Welcome to the students of Class XI (WBCHSE) of West Bengal. This page is dedicated to you. Here you will find the whole syllabus, question pattern and marks distribution of English. So without wasting time let’s begin.
English Syllabus of Class XI
The syllabus of HS English (Class XII) is divided into 3 parts. They are a) Literature b) Language c) Project
a) Literature — 50 Marks
i) Prose: 20 Marks
- Leela’s Friend– R. K. Narayan
- Karma — Khushwant Singh
- Jimmy Valentine –O Henry
- Nobel Lecture — Mother Teresa
- The Place of Art in Education — Nandalal Bose
ii) Poetry: 20 Marks
- Upon Westminster Bridge — William Wordsworth
- Meeting at Night — Robert Browning
- The Sick Rose — William Blake
- Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy — Octavio Paz
- Daybreak — H. W, Longfellow
iii) Rapid Reader: 10 Marks
Tales from Shakespeare — Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
- Macbeth
- Othello
- The Comedy of Errors
- As You Like It
- Twelfth Night
b) Language: 30 Marks
i) Textual Grammar: 10 Marks
- Tense
- Voice Change
- Group Verbs
- Preposition
- Relative Clause
- Participle & Gerund
ii) Writing Skill: 10 Marks- 350 to 400 words
- Paragraph
- Story
iii) ESP: 10 Marks- 10 to 50 words
- Newspaper Advertisement
- Commercial Leaflet
c) Project: 20 Marks- 2000 to 2500 words
Topics of the Project-
- Dramatising a Story
- Extention of a Story
- Writing an Autobiography
Question Pattern & Marks Distribution of Class XI
| Prose | Poetry | Rapid Reader | Total | |
| MCQ | 5X1 = 5 | 5X1 = 5 | 5X1 =5 | 15 |
| SAQ | 4X1 =5 | 5X1 =5 | — | 10 |
| Descriptive Question | 2X5 = 10 | 2X5 =10 | 1X5 = 5 | 25 |
| Total | 20 | 20 | 10 | — |
| Textual Grammar | — | — | — | 10 |
| Paragraph or Story | — | — | — | 10 |
| ESP | — | — | — | 10 |
| Project Work | — | — | — | 20 |
| Total | — | — | — | 100 |
