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Ciass Xii B 2024-25 Vacation Assignment
Ciass Xii B 2024-25 Vacation Assignment
VACATION ASSIGNMENT
CLASS:XII B ,2024-25
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
1. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away, and
looked out at Young
Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
Out of their homes,
(i) Identify the phrase that indicates youthful energy.
(a) missing the flight (b) fear of losing her mother (c) leaving her mother behind (d)
reaching Cochin
(v) The sight of the trees and the children helped the poet
____________.
(vi) In the given extract, the phrase ‘realised with pain’ indicates the poet’s
(a) anxiety
(b) desperation
(d) ill-health
(i) M.Hamel’s sister was a silent spectator in ‘The Last Lesson’. What will be her
mindset while packing trunks?
(ii) The poet does not directly mention the fear of her mother’s death and yet she is
successfully able to convey the same through different poetic techniques. Discuss.
(i) Inspite of all the miseries Franz has undergone, he becomes a journalist. After a few
years, Franz meets M.Hamel. Write a conversation between Franz and Hamel
reminiscing the painful experiences when their mother tongue was taken away.
(ii) Imagine the mother gets to know of the poet’s fears. Write a letter, as the mother,
telling the daughter why she must not dwell on these fears.
Pallipuram
Cochin, Kerala
22 August ‘60
My dear Kamala
I am writing to you because when you left me at the airport, I felt something wasn’t right.
Judging by how little you spoke that day----------------------------------------------------------------
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--------------------------------With love
Amma
3. Choose the option that applies correctly to the two statements given below:
Assertion: The poet wards off the thought of her mother getting old quickly.
Reason: The poet didn’t want to confront the inevitability of fate that was to dawn upon
her mother.
4. Choose the option that displays the same literary device as in the given lines of
the extract.
5. Choose the option that appropriately describes the relationship between the
two statements given below.
6. The Literary Society of your school is setting up an Editorial Board for the forthcoming
academic session. Draft a notice in 50 words to be put up on the school notice-board,
inviting students from classes IX-XI to join the Board. The members would be expected
to stay back after school for 2 hours once a week to work on the school magazine. You
are Shiela\Sameer, Secretary of the Literary Society.
7. With the changes in family relationships, the elderly are neglected, lonely and live in
distress. Write an article in about 120-150 words highlighting this problem and the
apathy of the young towards the older members of society. Support your ideas with the
hints:
SUBJECT : MATHEMATICS
CHAPTER - 3 MATRICES
2 3 1 −3 −4 6
2. If [ ][ ]=[ ], write the value of x.
5 7 −2 4 −9 𝑥
5 0 4 3
3. If 3A – B = [ ] and B = [ ], then find the matrix A.
1 1 2 5
3 −3
4. If matrix A = [ ] and A2 = λ A , then write the value of λ .
−3 3
𝑥
5. If [ 2x 4] [ ] = O , find the positive value of x.
−8
1 0 −1 1
6. If A + B = [ ] and A – 2B = [ ] then find A and B.
1 1 0 −1
1 0 0 𝑥 1
7. If [0 𝑦 0 ] [ −1 ] = [2] , find x + y + z.
0 0 1 𝑧 1
8. If A is a square matrix such that A2 = I , then find the simplified value of
2 4 −6
9. Express the matrix [7 3 5 ] as the sum of symmetric and skew symmetric
1 −2 4
matrices.
1 3 2
10. If A = [2 0 −1], then show that A3 – 4A2 – 3A + 11 I = O
1 2 3
2 −1 −1 −8 −10
11. Find matrix A if , [ 1 0 ] A = [ 1 −2 −5 ]
−3 4 9 22 15
CHAPTER - 4 DETERMINANTS
4. If A and B are square matrices of order 3 such that I AI = -1, IBI = 3, then find the
value of
I 2 AB I.
6 𝑥 2
5. If the matrix A = [ 2 −1 2 ] is a singular matrix, find the value of x.
−10 5 2
2 −1 1
-1
6. For the matrix A = [−1 2 −1],show that A2 – 5 A + 4 I = O. Hence find A .
1 −1 2
3 2 2 1
7. If A = [ ] and B = [ ], then find (AB) -1.
2 5 −4 0
3 2 1
-1
8. If A = [ 4 −1 2 ], then find A and hence solve the following system of
7 3 −3
equations: 3x + 4y + 7z = 14 , 2x – y + 3z = 4, x + 2y – 3z = 0.
1 −2 3 11 −5 −14
9. Given two matrices A = [ 1 4 1 ] and B = [ −1 −1 2 ]. Find AB and use
1 −3 2 −7 1 6
this to solve the system of equations x-2y + 3z = 6 , x + 4y + z = 12, x – 3y + 2z = 1.
QUESTION 1:
Consider the following table GAMES. Write SQL commands for the following.
i. To display the details of those Games which are having prize money more than 7000
iii. To display sum, average, highest, lower prize money grouped by games type.
iv. To display the content of the games table in ascending order of schedule date
QUESTION 2:
Write a query
QUESTION 4:
QUESTION 5:
⚫ Sex Ratio
SUBJECT: PSYCHOLOGY
1. PREPARE A MIND MAP ON PSYCHOMETRIC APPROACH AND INFORMATION
PROCESSING APPROACH OF INTELLIGENCE.
2. SELECT FIVE PERSONS WHOM YOU MOST ADMIRE, EITHER FROM REAL
LIFE OR FROM HISTORY. COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR
CONTRIBUTIONS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FIELDS AND IDENTIFY THE
CHARACTERISTICS IN THEIR PERSONALITY THAT HAVE IMPRESSED YOU. DO
YOU FIND ANY SIMILARITIES? PREPARE A COMPARATIVE REPORT.
Investigate on any of the following topic and submit your project report on reopening
day.
Topics:-
SUBJECT :BIOLOGY
TASK 1- INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
Based on the topic selected by you, submit the biology project following the instructions
given below
INSTRUCTIONS
Work out the exercise questions of the chapters mentioned above in an A4 sheet. Draw
diagrams where ever necessary.