Flamingo CBSE Class 12 PYQ Chapter Wise (2016–2026)

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Literature: Flamingo PYQs (previous year questions) for CBSE Class 12: Literature: Flamingo (English Core) had 30 questions across the 50 official CBSE Class 12 papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 10 of them. Asked in 10 of 10 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Flamingo and Vistas, Flamingo, Lost Spring.

Year-wise question count

Asked in 10 of 10 years.

Most-asked concepts

Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.

How to practise Literature: Flamingo PYQs

1. Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
2. Solve one year’s Literature: Flamingo questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
3. Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
4. Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.

Questions by year

Each line gives the question number and paper, type, concept, our one-line summary, with a link to the official PDF.

CBSE Class 122026

• Q.7 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · Keeping Quiet: Extract from Keeping Quiet on an exotic moment of stillness without engines PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · Poets and Pancakes: Extract describing the Gemini Studios make-up room PDF
• Q.10 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo: Five of six short answers on My Mother at Sixty-six, The Interview, Indigo and others PDF

CBSE Class 122025

• Q.7 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · Keeping Quiet: Extract from Keeping Quiet on the exotic moment of everyone being still together PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · The Rattrap: Extract where the peddler steals the crofter's thirty kronor after leaving PDF
• Q.10 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo: Five of six short answers on The Interview, Indigo, The Last Lesson and others PDF
• Q.12 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Long answer · The Rattrap: Compare the peddler and the Gemini office boy on frustration, status and grudges PDF

CBSE Class 122024

• Q.7 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · A Thing of Beauty: Extract on a thing of beauty being a joy forever and what it gives us PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · Lost Spring: Extract on Seemapuri migrants valuing food over identity PDF
• Q.10 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo: Five of six short answers on The Last Lesson, The Rattrap, The Interview and others PDF
• Q.12 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Long answer · A Thing of Beauty: Letter in Keats's voice advising Frost on dealing with sadness through beauty PDF

CBSE Class 122023

• Q.7 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · My Mother at Sixty-six: Extract on the poet's feelings on parting from her ageing mother PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · Poets and Pancakes: Extract on the Gemini Studios make-up department and national integration PDF
• Q.10 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo: Five of six short answers on The Last Lesson, Lost Spring, Deep Water and others PDF
• Q.13 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Long answer · Indigo: When and how civil disobedience first triumphed in modern India PDF

CBSE Class 122022

• Q.5 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo and Vistas: Five of six short answers on The Rattrap, Indigo, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers and others PDF
• Q.6 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Long answer · A Thing of Beauty: Two of three long answers on things of beauty, Evans's escape and Champaran farmers PDF

CBSE Class 122020

• Q.7 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · Aunt Jennifer's Tigers: Two extracts: Aunt Jennifer's tigers and her fears; Sophie waiting for Danny Casey PDF
• Q.8 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo and Vistas: Five of seven short answers on Indigo, Poets and Pancakes, Deep Water and Vistas texts PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Long answer · Lost Spring: How the Firozabad bangle makers' lives show poverty and crushing traditions PDF

CBSE Class 122019

• Q.7 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · My Mother at Sixty-six: Extract on the poet seeing her pale mother and smiling as she leaves PDF
• Q.8 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo and Vistas: Four of six short answers on The Last Lesson, Deep Water, Indigo and Vistas texts PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Long answer · Lost Spring: Why Seemapuri is on Delhi's edge yet metaphorically far away from it PDF

CBSE Class 122018

• Q.8 (English Core (1/1)) · Extract-based · A Thing of Beauty: Extract on clear rills and the musk-rose forest brake: poem, meaning, figure of speech PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo and Vistas: Four of six short answers on My Mother at Sixty-six, Lost Spring, Indigo and Vistas texts PDF

CBSE Class 122017

• Q.8 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Extract-based · An Elementary School Classroom: Extract on the slum children's faces: who they are, figure of speech, word meaning PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo and Vistas: Four of six short answers on The Last Lesson, Going Places, My Mother at Sixty-six and others PDF
• Q.10 (English Core (1/1/1)) · Long answer · Lost Spring: How the ragpickers of Seemapuri survive when garbage is gold to them PDF

CBSE Class 122016

• Q.8 (English Core (1/1)) · Extract-based · Keeping Quiet: Extract from Keeping Quiet: counting to twelve, keeping still and the pun on arms PDF
• Q.9 (English Core (1/1)) · Short answer · Flamingo and Vistas: Four of six short answers on Lost Spring, The Rattrap, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers and others PDF

Other English Core chapters

• Reading Comprehension PYQs
• Writing Skills PYQs
• Literature: Vistas PYQs
• Grammar and Other Items PYQs

FAQ

How many Literature: Flamingo questions come in CBSE Class 12?

In the official papers we tagged: 3 in 2026, 4 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 3 in 2020, 3 in 2019, 2 in 2018, 3 in 2017 and 2 in 2016. That is 30 questions in all, about 25% of English Core.

Which Literature: Flamingo topics repeat in CBSE Class 12?

Asked in the most papers: Flamingo and Vistas, Flamingo, Lost Spring. The concept table lists every one with its count.

Are these official CBSE Class 12 questions?

Yes. Every question is from an official CBSE Class 12 paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.