Crack The Code of Class 10 CBSE

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 ...

Why I chose Sanskrit – Sanskrit seemed to be a language that was easier to learn and understand for me. It was the only language which was the closest to Hindi. The subject mostly required me to understand the various rules in grammar and apply them in various questions. Easy and difficult parts of the Subject - In grade 10, I felt that the grammar section was easy to attempt and score marks. But the comprehension section seemed to be the most difficult, because it required to know the meaning of some words which were critical to write answers. Comprehension questions - Comprehension Questions followed a fixed pattern - One-word answers, one sentence answers and Do as directed questions. The “Do as directed” question contains various sub-divisions such as finding verb, noun, synonym, antonym etc. for a given sentence. These comprehensions may be appearing from the NCERT book or from other sources. To master all the patterns, I practiced past question papers. Links ...