NCERT Syllabus for Class 10 - Download All Subjects Syllabus PDF

Prose (First Flight)

1. A Letter to God

6. Mijbil the Otter

2. Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

7. Madam Rides the Bus

3. Two Stories about Flying

8. The Sermon at Benares

4. From the Diary of Anne Frank

9. The Proposal

5. Glimpses of India

Poetry

1. Dust of Snow

7. The Trees

2. Fire and Ice

8. Fog

3. A Tiger in the Zoo

9. The Tale of Custard the Dragon

4. How to Tell Wild Animals

10. For Anne Gregory

5. The Ball Poem

6. Amanda

Supplementary Reader (Footprints without Feet)

1. A Triumph of Surgery

6. The Making of a Scientist

2. The Thief’s Story

7. The Necklace

3. The Midnight Visitor

8. Bholi

4. A Question of Trust

9. The Book that Saved the Earth

5. Footprints without Feet

Extended Reading Texts – (either one)

Diary of a Young Girl – 1947 June 12, 1942, to March 14, 1944, By Anne Frank (unabridged edition uploaded on CBSE website)

The Story of My Life – 1903, Chapters 1-14 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition)

Diary of a Young Girl – 1947 March 16, 1944 to August 01, 1944 By Anne Frank (unabridged edition uploaded on CBSE website)

The Story of My Life – 1903 Chapters 15-23 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition)

Literature Reader

Prose

1. Two Gentlemen of Verona

4. A Shady Plot

2 Mrs Packletide’s Tiger

5. Patol Babu

3. The Letter

6. Virtually True

Poetry

1. The Frog and the Nightingale

2. Ozymandias

3. The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

4. Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments

5. Snake

Drama

1. The Dear Departed

2. Julius Caesar

Main Course Book

1. Health and Medicine

4. Environment

2. Education

5. Travel and Tourism

3. Science

6. National Integration

Extended Reading Texts – (either one)

Diary of a Young Girl – 1947 June 12, 1942, to March 14, 1944, By Anne Frank (unabridged edition uploaded on CBSE website)

The Story of My Life – 1903, Chapters 1-14 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition)

Diary of a Young Girl – 1947 March 16, 1944, to August 01, 1944, By Anne Frank (unabridged edition uploaded on CBSE website)

The Story of My Life – 1903 Chapters 15-23 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition)

Subject

Chapters/Units/Topics

Geography

Resources and Development

Forest and Wildlife Resources

Water Resources

Agriculture

Mineral and Energy Resources

Manufacturing Industries

Lifelines of National Economy

Economics

Development

Sectors of Indian Economy

Money and Credit

Globalisation and the Indian Economy

Consumer Rights

History

The Rise of Nationalism in Europe

Nationalism in India

The Making of a Global World

The Age of Industrialisation

Print Culture and the Modern World

Political Science

Power Sharing

Federalism

Gender, Religion and Caste

Political Parties

Outcomes of Democracy

Chapter & Solutions

Topics

Real numbers

• Introduction

• Euclid’s Division Lemma

• The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

• Revisiting Irrational Numbers

• Revisiting Rational Numbers and Their Decimal Expansions

Polynomials

• Introduction

• Zeros of a polynomial

• Geometrical meaning of the zeros of a polynomial

• Relationship between zeros and coefficients of a polynomial

• Division alogrithm for polynomials

Pair of linear equations in two variables

• Introduction

• Pair of linear equations in two variables

• Graphical method of solution of a pair of linear equations

• Algebraic methods of solving a pair of linear equations

• Elimination method

• Cross-multiplication method

• Equations reducible to a pair of linear equations in two variables

Quadratic equations

• Introduction

• Quadratic equations

• Solution of a quadratic equation by factorisation

• Solution of a quadratic equation by completing the square

• Nature of roots

Arithmetic progressions

• Introduction

• Arithmetic Progressions

• nth term of an AP

• Sum of first n terms of an AP

Triangles

• Introduction

• Similar figures

• Similarity of triangles

• Criteria for Similarity of Triangles

• Areas of Similar triangles

• Pythagoras theorem

Coordinate geometry

• Introduction

• Distance formula

• Section formula

• Area of a triangle

Introduction to trigonometry

• Introduction

• Trigonometric ratios

• Trigonometric ratios of some specific angles

• Trigonometric ratios of complementary angles

• Trigonometric identities

Some applications of trigonometry

• Introduction

• Heights and distances

Circles

• Introduction

• Tangent to a circle

• Number of tangents from a point on a circle

Areas related to circles

• Introduction

• Perimeter and area of a circle - a review

• Areas of sector and segment of a circle

• Areas of combinations of plane figures

Surface areas and volumes

• Introduction

• Surface area of a combination of solids

• Volume of a combination of solids

• Conversion of solid from one shape to another

• Frustum of a cone

Statistics

• Introduction

• Mean of grouped data

• Mode of grouped data

• Median of grouped data

• Graphical representation of cumulative frequency distribution

Probability

• Introduction

• Probability-a theoretical approach

Chapters

Topics

Chemical Reactions and Equations

Chemical equations, Types of chemical reactions, Have you observed the effects of oxidation reactions in everyday life

Acids, Bases and Salts

Understanding The Chemical Properties Of Acids And Bases, What Do All Acids And All Bases Have In Common?, How Strong Are Acid Or Base Solutions?, More about salts

Metals and Non-Metals

Physical Properties, chemical properties of metals, how do metals and non-metals react?, the occurrence of metals, corrosion

Carbon and its Compounds

Bonding In Carbon – The Covalent Bond, versatile nature of carbon, chemical properties of carbon compounds, some important carbon compounds – ethanol and ethanoic acid, soaps and detergents,

Life Processes

What are life processes?, nutrition, respiration, etc

Control and Coordination

Animals – nervous system, coordination in plants, hormones in animals, etc

How do Organisms Reproduce?

Do organisms create exact copies of themselves?, modes of reproduction used by single organisms, sexual reproduction etc

Heredity

Accumulation of variation during reproduction, heredity, evolution, etc

Light

Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, refraction, etc

The Human and Colourful World

The human eye, accumulation of variation and their correction, refraction of light through a prism etc

Electricity

Electric current and circuit, electric potential and potential difference, circuit diagram etc

Magnetic Effects of Electric Currents

Magnetic field and field lines, magnetic field due to a current-carrying conductor, etc

Our Environment

Eco-system — what are its components? how do our activities affect the environment?, etc