SEBA Class 9 Class 10 Syllabus 2025 English IL

Class - IX Time : 2 hours
Full Marks : 50 Pass Marks : 15
Unit/Lesson Half
1. Prose :
1. The Last Leaf.
2. A Truly Beautiful Mind.  
3. Reach for the Top.
4. In the Kingdom of Fools.
5. Kathmandu;
2. Poetry :  
1. On Killing a Tree.
2. Wind.
3. Rain on the Roof.
4. The Snake Trying.
3. Grammar  
1. Question tags (3)
2. Vocabulary (3)
3. Degrees of Comparison (3)
4. Comprehension of an unseen 
prose passage
Total 50 50

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DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS Half
1. Four essay type questions from  
Unit 1 by using any four of the five
lessons (4x5)
2. One reference to the context from  
any two of the prose lessons from
Unit 1 out of which one will be from
the lesson from which no questions
were set (5)
3. Four short answer type questions  
one from each poem (4x2) of
Unit -2
4. Two very short type/Objective type  
questions (2x1) from any two
poems.
5. For grammatical items isolated  
6. For Comprehension passage, the
difficulty level must correlate with 
the class-IX level
Total 50 50

Text books : (1) Beehive
(2) Moments
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Class - X Time : 2 hours
Full Marks : 50 Pass Marks : 15
UNIT / LESSON Half
1. Prose :  
1. A Baker From Goa
2. The Proposal,
3. The Thief’s Story.
4. A Triumph of Surgery.
5. Bholi;
2. Poetry  
1. Dust of Snow.
2. How to Tell Wild Animals
3. The Trees.
4. For Anne Gregory
3. Grammar :  
All the grammar portion of class IX
and the following–
(a) Narration (1x3)
(b) Voice (1x3)
(c) Miscellaneous correction (1x3)
4. Composition : 
Substance writing of either a prose
piece or a poem
Total 50 50

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Sl. No. DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS Half
1. Four essay type questions from the  
4 (four) lessons of unit 1 (4x5)
2. One reference to the context from  
any of the 2 (two) lessons from
unit 1 out of which 1 lesson is the
one from which no questions were
set.
3. Four short answer type questions  
one from each poem of unit 2 (4x2)
4. Two very short type questions/  
objective type questions from any
2 poems (2x1)
5. For grammatical items, isolated  
6. For substance writing the prose/ 
poem must be within the difficulty
level of the Class X reader.
Total 50 50

Textbooks : (1) First Flight
(2) Footprints without Feet

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