Odisha BSE HSC English (FLE) case studies
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The Annual HSC Examination of the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha is the Class X school-leaving examination conducted by a Body Corporate constituted under the Odisha Secondary Education Act, 1953, which regulates, controls and develops Secondary Education in the State and awards certificates to successful candidates. English is offered as a first-language subject. The Odisha BSE HSC English (FLE) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,006 words.
1The Ten-Mark Passage That Answers Itself
You are moderating the Class X First Language English paper for a district-level school. A setter has submitted a 260-word unseen passage on rooftop rainwater harvesting in a coastal block, with eight draft questions carrying 12 marks in total.
689 words, about 3 min2The Notice That Became a Report
Your Class X student Rina was asked in the half-yearly examination to write a notice for the school noticeboard about an inter-house debate. The instruction was 50 words, 5 marks, with format 1, content 2 and expression 2.
517 words, about 3 min3Over-correction in the Editing Task
You are marking the 8-mark editing task in the Class X grammar section. The passage has eight numbered lines, one error per line.
626 words, about 3 min4The Moral Answer to a Character Question
You are teaching the prose section of the Class X First Language English course. The current chapter concerns an elderly brass-worker in a small town who refuses a factory owner's offer of a salaried job; the chapter ends with him teaching his grandson to hammer a bowl.
570 words, about 3 min5Tone, Mood and the Rhyme-Scheme Trap
The poetry section's 6-mark question reads: 'How does the poet create a sense of loss in the poem?' The poem is a four-stanza elegy for a village pond: stanza 1 describes the pond 'holding the sky', stanza 2 repeats 'no one comes', stanza 3 has a long pause after 'the herons', and stanza 4 rhymes abab. Your scheme gives 2 marks for identifying two devices, 2 for quoting accurately, and 2 for explaining the effect of each device on the reader's sense of loss.
604 words, about 3 min