Assam Board revises AHSEC Class 12 Syllabus for Alternative English subject from next session

The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council revised the Assam HS Syllabus 2023-24 for alternative English subject from 2023-24 session. The board informed that the new Class 12 textbook will be called “Harmony: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry”, and VIBGYOR will be discontinued from next session. Read on to know the detail.

The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) has revised the class 12 or Assam HS syllabus for the alternative English subject from the next academic session 2023-24. The board has released an official notification on its website stating the revision in the alternative English subject from the next academic session. As per the notification released on the official website, the name of the textbook will be titled “Harmony: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry” and VIBGYOR will be discontinued from the 2023-24 session.

“In view of the change/revision of the syllabus of the subject alternative English for Higher Secondary 2nd year, this is hereby notified for information and necessary action of all concerned institutions under AHSEC that the revised syllabus on the subject shall come into force with immediate effect, that is from the session 2023-24. The name of the textbook of alternative English will be titled “Harmony: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry”,” reads the official notification released by AHSEC.

The board also informed that some of the content of the old Alternative English subject syllabus will be the same in the revised AHSEC Class 12 Alternative English Syllabus. However, till the availability of the revised textbook, the following syllabus will be followed:

• The Verger by William Somerset Maugham
• Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Grammar: Common errors, question tags, composition

Assam Higher Secondary Education Council also made it clear that the textbook “VIBGYOR” is being discontinued with immediate effect. 

Assam class 12 board further informed that the AHSEC class 12 textbooks are available under a free textbook scheme, printed and distributed by the Assam State Textbook Production and Publication Corporation Limited. However, private students can obtain the textbook from the open market.