (writing) • use references in writing and making bibliography (reading, writing) | mechanics of writings: topic selection, brainstorming, outlining, writing topic sentence, developing ideas, maintaining cohesion, coherence, writing conclusions etc. • Types of paragraphs (paragraph writing by listing, narration, comparison and contrast, cause and effect) • Descriptive, narrative, persuasive/argumentative, imaginative and creative writing (such as telling/completing stories) Academic writing: taking notes, analysing graphs and charts, summary writing, referencing and making a bibliography | 5 | 71st,72nd, 73rd,74th, 75th |
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Total number of classes 75 |
Marks Distribution for HSC English 2nd paper (For the year 2025) Subject Code - 108
| Test Item/s | Marks |
| Part A: Grammar (60 marks) |
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1 | Gap filling activities without clues (for prepositions) | .5x10=05 |
2 | Gap filling activities with clues (special uses: was born, have to/has to, would rather, had better, let alone, as soon as, what’s...like, what does...look like, introductory ‘there’ or ‘it’) | 0.5x10=05 |
3 | Completing sentences (with clauses/ phrases) | 10x1= 10 |
4 | Use of verbs (right form of verbs and subject-verb agreement as per context) | 0.5x14=7 |
5 | Narrative style (direct to indirect and vice versa) | 7 |
6 | Use of modifiers | 0.5x10=5 |
7 | Use of sentence connectors | 0.5x14=7 |
8 | Use of synonym and antonym | 0.5x14=7 |
9 | Punctuation | 0.5x14=7 |
| Part-B: Composition (40 marks) |
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10 | Formal letter writing/Gmail | 10 |
11 | Writing paragraph (by listing/ description) within 200 words | 15 |
12 | Writing paragraph (comparison and contrast/ cause and effect) within 200 words. | 15 |
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