Assam ASSEB Higher Secondary English Exam study guide
Assam ASSEB Higher Secondary English Exam · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Assam Higher Secondary English examination is the English paper of the Higher Secondary (Class 12) course under the Assam State School Education Board (ASSEB), which has taken over the functions previously performed by AHSEC for Higher Secondary examinations. It is a school-leaving board paper, taken by students who have completed two years of Higher Secondary study in Assam, and its result contributes to the aggregate used for higher education admission and for many entry-level recruitment requirements. The Assam ASSEB Higher Secondary English Exam study guide has 7 sections and about 2,801 words.
01Reading Comprehension (Unseen Passage)
The first section of the ASSEB Higher Secondary English paper gives you an unseen passage - usually 400–500 words of factual or discursive prose on a topic such as environment, education, technology or culture - followed by short-answer questions worth 1–2 marks each. It tests literal retrieval, inference, vocabulary in context and compression of an idea, not prior knowledge.
424 words, about 2 min02Prose (Prescribed Textbook)
The prose questions come from the eight prescribed Flamingo chapters: The Last Lesson , Lost Spring , Deep Water , The Rattrap , Indigo , Poets and Pancakes , The Interview and Going Places . Short answers (2–3 marks) ask for cause, motive or significance; longer answers (4–5 marks) ask for character, theme, the writer's attitude or the importance of a scene.
387 words, about 2 min03Poetry (Prescribed Textbook)
Poetry questions come from the prescribed Flamingo poems: Kamala Das's My Mother at Sixty-six , Spender's An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum , Neruda's Keeping Quiet , Keats's A Thing of Beauty , Frost's A Roadside Stand and Rich's Aunt Jennifer's Tigers . The paper asks for central idea, tone, imagery, poetic device with its effect, and the significance of the closing lines.
392 words, about 2 min04Supplementary Reader / Long Fiction
This domain covers the prescribed supplementary reader - 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 and Memories of Childhood - together with the long fiction set for the course, H.
433 words, about 2 min05Writing Skills (Letters, Reports, Notices, Articles)
This section carries the format-based tasks: notice, report, formal or informal letter, article, and sometimes a speech. Marks are split between format, content and expression, so a well-written piece with a missing signature still loses.
375 words, about 2 min06Grammar and Vocabulary
The grammar and vocabulary items test verb forms and tense, subject-verb agreement, articles, prepositions, phrasal verbs, reported speech, voice, idioms, synonyms and antonyms, and word formation, often through fill-in-the-blank and cloze items. Tense is decided by the time marker , not by the surrounding verbs: since , for , by the time , already , ago , now .
379 words, about 2 min07Textual Grammar / Transformation
These items take sentences from the prescribed texts and ask you to rewrite them as directed: voice change, reported speech, simple/compound/complex conversion, degree change, joining with relative clauses, question tags and fixed patterns such as too…to , unless , no sooner…than . Voice : keep the tense, swap subject and object, and use the correct participle - is taken , was taken , has been taken , had been taken , will be taken , is being taken .
411 words, about 2 min