Write a composition (350 – 400 words) on any one of the following:
(a) Write an original short story entitled ‘The Gift’.
(b) “Money is important for happiness.” Express your views either for or against this statement.
(c) Narrate an incident from your own experience when you helped to prepare a meal. Explain what you did and what you gained from the experience.
(d) You had been waiting outside the examination hall. Describe what you saw and the sounds you heard when you arrived at the place. What were your feelings? Describe how the scene changed once you entered the hall and the examination started.
(e) Study the picture given below. Write a story or a description or an account of what it suggests to you. Your composition may be about the subject of the picture or you may take suggestions from it; however, there must be a clear connection between the picture and your composition.
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(a) The story must be original and must bring out the theme of a special or meaningful gift. The giver and receiver should be the main characters.
(b) Argumentative essay: views for or against the motion are to be accepted. Credit is to be given for a cohesive, well-constructed, logical argument and ideas and reasoning based on personal experience. Candidate must take a clear stand and give valid reasons for the stand taken.
(c) Candidate should give clear sequencing of events, the effort involved, assistance given, result of effort and the lesson learnt. It must be a first-person account. ‘I’ is the central theme.
(d) A description of noise, chatter of children, parents, last minute rush to look at notes, etc.
Teachers trying to solve doubts, give answers, telling them to relax.
Parents asked to leave – the bell. The hush of the hall, prayer, silence, the examination begins.
(e) Picture Composition: Accept a wide interpretation. Any relevant ideas taken from the picture should be accepted. However, a mere itemization / listing / description of the picture is to be penalized.