HP Board 10th Syllabus 2025-26 for English, Hindi, SST, Science & Maths

Sections

Content

Marks

Reading

Two questions of unseen passages with a variety of questions, including vocabulary. Only prose passages will be used. One will be factual and the other will be literary.

Passage 1. Four or five comprehension questions.

Passage 2. Five comprehension questions and four multiple-choice questions (MCQ)

17

Writing

Letter writing - one letter based on the provided verbal stimulus and context.

Types of letters:

Informal: Personal, such as family and friends

Formal: Letter of complaint, enquiry, request, application.

Write a paragraph on a given outline/topic.

A short writing task based on a verbal-visual stimulus (Diagram, picture, graph, map, chart, table, flowchart, etc.)

18

Grammar

A variety of short questions involving the use of particular structures within a context. Text types include cloze, gap-filling, sentence Completion, sentence-reordering, dialogue completion and sentence-transformation combining sentences.

The grammar syllabus will include the following areas:

1. Connectors 2. Tenses 3. Prepositions 4. Reported speech 5. Models 6. Voice 7. Non-Finite 8. Transformation of sentences.

15

Text books

1. First Flight 2. Footprints without feet

30

Unit

Marks

Number Systems

06

Algebra

17

Trigonometry

12

Coordinate Geometry

06

Geometry

16

Mensuration

13

Statistics And Probability

10

Total

80

Chapters

Content

Chapter-1 Chemical Reaction and Equations

1. Chemical Equations

2. Types of Chemical Reactions

a) Combination Reaction

b) Decomposition Reaction

c) Displacement Reaction

d) Double Displacement Reaction

e) Oxidation and Reduction

3. Effect of oxidation Reaction in Everyday life

a) Corrosion and b) Rancidity

Chapter-2 Acids, Bases and Salts

1) General Properties (physical and chemical properties) of acids, bases and salts with examples and their uses.

2) PH scale and the Importance of PH in Everyday life.

Chapter-3 Metals and Non-metals

1) Physical and Chemical Properties of Metals and Non-Metals

2) Reactivity Series

3) Metal and Non-Metal Reactions

4) Occurrence of Metals and their Extraction

5) Corrosion of Metals and Prevention of Corrosion

Chapter-4 Carbon and its Compounds

1) Bonding in carbon- the covalent Bond.

2) Saturated and Unsaturated Carbon Compounds.

3) Nomenclature of Carbon Compounds.

4) Chemical Properties of Carbon Compounds

5) Some Important Carbon CompoundsEthanol and Ethanoic Acid. (only properties)

6) Soaps and Detergents: Cleaning Action of Soaps (Micelles Formation)

Chapter-5 Periodic Classification of Elements

1) Early attempts at the classification of Elements

a) Dobereiner’s Triads

b) Newlands' law of octaves

c) Mendeleev’s Periodic Table

2) The Modern Periodic Table.

3) Trends in the Modern Periodic Table.

Chapters

Content

Life Processes

Basic concept of nutrition, respiration, transport and excretion in plants and animals.

Control and Co-ordination

1. Nervous System, Reflex Action and Human Brain and Animal Hormones.

2. Coordination in Plants: Tropic Movements and Plant Hormones.

How Organisms Reproduce

1. Importance of Variation

2. Modes of Reproduction: Asexual and Sexual (Both in Plants and Animals)

3. Reproduction in Human Beings: Male and Female Reproductive Systems

4. Reproduction Health: Need and methods of family planning, safe sex vs HIV/AIDS.

Heredity and Evolution

1. Heredity

2. Sex Determination

3. Evolution and Classification

4. Tracing Evolution Relationships

5. Fossils.

Our Environment

1. Biodegradable and Non-Biodegradable Substances.

2. Ecosystem and its components.

3. Food Chain and Food Web.

4. Environmental problems and their solutions: Ozone layer and Management of Garbage