UPMSP Intermediate Urdu case studies
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UPMSP Intermediate Urdu is the Class 12 Urdu paper of the Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education (UPMSP, often called the UP Board). It is a two-year senior secondary qualification taken after Class 10, and it suits students who want Urdu as a full examination subject rather than an optional extra - whether they plan to continue to Urdu honours at university, pursue teaching, journalism, translation or civil-services preparation, or simply keep a language qualification on their record. The UPMSP Intermediate Urdu case studies are 5 cases and about 3,972 words.
1Ghalib's Letters: When an Accurate Answer Is Entirely Off-Target
A Class 12 candidate in a three-hour UPMSP Urdu paper reaches the 10-mark long-answer question: 'Ghalib ke khatoot ki adabi khusoosiyat likhiye.' The candidate writes 210 words, all of it biographical - birth in Agra in 1797, migration to Delhi, the pension dispute with the British, death in 1869 - and closes with a single evaluative sentence: 'Ghalib bahut achhe khatoot-nigar the.' There is no mention of Ud-e-Hindi, no letter is quoted, and no correspondent is named. The marking scheme the examiner is holding awards 4 marks for content points, 4 for textual illustration and 2 for language and presentation.
926 words, about 5 min2Moderating Two Defensible Readings of the Closing Image of a Nazm
Two examiners marking the same 8-mark tashreeh item on a prescribed nazm disagree. The lines in question close the poem with an image of a lamp (chiragh) still burning in a room whose occupants have left.
867 words, about 4 min3Radif, Qafiya and a Candidate Who Wants the Ghazal Cancelled
A 6-mark short-answer item asks candidates to identify, from a printed ghazal of five ashaar, the radif, the qafiya, the matla, the maqta and the takhallus. The line-endings of the ghazal, in order, are: dil raha, manzil raha, mahfil raha, qaatil raha, mushkil raha.
746 words, about 4 min4Marking Forty Applications in Four Minutes Each
A batch of 40 answer scripts contains an 8-mark darkhwast item: an application in Urdu to the Principal asking for a fee concession. The rubric is 3 marks for format (superscription, 'Bakhidmat-e-Janab-e-Aali', subject line, date, signature block), 3 for content (reason, supporting facts, clear request) and 4 for language.
740 words, about 4 min5A Matching Item That Reveals a Guess, Not a Gap
A 6-mark matching item asks candidates to pair eight authors with eight works. One candidate gets five right.
693 words, about 3 min