CBSE English Language and Literature Syllabus for Class 10: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 syllabus for the academic year 2024–25 is out on the official website, cbseacademic.nic.in. The board has provided the curriculum for all language, core, and elective subjects. Students and teachers can easily access the PDFs by visiting the official CBSE website.
The CBSE Class 10 English syllabus for Language and Literature 2025 is provided here, along with the section-wise weightage, typology of questions asked in the board exams, and other important information. Download the PDF here.
CBSE Class 10 English Course Structure 2024-2025
If comparing the 2024 syllabus with the CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature syllabus 2025, the section-wise weightage remains unchanged. According to the CBSE English Curriculum 2025, the reading and writing sections will receive 20 marks each. The language and literature part will be worth 40 marks.
| Sections | | Weightage |
| A | Reading Skills (40 periods)* | 20 Marks |
| B | Writing Skills and Grammar (40 periods)* | 20 Marks |
| C | Language through Literature (50 periods)* | 40 Marks |
*This is a suggestive number.
CBSE Class 10 English Syllabus 2024-25
| Section A Reading Skills | |
| I. Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage | 20 Marks |
(Total length of two passages to be 600-700 words) Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions/Very Short Answer Questions will be asked to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation and vocabulary. | |
| Section B Writing Skills and Grammar | |
| II. Grammar | 10 Marks |
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| 3. The courses at the secondary level seek to cement high professional grasp of grammatical items and levels of accuracy. Accurate use of spelling, punctuation and grammar will be assessed through Gap Filling/ Editing/Transformation Ten out of twelve questions will be attempted. | |
| III Writing Skills | 10 marks |
| 4. Writing a Descriptive Paragraph (word limit 100-120 words), describing a person / event / situation, based on visual or verbal cue/s. One out of two questions to be answered. (5 marks 5. Writing a Story (on a given cue/title)/Diary Entry, in 100-120 words. One out of two questions is to be answered. (5 marks) | |
| Section C Language through Literature | 40 Marks |
| IV. Reference to the Context | (5+5 = 10 Marks) |
| 6. One extract out of two, from Drama / Prose 7. One extract out of two, from Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions will be asked to assess interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, appreciation and vocabulary. | |
| IV. Short& Long Answer Questions | |
| 8. Four out of Five Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words from the book FIRST FLIGHT to assess interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation. 4x3=12 marks 9. Two out of Three Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words each from FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET to assess interpretation, analysis, inference and evaluation. (2x3=6 marks) 10. One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from FIRST FLIGHT to be answered in about 100-120 words each to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the text. This can be a passage-based question taken from a situation/plot from the text. (6 marks) 11. One out of two Long Answer Type Questions from FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET, on theme or plot involving interpretation, extrapolation beyond the text and inference or character sketch to be answered in about 100-120 words. (6 marks) | |
Prescribed Books: Published by NCERT, New Delhi
1. FIRST FLIGHT
A. Prose
- A Letter to God
- Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
- Stories About Flying
- Fromthe Diary of Anne Frank
- Glimpsesof India
- Mijbil the Otter
- Madam Rides the Bus
- The Sermon at Benares
- The Proposal (Play)
B. Poems
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- Dust of Snow
- Fire and Ice
- A Tiger in the Zoo
- How to Tell Wild Animals
- The Ball Poem
- Amanda!
- The Trees
- Fog
- The Tale of Custard the Dragon
- For Anne Gregory
2. FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET
- A Triumph of Surgery
- The Thief's Story
- The Midnight Visitor
- A Question of Trust
- Footprints Without Feet
- The Making of a Scientist
- The Necklace
- Bholi
- The Book that Saved the Earth
3. WORDSAND EXPRESSIONS – I (WORKBOOK FOR CLASS IX) – Units 1 to 6 and Units 8,10 & 11
NOTE: Teachers are advised to:
- encourage interaction among peers, students and teachers through activities such as role play, discussions, group work etc.
- reduce teacher-talking time and keep it to the minimum,
- take up questions for discussion to encourage pupils to participate and to marshal their ideas and express and defend their views, and
- follow the Speaking and Listening activities given in the NCERT Besides measuring learning outcome, texts serve the dual purpose of diagnosing mistakes and areas of non-learning. To make evaluation a true index of learners’ knowledge, each language skills to be assessed through a judicious mixture of different types of questions.
| INTERNAL ASSESSMENT Listening and Speaking Competencies 30 Periods Assessment of Listening and Speaking Skills will be for 05 marks. It is recommended that listening and speaking skills should be regularly practiced. Art-integrated projects based on activities like Role Play, Skit, Dramatization etc. must be used. Please refer to the Circular no. Acad-33/2020 dated 14th May 2020 at the http://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/Circulars/2020/33_Circular_2020.pdf for details |
Download CBSE Class 10 English Language & Literature Syllabus 2024-25 PDF |
The core competencies that will be assessed in CBSE Class 10 English Language paper are given in the table below:
| Sections | Competencies | Total marks | |||
| Reading Comprehension | Conceptual understanding, decoding, analyzing, inferring, interpreting and vocabulary | 20 | |||
| Writing Skillsand Grammar | Creative reasoning, expression of justifying, an opinion, illustrating, appropriacy of style and tone, using appropriate format and fluency. Applying conventions, using integrated structures with accuracy and fluency | 20 | |||
| Language through Literature | Recalling, reasoning, appreciating, applying literary conventions illustrating and justifying etc. Extract relevant information, identifying the central theme and sub-theme, understanding the writers’ message and writing fluently. | 40 | |||
| Total | | 80 | |||
Till now there have been no changes in the previous year's syllabus and the same will be followed for the 2024-25 session. Further changes will be done as per the updates from the CBSE Board.
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