Conversation & Interview
Interview with Hasan for the school magazine (6 questions) — Asked in: 2021
Interview with an eminent scientist (6 questions) — Asked in: 2022
Interview with Nicholai Ivanich (4 questions) — Asked in: 2025
Narrator and Maggie talking at Frank's grave — Asked in: 2021
Hasan and Dr. A.J. Cronin meeting after several years — Asked in: 2022
Tourist and guide talking on Kadavu island — Asked in: 2024
Character Sketch
Maggie ('The Price of Flowers') — Asked in: 2021, 2022
Hasan, the Serang of Ranaganji — Asked in: 2023, 2024, 2025
Profile
Stephen Hawking — Asked in: 2021
Joseph Rudyard Kipling — Asked in: 2022
Rabindranath Tagore — Asked in: 2023
Abraham Lincoln — Asked in: 2024
Captain Smith — Asked in: 2025
Letters & Emails
Email to class teacher sharing problems similar to the boy in 'I Will Fly' — Asked in: 2021
Email from Maggie to Mr. Gupta before his departure — Asked in: 2022
Email to a friend abroad about the importance of parental support ('His First Flight') — Asked in: 2023
Email inviting Stephen Hawking to inaugurate the Science fair — Asked in: 2024
Email to a friend about the superstitious beliefs of Maggie and her mother — Asked in: 2025
Letter to the editor about people neglecting health/safety protocols (COVID-19) — Asked in: 2021
Letter to the editor drawing attention to a disaster-prone area — Asked in: 2022
Letter to the editor about the stray dog menace — Asked in: 2024
Letter to the editor on strengthening family relationships — Asked in: 2025
Letter to a friend describing the impact of Dr. Kalam's words — Asked in: 2023
Job application letter with CV for Estate/Farmhouse Manager — Asked in: 2021
Reports (Live TV, Newspaper, Event)
Report of a seminar on "Gandhiji's India and the India of Today" — Asked in: 2021
Report of a panel discussion on "Teenagers and Social Media" — Asked in: 2024
Newspaper/TV report of the hot air balloon 'Le Horla' journey/take-off — Asked in: 2021, 2023
Live TV report of the young seagull's first flight — Asked in: 2021
Newspaper report about the medical crisis on the ship 'Ranaganji' — Asked in: 2022
Newspaper report covering Nicholai's success story ('Gooseberries') — Asked in: 2023
Live TV report of paragliding at an adventure camp — Asked in: 2024
Live TV report of the turtle calling ritual in Namuana — Asked in: 2025
Speeches
Welcome speech by a tourist guide introducing Kadavu island — Asked in: 2021
Speech on dreams for future India / Gandhi's role in psychological change (Gandhi Jayanthi) — Asked in: 2021, 2022
Speech on providing psychological rehabilitation to natural calamity survivors — Asked in: 2024
Debate & Arguments
For: Physical exercise/Games/Physical Education being mandatory in schools — Asked in: 2021, 2023
For/Against: Walking is a sufficient form of exercise — Asked in: 2025
Against: Technology Keeps Our Society Alive — Asked in: 2022
Arguments stating Death is a great equaliser — Asked in: 2024
Travel Writing (Info & Essay)
Travel info/brochure for a local or famous tourist destination — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2024
Travel essay on Kadavu Island — Asked in: 2021
Travel essay on a trip/school tour to a tourist spot in Kerala — Asked in: 2022, 2025
Travel essay on a recent travel experience / visit to a hill station — Asked in: 2023, 2024
Essays
Need for self-confidence, self-reliance, and determination to overcome challenges — Asked in: 2021
Nehru's views on Mahatma Gandhi / Gandhi's qualities justifying Einstein's remark — Asked in: 2023, 2025
Disasters and Disaster Management — Asked in: 2024
Critical Appreciation (Poems)
Qualities of a perfect man in the poem 'If' — Asked in: 2021, 2022
"His Journey’s Just Begun" by Ellen Brenneman — Asked in: 2021
"Self-Centred World" by Bill Hoeneveld — Asked in: 2022
"The Sands of Dee" by Charles Kingsley — Asked in: 2023
"Walls and Fences" (Unknown author) — Asked in: 2024
"What is Success?" by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Asked in: 2025
Short Answers & Paragraphs (Literature)
Acts of courage and heroism by the men on the Titanic — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2023
Message of lines "If thou art worn and hard beset..." ('Sunrise on the Hills') — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2023
Importance of sleep / Experience of sleepless nights ('To Sleep') — Asked in: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Significance of title / Establishing death as a leveller ('Death the Leveller') — Asked in: 2021, 2022
Role of parents in self-reliance / Seagull's perseverance / Overcoming challenges ('His First Flight') — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2025
Theme / Attitude of mother seagull ('His First Flight') — Asked in: 2023, 2024
Gandhiji's two-fold action — Asked in: 2021
Circumstances leading to the narrator realizing superstition is not confined to India — Asked in: 2021
Relevance of "Money, like vodka, can play queer tricks" / Happiness as overwhelming power ('Gooseberries') — Asked in: 2022, 2024
Benefits of walking as an exercise — Asked in: 2022
Agree with Cronin's remark "the animals were all outside" — Asked in: 2023
How father in "Conceptual Fruit" stands out as different — Asked in: 2023
Do's and don'ts of planning a trip / Do's and don'ts of online safety — Asked in: 2023, 2025
Agree with Esther Dyson on Cyberspace / Uses of cyber space during pandemics — Asked in: 2023, 2024
Why Dr. Kalam recited "I have wings I will fly" / How his speech influenced you — Asked in: 2024, 2025
Family relationship portrayed in 'The Price of Flowers' — Asked in: 2024
Hardships equip ordinary people to reach extraordinary heights (Stephen Hawking) — Asked in: 2025
Suggestions for changing man's attitude to nature to prevent disasters — Asked in: 2021
Narrate an incident where you volunteered in a crisis similar to Hasan — Asked in: 2021
Grammar, Vocabulary & Reading Comprehension
Passage and Poem Reading Comprehension — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Conditionals (If clauses) — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Reported / Indirect Speech — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2024
Identifying Figures of Speech — Asked in: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
Subject-Verb Agreement / Tenses / Verb Forms — Asked in: 2022, 2023, 2024
Cohesive Devices — Asked in: 2022, 2025
Active to Passive Voice — Asked in: 2024
Editing passages for errors — Asked in: 2021
