GSEB STD 10 English Textbook

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The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board or GSEB is a government of Gujarat body responsible for determining the policy-related, administrative, cognitive, and intellectual direction the states secondary and higher secondary educational system takes.

The Syllabus of the English Subject of the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board the Syllabus is given below

English Syllabus

CLASS X

SECTION A : READING 20 Marks (30 Periods)
Questions 1 and 2 two unseen passages of total 500 words with a variety of questions including 4 marks for vocabulary.
Only prose passages will be used. One will be factual and the other will be literary.
Passage 1 - 200 words (8 marks) - Four or five comprehension questions 8 marks
Passage 2 - 300 words (12 marks)-Four or five comprehension questions and two questions on vocabulary.
Marks for vocabulary will not exceed 4 marks. 12 marks


SECTION B : WRITING 20 Marks (40 Periods)
3. Letter Writing - One letter based on provided verbal stimulus and context. 8 Marks
Type of letter : Informal: Personal such as to family and friends.
Formal : Letter of complaints, enquiries, requests, applications
4. Writing a short paragraph on a given outline / topic in about 60 words 4 Marks
5. Composition : A short writing task based on a verbal and / or visual stimulus. (diagram, picture, graph, map, chart, table, flow chart etc.) Maximum words 80 8 Marks

SECTION C : GRAMMAR 15 Marks (45 Periods)
Question No. 6-11

A variety of short questions involving the use of particular structures within a context. Test types used will include cloze, gap-filling, sentence-completion, sentence-reordering, dialogue-completion and sentence-transformation (including combining sentences). The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas for teaching:
1. Use of non-finites.
2. Sentence connectors : as, since, while, then, just because, just, until.
3. Clauses with what, where and how.
4. Past Tense.
5. Modals : can, could, may, must, might.
Note : All other areas covered in Class IX will also be tested in Class X as this is an integrated course for this area of learning.

SECTION D : TEXT BOOKS 45 Marks (95 Periods)

First Flight - NCERT Textbook for Class X
Prose 20 Marks
12 & 13 Two extracts from different prose lessons included in Textbook (Approximately 100 words each) 5x2 = 10 Marks
These extracts chosen from different lessons will be literary and discursive in nature Each extract will be of 5 marks. One mark in each extract will be for vocabulary. 4 marks in each passage will be used for testing local and global comprehension besides a question on interpretation.

14. One out of two questions extrapolative in nature based on any one of the prose lessons from Textbook to be answered in about 80 words. 6 Marks

15. One out of two questions on Drama Text (local and global comprehension question) (30-40 words) 4 Marks

Poetry 10 Marks

16. One extract from a poem from the prescribed reader followed by two or three questions to test the local and global comprehension of the set text. 4 Marks

17. Two out of three short answer type questions on interpretation of themes and ideas contained in the poems to be answered in 30-40 words each. 6 Marks

Foot Prints without Feet - NCERT Supplementary Reader for Class X 15 Marks

18. One out of two questions from Supplementary Reader to interpret, evaluate and analyse character, plot or situations occurring in the lessons to be answered in about 100 words. 8 Marks

19. One out of two short answer type questions of interpretative and evaluative nature based on lessons to be answered in 30-40 words 4 Marks

20. One out of two short answer type questions based on factual aspects of the lessons to be answered in 20-30 words. 3 Marks


For more details you may Contact to the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board the contact details are given below

Contact Details
Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board
Address: Near Old Sachivalaya, Sector 10B, Sector 10, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Phone: 095226 21522