📘 UP Board Class 10 English Syllabus 2025–26
📊 Exam Pattern & Marks Distribution
Total Marks: 100
Theory Exam: 70 Marks
📝 Theory Exam – 70 Marks
Section A: Reading (10 Marks)
Unseen Passages:
One short passage with 3 multiple-choice questions (3 marks)
One passage with 3 very short-answer questions (6 marks)
One vocabulary-based question (1 mark)
Section B: Writing (10 Marks)
Tasks:
Letter/Application Writing (4 marks)
Descriptive Paragraph/Report/Article based on verbal clues (6 marks)
Section C: Grammar (15 Marks)
Topics:
Parts of Speech
Tenses
Articles
Reordering of Sentences
Spellings
Narration
Voice
Punctuation
Assessment:
5 MCQs (1 mark each)
3 Very Short Answer Questions (2 marks each)
Translation of a short Hindi passage into English (4 marks)
Section D: Literature (35 Marks)
First Flight (Prose & Poetry):
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
From the Diary of Anne Frank
Glimpses of India
Mijbil the Otter
Madam Rides the Bus
The Sermon at Benares
The Proposal
Poems:
Dust of Snow
Fire and Ice
A Tiger in the Zoo
How to Tell Wild Animals
The Ball Poem
Amanda!
Animals
The Trees
Fog
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
For Anne Gregory
Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader):
A Triumph of Surgery
The Thief’s Story
The Midnight Visitor
A Question of Trust
Footprints Without Feet
The Making of a Scientist
The Necklace
The Hack Driver
Bholi
The Book That Saved the Earth
Assessment:
Prose: Short and Long Answer Questions, Vocabulary-Based Questions
Poetry: Extract-Based Questions, Central Idea Explanation
Supplementary Reader: Short and Long Answer Questions, MCQs