AP 10th Class CCE Pattern

As you all know, this section is a marks scoring one. First of all let’s take up vocabulary for consideration. Questions relating to vocabulary
are asked both in Paper-I and Paper-II.

Let’s have a glance over the items involved in vocabulary: Word-meanings, synonyms, antonyms, spellings, one-word substitutes,
word formation, choosing right words, suffixes, collocations, homonyms, idioms, irregular plurals, prefixes, binomials etc.

To have mastery over the use of words in the right approach, you have to read a wide range of books with an eye on the use of certain words mainly ‘structural words’.

Apart from reading your reader, you have to make it a habit of reading other various books such as biographies and autobiographies of eminent persons, periodicals, comics and especially newspapers! You
should invariably have a good dictionary of English, say Active Study Dictionary of English, or the like. Keep the dictionary on your table so that you can refer to it wherever you find a new word while reading.

Reading of newspapers and constant referring to the dictionary pays to enrich your word-power i.e., your vocabulary.

Do’s: Reading of the prescribed text book and other books is an advantage. You can grow thinking power and imagination after every reading. Pause for a white after reading every paragraph.

Don’ts: Never depend upon guides. Keep in mind that there is no short-cut for success. Spoon feeding doesn’t pay.

Questions such as fill in the blanks or in cloze type are asked under vocabulary. So a thorough knowledge of vocabulary is essential for scoring good marks. Further, this section will contain questions
related to grammar which will be properly contextualised by embedding them in appropriate discourses. The chosen text should be from different genres i.e., story, description, conversation, etc targeted at this
level.

The grammar and vocabulary items will not be restricted to class 10 Text-book, but will be chosen even from the lower classes. So you have to be thorough with the functional grammar.

School level English grammar, Nouns and Pronouns, Articles, Determiners, Adjectives, Adverbs, Tenses, Verb forms modals, Subject
verb Agreement, Non-finites, Active and Passive voice, Degrees of comparison, Reported speech, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Phrasal verbs, Transformation of sentences, Conditionals, Correction of sentences, etc.,

Essay:

It is a short piece of writing that discusses, describes or analyses a topic. It can describe personal opinions or just report information.

There are many different kinds of essays. Some of the most common ones are: Expository, Compare and contrast, Cause and Effect, Argumentative, Informal, Critical Review, Analytical, etc.

Therefore, you are to be very careful about the instructions given to each question. The answers you write have to be tallied with those in the key of the examiner. Otherwise you may not get maximum marks! So, first of all read the question paper concentrating on the marks allotted for each question.

Commit To Memory:

Don’t forget that you have to write all the answers in the answer booklet supplied to you along with the question paper.

Do’s: For multiple choice answers, write the numbers and letters clearly, as 1. A, 2. B….

Don’ts: In no case, you don’t overwrite the numbers or rewrite congestedly. Instead, you can round off the wrong ones and rewrite
clearly taking a clear gap in between so that your answer is clearly visible.

Do follow it for the entire answers in the answer booklet. Don’t forget that you can get maximum marks for the neatness of the answer booklet. So try to please the examiner by your neat writing and correct answers.

Maintain the required gap between words in each sentence and use punctuation marks where required and follow the division of paragraph for essay type answers.

Reading Comprehension:

Under Reading Comprehension, passages from the prescribed text book as well as from other source are asked in the examination. Students have to answer a number of questions. There are three important steps to attempt a comprehension viz, reading, understanding and answering the questions set on the given passage.

Comprehension is a test of understanding and analysing a passage. Practice of comprehension passages will boost the student’s vocabulary.

You can write correct answers only when you fully grasp the meaning of the passage. Since the aim is to read the passage thoroughly and seek out the meaning, it may not be apparent upon the first reading.

Do’s: So, you have to express the meaning of the passage in your own simple, clear and direct English. Do remember that you have a clear understanding of the questions asked!

Read the passage(s) carefully two or three times, till you understand clearly – the subject and what is said about the subject, that is the theme of the passage.

Read carefully the questions one by one and find out if you thoroughly understand them to the level of writing answers to them. Now take up the questions one by one and find out the parts of the passage they refer to.

Revise your answers and examine them to see that they are clear and complete. Correct if there are spelling mistakes, grammatical errors or lapses in using punctuation marks.

Don’ts: You should never copy the language of the passage. That is, the sentences should not be full of ornamentation or complex. Instead, your answers should be in your own words – simple and direct. They should not be too short nor too long but should be in accordance with the instructions given under the the passage(s).

Examiners cannot award you marks if they are unable to understand what you are trying to say. Beware of just copying from the passage without really understanding what you are writing.

Since passages under Reading Comprehension are given from both the prescribed text book and from other source a thorough reading of the lessons under Reading – A, Reading – B and Reading – C of the text book is a must. Extensive and Intensive Reading of the lessons is desirable.

Also make it a practice reading other various books, periodicals and preferably newspapers. Text books of other classes, VI, VII, VIII and IX have to be studied again and again.