new delhi the central board of secondary education cbse has revised the english question paper pattern for class 12 students for the upcoming board examination the board has introduced some changes in the english core exam pattern that will render the question paper different from those of previous years the changes were made from the feedback received from the various stakeholders and subsequent deliberation in the meetings of committee of courses of the board and the subject experts cbse class xii english core 301 sample question paper 201819cbse class xii english core301 marking scheme 201819cbse notification regarding change in class 12 english core exam pattern the following changes have been made in sectionareading of the question paper for english core classxii for the session 201819 sr no area section a reading existing revised 201819 1 no of passages has been reduced to two two passages of 11001200 words one passage of 400500 words one passage of 800900 words one passage of 800900 words 2 typology of questions for all the passages 6mcqs 1 mark each 16 very short answer type questions including 1 on vocabulary for 1 mark 1 short answer type question 3 marks 1 long answer type question 5 marks passage 1 5mcqs 1 mark each 9very short answer type questions including 3 qs on vocabulary for 1 mark each 3short answer type question 2 marks each passage 2 2 long answer type questions 5 marks each 3 total no of questions for section a for all the passages 24 questions of 30 marks 19 questions of 30 marks 4 total no of questions in question paper 40 35