Assam Board Class 12 English Core Syllabus 2025-26: Download PDF Below

Assam Board has uploaded the recent syllabus for the academic year 2025 for all the subjects on its official website. In this article, students can find the Class 12 English Core syllabus 2025. This syllabus can help the students to enhance their preparation for the upcoming exam. The syllabus is the roadmap for students and helps them to get good marks and all the important information required for the preparation. The official AHSEC Class 12 English Core syllabus is presented here for the students.

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Objectives Of Assam Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2025

The general objectives at this stage are :

• to listen to and comprehend live as well as recorded oral presentations on a variety of topics,
• to develop greater confidence and proficiency in the use of language skills necessary for social and academic purposes.
• to participate in group discussions/interviews, making short oral presentations on given topics.
• to perceive the overall meaning and organisation of the text (i.e., the relationships of the different “chunks” in the text to each other).
• to identify the central/main point and supporting details, etc.
• to build communicative competence in various registers of English.
• to promote advanced language skills with an aim to develop the skills of reasoning, drawing inferences, etc. through meaningful activities.
• to translate texts from mother tongue (s) into English and vice versa.
• to develop ability and knowledge required in order to engage in independent reflection and enquiry.
• to develop the capacity to appreciate literary use of English and also use English creatively and imaginatively

Assam Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2025: Course Structure

The course structure of the Assam Board Class 12 English core is tabulated below, the subject consists of four sections. Check the table below for the clear understanding of all the sections along with the marks:

SECTION - A

Reading unseen prose passages for comprehension.

The total length of the passage will be between 500-800 words. The passages may be one of

the following:

(a) Factual Passages e.g. instructions. descriptions, reports.

(b) Discursive passage involving opinion e.g. argumentative. persuasive or interpretative text.

(c) Literary passage e.g. extract from fiction, drama, poetry, essay or biography.

SECTION - B

Advanced Writing Skills

2. One out of two short compositions of not more than 50 words each e.g.

advertisement and notices, designing or drafting posters, writing formal and

informal invitations and replies. 05

3. A report or a factual description based on verbal input provided

(one out of two) (100-125 words) 10

4. Writing one out of two letters based on verbal input. Letter types include : 10

(a) Business or official letters (for making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for and giving

information, placing orders and sending replies):

(b) Letters to the editor (giving suggestions on an issue)

(c) Application for a job

SECTION-C-Grammar

1. Narration : Direct and Indirect
2. Voice
3. Tenses
4. Preposition
5. Transformation of Sentences

SECTION-D

Prescribed Textbooks : (i) FLAMINGO

Prose : Selected Text

1. The Last Lesson : Alphonse Daudet
2. Memoirs of Chota Sahib : John Rowntree
3. Lost Spring : Anees Jung
4. Indigo : Louis Fischer
5. Going places : A.R. Barton

Poetry : Selected Poetries

1. My Mother At Sixty Six : Kamala Das
2. Keeping Quiet : Pablo Neruda
3. A Thing of beauty : John Keats
4. A Roadside Stand : Robert Frost

Prescribed Textbooks : (ii) VISTAS

Selected Pieces

1. The Tiger King : Kalki
2. The Enemy : Pearl S. Buck
3. On the Face of it : Susan Hill
4. Memories of Childhood : Zitkala Sa and Bama
5. Magh Bihu or Maghar Domahi : Dr. Praphulladatta Goswami