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A Letter to God |
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Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom |
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Two Stories about Flying |
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From the Diary of Anne Frank |
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The Hundred Dresses – I |
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The Hundred Dresses – II |
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Glimpses of India |
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Mijbil the Otter |
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Madam Rides the Bus |
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The Sermon at Benares |
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The Proposal |
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Dust of Snow |
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Fire and Ice |
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A Tiger in the Zoo |
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How to Tell Wild Animals |
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The Ball Poem |
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Amanda |
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Animals |
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The Trees |
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Fog |
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The Tale of Custard the Dragon |
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For Anne Gregory |
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Chapter 1 Two Gentlemen of Verona |
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Chapter 2 Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger |
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Chapter 3 The Letter |
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Chapter 4 A Shady Plot |
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Chapter 5 Patol Babu, Film Star |
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Chapter 6 Virtually True |
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Chapter 7 The Frog and the Nightingale |
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Chapter 8 Mirror |
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Chapter 9 Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments |
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Chapter 10 Ozymandias |
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Chapter 11 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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Chapter 12 Snake |
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Chapter 13 The Dear Departed |
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Chapter 14 Julius Caesar |
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Footprints Without Feet
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Supplementary
Reader Footprints without Feet
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Chapter 1 A Triumph of Surgery |
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Chapter 2 The Thief’s Story |
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Chapter 3 The Midnight Visitor |
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Chapter 4 A Question of Trust |
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Chapter 5 Footprints without Feet |
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Chapter 6 The Making of a Scientist |
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Chapter 7 The Necklace |
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Chapter 8 The Hack Driver |
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Chapter 9 The Holi |
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Chapter 10 The Book that Saved the Earth |
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Extended
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The Story of My Life Summary By Helen Keller (Unabridged Edition) |
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The Story of My Life By Helen Keller (Unabridged Edition) |
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The Diary of a Young Girl Summary By Anne Frank |
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The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank |
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The syllabus consists of three sections: (i) Reading Skills, (ii) Writing Skills with Grammar, and (iii) Literature.
Exam Structure
| Section | Topic | Marks |
| A | Reading Skills | 20 |
| B | Writing Skills with Grammar | 30 |
| C | Literature Textbook and Extended Reading Text | 30 |
| Total | 80 |
The Board examination is of 80 marks, with a duration of three hours.
This section will have two unseen passages of a total of 700-750 words as per the details below:
Q.1: A Factual passage 300-350 words with eight Very Short Answer Type (VSA) Questions. [8 marks]
Q.2: A Discursive passage of 350-400 words with four Short Answer Type Questions of eight marks to test inference, evaluation and analysis and four VSA to test vocabulary and comprehension (two VSA for vocabulary and two for comprehension) [12 marks]
Q.3: Formal Letter (Complaints / Inquiry / Placing order / letter to the editor) in about 100-120 words. The questions will be thematically based on the Main Course Book. [8 marks]
Q.4: Writing a short story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 200-250 words. [10 marks]
The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in class X.
The above items may be tested through test types as given below:
Q.5: Gap filling with one or two words to test Prepositions, Articles, Conjunctions and Tenses. [4 marks]
Q.6: Editing or Omission [4 marks]
Q.7: Sentences reordering or Sentence Transformation in context. [4 marks]
Q.8. One out of two extracts from prose / poetry / play for reference to context. Four Very Short Answer Questions: Two questions of one mark each for global comprehension and two questions of one mark each on interpretation. [4 marks]
Q.9. Four Short Answer type Questions from the Literature Reader to test local and global comprehension of theme and ideas (30-40 words each) [2×4 = 8 marks]
Q.10. One out of two long answer type questions to assess how the values inherent in the text have been brought out. Creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts will be assessed. (100-120 words). [8 marks]
Q.11. One out of two Very Long Answer Question on theme or plot involving interpretation, inference and character, in about 200-250 words based on prescribed novel text
for extended reading. [10 marks]