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ENGLISH ELECTIVE 
CLASS XII SAMPLE PAPER (2022-2023) 
Total Time : 3 Hours Marks :80 Marks 
General Instructions: 
1. This paper has three sections -A, B and C 
2.Separate instructions are given with each part and question, wherever necessary. Read these 
instructions very carefully and follow them faithfully. 
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions. 
 
 SECTION A 
READING 
 
1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 
1. The Higgs boson has been called, or miscalled, the God particle, 
enabling it to pass into the realm of popular scientific lore, like the 
discovery of the smallpox vaccine, the structure of DNA, or the theory of 
relativity. It would be difficult for most people to understand its 
significance, just as it would be to comprehend the notion of relativity, 
but such problems are overcome by locating science in personalities as 
well as cultural and national traditions. The first thing that you and I know 
about the Higgs boson is that it’s named after Peter Higgs, a physicist at 
Edinburgh University who made the discovery — although the original 
insight, in one of those recurrent back stories of science, was Philip 
Anderson’s. 
2. Still, we have Higgs, and Edinburgh, and western civilisation to fall 
back on. The rest — “the Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary 
particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs 
to a class of particles known as bosons ...” — we needn’t worry too much 
about. But maybe we should worry just enough to ask, “What is a boson?” 
since the word tends to come up as soon as Higgs does. Is it, an ignoramus 
such myself would ask, akin to an atom or a molecule? It is, in fact, along 
with the fermion (named after Enrico Fermi), one of the two fundamental 
classes of subatomic particles. 
3. From Bose 
The word must surely have some European genealogy? In fact, “boson” 
is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist from Kolkata 
who, in 1924, realised that the statistical method used to analyse most 
19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate. He 
first sent off a paper on quantum statistics to a British journal, which 
turned it down. He then sent it to Albert Einstein, who immediately 
grasped its immense importance, and published it in a German journal. 
Bose’s innovation came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics and 
became a basis of quantum mechanics. Einstein saw that it had profound 
implications for physics; that it had opened the way for this subatomic 
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ENGLISH ELECTIVE 
CLASS XII SAMPLE PAPER (2022-2023) 
Total Time : 3 Hours Marks :80 Marks 
General Instructions: 
1. This paper has three sections -A, B and C 
2.Separate instructions are given with each part and question, wherever necessary. Read these 
instructions very carefully and follow them faithfully. 
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions. 
 
 SECTION A 
READING 
 
1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 
1. The Higgs boson has been called, or miscalled, the God particle, 
enabling it to pass into the realm of popular scientific lore, like the 
discovery of the smallpox vaccine, the structure of DNA, or the theory of 
relativity. It would be difficult for most people to understand its 
significance, just as it would be to comprehend the notion of relativity, 
but such problems are overcome by locating science in personalities as 
well as cultural and national traditions. The first thing that you and I know 
about the Higgs boson is that it’s named after Peter Higgs, a physicist at 
Edinburgh University who made the discovery — although the original 
insight, in one of those recurrent back stories of science, was Philip 
Anderson’s. 
2. Still, we have Higgs, and Edinburgh, and western civilisation to fall 
back on. The rest — “the Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary 
particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs 
to a class of particles known as bosons ...” — we needn’t worry too much 
about. But maybe we should worry just enough to ask, “What is a boson?” 
since the word tends to come up as soon as Higgs does. Is it, an ignoramus 
such myself would ask, akin to an atom or a molecule? It is, in fact, along 
with the fermion (named after Enrico Fermi), one of the two fundamental 
classes of subatomic particles. 
3. From Bose 
The word must surely have some European genealogy? In fact, “boson” 
is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist from Kolkata 
who, in 1924, realised that the statistical method used to analyse most 
19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate. He 
first sent off a paper on quantum statistics to a British journal, which 
turned it down. He then sent it to Albert Einstein, who immediately 
grasped its immense importance, and published it in a German journal. 
Bose’s innovation came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics and 
became a basis of quantum mechanics. Einstein saw that it had profound 
implications for physics; that it had opened the way for this subatomic 
12 
 particle, which he named, after his Indian collaborator, “boson.” Still, 
science and the West are largely synonymous and coeval: they are words 
that have the same far-reaching meaning. Just as Van Gogh and 
Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings digest the Japanese prints they were 
responding to so we don’t need to be aware of Japanese prints when 
viewing the post-impressionists, western science is pristine, and bears no 
mark of what’s outside itself. 
 
4. Other Indian contributions 
The last Indian scientific discovery that is universally acknowledged is 
the zero. Indians are very strong at maths, and the only modern Indian 
who’s remotely part of the western mythology of science is Srinivasa 
Ramanujan, equally well known for his Hindu idiosyncrasies and his 
agonised stay in Cambridge as he is for his mathematical genius. 
 
5. Indians can be excellent geeks, as demonstrated by the tongue-tied 
astrophysicist Raj Koothrappalli in the U.S. sitcom Big Bang Theory; but 
the Nobel prize can only be aspired to by Sheldon Cooper, the super-geek 
and genius in the series, for whom Raj’s country of origin is a diverting 
enigma, and miles away from the popular myth of science on which Big 
Bang Theory is dependent. Bose didn’t get the Nobel Prize; nor did his 
contemporary and namesake, J.C. Bose, whose contribution to the 
fashioning of the wireless predates Marconi’s. The only Indian scientist 
to get a Nobel Prize is the physicist C.V. Raman, for his work on light at 
Kolkata University. Other Indians have had to become Americans to get 
the award. 
6. Conditions have always been inimical to science in India, from colonial 
times to the present day; and despite that, its contributions have 
occasionally been huge. Yet non-western science (an ugly label 
engendered by the exclusive nature of western popular imagination) is 
yet to find its Rosalind Franklin, its symbol of paradoxical success. 
Unlike Franklin, however, scientists were never in a race that they lost; 
they simply came from another planet. 
Based on your reading of the passage, answer twelve out of fifteen 
questions that follow: [ 1 X 12 = 12] 
 
(a). What is the first thing which the narrator knows about Higgs Boson? 
(b). What is Bose-Einstein statistics? 
(c). How does Sheldon view Raj’s country of origin? 
(d). What do Van Gogh’s paintings do to Japanese prints? 
(e). Has India always got the credit for its merit? 
(f). What do Higgs Boson have in common with Smallpox vaccine? 
i. Both are used in medical radiography. 
ii. Both are part of scientific myth and legends now. 
iii. Both were met with scepticism on their discovery. 
iv. Both fetched their teams a Nobel prize. 
 
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ENGLISH ELECTIVE 
CLASS XII SAMPLE PAPER (2022-2023) 
Total Time : 3 Hours Marks :80 Marks 
General Instructions: 
1. This paper has three sections -A, B and C 
2.Separate instructions are given with each part and question, wherever necessary. Read these 
instructions very carefully and follow them faithfully. 
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions. 
 
 SECTION A 
READING 
 
1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 
1. The Higgs boson has been called, or miscalled, the God particle, 
enabling it to pass into the realm of popular scientific lore, like the 
discovery of the smallpox vaccine, the structure of DNA, or the theory of 
relativity. It would be difficult for most people to understand its 
significance, just as it would be to comprehend the notion of relativity, 
but such problems are overcome by locating science in personalities as 
well as cultural and national traditions. The first thing that you and I know 
about the Higgs boson is that it’s named after Peter Higgs, a physicist at 
Edinburgh University who made the discovery — although the original 
insight, in one of those recurrent back stories of science, was Philip 
Anderson’s. 
2. Still, we have Higgs, and Edinburgh, and western civilisation to fall 
back on. The rest — “the Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary 
particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs 
to a class of particles known as bosons ...” — we needn’t worry too much 
about. But maybe we should worry just enough to ask, “What is a boson?” 
since the word tends to come up as soon as Higgs does. Is it, an ignoramus 
such myself would ask, akin to an atom or a molecule? It is, in fact, along 
with the fermion (named after Enrico Fermi), one of the two fundamental 
classes of subatomic particles. 
3. From Bose 
The word must surely have some European genealogy? In fact, “boson” 
is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist from Kolkata 
who, in 1924, realised that the statistical method used to analyse most 
19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate. He 
first sent off a paper on quantum statistics to a British journal, which 
turned it down. He then sent it to Albert Einstein, who immediately 
grasped its immense importance, and published it in a German journal. 
Bose’s innovation came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics and 
became a basis of quantum mechanics. Einstein saw that it had profound 
implications for physics; that it had opened the way for this subatomic 
12 
 particle, which he named, after his Indian collaborator, “boson.” Still, 
science and the West are largely synonymous and coeval: they are words 
that have the same far-reaching meaning. Just as Van Gogh and 
Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings digest the Japanese prints they were 
responding to so we don’t need to be aware of Japanese prints when 
viewing the post-impressionists, western science is pristine, and bears no 
mark of what’s outside itself. 
 
4. Other Indian contributions 
The last Indian scientific discovery that is universally acknowledged is 
the zero. Indians are very strong at maths, and the only modern Indian 
who’s remotely part of the western mythology of science is Srinivasa 
Ramanujan, equally well known for his Hindu idiosyncrasies and his 
agonised stay in Cambridge as he is for his mathematical genius. 
 
5. Indians can be excellent geeks, as demonstrated by the tongue-tied 
astrophysicist Raj Koothrappalli in the U.S. sitcom Big Bang Theory; but 
the Nobel prize can only be aspired to by Sheldon Cooper, the super-geek 
and genius in the series, for whom Raj’s country of origin is a diverting 
enigma, and miles away from the popular myth of science on which Big 
Bang Theory is dependent. Bose didn’t get the Nobel Prize; nor did his 
contemporary and namesake, J.C. Bose, whose contribution to the 
fashioning of the wireless predates Marconi’s. The only Indian scientist 
to get a Nobel Prize is the physicist C.V. Raman, for his work on light at 
Kolkata University. Other Indians have had to become Americans to get 
the award. 
6. Conditions have always been inimical to science in India, from colonial 
times to the present day; and despite that, its contributions have 
occasionally been huge. Yet non-western science (an ugly label 
engendered by the exclusive nature of western popular imagination) is 
yet to find its Rosalind Franklin, its symbol of paradoxical success. 
Unlike Franklin, however, scientists were never in a race that they lost; 
they simply came from another planet. 
Based on your reading of the passage, answer twelve out of fifteen 
questions that follow: [ 1 X 12 = 12] 
 
(a). What is the first thing which the narrator knows about Higgs Boson? 
(b). What is Bose-Einstein statistics? 
(c). How does Sheldon view Raj’s country of origin? 
(d). What do Van Gogh’s paintings do to Japanese prints? 
(e). Has India always got the credit for its merit? 
(f). What do Higgs Boson have in common with Smallpox vaccine? 
i. Both are used in medical radiography. 
ii. Both are part of scientific myth and legends now. 
iii. Both were met with scepticism on their discovery. 
iv. Both fetched their teams a Nobel prize. 
  (g). Which statement is not true about Boson? 
i. They were not discovered by Enrico Fermi. 
ii. They constitute one class of subatomic particle. 
iii. It is named after an Indian Physicist. 
iv. It was discovered by Satyendra Nath Bose. 
 
(h). Choose the word which is an apt synonym of the word Ignoramus 
(used in para 2) 
i. Idiot 
ii. Intelligent 
iii. Idealist 
iv. Ingenious 
 
(i). How are esoteric scientific concepts made understandable for 
people? 
i. By printing short introductory courses. 
ii. By comparing it with other scientific discoveries. 
iii. By locating science in personalities, social and cultural 
traditions. 
iv. By revising the country’s educational structure. 
 
(j). Based on the reading of the passage, which statements are correct 
about Higgs Boson. 
 
1. They are called God’s particle. 
2. Philip Anderson’s study provided the original insight. 
3. This concept is easily understood by common people. 
4. A physicist from Edinburgh University made the discovery. 
5. It was discovered by Albert Einstein. 
i. 1,2 & 3 
ii. 2,3 & 5 
iii. 1, 4 & 5 
iv. 1,2 & 4 
 
(k). Which field of Physics was SN Bose working on? 
i. Quantum Mechanics 
ii. Electromagnetism 
iii. Geophysics 
iv. Acoustic 
 
(l). Which scientist/ mathematician out of the following won the Nobel 
prize? 
i. J C Bose 
ii. C V Raman 
iii. Srinivasa Ramanujan 
iv. S N Bose 
 
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ENGLISH ELECTIVE 
CLASS XII SAMPLE PAPER (2022-2023) 
Total Time : 3 Hours Marks :80 Marks 
General Instructions: 
1. This paper has three sections -A, B and C 
2.Separate instructions are given with each part and question, wherever necessary. Read these 
instructions very carefully and follow them faithfully. 
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions. 
 
 SECTION A 
READING 
 
1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 
1. The Higgs boson has been called, or miscalled, the God particle, 
enabling it to pass into the realm of popular scientific lore, like the 
discovery of the smallpox vaccine, the structure of DNA, or the theory of 
relativity. It would be difficult for most people to understand its 
significance, just as it would be to comprehend the notion of relativity, 
but such problems are overcome by locating science in personalities as 
well as cultural and national traditions. The first thing that you and I know 
about the Higgs boson is that it’s named after Peter Higgs, a physicist at 
Edinburgh University who made the discovery — although the original 
insight, in one of those recurrent back stories of science, was Philip 
Anderson’s. 
2. Still, we have Higgs, and Edinburgh, and western civilisation to fall 
back on. The rest — “the Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary 
particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs 
to a class of particles known as bosons ...” — we needn’t worry too much 
about. But maybe we should worry just enough to ask, “What is a boson?” 
since the word tends to come up as soon as Higgs does. Is it, an ignoramus 
such myself would ask, akin to an atom or a molecule? It is, in fact, along 
with the fermion (named after Enrico Fermi), one of the two fundamental 
classes of subatomic particles. 
3. From Bose 
The word must surely have some European genealogy? In fact, “boson” 
is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist from Kolkata 
who, in 1924, realised that the statistical method used to analyse most 
19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate. He 
first sent off a paper on quantum statistics to a British journal, which 
turned it down. He then sent it to Albert Einstein, who immediately 
grasped its immense importance, and published it in a German journal. 
Bose’s innovation came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics and 
became a basis of quantum mechanics. Einstein saw that it had profound 
implications for physics; that it had opened the way for this subatomic 
12 
 particle, which he named, after his Indian collaborator, “boson.” Still, 
science and the West are largely synonymous and coeval: they are words 
that have the same far-reaching meaning. Just as Van Gogh and 
Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings digest the Japanese prints they were 
responding to so we don’t need to be aware of Japanese prints when 
viewing the post-impressionists, western science is pristine, and bears no 
mark of what’s outside itself. 
 
4. Other Indian contributions 
The last Indian scientific discovery that is universally acknowledged is 
the zero. Indians are very strong at maths, and the only modern Indian 
who’s remotely part of the western mythology of science is Srinivasa 
Ramanujan, equally well known for his Hindu idiosyncrasies and his 
agonised stay in Cambridge as he is for his mathematical genius. 
 
5. Indians can be excellent geeks, as demonstrated by the tongue-tied 
astrophysicist Raj Koothrappalli in the U.S. sitcom Big Bang Theory; but 
the Nobel prize can only be aspired to by Sheldon Cooper, the super-geek 
and genius in the series, for whom Raj’s country of origin is a diverting 
enigma, and miles away from the popular myth of science on which Big 
Bang Theory is dependent. Bose didn’t get the Nobel Prize; nor did his 
contemporary and namesake, J.C. Bose, whose contribution to the 
fashioning of the wireless predates Marconi’s. The only Indian scientist 
to get a Nobel Prize is the physicist C.V. Raman, for his work on light at 
Kolkata University. Other Indians have had to become Americans to get 
the award. 
6. Conditions have always been inimical to science in India, from colonial 
times to the present day; and despite that, its contributions have 
occasionally been huge. Yet non-western science (an ugly label 
engendered by the exclusive nature of western popular imagination) is 
yet to find its Rosalind Franklin, its symbol of paradoxical success. 
Unlike Franklin, however, scientists were never in a race that they lost; 
they simply came from another planet. 
Based on your reading of the passage, answer twelve out of fifteen 
questions that follow: [ 1 X 12 = 12] 
 
(a). What is the first thing which the narrator knows about Higgs Boson? 
(b). What is Bose-Einstein statistics? 
(c). How does Sheldon view Raj’s country of origin? 
(d). What do Van Gogh’s paintings do to Japanese prints? 
(e). Has India always got the credit for its merit? 
(f). What do Higgs Boson have in common with Smallpox vaccine? 
i. Both are used in medical radiography. 
ii. Both are part of scientific myth and legends now. 
iii. Both were met with scepticism on their discovery. 
iv. Both fetched their teams a Nobel prize. 
  (g). Which statement is not true about Boson? 
i. They were not discovered by Enrico Fermi. 
ii. They constitute one class of subatomic particle. 
iii. It is named after an Indian Physicist. 
iv. It was discovered by Satyendra Nath Bose. 
 
(h). Choose the word which is an apt synonym of the word Ignoramus 
(used in para 2) 
i. Idiot 
ii. Intelligent 
iii. Idealist 
iv. Ingenious 
 
(i). How are esoteric scientific concepts made understandable for 
people? 
i. By printing short introductory courses. 
ii. By comparing it with other scientific discoveries. 
iii. By locating science in personalities, social and cultural 
traditions. 
iv. By revising the country’s educational structure. 
 
(j). Based on the reading of the passage, which statements are correct 
about Higgs Boson. 
 
1. They are called God’s particle. 
2. Philip Anderson’s study provided the original insight. 
3. This concept is easily understood by common people. 
4. A physicist from Edinburgh University made the discovery. 
5. It was discovered by Albert Einstein. 
i. 1,2 & 3 
ii. 2,3 & 5 
iii. 1, 4 & 5 
iv. 1,2 & 4 
 
(k). Which field of Physics was SN Bose working on? 
i. Quantum Mechanics 
ii. Electromagnetism 
iii. Geophysics 
iv. Acoustic 
 
(l). Which scientist/ mathematician out of the following won the Nobel 
prize? 
i. J C Bose 
ii. C V Raman 
iii. Srinivasa Ramanujan 
iv. S N Bose 
   
(m). What is Srinivasa Ramanujan known for in the popular culture? 
(1) Mathematical genius. 
(2) For formulation of game theory. 
(3) Hindu Idiosyncrasies. 
(4) Troubled stay in Cambridge. 
(5) For devising another explanation for chaos theory. 
i. 1, 2 & 3 
ii. 1, 3 & 5 
iii. 1, 3 & 4 
iv. 1, 4 & 5 
 
(n) . The conclusion of third paragraph highlights that 
i. Western art grants recognition to all its inspirations. 
ii. Van Gogh painted Japanese prints. 
iii. Western art subsumes all the influences under it. 
iv.  Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec are post-impressionist 
painters. 
 
(o). Why did JC Bose deserve a Nobel? 
(i) He was an Indian physicist. 
(ii) He was the only one researching on wireless. 
(iii) His research & findings on wireless started before Marconi. 
(iv) He acquired an American citizenship. 
 
2. Based on the careful reading of the passage given below, answer any 
four out of five questions that follow: 
 
1. When you see me sitting 
quietly, Like a sack left on the 
shelf, 
Don’t think I need your chattering. 
I’m listening to myself. 
Hold! Stop! Don’t pity me! 
Hold! Stop your sympathy! 
Understanding if you got it, 
Otherwise, I’ll do without it! 
 
2. When my bones are stiff and aching, 
And my feet won’t climb the stair, 
I will only ask one favor: 
Don’t bring me no rocking chair. 
When you see me walking, stumbling, 
Don’t study and get it wrong. 
‘Cause tired don’t mean lazy 
And every goodbye ain’t gone. 
[1x 
4=4] 
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ENGLISH ELECTIVE 
CLASS XII SAMPLE PAPER (2022-2023) 
Total Time : 3 Hours Marks :80 Marks 
General Instructions: 
1. This paper has three sections -A, B and C 
2.Separate instructions are given with each part and question, wherever necessary. Read these 
instructions very carefully and follow them faithfully. 
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions. 
 
 SECTION A 
READING 
 
1 Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: 
1. The Higgs boson has been called, or miscalled, the God particle, 
enabling it to pass into the realm of popular scientific lore, like the 
discovery of the smallpox vaccine, the structure of DNA, or the theory of 
relativity. It would be difficult for most people to understand its 
significance, just as it would be to comprehend the notion of relativity, 
but such problems are overcome by locating science in personalities as 
well as cultural and national traditions. The first thing that you and I know 
about the Higgs boson is that it’s named after Peter Higgs, a physicist at 
Edinburgh University who made the discovery — although the original 
insight, in one of those recurrent back stories of science, was Philip 
Anderson’s. 
2. Still, we have Higgs, and Edinburgh, and western civilisation to fall 
back on. The rest — “the Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary 
particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs 
to a class of particles known as bosons ...” — we needn’t worry too much 
about. But maybe we should worry just enough to ask, “What is a boson?” 
since the word tends to come up as soon as Higgs does. Is it, an ignoramus 
such myself would ask, akin to an atom or a molecule? It is, in fact, along 
with the fermion (named after Enrico Fermi), one of the two fundamental 
classes of subatomic particles. 
3. From Bose 
The word must surely have some European genealogy? In fact, “boson” 
is derived from Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist from Kolkata 
who, in 1924, realised that the statistical method used to analyse most 
19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate. He 
first sent off a paper on quantum statistics to a British journal, which 
turned it down. He then sent it to Albert Einstein, who immediately 
grasped its immense importance, and published it in a German journal. 
Bose’s innovation came to be known as the Bose-Einstein statistics and 
became a basis of quantum mechanics. Einstein saw that it had profound 
implications for physics; that it had opened the way for this subatomic 
12 
 particle, which he named, after his Indian collaborator, “boson.” Still, 
science and the West are largely synonymous and coeval: they are words 
that have the same far-reaching meaning. Just as Van Gogh and 
Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings digest the Japanese prints they were 
responding to so we don’t need to be aware of Japanese prints when 
viewing the post-impressionists, western science is pristine, and bears no 
mark of what’s outside itself. 
 
4. Other Indian contributions 
The last Indian scientific discovery that is universally acknowledged is 
the zero. Indians are very strong at maths, and the only modern Indian 
who’s remotely part of the western mythology of science is Srinivasa 
Ramanujan, equally well known for his Hindu idiosyncrasies and his 
agonised stay in Cambridge as he is for his mathematical genius. 
 
5. Indians can be excellent geeks, as demonstrated by the tongue-tied 
astrophysicist Raj Koothrappalli in the U.S. sitcom Big Bang Theory; but 
the Nobel prize can only be aspired to by Sheldon Cooper, the super-geek 
and genius in the series, for whom Raj’s country of origin is a diverting 
enigma, and miles away from the popular myth of science on which Big 
Bang Theory is dependent. Bose didn’t get the Nobel Prize; nor did his 
contemporary and namesake, J.C. Bose, whose contribution to the 
fashioning of the wireless predates Marconi’s. The only Indian scientist 
to get a Nobel Prize is the physicist C.V. Raman, for his work on light at 
Kolkata University. Other Indians have had to become Americans to get 
the award. 
6. Conditions have always been inimical to science in India, from colonial 
times to the present day; and despite that, its contributions have 
occasionally been huge. Yet non-western science (an ugly label 
engendered by the exclusive nature of western popular imagination) is 
yet to find its Rosalind Franklin, its symbol of paradoxical success. 
Unlike Franklin, however, scientists were never in a race that they lost; 
they simply came from another planet. 
Based on your reading of the passage, answer twelve out of fifteen 
questions that follow: [ 1 X 12 = 12] 
 
(a). What is the first thing which the narrator knows about Higgs Boson? 
(b). What is Bose-Einstein statistics? 
(c). How does Sheldon view Raj’s country of origin? 
(d). What do Van Gogh’s paintings do to Japanese prints? 
(e). Has India always got the credit for its merit? 
(f). What do Higgs Boson have in common with Smallpox vaccine? 
i. Both are used in medical radiography. 
ii. Both are part of scientific myth and legends now. 
iii. Both were met with scepticism on their discovery. 
iv. Both fetched their teams a Nobel prize. 
  (g). Which statement is not true about Boson? 
i. They were not discovered by Enrico Fermi. 
ii. They constitute one class of subatomic particle. 
iii. It is named after an Indian Physicist. 
iv. It was discovered by Satyendra Nath Bose. 
 
(h). Choose the word which is an apt synonym of the word Ignoramus 
(used in para 2) 
i. Idiot 
ii. Intelligent 
iii. Idealist 
iv. Ingenious 
 
(i). How are esoteric scientific concepts made understandable for 
people? 
i. By printing short introductory courses. 
ii. By comparing it with other scientific discoveries. 
iii. By locating science in personalities, social and cultural 
traditions. 
iv. By revising the country’s educational structure. 
 
(j). Based on the reading of the passage, which statements are correct 
about Higgs Boson. 
 
1. They are called God’s particle. 
2. Philip Anderson’s study provided the original insight. 
3. This concept is easily understood by common people. 
4. A physicist from Edinburgh University made the discovery. 
5. It was discovered by Albert Einstein. 
i. 1,2 & 3 
ii. 2,3 & 5 
iii. 1, 4 & 5 
iv. 1,2 & 4 
 
(k). Which field of Physics was SN Bose working on? 
i. Quantum Mechanics 
ii. Electromagnetism 
iii. Geophysics 
iv. Acoustic 
 
(l). Which scientist/ mathematician out of the following won the Nobel 
prize? 
i. J C Bose 
ii. C V Raman 
iii. Srinivasa Ramanujan 
iv. S N Bose 
   
(m). What is Srinivasa Ramanujan known for in the popular culture? 
(1) Mathematical genius. 
(2) For formulation of game theory. 
(3) Hindu Idiosyncrasies. 
(4) Troubled stay in Cambridge. 
(5) For devising another explanation for chaos theory. 
i. 1, 2 & 3 
ii. 1, 3 & 5 
iii. 1, 3 & 4 
iv. 1, 4 & 5 
 
(n) . The conclusion of third paragraph highlights that 
i. Western art grants recognition to all its inspirations. 
ii. Van Gogh painted Japanese prints. 
iii. Western art subsumes all the influences under it. 
iv.  Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec are post-impressionist 
painters. 
 
(o). Why did JC Bose deserve a Nobel? 
(i) He was an Indian physicist. 
(ii) He was the only one researching on wireless. 
(iii) His research & findings on wireless started before Marconi. 
(iv) He acquired an American citizenship. 
 
2. Based on the careful reading of the passage given below, answer any 
four out of five questions that follow: 
 
1. When you see me sitting 
quietly, Like a sack left on the 
shelf, 
Don’t think I need your chattering. 
I’m listening to myself. 
Hold! Stop! Don’t pity me! 
Hold! Stop your sympathy! 
Understanding if you got it, 
Otherwise, I’ll do without it! 
 
2. When my bones are stiff and aching, 
And my feet won’t climb the stair, 
I will only ask one favor: 
Don’t bring me no rocking chair. 
When you see me walking, stumbling, 
Don’t study and get it wrong. 
‘Cause tired don’t mean lazy 
And every goodbye ain’t gone. 
[1x 
4=4] 
  
3. I’m the same person I was back then, 
A little less hair, a little less chin, 
A lot less lungs and much less wind. 
But ain’t I lucky I can still breathe in. 
 
Maya Angelou 
 
(a) What does the poet think she looks like, when sitting quietly? 
(b) Does the poet invite pity? Quote a line to support your 
argument. 
(c) What has changed in the poet over the course of years? 
(d) Pick out a word from the second stanza which means 
‘ fal tering’. 
(e) Why does the poet consider herself lucky? 
 
3. Based on the careful reading of the passage given below, answer any 
four out of five questions that follow: 
Climate change and global warming are the biggest threats of the 
present time and how the world manages to control pollution will define 
our future. Rising industrialization, urbanization, deforestation etc., are 
endangering the natural ecosystem. Since 1880, the earth’s temperature 
has been rising at a rate of 0.14° F (0.08° C) per decade and the rate of 
increase has doubled since 1981 at 0.32° F (0.18° C) per decade. The 10 
warmest years on record have occurred since 2015, with 2020 recorded 
as the second-warmest year as per the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 
With growing economies, global carbon measurements have been 
rapidly rising for the last 15 years. As per recent data, in January 2022, 
carbon dioxide (CO2) measurement stood at 418 parts per million, up 
around 11% from 378 parts per million recorded since 2007. 
 
(a) What is the key to defining our future? 
(i) The means employed to control pollution. 
(ii) The means employed to control resources. 
(iii) The means employed to control state policies. 
(iv) The means employed to educate masses. 
 
(b) Which of the following elements are not responsible for 
endangering natural ecosystem? 
(i) Deforestation 
(ii) Inflation 
(iii) Industrialization 
(iv) Urbanization 
 
(c) According to the passage, economy, and carbon emissions have 
been to each other for last 15 years. 
1x4=4