Kerala SSLC Urdu cheat sheet

Kerala SSLC Urdu prose includes lesson-based questions, author identification, and short-answer items drawn from prescribed textbook lessons.

Nasr (نثر) means prose; the prose lessons include essays, short stories, and biographical sketches from the SCERT Urdu textbook.

Author-question format: match lesson to author, e.g. lesson titles in the textbook are paired with named Urdu writers; learn lesson-author pairs as a list.

Short-answer items usually ask for a theme, a character trait, or a moral; answers of 2–3 sentences in Urdu earn full marks.

Lesson-based vocabulary: unfamiliar words are glossed at page footnotes; exam items may ask for meanings (ma'ani) of words in context.

Summary (khulasa) questions require restating the lesson's central idea in your own Urdu sentences, not copied lines.

Character sketch questions ask for qualities with textual evidence; name the character and give two supporting incidents.

Essay-type prose answers must be in Urdu script with correct sentence order (subject-object-verb) and appropriate connectors.

Poetry lessons include nazm (نظم) and ghazal (غزل); exam items ask for poet name, theme, and explanation (tashreeh) of lines.

Nazm: a poem with a single sustained theme; identify the central idea and the poet's message before writing tashreeh.

Ghazal: couplets (sher) with a radif (repeated refrain) and qafiya (rhyme); the matla is the opening couplet and the maqta contains the poet's takhallus.

Tashreeh answers: explain each line's meaning in simple Urdu prose, then state the poetic idea; do not merely repeat the verse.

Poetic devices to name: tashbeeh (simile), isti'ara (metaphor), tajnees (wordplay), and radif/qafiya structure.

Poet-identification items: learn each prescribed poem's poet and the poet's era or style as listed in the textbook.

Marks for poetry explanation reward accurate meaning plus a stated theme; a bare translation without comment loses marks.

Ism (noun) types: ism-e-khas (proper), ism-e-aam (common), ism-e-jins (collective), and ism-e-masdar (verbal noun).

Zameer (pronoun) must agree with the noun in person and number: main, hum, tu, tum, woh, yeh; gender agreement applies to verbs.

Fail (verb) tenses: mazi (past), haal (present), mustaqbil (future); the auxiliary hona changes with person and gender.

Sifat (adjective) follows the noun it qualifies in Urdu and agrees in gender and number where the pattern requires it.

Jumla (sentence) correction items test word order: standard order is subject + object + verb, with the verb final.

Muhawara (idiom) and zarb-ul-masal (proverb) items require the idiom used in a correct sentence, not just its meaning.

Wahid-jam'a (singular-plural) pairs and muzakkar-mu'annas (masculine-feminine) pairs are directly tested; memorise irregular pairs.

Tazkeer-o-tanees (gender) errors are common distractors: e.g. kitab is feminine, qalam is masculine.

Insha (essay) topics come from familiar areas: mera mulk, mera school, mera pasandeeda mausam, aur science ke faide.

Essay structure: introductory sentence, 2–3 body paragraphs with one idea each, and a concluding sentence; keep to the word limit given.

Khat (letter) formats: personal letter to a friend or relative, and application (darkhwast) to a headmaster or officer; both need salutation, body, and closing.

Application format: address line, subject, salutation (Janab-e-Aali), body stating the request, and signature with class and roll number.

Mazmoon (report/paragraph) writing rewards linking words: aur, lekin, is liye, is ke baad, akhir mein.

Translation (tarjuma) items: translate English sentences into Urdu keeping tense and number accurate; avoid word-for-word ordering.

Mukhtasar kahanI (short story) writing needs a clear beginning, a single incident, and a moral or ending line.

Composition marks are lost for spelling (hijje) errors and missing punctuation marks such as the full stop (khatma nishan).