CBSE Class 10 English Deleted Syllabus 2024-2025 PDF Download

 Section

Deleted Topic(S)

 Grammar

• Use of passive voice
• Clauses: Noun clauses, Adverb clauses, Relative clauses
• Preposition

 First Flight (Prose)

• The Hundred Dresses - I
• The Hundred Dresses - II

 First Flight (Poetry)

• Animals

 Footprints without Feet

• The Hack Driver

Sections

Total marks

Reading Comprehension

20

Writing Skill and Grammar

20

Language through Literature

40

Total

80

OLD (2019-20)

NEW (2022-23)

SECTION A

• A factual passage of 300-350 words with eight Objective Type Question( including Multiple Choice Questions). 8 marks
• A Discursive passages of 350-400 words with four Short Answer Type Questions to test inference, evaluation and analysis four Objective Type Questions( including Multiple Choice Questions) to test vocabulary. 12 marks

SECTION A

• Discursive passage of 400-450 words. (10 marks)
• Case-based passage (with visual input- statistical data, chart etc.) of 200-250 words. (10 marks)

SECTION B

• Formal letter complaint / inquiry / placing order / letter to editor / article in about 100-150 words. The questions will be thematically based on the prescribed books. 8 marks
• Writing a short story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 150-200 words. 10 marks

SECTION B

• Formal Letter based on a given situation in 100-120 words. One out of two questions is to be answered. 5 marks
• Writing an Analytical Paragraph (100-120 words) on a given Map /Chart / Graph / Cue/s. One out of two questions is to be answered. 5 marks

Not included previously

SECTION C

Reference to the Context

• One extract out of two from Drama / Prose.
• One extract out of two from poetry. (5+5 = 10 Marks)

Multiple Choice Questions / Objective Type Questions will be asked to assess inference, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and vocabulary.

SECTION C

• One out of two extracts from prose/poetry/drama for reference to context. Four Objective Type Question (including MCQs): Two questions of one mark each on global comprehension and two questions of 1 mark each on interpretation. 4 marks
• Five Short Answer type Questions to be answered in 30-40 words each from FIRST FLIGHT and FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET to test local and global comprehension of theme and ideas( three from FIRST FLIGHT and two from FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET). 2x5=10 marks
• One out of two Long Answer type Questions from FIRST FLIGHT to be answered in about 100-150 words to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts. 8 marks
• One out of two long answer question from the book ‘FOOTPRINTS without FEET’ on theme or plot involving interpretation, extrapolation beyond the text and inference or character sketch to be answered in about 100-150 words. 8 marks

SECTION C

• Four out of Five Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words from the book FIRST FLIGHT. 4x3=12 marks
• Two out of Three Short Answer Type Questions to be answered in 40-50 words each from FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET. 2x3=6 marks
• 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 texts. This can be a passage-based question taken from a situation/plot from the texts. 6 marks
• 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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