KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN, JAMMU REGION

BLUE PRINT & SYLLABUS FOR SESSION ENDING EXAMINATION (2023-2024)

SUBJECT- ENGLISH MAXIMUM MARKS- 60

CLASS- VIII

Objective
Long
Type
Short Answer
Question
Answer Question-
Testing including
Question 120-150 TOTAL
Typology competencies / MCQs/
- (2 words (5 Marks
Learning outcomes TRUE/
Marks Marks
FALSE/
each) each)
VSA (1
Mark each)
Reading Conceptual
Skills understanding,
decoding, analysing,
15 (1* 8= 8,
inferring, Unseen Passage 0 0 15
1*7= 7)
interpreting,
Critical thinking and
vocabulary.
Literature Recalling, reasoning, HONEY DEW
Skills appreciating, This is Jody’s
applying, literary, Fawn,
conventions, A Visit to
extrapolating, Cambridge,
illustrating and A Short Monsoon
justifying etc. Diary
extracting relevant
information, POEM
identifying the On the
central theme and Grasshopper and
sub-themes, Cricket
10 (10*1= 10 (5*2=
understanding the 5 (1*5= 5) 25
10) 10)
writer's message and IT SO
writing fluently. HAPPENED
The Fight, Jalebis
+
Term - I (30%)
The Summit
within,
The school boy
(poem),
How the camel got
his hump,
The treasure within

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 Gap filling
4*0.5= 2 0 0
Correctness of usage /Editing/ Verb form
of language Reported Speech 3*1= 3 10
Grammar components. 3*1= 3
Jumbled Phrases
Determiners 4*0.5= 2
Writing Appropriacy of style
and tone, using
Story Writing,
appropriate format
Dialogue Writing , 10 (2*5=
and fluency, 0 0 10
Diary Entry, Letter 10)
inference analysis,
to Editor
evaluation and
creativity.
TOTAL 60

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