TBSE Class 10 Syllabus 2025 English – Text
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SYLLABUS – 2024- 2025
CLASS – X
SUBJECT – ENGLISH
Total Marks – 80 Internal Assessment - 20
COURSE STRUCTURE
SECTION WISE WEIGHTAGE
Sections Items Weightage
A Reading Skills 20 Marks
B Writing Skills with Grammar 20 Marks
C Language through Literature 40 Marks
Total 80 Marks
* This is a suggestive number.
SECTION – A
READING SKILLS
I. Reading Comprehension through unseen passage. 20 Marks.
1. Discursive passage of 400 – 450 words. (10 Marks.)
2. Case-based factual passage of 200 – 250 words. (10 Marks.)
(Total length of two passages to be 600- 700 words)
Multiple Choice Questions/ Objective Type Questions and short Answer Questions (to be answered
in 30-40 words) will be asked to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference,
evaluation and vocabulary.
SECTION – B
WRITING SKILLS AND GRAMMAR 20 Marks
II. Grammar
10 Marks
Determiners
Tenses
Modals
Subject – Verb Concord
Reported Speech
o Commands and requests
o Statements
o Questions
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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 in context will be assessed
through Gap Filling/ Editing/ Transformation exercises. Ten out of 12 Questions will have to be
attempted.
III. Writing Skills 10 Marks.
4. Writing a Formal Letter based on a given situation in 100-120 words. One out of two questions is
to be answered. 5 Marks.
5. Writing a Paragraph in 100-120 words based on a given hints. One out of two questions is to be
answered. 5 Marks.
SECTION – C
40 Marks
LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE
IV. Reference to the Context (5+5 = 10 Marks)
6. One extract out of two from Prose.
7. One extract out of two from Poetry.
Multiple Choice Questions/ Objective Type Questions/ Very Short Answer Questions (one word/ One
sentence), Short Answer Questions (to be answered in 30-40 words) will be asked to assess
inference, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and vocabulary.
V. Short & Very Long Answer Questions. 30 Marks.
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.
3x4= 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.
3x2=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 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
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CLASS- X
SUB- ENGLISH
SYLLABUS FOR HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATION: 2024-2025
Prose (First Flight) Poetry (First Flight) Supplementary Reader
1. A letter to God 1. Dust of Snow 1. A Triumph of Surgery
2. Nelson Mandela : 2. Fire and Ice 2. A question of Trust
Long walk to freedom 3. A Tiger in the Zoo 3. Foot Prints without Feet
3. Glimpses of India 4. The Trees
SYLLABUS FOR PRE-BOARD/ BOARD FINAL EXAMINATION: 2024-2025
Prose (First Flight) Poetry (First Flight) Supplementary Reader
1. A letter to God 1. Dust of Snow 1. A Triumph of Surgery
2. Nelson Mandela : 2. Fire and Ice 2. A question of Trust
Long walk to freedom 3. A Tiger in the Zoo 3. Foot Prints without Feet
3. From the Diary of Anne Frank 4. The Trees 4. The Necklace
4. Glimpses of India 5. Fog 5. Bholi
5. The Sermon at Benares 6. How to tell wild
Animals
BLUE PRINT OF DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
HALF-YEARLY/ PRE-BOARD/ BOARD FINAL EXAMINATION: 2024-2025
Secti Contents MCQ VSA SA- II LA- I LA- I LA- I Total
on (1 (1 (3 (4 (5 (6 Marks
Mark) Mark) Marks) Marks) Marks) Marks)
A READING (20) 1x10 1x10 - - - -
20
WRITING (20) - - - - - -
Grammar - 1x10 - - - - 10
B Formal Letter,
Paragraph - - - - 5x2 - 10
writing
LITERATURE (40)
TB (First Flight) - - 3x4 - 5x2 6x1 28
C
Suppl. Reader
- - 3x2 - - 6x1 12
(Foot Prints)
Total Marks 1x10 1x20 3x6 5x4 6x2 80
-
(Questions) (10) (20) (6) (4) (2) (42)
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