Suggestion for HSC English 2nd paper, Jashore Board

 Marks Distribution for HSC English 2nd paper

(Only for the year 2025)
Subject Code – 108

Part	Test item	Marks
Part A: Grammar (60 marks)
	1 Gap filling activities without clues (for prepositions)	.5×10=05
	2 Gap filling activities with clues (special uses: was born, have to/has to, would rather, had better, let alone, as soon as, what’s…like, what does…look like, introductory ‘there’ or ‘it’)	0.5×10=05
	3 Completing sentences (with clauses/ phrases)	10×1= 10
	4 Use of verbs (right form of verbs and subject-verb agreement as per context)	0.5×14=7
	5 Narrative style (direct to indirect and vice versa)	7
	6 Use of modifiers	0.5×10=5
	7 Use of sentence connectors	0.5×14=7
	8 Use of synonym and antonym	0.5×14=7
	9 Punctuation	0.5×14=7
Part-B: Composition (40 marks)	10 Formal letter writing/Gmail	10
	11 Writing paragraph (by listing/ description) within 200 words	15
	12 Writing paragraph (comparison and contrast/ cause and effect) within 200 words	15

Marks distribution

Question no. 1-9:

Learn grammar items and practice all board questions on the basis of your knowledge of grammar.

Question No.10

 Application/ Email – 10                   

To the principal for:

Public

1. For sound System(SB’19)
2. Multimedia facilities in class rooms (RB,BB 17, DB, CtgB, BB’19, MB’ 23)
3. Permission to go on a study tour (CB’16, RB, JB’19)
4. English club (DjB17,19)
5. Increasing library facilities (All boards 18)
6. For setting up a computer lab(DjB’16,CB, 17) /literary/debating( SB,17, DB 23)
7. Increasing common room facilities 
8. Permission to stage a drama 
9. For safe drinking water in the college campus. (JB 23)
10. For permission  to open a relief camp for raising funds for the flood affected people (CB 23, SB 23)

Personal

1. For a transfer certificate (DB 17)
2. For a seat in the college hostel (DB’16) 
3. For admission on TC(BB’16)
4. A testimonial 
5. For changing one of your elective subjects

                          To the Chairman of union parishad

1. For online birth certificate (BB 23)

Complaints:

1.Write a complaint letter to the editor of a news paper about mosquito menace.

2.Write a complaint letter to the editor of a news paper about the scarcity of water.

3.Write a complaint letter to the Railway authority for missing goods.

4.Write a complaint letter to the Police super about antisocial activities.

5.Write a complaint letter to a company about a damaged and defective product.

6.Write a complaint letter to the Mayor about insufficient supply of water.

Seeking information:

7.Write an application to the chairman of your education board seeking information about how to get a stipend.

8.Write an application to the principal of your college seeking information about a study tour in the next month.

9.Write an application to the principal of your college seeking information about how to get a seat in the college hostel.

10.Write an application to the principal of your college seeking information about how to get admission on TC.

11. To the manager of British council for details about English Language course (RB 23)

Question No.11

Paragraph (by listing/ description) 10  

List Paragraphs         

1. Impacts of social media/Facebook(JB’ 19,CtgB’SB 17)/internet (CtgB’16) etc.
2. Deforestation (SB’19)
3. Dowry system (BB’19)
4. Internet  (RB’19)
5. Importance of Female Education(DjB17, All boards 18)
6. Dangers of drug addiction 
7. Impacts of climate change(DjB17)
8. Benefits of early rising (DB 23)

Description Paragraphs

1. Impacts of social media/Facebook(JB’ 19,CtgB’SB 17)/internet
2. Your country (BB 17)
3. Impacts of climate change(DjB17)
4. Importance of learning English (DB’16)
5. Qualities and duties of an ideal student(JB’16)
6.  How to prevent COVID 19
7. Your favourite person/Teacher (CB 23)
8. Future plan  
9. News paper  
10. A college library   
11. A Baishakhi Mela  
12. Dangers of drug addiction  (JB’16,SB,CtgB’17) 
13. Padma Bridge (JB, SB 23)
14. Importance of moral values (RB 23)
15. Importance of tree plantation (MB’23)

Question No.12

Paragraph (comparison and contrast/cause and effect) -10

Comparison and contrast           

1. Merits and demerits of mobile phone(BB’16, RB’17, BB 23)
2. ‘City life and rural life’(JB 17, CB 23, MB’23)
3. Advantages and disadvantages of city life(BB’16)
4. Merits and Demerits of social media/Facebook(JB’ 19,CtgB’SB 17)/internet
5. Peace and conflict

                                         Cause and effect

1. Environment/air/ water pollution(SB’16,DB’19)
2. Climate Change(DjB’16, 19)
3. Causes and effects of Road Accidents in Bangladesh (RB’16, DB’17, SB 23)
4. Causes and effects of drug addiction (CB’16,17)
5. Climate change(DjB17)
6. Internet   (BB 17,DB’19)
7. Deforestation (DjB’19)
8. Environment pollution 
9. Causes and effects of Failure in English (JB 23)
10. Causes and effects of price hike in Bangladesh(DB 23, BB’23)
11.  Global warming (RB 23)
12. Dengue fever: a panic in Bangladesh