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Appendix I

INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE (YEAR-12)
EXAMINATION MARCH 2013
LIST OF PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS
13. Youth and the Tasks Ahead: Dr. Karan Singh

ENGLISH (Compulsory)
Paper 1. Language

14. My
Struggle
for
Booker T. Washington

No specific book is being recommended for background reading.

15. The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s
Role: Nani Palkhivala

Paper 2. Prescribed Texts (For Classes XI & XII)

The following stories are to be studied:
1. The Portrait of a Lady: Khushwant Singh

One textual question (compulsory) on Macbeth or on
Pygmalion, together with four other questions on at least three texts, which may include Macbeth or
Pygmalion.

2. Growing Up: Joyce Cary
3. The Rattrap: Selma Lagerlof
4. Going Places: A. R. Barton

Macbeth: Shakespeare

5. A Devoted Son: Anita Desai

OR

6. What Men Live By: Leo Tolstoy

Pygmalion: Bernard Shaw
II.

Education:

IV. Hues: An Anthology of Short Stories: Barry Antunis,
Anupam Banerjee, S. Thomas & Sumana Saha

Candidates will be required to answer five questions as follows:

I.

an

7. Talking of Space: Report on Planet Three:
Arthur C. Clarke

The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy

8. A Village Cricket Match: A. G. Macdonell

III. Footprints (A Collection of Essays): Edited by
Stephen DaCosta

9. The Fortune-Teller: Karel Capek

1. On Saying “Please”: A. G. Gardiner

10. Dr. Heidegger’s
Hawthorne

Experiment:

Nathaniel

2. A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of
Married People: Charles Lamb

11. Third Thought: E. V. Lucas

3. Of Studies: Francis Bacon

13. The Night Train at Deoli: Ruskin Bond

4. Principles of Good Writing: L. A. Hill

14. Love Across the Salt Desert: K. N. Daruwala

5. Albert Einstein at School: Patrick Pringle

15. The Castaway: Rabindranath Tagore

12. The Fly: Katherine Mansfield

6. The Future is Now: A Zest for Living: Walter
F. Stromer

V.

Star Light: Edited by Guy Kenneth Dantes
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