NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 2025-26

Edited By Irshad Anwar | Updated on May 14, 2025 03:51 PM IST

The NCERT syllabus for class 9 (2025-26) covers all major subjects like maths, science, English, social science and Hindi. It clearly lists the chapters and explains how marks are distributed for each subject. It helps students understand what topics to study and how to plan their exam preparation step-by-step. The NCERT books are also written in simple language, making it easier for students to understand the concept. The syllabus is designed to move from easy to more advanced topics gradually. Since school tests and competitive exams are based on this syllabus, it's important for students to read it thoroughly and revise it often.

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NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 2025-26
NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Maths 2025-26
NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Science
NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Hindi 2025-26
NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Social Science
How to download the NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 2025-26?

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 2025-26 - Download All Subjects PDF Here

Learning from the NCERT syllabus creates a good base for upper classes as well. In this article, students can download the complete syllabus for every subject and also see the marking scheme. This will make you well-prepared and secure good marks in your exams.

Students can download the chapter-wise syllabus of Maths, Science, Hindi, English and Social Science in this section. The links provided below are in the form of a PDF and can be easily downloaded.

NCERT Class 9 Books

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) provides Class 9 books for every subject as per the current syllabus. Most school boards, such as CBSE, recommend the use of NCERT books for subjects like Hindi, English, Science, Maths, and Social Science. Students can freely read and download these books. These books prove to be useful for exam preparations and gaining clarity on the topics.

Subject-wise NCERT Class 9 Books

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Maths 2025-26

Maths is a major subject through which students can learn to solve real-world problems with the help of numbers and calculations. It is also one of the most frequently asked subjects in competitive exams. The NCERT syllabus for Class 9 Maths is prepared in a simple and understandable manner for students to easily learn.

The syllabus also indicates how much time (in class periods) is to be spent on each topic. On average, the entire Maths syllabus takes around 180 hours. In the table below, you will see all the chapters in the Class 9 Maths syllabus.

Chapter No.	Chapter Name
Chapter 1	Number Systems
Chapter 2	Polynomials
Chapter 3	Coordinate Geometry
Chapter 4	Linear Equations In Two Variables
Chapter 5	Introduction To Euclid’s Geometry
Chapter 6	Lines And Angles
Chapter 7	Triangles
Chapter 8	Quadrilaterals
Chapter 9	Circles
Chapter 10	Heron’s Formula
Chapter 11	Surface Areas And Volumes
Chapter 12	Statistics
Appendix-I	Proofs in Mathematics
Appendix-II	Introduction to Mathematical Modelling

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Science

Science is a very significant subject which helps us understand how the world around us works. Also, it has a fair number of questions in entrance and competitive exams. The Class 9 Science syllabus is divided into three parts – Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Each part deals with various topics to lay a strong foundation for higher classes. Students can check the chapter-wise NCERT syllabus of Class 9 Science from the table below.

Chapter No.	Name of the chapters
1	Matter in Our Surroundings
2	Is Matter Around Us Pure?
3	Atoms And Molecules
4	Structure Of The Atom
5	The Fundamental Unit Of Life
6	Tissues
7	Motion
8	Force And Laws Of Motion
9	Gravitation
10	Work and Energy
11	Sound
12	Improvement in Food Resources

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Hindi 2025-26

NCERT prescribes four textbooks for class 9 Hindi subject. The textbooks include prose, poetry and essays as prescribed by NCERT syllabus for Class 9.

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 Hindi 2025-26- Kshitij

S. No.	Chapter names
Chapter 1	दो बैलों की कथा
Chapter 2	ल्हासा की ओर	Download the NCERT Class 9 Kshitij syllabus
Chapter 3	उपभोक्तावाद की संस्कृति
Chapter 4	साँवले सपनों की याद
Chapter 5	प्रेमचंद के फटे जूते
Chapter 6	मेरे बचपन के दिन
Chapter 7	साखियाँ एवं सबद
Chapter 8	वाख
Chapter 9	सवैये
Chapter 10	कैदी और कोकिला
Chapter 11	ग्राम श्री
Chapter 12	मेघ आए
Chapter 13	बच्चे काम पर जा रहे हैं

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 Hindi 2025-26 - Sparsh

Sr. no.	Chapter names
Chapter 1	दुःख का अधिकार
Chapter 2	एवेरेस्ट: मेरी शिखर यात्रा	Download the NCERT Class 9 Sparsh Syllabus
Chapter 3	तुम कब जाओगे अतिथि
Chapter 4	वैज्ञानिक चेतना के वाहक चंद्रशेखर वेंकट रमन
Chapter 5	शुक्रतारे के सामान
Chapter 6	पद
Chapter 7	दोहे
Chapter 8	गीत अगीत
Chapter 9	अग्नि पथ
Chapter 10	नए इलाके में खुशबु रचते हैं हाथ

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 Hindi 2025-26- Kritika

Sr. no.	Chapter names
Chapter 1	इस जल प्रलय में	Download the NCERT Class 9 Kritika Syllabus
Chapter 2	मेरे संग की औरतें
Chapter 3	रीढ़ की हड्डी

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 Hindi 2025-26 - Sanchayan

Sr.no.	Chapter names
Chapter 1	गिल्लू
Chapter 2	स्मृति	Download the NCERT Class 9 Sanchayan Syllabus
Chapter 3	कल्लू कुम्हार की उंनकोटि
Chapter 4	मेरा छोटा सा निजी पुस्तकालय

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for English

English is a communicative language all over the world so it is necessary to learn the English language. NCERT syllabus prescribes the NCERT syllabus for Class 9 English which contains the grammar and literature part. NCERT published three books for class 9 English subjects which are given below.

S.No.	Textbooks
1	Beehive English
2	Moments Supplementary Reader
3	Words and Expressions - 1

Beehive Textbook in English

Essay/Poem	Author
The Fun They Had	Isaac Asimov
The Road Not Taken (Poem)	Robert Frost
The Sound of Music	I. Evelyn Glennie: Deborah Cowley II. Bismillah Khan	Download NCERT Class 9 Beehive syllabus
Wind (Poem)	Subramania Bharati
The Little Girl	Katherine Mansfield
Rain on the Roof (Poem)	Coates Kinney
A Truly Beautiful Mind	-
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Poem)	William Butler Yeats
The Snake and the Mirror	Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
A Legend of the Northland (Poem)	Phoebe Cary
My Childhood	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
No Men Are Foreign (Poem)	James Kirkup
The Duck and the Kangaroo	Edward Lear
Reach for the Top	I. Santosh Yadav II. Maria Sharapova
On Killing a Tree (Poem)	Gieve Patel
Kathmandu	Vikram Seth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (Poem)	William Wordsworth
If I Were You	Douglas James

Moments Supplementary Reader in English

Chapter	Author
The Lost Child	Mulk Raj Anand
The Adventures of Toto	Ruskin Bond
Iswaran the Storyteller	R. K. Laxman
In the Kingdom of Fools	Kannada Folktale (ed.) A. K. Ramanujan	Download the NCERT Class 9 Moments Supplementary Reader Syllabus
The Happy Prince	Oscar Wilde
Weathering the Storm in Ersama	Harsh Mander
The Last Leaf	O. Henry
A House Is Not a Home	Zan Gaudioso
The Beggar	Anton Chekhov

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 for Social Science

Social Science is a very important subject of Class 9 that makes the students learn the history, geography, and economy of our nation and the world. It provides a clear vision of how society functions and how things have evolved over time.

The subject has four sections – History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics. All these sections have interesting topics that improve your general knowledge and thinking abilities. You can download the chapter-wise NCERT Class 9 Social Science syllabus from the below-provided table.

S.No.	Section	Textbooks	Chapter-wise index	Download complete unit-wise syllabus
1	Geography	Contemporary India	Click here	Download/view class 9 syllabus of Geography
2	Economics	Economics	Click here	Download/view class 9 syllabus of Economics
3	History	India and the Contemporary World-I	Click here	Download/view class 9 syllabus of History
4	Political Science	Democratic Politics	Click here	Download/view class 9 syllabus of Pol. Sci.

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 History 2025-26 (India and the Contemporary World - I)

Units

Topics

Events and processes

1. The French Revolution:

(a) The Ancient Regime and its crises.

(b) The social forces that led to the revolution.

(d) The legacy.

2. Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution:

(a) The crisis of Tsarism.

(b) The nature of social movements between 1905 and 1917.

(d) The legacy

3. Nazism and the Rise of Hitler:

(a)The growth of social democracy

(b) The crises in Germany.

(b) The basis of Hitler’s rise to power.

(d) The impact of Nazism

Livelihoods and Economies

4. Pastoralists in the Modern World:

(a) Pastoralism as a way of life.

(b) Different forms of pastoralism.

5. Forest Society and Colonialism:

(a) Relationship between forests and livelihoods.

(b) Changes in forest societies under colonialism.

6. Peasants and Farmers:

(a) Histories of the emergence of different forms of farming and peasant societies.

(b) Changes within rural economies in the modern world.

Click here to download the detailed syllabus of NCERT Class 9 History syllabus.

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 Social Science - Geography (Contemporary India - I)

Units	Topics
India	Size and Location
Physical Features of India	relief, structure, major physiographic unit
Drainage	Major rivers and tributaries, lakes and seas, the role of rivers in the economy, pollution of rivers, measures to control river pollution
Climate	Factors influencing the climate: monsoon- its characteristics, rainfall and temperature distribution; seasons; climate and human life
Natural Vegetation and Wild Life	Vegetation types, distribution as well as altitudinal variation, need for conservation and various measures. Major species, their distribution, need for conservation and various measures.
Population	Size, distribution, age-sex composition, population change migration as a determinant of population change, literacy, health, occupational structure and national population policy: adolescents as under-served population group with special needs

Click here to download the complete syllabus of Class 9 Geography.

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 Social Science - Economics 2025-26

Units	Topics
The Story of Village Palampur	Economic transactions of Palampore and its interaction with the rest of the world through which the concept of production (including three factors of production (land, labour and capital) can be introduced.
People as Resource	Introduction of how people become resource/asset; economic activities done by men and women; unpaid work done by women; quality of human resource; the role of health and education; unemployment as a form of non-utilisation of human resource; sociopolitical implication in the simple form
Poverty as a Challenge	Who is poor (through two case studies: one rural, one urban); indicators; absolute poverty (not as a concept but through a few simple examples)-why people are poor; unequal distribution of resources; comparison between countries; steps taken by government for poverty alleviation
Food Security in India	Source of Food grains, variety across the nation, famines in the past, the need for self-sufficiency, the role of government in food security, procurement of food grains, overflowing of granaries and people without food, public distribution system, the role of cooperatives in food security

NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 Social Science 2025-26 - Political Science (Democratic Politics - I)

Units	Topics
Democracy in the contemporary world	How has democracy expanded in the world in recent times? In which ways has this expansion changed the world? Is this expansion changing democracy itself? Are we moving towards global democracy?
What is democracy? Why democracy?	What are the different ways of defining democracy? Why has democracy become the most prevalent form of government in our times? What are the alternatives to democracy? Is democracy superior to its available alternatives? Must every democracy have the same institutions and values?
Designing of democracy in India	How and why did India become a democracy? How was the Indian constitution framed? What are the salient features of the Constitution? How is democracy being constantly designed and redesigned in India?
Electoral politics in a democracy	Why and how do we elect representatives? Why do we have a system of competition among political parties? How has the citizens’ participation in electoral politics changed? What are the ways to ensure free and fair elections?
Institutions of parliamentary democracy	How is the country governed? What does Parliament do in our democracy? What is the role of the President of India, the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers? How do these relate to one another?
Citizens’ rights in a democracy	Why do we need rights in a Constitution? What are the Fundamental Rights enjoyed by the citizen under the Indian Constitution? How does the judiciary protect the Fundamental Rights of the citizen? How is the independence of the judiciary ensured?

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How to download the NCERT Syllabus for Class 9 2025-26?

Students can download the NCERT Class 9 syllabus for all the subjects by following the steps provided below.

Visit the official website, ncert.nic.in.
Go to the section of ‘Links’, and tap on the option of ‘Syllabus of Classes I-XII.’
On the new page that will be displayed on the screen, click on ‘Click Here for download of Syllabus at Secondary and Higher Secondary Level.’
Download the NCERT Class 9 syllabus subject-wise. It will be available in the form of a PDF file.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. Is NCERT book cover the important topics asked in the competitive exams?

Yes, in most of the competitive exams, maximum questions are asked as per the pattern of the NCERT syllabus.

2. Where can I download the NCERT syllabus?

You can download the NCERT syllabus from the links provided here or by visiting the official website, ncert.nic.in.

3. Is NCERT syllabus sufficient for Class 9th exam preparation?

Yes, NCERT syllabus is sufficient for the Class 9th exam preparation. But students can also refer to some reference books in order to solve a variety of questions.

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NCERT Books for Class 9 Maths 2025-26; Download Free PDF

NCERT Books for Class 9 All Subjects - Download Free PDF

NCERT Books for Class 9 Social Science 2025-26: Download PDF

NCERT Books for Class 9 Hindi 2025-26: Download PDF

NCERT Books for Class 9 English 2025-26: Download All Chapters PDF

NCERT Books for Class 9 Science 2025-26; Download PDF (All Chapters)

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 1 Exercise 1.4 - Number Systems

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 1 Exercise 1.3 - Number Systems

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 1 Exercise 1.2 - Number Systems

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 1 Exercise 1.1 - Number Systems

NCERT Solutions For Class 9 Science Chapter 1 Matter in Our Surroundings

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Science Chapter 2 Is Matter Around Us Pure

NCERT Class 9 Science Notes - Download Chapter-wise PDFs

NCERT Class 9 Notes - Download Subject Wise PDF Notes

NCERT Class 9 Maths Chapter 5 Notes Introduction To Euclid’s Geometry - Download PDF

NCERT Class 9 Maths Chapter 1 Notes Number System - Download Free PDF

NCERT Class 9 Maths Chapter 6 Notes Lines and Angles - Download PDF

Triangles Class 9th Notes - Free NCERT Class 9th Maths Chapter 7 Notes - Download PDF

NCERT Exemplar Class 9 Solutions - Subject Wise Problems with Solutions

NCERT Exemplar Class 9 Maths Solutions Chapter 2 Polynomials

NCERT Exemplar Class 9 Maths Solutions Chapter 6 Lines and Angles

NCERT Exemplar Class 9 Maths Solutions Chapter 5 Introduction to Euclids Geometry

NCERT Exemplar Class 9 Science Solutions Chapter 15 Improvement in Food Resources

NCERT Exemplar Class 9 Science Solutions Chapter 14 Natural Resources

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Popular Questions

A block of mass 0.50 kg is moving with a speed of 2.00 ms^-1 on a smooth surface. It strikes another mass of 1.00 kg and then they move together as a single body. The energy loss during the collision is

Option 1) $0.34\; J$	Option 2) $0.16\; J$
Option 3) $1.00\; J$	Option 4) $0.67\; J$

A person trying to lose weight by burning fat lifts a mass of 10 kg upto a height of 1 m 1000 times. Assume that the potential energy lost each time he lowers the mass is dissipated. How much fat will he use up considering the work done only when the weight is lifted up ? Fat supplies 3.8×10⁷J of energy per kg which is converted to mechanical energy with a 20% efficiency rate. Take g = 9.8 ms⁻² :

Option 1)

2.45×10⁻³ kg

Option 2)

6.45×10⁻³ kg

Option 3)

9.89×10⁻³ kg

Option 4)

12.89×10⁻³ kg

An athlete in the olympic games covers a distance of 100 m in 10 s. His kinetic energy can be estimated to be in the range

Option 1) $2,000 \; J - 5,000\; J$	Option 2) $200 \, \, J - 500 \, \, J$
Option 3) $2\times 10^{5}J-3\times 10^{5}J$	Option 4) $20,000 \, \, J - 50,000 \, \, J$

A particle is projected at 60⁰ to the horizontal with a kinetic energy $K$ . The kinetic energy at the highest point

Option 1) $K/2\,$	Option 2) $\; K\;$
Option 3) $zero\;$	Option 4) $K/4$

In the reaction,

$2Al_{(s)}+6HCL_{(aq)}\rightarrow 2Al^{3+}\, _{(aq)}+6Cl^{-}\, _{(aq)}+3H_{2(g)}$

Option 1) $11.2\, L\, H_{2(g)}$ at STP is produced for every mole $HCL_{(aq)}$ consumed	Option 2) $6L\, HCl_{(aq)}$ is consumed for ever $3L\, H_{2(g)}$ produced
Option 3) $33.6 L\, H_{2(g)}$ is produced regardless of temperature and pressure for every mole Al that reacts	Option 4) $67.2\, L\, H_{2(g)}$ at STP is produced for every mole Al that reacts .

How many moles of magnesium phosphate, $Mg_{3}(PO_{4})_{2}$ will contain 0.25 mole of oxygen atoms?

Option 1) 0.02	Option 2) 3.125 × 10^-2
Option 3) 1.25 × 10^-2	Option 4) 2.5 × 10^-2

If we consider that 1/6, in place of 1/12, mass of carbon atom is taken to be the relative atomic mass unit, the mass of one mole of a substance will

Option 1) decrease twice	Option 2) increase two fold
Option 3) remain unchanged	Option 4) be a function of the molecular mass of the substance.

With increase of temperature, which of these changes?

Option 1) Molality	Option 2) Weight fraction of solute
Option 3) Fraction of solute present in water	Option 4) Mole fraction.

Number of atoms in 558.5 gram Fe (at. wt.of Fe = 55.85 g mol^-1) is

Option 1) twice that in 60 g carbon	Option 2) 6.023 × 10²²
Option 3) half that in 8 g He	Option 4) 558.5 × 6.023 × 10²³

A pulley of radius 2 m is rotated about its axis by a force F = (20t - 5t²) newton (where t is measured in seconds) applied tangentially. If the moment of inertia of the pulley about its axis of rotation is 10 kg m² , the number of rotations made by the pulley before its direction of motion if reversed, is