Class 10 Sanskrit - What letter and why?

Type of letter -

We have letter writing in Sanskrit starting from grade 8. The letter is a “fill in the blanks” type, where the words which need to be filled will be given in the help box below the letter. For students, “filling blanks” is easy normally. But, in these letters that is not the case.

Pattern of letter and difficulty faced -

As Sanskrit is not a language that we usually speak, these letters were difficult for me. The letter was a part of the writing skills section. Each sentence had one blank for ½ mark. There were 10 blanks like that, which sums up to 5 marks.

Each letter was different, so there were many new words in these letters, which I needed to learn. The first few blanks were direct like sender’s name, receiver’s name etc. The next blanks were part of the main content in the letter. This pattern did not change. But I had the same age-old problem of not understanding the meaning of the sentences.

Practices followed to score full marks -

In order to get full marks in this section, I started practicing letters from various question papers. This wasn’t easy to do, but there was no shortcut either. I felt that some letters were easy to understand, as the main content was written in simple and concise sentences.

Practicing letters helped me in learning new words, with which I started to understand other new letters. Before my boards, I had many letters which I had to practice. But I didn’t give up and I finished every last one of them. This helped me in my boards, where I was able to understand the letter and fill the blanks accordingly.

Compiled resources -

So, for the students coming into standard 10, I have all the question papers which I practiced. I have attached all of those below. I hope that these papers will help you, to score full marks in the letter section. Note that the attached question papers are of the Summative Assessment pattern. So, there might be only 8 blanks in some papers.

Question Papers zip link