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English

Semester 1 · 16 topics in 3 units

Past question papers for English

Unit I 7 topics

  1. My Search for Truth: Radhakrishnan's early life and the making of a philosopherThe first prescribed prose text: Radhakrishnan's childhood in Tiruttani and Tirupati, his missionary schooling, the Christian criticism that drove him to Hindu philosophy, and the factors that shaped his character, written up as a 10-mark answer.6 min
  2. My Search for Truth: religion, God, the aim of philosophy and the modern crisisRadhakrishnan's views on religion as experience, on God and tolerance, on the aim of philosophy, and why he finds a lack of spiritual note in modern civilization, with a model answer for each recurring question.6 min
  3. Law and Lawyers: Gandhi's preparation for England, the Bar and his first years of practiceFrom Mavji Dave's advice and the three vows that won his mother's permission, through the Inner Temple and the 'dinner barristers', to Mamibai's case and the Political Agent's insult at Rajkot.6 min
  4. Law and Lawyers: preparing for South Africa and Dada Abdulla's caseThe offer from Dada Abdulla & Co., Gandhi's preparation of the £40,000 case in Pretoria, the arbitration and instalments that saved Tyeb Sheth, 'facts are three-fourths of the law', and the farewell party that turned him to public work.6 min
  5. Law and Lawyers: Parsi Rustomji, truth at the Bar and Gandhi's legal philosophyHow a client was saved by confession, the 'sharp practice' accounts case, the rules Gandhi kept as a practising lawyer, the nine tasks he set lawyers in 'Lawyers' Duty', and a model answer on his legal philosophy and personality.6 min
  6. Law and Lawyers: the Great Trial of 1922Gandhi's sedition trial at Ahmedabad before Judge Broomfield: the Young India articles, Strangman's demand for a full trial, the plea of guilty, why Gandhi asked for the severest penalty, 'the law prostituted for the exploiter', and the six-year sentence.6 min
  7. Law and Lawyers: Dasappa's case, the Lahore judgment and the Punjab casesShort notes on the cases KSLU sets as 'explain any two': Shri Dasappa's disbarment in Mysore, the Lahore judgment, Jagannath's alibi, Lala Labhu Ram, Gujaratimal, and the fining of the Ahmedabad mill-hands.6 min

Unit II 4 topics

  1. Tenses, articles and prepositionsThe twelve tense forms, the rules for a, an and the, and the prepositions KSLU keeps asking about (angry with, fond of, on Sundays, at 9 o'clock), with the fill-in-the-blank questions from the 2025 and 2026 papers answered.6 min
  2. Types of sentences and transformation of sentencesSimple, compound and complex sentences; assertive, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory forms; affirmative and negative; and the 'Do as directed' items from the 2025 and 2026 papers worked out.5 min
  3. Active and passive voiceThe rules for changing voice across every tense, questions, imperatives and modals, the passive in legal drafting, and all the 'change the voice' sentences from the 2025 and 2026 papers converted.6 min
  4. Reported speech: direct and indirectChanges of tense, pronoun and time words, reporting statements, questions, commands and exclamations, converting indirect speech back to direct, and every item from the 2025 and 2026 papers worked out.5 min

Unit III 5 topics

  1. Idiomatic expressions: the prescribed listEvery idiom on KSLU's prescribed list with its meaning and a sentence of the kind the paper wants, plus the rule for using an idiom so that its meaning is clear from the sentence.6 min
  2. Legal words and their usage: Accused to JuvenileThe first half of KSLU's prescribed legal-word list, each word with a plain meaning and a sentence that shows it, with current statute references (BNS, BNSS, BSA) where a word has a statutory home.6 min
  3. Legal words and their usage: Kidnap to WitnessThe second half of the prescribed legal-word list, plus the off-list words the papers have set (advocate, bona fide, notification, proviso, statute, verdict, will), each with a meaning and a sentence that shows it.7 min
  4. Formal correspondence: letters of invitation, request, enquiry, complaint, job application and to the editorThe layout of a formal letter, the six kinds the syllabus names, and full model letters for the questions KSLU sets: a letter to the editor on irregular power or water supply and a leave letter to the Principal.5 min
  5. Comprehension of unseen passages and words often confusedA method for unseen passages, the three passages KSLU set in 2025 and 2026 answered in full, and the commonly confused word pairs the syllabus asks for, with legal ones marked.6 min