SCERT Tripura Board Syllabus for Class 9 English

SUBJECT : ENGLISH
Class - IX
Half-yearly examination
BEE HIVE
Prose :
(i) The Truly Beautiful mind (ii) The Fun they had
(iii) The Snake and the Mirror (iv) The Sound of music
(v) My childhood (vi) The Little Girl
Poem :
(i) The lake Isle of Innisfree (ii) The Road not Taken
(iii) A legend of the Northland (iv) Wind (v) Rain on the Roof
Moments :
(i) In the Kingdom of Fools (ii) The lost Child
(iii) The Happy Prince (iv) The Adventures of Toto (v) Iswaran the story teller
Grammar
(i) Use of Passive Voice (ii) Tens
(iii) Subject – verb Concord (iv) Clauses.
(v) Editing / omission (vi) Modals

Annual Examination – 2019
BEE HIVE
Prose :
(i) Kathmandu
(ii) If were you.
Poem :
(i) The Snake Trying
(ii) A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal.
Moments :
(i) The last leaf
(ii) A House is not a Home.
Grammar :
(i) Determiners
(ii) Editing / Ommission

N.B.: Including the syllabus of Half yearly.

Section wise Distribution of Marks
Class IX English (Language and Literature)

Question paper will consist of a total of 11 (Eleven) questions divided into three sections –
A, B and C. Section wise weightage will be as follows :
Section No. of Questions Total Marks
A. Reading (Based on reading Skills) 1–2 20
B. Writing and Grammar 3 -7 30
C. Literature
(Text Book and Extended Reading text) 8-11 30
Total 11 80

SECTION – A
Question 1. A factual passage with eight very short type questions (8 marks)
Question – 2. A discursive passage with four short answer type questions to test the
inference, evaluation, and analysis. Besides, there will be four very short answer type
questions to test the vocabulary (12 marks)
SECTION – B
Writing and Grammar : 30 marks
* Question 3 : Writing a descriptive paragraph. (Person / Place / Event) / diary /
article in about 100-150 words based on visual and verbal clues
(8 marks)
N. B. : Topics may be chosen from current topics, recent trends, Great Personalities,
awareness programme.
* Question – 4 : Writing a short story based on given outlines or clues in about
100-150 words. (8 marks)
* Question 5 : Gap filling with one or two words to test prepositions / articles /
conjunctions / determiners / Tenses. (1 x 7 = 7 marks)
N.B.: Reporting speech / clause / passive voice may be given as gap filling. They may be
given as – (Answer the following questions as directed ….)
* Question 6 : Editing or Omission (4 marks)
* Question 7 : Sentences reordering (3 marks)
SECTION – C : LITERATURE : 30 MARKS
Question 8 : One out of the two extracts from Prose / Poetry containing 4 (four)
very short answer.

N.B.: From the four very short answer, two question of one mark each on global
comprehension and two questions of one mark each on interpretation. (1 x 4 = 4 marks)
Question 9 : Five short type questions from Beehive and Moments.
(30 – 40 words each) (2 x 5 = 10 marks)
Question No. 10 : One out of two long answer type questions with a word limit of
100-150 words from Beehive. (1 x 8 = 8 marks)
Question No. 11 : One out of two long answer type questions from Moments with a
word limit of (100 –150 words)
(N.B. : Questions should be in (1 + 2 + 5) scheme.)

BLUE PRINT

Typology Testing Objective Type Short Brief type Long Total
Competencies Questions Answer (70 – 80 Answer
Including MCQs Questions words) (100 – 150
(1 mark each) (30 -40 (5 marks) words)
words) (8 marks)
(2 marks)
Reading Conceptual 4 MCQ and 8 4 - - 20
Comprehension Understanding, objective type
Decoding, Questions
analyzing, inferring,
interpreting and
vocabulary
Writing skill & Creative expression 14 - - 2 30
Grammar of an opinion,
reasoning,
Justifying,
illustrating, using
appropriate format
Literature Text Recalling, 5 6 1 1 -
Book & reasoning, Extract
Supplementary relevant
Reading Text information,
understanding the
writers’ message
and writing fluently.
Total 1 x 31 = 31 2 x 10 = 20 5x1=5 8 x 3 = 24 80