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EnglishCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 2/2/1 · 6 marks · Long answer

CBSE Class 10 English 2025: question 10(a)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 2/2/1, section C, question 10(a), for 6 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q10(a) · 6 marks · Long answerA Letter to God

Analyse and evaluate the role of faith in 'A Letter to God' and 'The Sermon at Benares'. (Answer in 100 – 120 words)

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 2/2/1.

Hints

Open one hint at a time and try again before the next.

Hint 1

Name one act of faith from each text.

Hint 2

Compare what each person's faith finally leads to.

Hint 3

Write 100-120 words and end with a conclusion.

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. Introduction: Faith gives strength in suffering in both texts, though it takes different forms.

    1 mark

  2. Lencho's faith: After hail destroys his crop, he writes to God for seventy pesos and stays hopeful. When he receives only part of it, he blames the post office employees and calls them crooks. This shows deep, unshakeable faith, though a naive one.

    2 marks

  3. Kisa Gautami's faith: She asks Buddha to revive her dead son and goes door to door for mustard seeds from a house untouched by death. She learns death is inevitable, which brings peace and wisdom.

    2 marks

  4. Conclusion: Lencho's faith is blind trust and Gautami's is enlightened. Both show faith as a source of hope that sustains people.

    1 mark

Answer: Model paragraph contrasting Lencho's firm faith in God with Kisa Gautami's faith that leads to enlightenment.

Where the marks are

  • Three relevant value points, at least one from each text (3 marks)
  • Organised, coherent expression (2 marks)
  • Accuracy of spelling and grammar (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: A Letter to God (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from A Letter to God, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2025 board paper, set 2/2/1: every question, by section.

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