CBSE Class 9 English Marking Scheme PDF

Section Section Name Marks

A Reading Skills 20

B Writing Skills With 30

Grammar

C Literature Textbook and 30

Supplementary Reading
Text

Total 80

Reading Section:
You will see the two passages-based questions. It will have:

● A Factual passage of 300-350 words with eight Very Short

Answer Type Questions.
● A Discursive passage of 350-400 words with four Short
Answer Type Questions to test inference, evaluation, and
analysis with four Very Short Answer Questions to test
vocabulary.
Writing Skills With Grammar:

You will see the following topics in English Writing Skills with
Grammar:

● Writing an Article/ Descriptive Paragraph( person/ place/

event/diary entry) in about 100-150 words based on visual
or verbal cue/s.
● Writing a short story based on a given outline or cue/s in
about 150 – 200 words.

The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in Class

IX:

● Tenses
● Modals
● Use of passive voice
● Subject-verb concord
● Reporting Commands and requests (ii) Statements (iii)
Questions
● Clauses: (i) Noun clauses (ii) Adverb clauses of
condition and time (iii) Relative clauses
● Determiners
● Prepositions
Prose Chapters: Beehive Book

Sl .No Name

1 The Fun They Had

2 The Sound of Music

3 The Little Girl

4 A Truly Beautiful Mind

5 The Snake and the Mirror

6 My Childhood

7 Packing

8 Reach for the Top

9 The Bond of Love

10 Kathmandu

11 If I were you
Poetry Chapters: Beehive Book

Sl. No Name

1 The Road Not Taken

2 Wind

3 Rain of the Roof

4 The Lake Isle of Innisfree

5 A Legend of the Northland

6 No Men are Foreign

7 The Duck and the Kangaroo

8 On Killing a Tree

9 The Snake Trying

10 A Slumber did my Spirit Seal

Supplementary Reader Chapters: Moments Book

Sl. No Name

1 The Lost Child

2 The Adventures of Toto

3 Iswaran the Storyteller

4 In the Kingdom of Fools

5 The Happy Prince

6 Weathering the Strom in Ersama

7 The Last Leaf

8 A Hose s Not a Home

9 The Accidental Tourist

10 The Beggar