This is Golden English Core — Flamingo and Vistas, a guide for Class XII in the coloured edition 2024-25. It is an English medium (Roman script) book — the complete text, solutions, summaries and model papers are in English, and there is no Hindi content in it. The cover states that it is based on the new NCERT textbooks and CBSE guidelines, and that solved CBSE and CUET papers from 2022 and 2023 are included.
The book covers the full English Core paper rather than only the literature section. On the literature side it works through both prescribed books — Flamingo, the main textbook, and Vistas, the supplementary reader — with the NCERT exercises fully solved, chapter summaries, main points, NCERT word meanings, and short and long answer questions. The poems carry summaries and paraphrase, and reference-to-the-context questions are given with MCQs attached, which is the format the extract-based section of the current board paper uses.
The remaining half of the paper is where students lose marks quietly. Reading comprehension and creative writing skills carry a substantial share of the total and are almost never practised as thoroughly as the chapters. This guide covers the unseen passage, note-making, and the prescribed writing formats, and adds the CBSE sample question paper for 2023-24 and an objective type question bank with answers, including paragraph based questions.
The inclusion of solved CUET papers extends the book's use past the board examination, since English is a compulsory section of the CUET general test for most central university applications.
Because the board sets its extract questions on the exact wording of Flamingo and Vistas, this guide is used alongside the NCERT textbooks rather than in place of them.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script), no Hindi content
Golden English Core — Flamingo and Vistas, A Book With a Difference
For Class XII (Class 12), coloured edition 2024-25
Based on the new NCERT textbooks and CBSE guidelines
As per the latest CBSE syllabus
Covers Flamingo (main textbook) and Vistas (supplementary reader)
NCERT exercises fully solved
Chapter summaries, main points and NCERT word meanings
Summaries, main points and paraphrase of the poems
Reference to the context questions with MCQs
Short answer and long answer questions for every chapter
Reading comprehension — unseen passage and note-making
Creative writing skills with prescribed formats
CBSE sample question paper 2023-24
Objective type question bank with answers — MCQs and paragraph based questions
Solved CBSE papers, 2022 and 2023
Solved CUET papers, 2022 and 2023
For the CBSE Class 12 English Core board examination and CUET English
Best used alongside the prescribed NCERT Flamingo and Vistas textbooks
यह पुस्तक Golden English Core — Flamingo and Vistas (A Book With a Difference), कक्षा XII (कक्षा 12) हेतु सहायक पुस्तक है; रंगीन संस्करण 2024-25। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है — इसमें हिन्दी भाषा का प्रयोग नहीं है। यह नवीन NCERT पाठ्यपुस्तकों तथा CBSE दिशा-निर्देशों पर आधारित है। इसमें दोनों निर्धारित पुस्तकों — Flamingo (मुख्य पाठ्यपुस्तक) एवं Vistas (पूरक पुस्तक) — के सभी पाठों का सारांश, मुख्य बिंदु, NCERT शब्दार्थ, लघु एवं दीर्घ उत्तरीय प्रश्न तथा NCERT अभ्यासों के पूर्ण हल दिए गए हैं। कविताओं के साथ सारांश एवं भावार्थ तथा MCQ सहित reference-to-the-context प्रश्न सम्मिलित हैं, जो वर्तमान बोर्ड प्रश्न-पत्र के काव्यांश-आधारित खंड का प्रारूप है। साथ ही अपठित गद्यांश, नोट-मेकिंग, लेखन कौशल (निर्धारित प्रारूपों सहित), CBSE सैंपल प्रश्न-पत्र 2023-24 तथा उत्तर सहित वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न-बैंक (MCQ एवं अनुच्छेद-आधारित प्रश्न) भी दिए गए हैं। इसमें CBSE एवं CUET 2022 तथा 2023 के हल प्रश्न-पत्र सम्मिलित हैं, अतः यह बोर्ड के साथ-साथ CUET की तैयारी में भी उपयोगी है। बोर्ड के प्रश्न मूल पुस्तकों की पंक्तियों पर आधारित होते हैं, अतः इसे NCERT पुस्तकों के साथ प्रयोग करें।
