Abstract

The study aimed at analyzing the content and classification of English textbook exercises in the light of cognitive domain of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy at HSSC level. The study was twofold- Firstly it aimed at analyzing of Reading Comprehension Questions of two English Text books published by KPK Textbook Board, Peshawar, in the light of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy .Secondly the researcher evaluated the text books generally to mark the strengths and weaknesses of these books. For this study a mixed approach was adopted i.e qualitative and quantitative. A list of stem questions was used to determine the nature of each question falling in six sub-levels of Cognitive Domain of RBT. For content analysis an adapted 5 likert scale was utilized. The findings revealed that analyzing level was on the lead with 35.63% in grade11 while the least addressed level was creating with only 2.65 % in book XI. On the contrary in 12^th grade Textbook mostly questions belonged to understanding level with 33.95 % and 3.08 % was given to creating level. After analyzing, the books were found to be good enough but some shortcomings could also be seen.