UP Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2026-27

Marks distribution

Total: 100 marks, one single exam paper (no separate internal assessment marks — remedial unit tests are held but not counted toward the final result).

Unit	Topic	Marks
1	Reading	15
2	Writing	20
3	Grammar	25
4	Literature	40

Exam pattern

Unit 1 — Reading (15 marks): one long unseen passage followed by four very short answer questions (12 marks) and three vocabulary-based questions (3 marks).

Unit 2 — Writing (20 marks): an article — descriptive, argumentative, or autobiographical — in about 150 words (10 marks); a letter to the editor, complaint letter, or business letter (placing orders, booking/cancellation, enquiries) (10 marks).

Unit 3 — Grammar (25 marks): ten MCQs and five very short answer questions on narration, synthesis, transformation, syntax, idioms and phrasal verbs, synonyms, antonyms, one-word substitution, and homophones (20 marks combined); translation of 7-8 sentences from Hindi to English (5 marks).

Unit 4 — Literature (40 marks):

• Flamingo — Prose (two short-answer questions, 8 marks; one long-answer question, 7 marks); Poetry (three very short-answer questions on a given extract identifying figures of speech — simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron, apostrophe, hyperbole, onomatopoeia — 6 marks; central idea of a given poem, 4 marks).
• Vistas — two short-answer questions (8 marks); one long-answer question (7 marks).

Prescribed books and lessons

Flamingo — Prose

1. The Last Lesson — Alphonse Daudet
2. Lost Spring — Anees Jung
3. Deep Water — William Douglas
4. The Rattrap — Selma Lagerlöf
5. Indigo — Louis Fischer
6. Poets and Pancakes — Ashokamitran
7. The Interview (Part I and Part II) — Christopher Silvester
8. Going Places — A.R. Barton

Flamingo — Poetry

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
5. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers — Adrienne Rich

Vistas — Supplementary Reader

1. The Third Level — Jack Finney
2. The Tiger King — Kalki
3. Journey to the End of the Earth — Tishani Doshi
4. The Enemy — Pearl S. Buck
5. On the Face of It — Susan Hill
6. Memories of Childhood — Zitkala-Sa & Bama

Recommended reference: A Handbook of Grammar and Composition Writing, published by the English Language Teaching Institute (ELTI), U.P., Prayagraj — accessible online at eltiup.org.

Remedial teaching (not counted toward final result)

Four unit tests are held at the school level as part of remedial teaching, but marks from these are not included in the final result: two MCQ-based tests (July, November) and two descriptive-question tests (August, December), each worth 20 marks.