Goa Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2023-24
Session
Goa Board has not yet uploaded a non-CWSN Class 12 English Language I assessment scheme for 2026-27. This page uses the latest dedicated official GBSHSE PDF (2023-2024, subject code 4411). Physics, chemistry, and other sciences already have 2026-27 schemes on the portal.
Exam scheme
Board theory 80 marks (plus formatives and internal assessment as printed in the PDF).
| Section | Skills |
|---|---|
| A | Reading — unseen comprehension; note-making and summary |
| B | Writing — notice/advertisement; report; letter to editor or government; essay (200–250 words) |
| C | Grammar — modals, unless, too/so that, voice, degrees, no sooner…than, tenses, reported speech |
| D | Textual — Flamingo poetry and prose; Vistas supplementary reader |
Flamingo — poetry
My Mother at Sixty-six; An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum; Keeping Quiet; A Thing of Beauty; The Roadside Stand; Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers.
Flamingo — prose
The Last Lesson; Lost Spring; Deep Water; The Rattrap; Indigo; Poets and Pancakes; The Interview; Going Places.
Vistas — supplementary
The Third Level; The Tiger King; Journey to the End of the Earth; The Enemy; Should Wizard Hit Mommy; On the Face of It; Evans Tries an O-Level; Memories of Childhood.
Figures of speech tested are limited to those listed in the GBSHSE workshop note in the official PDF.
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