MBSE Class 12 Syllabus 2024

MIZORAM BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION
AIZAWL- 796012

Dated Aizawl, the 21 June, 2023
NOTICE
No. J.13012/1/2018-MBSE(Acad)/22: This is for the infornnation of all concerned that the
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) had published a list of
rationalized contents in textbooks whereupon several topics and chapters have been
dropped/deleted in the newly published NCERT books. Accordingly, it is hereby notificd
that the existing Mizoram Board of School Education Higher Secondary syllabus for all
subjects may be followed for the academic session 2023-2024, with the exception of
English, Sociology, Psychology and Hindi subjects wherein certain topics and chapters are
hereby dropped/deleted. The details of the dropped/deleted topics and chapters in the
syllabi of the aforementioned four subjects for Classes-XI and XIl are enclosed in
Annexure-I and II respectively.
It is further notified that for the other remaining subjects, in case the MBSE
syllabus is not covered by the NCERT rationalized textbooks, the other MBSE
recommended textbooks as listed in the textbook list issued by this Office vide
No.J. 14020/1/2018-MBSE(Acad)/14 dt. I5.12.2022 shall cover the said syllabus.

Sd/-SARAH LALENGZAMI PACHUAU
Secretary
Mizoram Board of School Education

Memo No. J.13012/1/2018-MBSE(Acad)y/22(A) : Dated Aizawl, the 21 June, 2023
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(R. LAL'HLAMUANA)
Director (Academic)
Mizoranm Board of School Education

Class-XII Annexure-1I

. English (Corc)
(a) Flumingo
Chapter PageNo. Dropped Topics/Chapters
Poetry Chapter 2: An
Elementary SchoolClassroom 92-94
Full Chapter
in a Slum by Stephen Spender
(b) Vistas
Chapter Page No. Dropped Topics/Chapters
Chapter 5: Should Wizard hit
Mommy by John Updike 48-55 Full Chapter
Chapter 7: Evans Tries an O
Levrel by Colin Dexter 70-92
FullChapter

2. Hindi
(a)Aroh Bhag-l1

2? 33

59 6!

U8 127,
128 140

(b) Vitan Bhag-ll

53 78

(c) Abhivyakti Aur Madhyam

3. Sociology
(a) Indian Society, Class XII

Page Dropped Topics/Chapters
Chapter No.
2 Third Paragraph
First and Last Paragraph
Chapter 1:
4
Introducing Full Pagé Content andVisuals
Indian Society
5 First, Third. Fourth and Fifth Paragraphs

6-7 AllVisuals
Last Four Lines in the Third Paragraph
14
(In fact... cities)

Last Paragraph, Last Three Lines
14-15 ("On the other... previous
Chapter 2: page)
The
Demographic Ninth to the Last Line ofthe Second
Structure of 15 Paragraph (The total fertility... Visaria
the Indian 2003*")
Society " In First Paragraph Last Line Misused Word
is Added in Place of 'used.
. Last Seven Lines in The Second Paragraph
31
(For example...regions")
The Last Paragraph,
First Two Lines (*It isalso...prosperous
families...")
32 Last Four Lines in the First Paragraph
("Enormous effort.. in this chapter)
34 FullPage Visual
38 Visual Deleted

39
ReferenceVisaria, Pravin
land Visaria.."

4

Second Paragraph
45 (Not surprisingly... social
institutions")
First Twelve Line in the Second Paragraph
(*"Other interventions
46
...
endof the colonial
Chapter 3: period")
Social
Institutions: 47
Last Eight Lines in Second Paragraph (In other
words.. educational terms)
Continuity and
Change
48
Last Four Lines in Second Paragraph (*For
example... food sharing")

Last Paragraph, Last Nine Lines and First Four
48-49
Lines. (**Although this... lower' caste")

The terms 'so called' in the First Line of the
Second Paragraph
50 Third Paragraph ("The juxtaposition... in
the present")
In Section 3.2, Last Four Lines of First
Paragraph ("and most... convenience.")
Tribes"
53-54 Section Mainstream Attitudes Towards

Line Six till the Last Line of the Second
55
Paragraph (Thus citizen... are powerless')
Page 57
Last Paragraph of Page 56 Continued in
56
is Deleted. (The family... in society)

57 Box 3.2

58 Last Three Lines Above the Visual

59 Box 3.3

5

Last Paragraph and Beginning of the Same on
62-63 Page 63
Chapter 4: The *Each person... let it be)
Market as a
Social Second Paragraph (According to... social
Institution 65 equality")
66 Exercise for Box 4.1

Second Paragraph ("The Nattukottai..
67
Rudner 1994")
. First TwoLines of Box 4.2 (*This is not...
systems.")
68 Exercise for Box 4.2

72 Full Page Visual

73 Third Paragraph, Last Five lines
(Consumption... modern life")
75 Box 4.3 and, Exercise for Box 4.3
Some Lines from Fourth Paragraph
84 (A Dalit is likely...
professional work")
Third and Fourth Paragraph
86-87 It is important... wishes
of the excluded')

91
Last Paragraph, Ninth toFifteenth Line (At the
same... abuse and humiliation')
Chapter 5: Patterns
ofSocial 92 Full Page Visual
Inequality and
Exclusion 93 Box 5.2

95-96 Box 5.3

99
Two Lines from Third Paragraph ("Should have
made..Firstly")
100-101 Box 5.5
103 Full Page Visual

6

SixthLine after Point 4
106 (The rape...murders')
Third Paragraph ("Social Change...they
emerge")
|14 Last Two Paragraphs
(If you... tuture.")
FirstParagraph under Section 6.1
|15 ("Before discussing... the
nation state?")
Activity 6.I
116 . Last Paragraph
(It is a social..it was
wrong")
117 Box 6.1

118 |Activity 6.2,
Chapter 6: The
Challenges of 119 |Activity6.3
Cultural
Diversity 124 Chart 1

Visual
125
" Last Paragraph (*For
example... next page")

128 Second Paragraph ("On the whole... current
trends")

130 Last Eight Lines in Second Paragraph (n
democratic... identity")
133 Activity 6.5
Sixthto Thirteentlh Line in Second Paragraph
134
Second Line towarcds the End of the
Paragraph in Third Paragraph

135 Second Paragraph First Six Linesunder section
Secularism' ("As we have... In fact")

7

. Sccond Paragraph ("One kind of... hardto
136-137
setlle.")
Fourth and Fifth Paragraph
(These kinds... should count.")

137-138 Content Starting from ("Thus,... dalit
movements.")

(b) SocialChange and Devclopnnent in India, Class, XII

Page
Chapter No. Dropped Topics/ Chapters
3
Activity 1.1
Box I.I

10 Box 1.7: Exercise for Box
I.6 and L.7

Last Paragraph
Chapter 1: ("A modern... as well?**)
StructuralChange
12 Box 1.9

13 Exercise for Box 1.10
19 Visual

Last Four Lines of Second Paragraph
21
(Yet another... such a
religion")
Chapter 2:
Cultural Change 23 Second Paragraph (We
begin... secularisation")
24--25 Last Five Lines
("Therefore, to be.. vision")
25
Last Four Lines From Fifth Paragraph
"However... discriminated"
26 Boxes 2.2 and 2.3
29 Activities 2.6, and Above Paragraph
*We... to this")
30-31 Second Last Paragraph Starting From
A Rational ... Arunachal Pradesh."

" Box 2.7
31 . Content Deleted from
FifthLine (Such as rates of church attendance") 1

1
32 |Box "Connecting to God'"
Exercise for Box 2.8 and Last four Lines of
Conclusion
33
The next... getting
redefined"
36-43 Full Pages
Last Paragraph Under 'Democratisation and
49 Identity'.
Chapter 3: The (*The reports..money
Story of lndian matters") h
Democracy
(Renaned as 50 Boxes 3.11, 3.12 and 3.13, Exercise for Boxes
The 3.11,3.12 and 3.13
Constitution and
Social Change') Content in the First Paragraph Under
Section 3,3 (*You will recall...different
groups.")
51 Content in the Second Paragraph under
Section 3.3
(The question...
individuals.")
. Last Point in Activity 3.1
52 Exercise for Boxes 3.14 and 3.16

53 Box 3.16 and the Sentence Above
Last Paragraph, Few Lines
59 (Similarly... meant that ... bonded labour
Karnataka... in a village... dominant caste)"
Activity 4.3 is Partially Deleted (Second and
third points)
63 Last Three Lines of Second Paragraph
Chapter 4: ("However.. structure)
Change and Last Seven Lines of Fourth Paragraph
Development in (*While.... not in name)
Rural Society Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Lines from Last
Paragraph
9

. Slight Modification in undeveloped')
the Content ("As aresult...
of"Cultivation in
|Two Visuals on the Left
65
different parts of the country"

69-70 Last Paragraph (*While farmers...an event")

70
Content from
The losS... their favour'")
74
First Five Lines
Which. be made")
Third Paragraph
75 While the carly... by the
West")
Chapter 5: 77 Second Paragraph Industrialisation in the Early
Change and Years of Indian Independence
Development in . Box 5.1
Industrial 78
Society . First Line of Third Paragraph
79 First Three Paragraphs under Section 5.3
("If you open...work culture")
80 Boxes 5.2 and 5.3
81 Box 5.4

82-83 Last Paragraph Continued on Page83 is Deleted.
(Another... survive)
85 Box S.6

86
Visual-Different Brands of Bidi
Activity Box 5.3
" Distribution Value of Bidi along with
Content on the Left
87 Box 5.7
" Content under Section 5.7 (*Many
workers... with them")
88 Content in First Paragraph
(According... demands")
88-89
Box 5.8, Exercise for Box 5.8.

90 Second Last Reference,
(Roy, Tirthankar. 2001...)
93 Third and Fourth Paragraph and First Four Lines
lof the Fifth Paragraph
10

94 First Six Lines of Second Paragraph
("Sociology...ever before")
Last Six Lines of Third Paragraph under The
97 Economic Policy of Liberalisation'
Chapter 6: (You have...
Globalisation constitution'")
and Social 98 Visual
Change
99 Visuals

100 Box 6.2, Exercise for Box 6.2

Three Visuals
102
Activity 6.4 Last Point
. Line before
103 The following... Shift")
Box 6.5 and 6.6, Exercise for Box 6.2
104 Box 6.7 and Exercise for Boxes 6.5,6.6 and 6.7

110 Activity 6.8
119 Box 7.3 and Exercise for Box 7.3

123 Exercise for Box 7.8
Chapter . 7:
Mass Media
124 Visual
and
Communications
125 FullPage Visual

128 Box 7.12

137 FirstThree Lines of the Paragraph under Section
8.1, (People... movement.")
139 Box 8.3 and Exercise for Box 8.3

Theories of Social Movements
Chapter 8: 140-141 Activity8.4, Box 8.4 and Exercises for
Social Box 8.4
Movements
142 Activity 8.5
11

" Entire Section under'Another way of
142-144 classifying: Old and New."
Visual Retained
First Few Lines of Section
144
'Distinguishing the new social... (*We
have... and")
145 Second Paragraph Starting with
Can we... line"
147 Exercise for Boxes 8.5 and 8.6

148
Activity 8.7 and Last two Paragraphs
. Exercises for Boxes 8.7 and
149
8.8
. Two Lines Below the
Exercises for
Boxes 8.7 and 8.8

150
Second Last Paragraph (The
formation...
250,000°")
Lást Paragraph and Last Three Lines
151 from Second Last Paragraph
("During the.
understand these")
Poem on The Dalit Movement
152 (The sun of... Rise,
Opeople")
Activity 8.9 and Box 8.9 and Exercise
153 for Box 8.10and Few Lines
(Dalit literature... castes")
Entire Section under The Upper
Caste Response" continuing to next
page.
154-155
(*The increasing..
Book 1")
Box 8.12

158 Last Five Lines of Second Paragraph

159 Boxes 8.13 and 8.14 and Exercise for
Box 8.14

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Psychology
Chapter Page No.
Dropped Topics/Chapters
Chapter 5:
Therapeutic 94-96
101-102
Psychodynamic Therapy
. Biomedical Therapy
Approaches
Social Cognition
Chapter 6: Attitude
Schemas and Stereotypes Impression
and Social Formation
of Others
and Explaining
Behaviour
119-125
Cognition through Attributions
Behaviour in the Presence of
Others
Pro-social Behaviour
Conformity, Obedience and
Compliance
Chapter 7: Social 138-149
Cooperation and Competition
Influence and Group Social ldentity
Processes Inter-group Conflicts
Conflict Resolution
Strategies
Chapter 8: 152-176
Pyschology and Life Full Chapter
Chapter 9:
Developing 177-19s Full Chapter
Psychological Skills

(R. LALTHLAMUANA)
Director (Academic)
Mizoram Board of School Education

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