AP – SSC Study Material

Creative Writing (discourses): This section shows how creative you are to express. There are major, minor discourses. Again they are divided into Group-A and Group-B. Group-A will come in Paper-I and Group-B in paper-II. Major discourses contain 10 marks and have a
choice (one out of two).

Description is the basic major discourse. All the other discourses depend on that. So practice Description first. Description is nothing but describing the location and situation. We have
to give all the details: who are there, their features, their emotion, how is the location. Imagine the situation in your mind as a movie. Start describing one by one.

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Series of events described in an order becomes narrative. It becomes story if it has any twist. Giving the communication between two or more people in direct speech, one by one becomes conversation. If there is sudden twist in the conversation in a story mode it becomes Drama script. In Drama Script (Play) we have to mention their movements and feelings in brackets, shouting in
Capital letters.

A series of events from birth to death of a person becomes biography.

Addressing, Repetition of words or sentences, Rhetoric questions and concluding words are compulsory for Speech script.

What? Why? How? Who? Where? When? Which? are to be answered in Report/News report.

Minor discourses are short in nature to communicate much in less time. Layout, design, placing are more important here.

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Remember that Major discourses Story/Narrative, Conversation, Description, Drama Script/Play, Interview & Choreography, and minor discourses Message, Notice & Diary will be given from Text book contexts. After every reading of the lesson you have to imagine possible discourses and practice.

Academic year has already taken momentum towards the goals. So we need to speedup ourselves to meet the standards of new CCE pattern. We have to focus on language skills than the content. Take the help of the Text Book to learn the Language skills.

Language skills alone will help you in the examination process. The preparation of Formative Assessments will ease in Summative Assessment. We have 8 Units in the syllabus, Personality Development, Wit and Humour, Human Relations, Films and Theatre, Social Issues, Bio-Diversity, Nation and Diversity, and Human Rights respectively. Each contains A, B, and C Reading Texts.

Each lesson is taken from different genres i.e., poem, drama, story, narration, essay, interview, biography, review, report etc. Read the Reading Texts as many times as possible to enjoy the creative expression as well as to understand the sentence patterns.

In Summative Assessment we have Paper-I and Paper-II (40m + 40M). The difference is Paper – I tasks are from Textbook Contexts and Paper-II tasks are Textbook independent. (Of course 20 marks will be taken from the average of FA’s)

Each paper contains 3 sections

1. Reading Comprehension 15 m
2. Vocabulary & Grammar 10 m
3. Creative Writing (Discourses) 15 m

Reading Comprehension:

While reading the Reading Texts A, B, and C you ask yourself these questions: What is the genre of the text? What is the aim of this? Are there any distinct features? And Informative questions like Why? What? Where? When? Who? How? Find the answers for your questions. Preparing questions on your own makes you comfortable
in this task. You should make a habit of reading other books or literary items to face Paper-II.

Vocabulary & Grammar:

The Basic understanding of Grammar and Vocabulary is very important to enter in this Vocabulary & Grammar arena. From VI Class to X Class we are given a list of 2000 words at the end of the Text Book this year (2016-17). Mastery over those words’ meanings and their usage will get you good score. Practice at least 15 words a day. After those 2000 words you have to practice often mis-spelt words, often confused words, one word substitutes, antonyms, synonyms, binomials, personality traits, phrasal verbs, technical terminology, idioms, proverbs given in your Reading Texts.

The basic Grammar items like Parts of Speech, Tenses, Voice, Speech, Clauses are necessary. After this only you try other Grammar components in the Textbook.

Unit-I: Defining and Non defining relative clauses,
Unit-2: Articles, Compound prepositional phrases, the usage of the simple past and the present perfect tense
Unit-3: The past perfect tense
Unit-4: Appropriate linkers to the sentences to write a paragraph, prepositions following adjectives & verbs, modal auxiliaries
Unit-5: Adverbial clauses
Unit-6: Non-finite clauses, reported speech
Unit-7: Passive voice without agent
Unit-8: Using Like, as for similes