PSEB Class 12 French study guide
PSEB Class 12 French · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
PSEB Class 12 French is the French paper of the Senior Secondary Examination conducted by the Punjab School Education Board, a body created by legislative enactment in November 1969 for the development and promotion of school education in the state of Punjab. The Board is headquartered at Vidya Bhawan, Phase-8, SAS Nagar (Mohali), Punjab, India. The PSEB Class 12 French study guide has 4 sections and about 1,612 words.
01Compréhension écrite - seen and unseen passages
The comprehension écrite section gives you a seen passage (a text already studied in class) and an unseen passage (a short article, notice, letter or dialogue), then asks questions in French. Marks come from locating and reformulating information, not from translating every word.
429 words, about 2 min02Expression écrite - letters, messages, descriptions, short compositions
The expression écrite section offers a choice of tasks: a formal or informal letter, a short message (email, SMS, postcard), a description of a person, place or object, and a short composition of roughly 80–100 words on a familiar topic. Layout, register and grammatical accuracy carry as many marks as the ideas.
419 words, about 2 min03Grammaire et vocabulaire en contexte
Grammar and vocabulary are tested directly (fill in the blanks, conjugate, transform sentences) and indirectly inside the passages and the writing tasks. The paper concentrates on the structures drilled in Class 11–12: articles, prepositions, pronoun replacement, tense choice and agreement.
398 words, about 2 min04Littérature et civilisation francophone
This section tests your knowledge of the prescribed prose and poetry lessons - author, genre, characters, theme, tone and one or two telling details - plus basic francophone civilisation: geography, monuments, festivals, institutions and the French-speaking world. Answer in three moves: name (author and text), describe (the character or theme in one sentence with a detail from the text), comment (what it shows).
366 words, about 2 min