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ICSE Class 10th English Paper Analysis: What students said after exam
Students found ICSE Class 10 English paper one (language) to be easy and balanced. They said paper was clear, simple and straightforward.
ICSE Class 10th English Paper Analysis:
LUCKNOW
Students in Lucknow on Thursday found ICSE (Class 10) English paper one (language) to be easy and balanced. They said paper was clear, simple and straightforward.
Shikhar Tiwari, a student of City Montessori School Kanpur Road branch said,” The prepositions were easy and we managed to finish in time”
Shivansh Bhatnagar, another student said, “The essay topics were good and I did well.” Arunima Singh said, “The letter and the notice topics were easy to understand and write”
Kovidh Singh added, “I’m sure to get a high score in language. Paper was on expected lines”
Ashutosh Tiwari came out bubbling with zeal and laughter, claiming cent percent marks.
Teacher of the same school, Shashi Kanti, ICSE in- charge expressed that children came running out of the examination hall beaming with happiness.
Principal Dr Vineeta Kamran, said, “Both my students and teachers have worked hard and I’m sure their work will bloom fruits of success for our campus.”
English teacher at St Teresa’s College, Aashiana, Jyoti Mehta said the ICSE English Language paper was very scoring “paper is up to the mark and covered the whole syllabus in a very easy manner.”
“It was as per expectations and all the questions were well- practiced by the children. Topics of compositions were too easy and interesting,” she said.
Nikhil Sharma, student said that exercises as well as unseen passage was easy.
Mohammad Jainal said that questions paper was set in a simple language.
Aayush Verma said that paper was lengthy but a balanced one. He is expecting good marks. Shreyashi Mishra said that paper was easy as compared to the pre- board examination paper. Students seemed happy with the paper.
WEST BENGAL
Chirag Agarwal, a student of St Joseph School, Darjeeling, who is appearing for ICSE exams, said, “The English paper met our expectations. I had no difficulty answering the questions. I hope to score what I was aiming for.”
Bidhya Nivedita Toppo, an English teacher at Don Bosco School, Siliguri, which is under ICSE board, said, “Many students were expecting difficult questions but all of them found them quite easy to answer. The syllabus was well covered.”
Stuti Abigail Raj, a ICSE student from La Martiniere for Girls in Kolkata, said, “The paper was comparatively easy. I am happy and satisfied.”
PRAYAGRAJ
The English language question paper for ICSE students appearing in the ongoing Board examinations of Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) examination had a balanced approach for gauging knowledge of an average student. As per teachers of the subject the question paper was well set and questions on comprehension writing, letter writing, essay writing, notice or email writing besides the grammer portion comprising of transformation of sentences, prepositions and types of verbs was easy to attempt.
As per Sameen Zehra, teaching English at Bishop George School and College, Prayagraj, the question paper was well within the prescribed syllabus and in accordance to pattern adopted by the Board in past 10 years. “The average student also found the question paper easy as practicing of question papers of the Board of past 10 years gave them an idea of the pattern. Essay writing and comprehension each carrying 20 marks was scoring while Letter writing and Notice or email writing, each carrying 10 marks were easy to attempt. The grammar portion of 20 marks was also easy to answer,” she said.
Yashraj Ranjan, a student of the college said the question paper was easy and scoring.
Likewise the English examination for class 12 of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) also was in accordance to the syllabus and pattern prescribed by the Board.
According to Aradhana Tripathi, teaching class 12 at Ganga Gurukulam School in Prayagraj, the question paper had the academically weak students in comfort zone. “The literature part had long answer type questions and short answer type question of 6 marks each while Reference to Context from prose and poetry of 4 marks each was also easy to answer. Any average student with adequate preparation would perform well in the exam,” she said.
As per Tripathi, letter writing for placing order for books besides article writing on familiar topics were also scoring.
Divya, a student of class 12 of the school said that the paper was easy and she had answered all questions as repeated practice of previous years question papers had helped her do well.
Similarly, Animesh, another class 12 student also termed the question paper as easy and scoring.
(With inputs from Rajeev Mullick in Lucknow and Tanmay in Kolkata and Kenneth John in Prayagraj)
