WBBSE Madhyamik English First Language case studies
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The WBBSE Madhyamik English First Language paper is the English component of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education's Class 10 public examination, commonly called the Madhyamik Pariksha. It is taken by students completing secondary schooling in WBBSE-affiliated schools and is designed for candidates who study English as their first language, so the paper assumes real reading fluency rather than beginner competence. The WBBSE Madhyamik English First Language case studies are 5 cases and about 3,537 words.
1Marking a Metaphor: Three Scripts on 'a census of the unwanted'
You are moderating the unseen prose section of a Class X First Language examination for 84 scripts in a Barrackpore school. The passage (about 430 words) describes an elderly woman in a narrow Kolkata lane who feeds eleven stray dogs and keeps a ruled notebook in which each dog is entered under a name, with a column for 'arrival' and one for 'complaints'.
688 words, about 3 min2Two Readings of a Scarecrow: Marking Tone in an Unseen Poem
The unseen poem on your Class X test is a sixteen-line lyric, 'Fieldwork', spoken by a scarecrow. It begins with the speaker addressing the crows as 'my black congregation' and calling its own body 'a sermon of straw'; the last stanza admits that the field it guards 'has forgotten my name'.
712 words, about 4 min3Diagnosing Rupam: Five Transformations and a Remedial Plan
Rupam, a Class X candidate in Midnapore, scores 11/20 on a sentence-transformation test. His answers include: (1) The teacher said to me, 'Why are you late today?' → 'The teacher asked me why was I late that day.' (2) Although he was tired, he finished the race.
747 words, about 4 min4Respected Riya: Register and Format in Two Letters
The Class X Students' Council of a Kharagpur school is organising a free eye-check-up camp on 18 August, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the school hall, with two doctors from the district hospital.
685 words, about 3 min5Twenty-Six Answers on 'The Eyes Have It': Retelling versus Analysis
Twenty-six candidates answer a 5-mark literature question: 'How does Ruskin Bond make the narrator's blindness a source of both comedy and pathos in "The Eyes Have It"?' Twenty of them write a summary of the train journey, the girl, the co-passenger and the final revelation. Three write only 'the narrator was blind and the girl was also blind, so it was ironic'.
705 words, about 4 min