CBSE Class 12 Question Paper 2025 Solution Shorthand

Marking Scheme
Strictly Confidential
(For Internal and Restricted use only)
Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, 2025
SUBJECT NAME SHORTHAND (ENGLISH) (Q.P. CODE 349)

General Instructions: -

1 You are aware that evaluation is the most important process in the actual and correct
assessment of the candidates. A small mistake in evaluation may lead to serious problems
which may affect the future of the candidates, education system and teaching profession.
To avoid mistakes, it is requested that before starting evaluation, you must read and
understand the spot evaluation guidelines carefully.
2 “Evaluation policy is a confidential policy as it is related to the confidentiality of the
examinations conducted, Evaluation done and several other aspects. Its’ leakage to
public in any manner could lead to derailment of the examination system and affect
the life and future of millions of candidates. Sharing this policy/document to
anyone, publishing in any magazine and printing in Newspaper/Website, etc. may
invite action under various rules of the Board and IPC.”
3 Evaluation is to be done as per instructions provided in the Marking Scheme. It should not
be done according to one’s own interpretation or any other consideration. Marking
Scheme should be strictly adhered to and religiously followed. However, while
evaluating, answers which are based on latest information or knowledge and/or are
innovative, they may be assessed for their correctness otherwise and due marks be
awarded to them. In class-XII, while evaluating two competency-based questions,
please try to understand given answer and even if reply is not from marking scheme
but correct competency is enumerated by the candidate, due marks should be
awarded.
4 The Marking scheme carries only suggested value points for the answers
These are in the nature of Guidelines only and do not constitute the complete answer. The
students can have their own expression and if the expression is correct, the due marks
should be awarded accordingly.
5 The Head-Examiner must go through the first five answer books evaluated by each
evaluator on the first day, to ensure that evaluation has been carried out as per the
instructions given in the Marking Scheme. If there is any variation, the same should be
zero after delibration and discussion. The remaining answer books meant for evaluation
shall be given only after ensuring that there is no significant variation in the marking of
individual evaluators.
6 Evaluators will mark( √ ) wherever answer is correct. For wrong answer CROSS ‘X’ be
marked. Evaluators will not put right (✓)while evaluating which gives an impression that
answer is correct and no marks are awarded. This is most common mistake which
evaluators are committing.
7 If a question has parts, please award marks on the right-hand side for each part. Marks
awarded for different parts of the question should then be totaled up and written in the left-
hand margin and encircled. This may be followed strictly.
8 If a question does not have any parts, marks must be awarded in the left-hand margin and
encircled. This may also be followed strictly.

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9 If a student has attempted an extra question, answer of the question deserving more
marks should be retained and the other answer scored out with a note “Extra Question”.
10 No marks to be deducted for the cumulative effect of an error. It should be penalized only
once.
11 A full scale of marks __________(example 0 to 80/70/60/50/40/30 marks as given in
Question Paper) has to be used. Please do not hesitate to award full marks if the answer
deserves it.
12 Every examiner has to necessarily do evaluation work for full working hours i.e., 8 hours
every day and evaluate 20 answer books per day in main subjects and 25 answer books
per day in other subjects (Details are given in Spot Guidelines).This is in view of the
reduced syllabus and number of questions in question paper.
13 Ensure that you do not make the following common types of errors committed by the
Examiner in the past:-
● Leaving answer or part thereof unassessed in an answer book.
● Giving more marks for an answer than assigned to it.
● Wrong totaling of marks awarded on an answer.
● Wrong transfer of marks from the inside pages of the answer book to the title page.
● Wrong question wise totaling on the title page.
● Wrong totaling of marks of the two columns on the title page.
● Wrong grand total.
● Marks in words and figures not tallying/not same.
● Wrong transfer of marks from the answer book to online award list.
● Answers marked as correct, but marks not awarded. (Ensure that the right tick mark
is correctly and clearly indicated. It should merely be a line. Same is with the X for
incorrect answer.)
● Half or a part of answer marked correct and the rest as wrong, but no marks awarded.
14 While evaluating the answer books if the answer is found to be totally incorrect, it should
be marked as cross (X) and awarded zero (0)Marks.
15 Any unassessed portion, non-carrying over of marks to the title page, or totaling error
detected by the candidate shall damage the prestige of all the personnel engaged in the
evaluation work as also of the Board. Hence, in order to uphold the prestige of all
concerned, it is again reiterated that the instructions be followed meticulously and
judiciously.
16 The Examiners should acquaint themselves with the guidelines given in the “Guidelines
for Spot Evaluation” before starting the actual evaluation.
17 Every Examiner shall also ensure that all the answers are evaluated, marks carried over to
the title page, correctly totaled and written in figures and words.
18 The candidates are entitled to obtain photocopy of the Answer Book on request on
payment of the prescribed processing fee. All Examiners/Additional Head Examiners/Head
Examiners are once again reminded that they must ensure that evaluation is carried out
strictly as per value points for each answer as given in the Marking Scheme.

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MARKING SCHEME
SHORTHAND (ENGLISH)

SECTION A
OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

1. Answer any 4 out of the given 6 questions on Employability Skills. 41=4
(i) (D) Google Sheets
(ii) (D) Non-use of renewable resources
(iii) (B) Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)
(iv) (D) Responding appropriately
(v) (B) Ctrl + S
(vi) Basic editing features in PPP are – copy, move, insert, delete,
spellcheck, etc.

2. Answer any 5 out of the given 7 questions. 5×1=5
(i) M
(ii) on
(iii) upward
(iv) Logogram
(v) Diphone
(vi) ‘ITH’
(vii) w + vowel

3. Answer any 6 out of the given 7 questions. 6×1=6
(i) small circle
(ii) dash
(iii) Trans
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(iv) fulness
(v) stroke k (joined or disjoined)
(vi) half the consonant ‘W’
(vii) stroke ‘ING’

4. Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions. 5×1=5
(i) (B) 2
(ii) (C) Stroke ‘P’ halved with ‘NS’ circle
(iii) (B) N
(iv) (A) Similar
(v) (D) Logograms
(vi) (B) Consonant ‘KR’ and Circle ‘S’.

5. Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions. 5×1=5
(i) other, dear, there and their
(ii) first, next
(iii) on, than, own, been
(iv) Association
(v) Circle ‘S’
(vi) Logogrammes

6. Answer any 5 out of the given 6 questions. 5×1=5

(i) Early attention

Share capital

Education journal

Application form

(ii) Professor, Project, Property
(iii) Stroke K
(iv) National

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(v) Limited & Liberal

(vi) Reserve Bank

Commercial Bank

Party Bill

Bill of Lading

SECTION B
SUBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions on Employability Skills. Answer each
question in 20 – 30 words. 32=6

7. Listening Hearing
a. Listening is active a. Hearing is passive
b. It is voluntary b. It is involuntary
c. Requires concious efforts c. Does not require concious
efforts
d. It is the act of making concious d. It is the act of perceiving
efforts to perceive a sound sound through ear

8. A paragraph is a series of sentences that are organised and coherent
and all are related to a single topic.

9. An active cell is the selected cell in which data is entered when we
begin typing. A cell address is a combination of a column letter and a
row number that identifies a cell on a worksheet.
eg. A5, D6, etc.

10. The most in-demand Green Jobs are :
(a) Air Quality Engineers
(b) Chief Sustainability Officer
(c) Conservation Scientists
(d) Energy Analyst

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11. The different ways to reduce waste are :
(a) Waste exchange
(b) Ensuring quality control
(c) Reusing scrap material
(d) Managing e-waste
(e) Use of eco-friendly material

Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 20 – 30 words each. 32=6

12. A diaphone is a union of two vowel sounds occuring consecutively
but pronounced seperately. They are expressed by 2 angular
signs, and .

13. If the “W” comes in the middle of a word and a dot vowel comes after it,
the combination (W + dot vowel) will be expressed by a left semi-circle

“c” eg. Twelve twenty

14. Prefix self is represented by a small circle (disjoined) written close to
the following stroke in the second vowel place. The outline will always
be written in the second place because the first sounded vowel in ‘self’is

of second place, as in : Self-defence Self-help

15. Large circles are used for words ‘as is’, ‘as & w’, ‘as & s’, ‘is & s’,

‘his & s’, ‘s & s’, ‘s & has’, ‘s & is’, as in : as soon as

As well as In this city

16. Stroke ‘P’ is employed to represent the word Party, Policy as in :

Political Party Congress Party

Insurance Policy Government Policy
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Answer any 2 out of the given 3 questions in 30 – 50 words each. 23=6

17. Suffix ‘ment’ is represented by ‘mnt’ (half-length M and hook N) but
whenever it is not convenient, then NT (half-length N) is used as in :

Payment Department

Achievement Consignment

18. Downward ‘L’ be used when :
(A) In the beginning, if it is preceded by a vowel and immediately
followed by K, G, M, N and NG as in :
.
Like Alike

Long Along

(B) After SK as in : Skill School

(C) Medially ‘L’ is generally written upward but for convenience any
form can be used as in :

Film Volume Column

19. Upward ‘SH’ be written :
(A) After D, consonant ‘SH’, should always be written in upward
direction as in : Dash Dish

(B) Before consonant F, V, ITH, THE, KR, GR, KL, GL, FR, VR, MR
and L, as in :

Shave Sugar Shimmer Shell
(C) After down curved strokes, consonant ‘SH’ is written according to
motion as in :

Fish Finish Fresh Afresh

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Answer any 3 out of the given 5 questions in 50 – 80 words each. 34=12

20. Rules regarding contractions :
(i) General contractions are formed by the ommission of medial or

final stroke eg. Subscription Public

(ii) Contractions are generally written on the line
(iii) Present and past tense contractions are generally written with

the same outline as in : Respected
(iv) Prefixes and suffixes may be added to form contractions as in :

Disrespectful

21. Dot prefix represents Con, Com, Cog as in :

Confess Contain Combine

Committee Recognize

Dot suffix is used to represent ‘ING’ as in :

(A) After light straight stroke and downward R :

Paying Keep Teaching Hiring

(B) After NS circle eg.

Experiencing Cleansing

(C) After a half-length or double-length stroke as in :

Ordering Meeting

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22. Consonant ‘S’ is used for the word society eg. :

Welfare Society

Medical Society
Consonant N is used for the word National in intersection eg. :

International National Policy

National Defence

23. Halving principles are used in Advanced Phraseography to represent
the words, ‘it’, ‘to’, ‘not’, ‘would’, ‘word’ ‘time’ eg.

if it is able to you may not

this would be at all times for some time

24. Suffix ‘ward’ is represented by half of consonant ‘W’ as in :

Backward Forward
Suffix ‘yard’ is represented by half the consonant Y as in :

Backyard Dockyard Courtyard

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