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Explore the contrasting… (Class 10 English 2025, Q10b)

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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(b)

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

Q10(b) · 6 marks · Long answerA Tiger in the Zoo

Explore the contrasting images of the tiger in 'A Tiger in the Zoo' and the tiger in 'How to Tell Wild Animals'. (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

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Hint 1

List the tiger's surroundings in each poem.

Hint 2

Contrast confinement with freedom, and rage with fear.

Hint 3

Write 100-120 words with a short 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: The two poems show the tiger in sharply opposite settings.

    1 mark

  2. Zoo tiger: He is confined, restless and vulnerable, an object of gaze. He paces his cage with quiet rage and subdued resistance, yet keeps his primal instincts. He stares at the night sky and hears patrolling cars.

    2 marks

  3. Wild tiger: He is a feared animal, free to roam and prowl in his natural habitat, roaring and hunting freely. In the humorous poem he is a creature to be avoided.

    2 marks

  4. Conclusion: Freedom makes the tiger powerful, while captivity reduces him to a helpless prisoner.

    1 mark

Answer: Model paragraph contrasting the confined, subdued zoo tiger with the free, feared wild tiger.

Where the marks are

  • Three contrast points, at least one from each text (3 marks)
  • Organised, coherent expression (2 marks)
  • Accuracy (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

  • Chapter: A Tiger in the Zoo (notes, formulas, where marks are lost and every past question)
Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from A Tiger in the Zoo, 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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