Class 12 · English · CBSE Board
Class 12 English — Previous Year Questions
880 questions from 9 years of Class 12 exams (2016–2025) — organised into 26 chapters for focused practice.
Chapter-wise PYQs
Comprehension Passage
180 questions
Writing Section
118 questions
My Mother at Sixty-Six
30 questions
An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
18 questions
Keeping Quiet
14 questions
A Thing of Beauty
37 questions
Poets and Pancakes
15 questions
Journey to the End of the Earth
23 questions
The Last Lesson
25 questions
Deep Water
14 questions
The Interview
6 questions
Indigo
32 questions
Lost Spring
26 questions
The Rattrap
24 questions
A Roadside Stand
17 questions
Going Places
17 questions
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
22 questions
The Third Level
14 questions
The Tiger King
31 questions
The Enemy
23 questions
Should Wizard Hit Mommy?
14 questions
On the Face of It
24 questions
Evans Tries an O-Level
8 questions
Memories of Childhood
22 questions
The Invisible Man
16 questions
Silas Marner
14 questions
Year-wise Papers
2025
23 questions
2024
158 questions
2023
104 questions
2022
68 questions
2021
Board exams cancelled due to the COVID‑19 pandemic
2020
101 questions
2019
122 questions
2018
59 questions
2017
128 questions
2016
117 questions
About Class 12 English PYQs
These are the official questions asked in CBSE Class 12 English board examinations from 2016–2025. CBSE conducts each board exam in multiple question paper sets — students in different regions receive different sets of the same exam. Padhify’s question bank combines every set of every year and removes repeated questions, which is why recent years show 100+ unique questions while a single set contains roughly 30–35.
Practising chapter-wise PYQs is the highest-return preparation strategy for boards: examiners reuse concepts, question patterns and even exact phrasing year after year. Every question here appears with its year and marks, so you always know its weight in the real exam.