Assam Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2026-27
Exam scheme
Higher Secondary 2nd year, AHSEC. 100 marks. Time: 3 hours.
| Section | Area | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| A | Reading unseen prose passage | 10 |
| B | Advanced writing skills | 25 |
| C | Grammar (narration, voice, tenses, preposition, transformation) | 20 |
| D | Prescribed books — Flamingo + Vistas | 45 |
Prescribed textbooks — Flamingo (30 marks)
Prose: The Last Lesson; Memoirs of Chota Sahib; Lost Spring; Indigo; Going Places.
Poetry: My Mother at Sixty-Six; Keeping Quiet; A Thing of Beauty; A Roadside Stand.
Prescribed textbooks — Vistas (15 marks)
The Tiger King; The Enemy; On the Face of It; Memories of Childhood (Zitkala-Sa and Bama); Magh Bihu or Maghar Domahi (Dr. Praphulladatta Goswami).
Skills
Unseen comprehension; notices, advertisements, reports, letters; grammar transformation; short and long answers on prescribed texts with comprehension and extrapolation.
Textbooks published by AHSEC (NCERT-developed Flamingo and Vistas readers).
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