Odisha Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2026-27

Exam scheme

Higher Secondary (+2), CHSE Odisha. Compulsory English — 100 marks per year (200 marks total across +2). Textbooks published by Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production, Bhubaneswar.

Textbooks

1. Invitation to English-I — intensive prose and poetry (non-fiction and poems)
2. Invitation to English-II — extensive reading (short fiction, one-act plays, biography)
3. Invitation to English-3 — writing skills workbook
4. Invitation to English-4 — grammar workbook

First year — selected intensive pieces

Prose: Standing Up for Yourself (Yevtushenko); The Legend behind a Legend; The Golden Touch (Hawthorne); In London In Minus Fours (Fischer); The Cancer Fight (Komaki).

Poetry: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Frost); Oft in the Stilly Night (Moore); The Inchcape Rock (Southey); To My True Friend (Pinard); Fishing (Mishra).

Extensive (Book II): Three Questions (Tolstoy); After Twenty Years (O. Henry); The Open Window; etc.

Second year — selected intensive pieces

Prose: My Greatest Olympic Prize (Owens); On Examinations (Churchill); The Portrait of a Lady (Khushwant Singh); The Magic of Teamwork (Pitroda); Development of Polio Vaccines.

Poetry: Daffodils (Wordsworth); The Ballad of Father Gilligan (Yeats); A Psalm of Life (Longfellow); Television (Dahl); Money Madness (Lawrence).

Classroom work emphasises Invitation to English-3 and -4 for writing and grammar. Mark allocation for LSRW skills is given in the official commerce-stream courses of study PDF (English section).

Prescribed from CHSE Odisha +2 Commerce stream courses of studies (English, pages 5–40).