MP Board Class 9 English Syllabus 2023-24: The Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Examination (MPBSE) has the 9th class English syllabus for 2024 examinations. The 75 marks written examination for MP Board Class 9th English will be of 3 hours. In this article, you get the updated MPBSE Syllabus for Class 9 English in 2024, including the marking scheme.
MP Board Class 9 English Syllabus 2024
Section A Reading Skill
Reading comprehension through unseen passages.
Two unseen passages to assess comprehension, interpretation, inference and vocabulary. The passage may be factual, descriptive, literary or case based.
Multiple choice questions/ objective type questions will be asked.
Note Making based on a passage.
Letter writing.
Section – B Writing Skills
Formal / informal letter to enable the students to identify the elements of a letter and to apply them and compose a letter. They must be able to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organisation and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
Long Composition.
Writing an essay/article/ paragraph to enable the students to learn presentation of a coherent argument in response to a stimulus or question and develop research, communication skills, creative and critical thinking, organization of thoughts etc.
Picture Guided Composition.
Picture guided composition to encourage students to describe and observe details in the given pictures. It will help reinforce vocabulary, sequencing, decoding, creative thinking and comprehension.
Section – C Grammar
(1) Questions on gap filling, Tenses, Prepositions, Verbs, Conjunctions, Articles, Modals, Determiners etc.
(II) Do as directed: Voices, Transformation of sentences, Clauses etc.
Section D Textbooks
This section will have the variety of assessment items including multiple choice questions, objective type questions, short answer type questions and long answer type questions to assess comprehension, analysis, interpretation and extrapolation of the textbooks.
The following chapters from prescribed textbook-Beehive for 2023-24.
- The Fun They Had – Isaac Asimov
The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
The Sound Of Music: Evelyn Glennie – Deborah Cowley
The Shehnai – Bismillah Khan
Wind – Subramania Bharti
- The Little Girl – Katherine Mansfield
Rain On The Roof – Coates Kinney
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats
- The Snake And The Mirror – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
A Legend Of The Northland – Phoebe Cary
- My Childhood – APJ Abdul Kalam
- No Men Are Foreign – James Kirkup
Reach For The Top Santosh Yadav
Mariya Sharapova
On Killing A Tree – Gieve Patel
- Kathmandu – Vikram Seth
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal – William Wordsworth
- If I Were You – Douglas James
The following chapters from prescribed supplementary reader-Moments for 2023-24.
- The Lost Child – Mulk Raj Anand
- The Adventure Of Toto – Ruskin Bond
- Iswaran The Storyteller – RK Laxman
- In The Kingdom Of Fools- Kannada Folktale – AK Ramanujan
- The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde
- The Last Leaf – O Henry
- A House Is Not A Home – Zen Gaidioso
- The Beggar – Anton Chekhov
MP Board Class 9 English Marking Scheme 2023-24
MP Board Class 9 English Question Paper Pattern 2023-24
Section |
Title |
Marks |
A |
Reading Skills |
10 |
B |
Writing Skills: Note Making (4 marks) Letter writing (4 marks) Long Composition (5 marks) Feature Guided Composition (3 marks) |
20 |
C |
Grammar |
10 |
D |
Textbooks |
39 |
|
Total |
75 |