Syllabus CBSE Class 10th
English Communicative
The total weightage assigned to Summative Assessment (SA I&II) is 60%. The total weightage assigned to Formative Assessment (FA1, 2, 3, &4) is 40%. Out of the 40% assigned to Formative Assessment, 10% weightage is assigned to conversation skills (5% each in Term I&II) and 10% weightage to the Reading Project (at least 1 Book is to be read in each term and the Project will carry a weightage of 5% in each term) 2. The Summative Assessment I and Summative Assessment II is for ninety marks each. The weighatge assigned to Summative Assessment I is 30% and the weightage assigned to Summative Assessment II is 30%.
SECTION A: READING : 20 Marks
Qs 1-3 The reading section will have three unseen texts as shown below:
The total length of the three passages will be between 850 - 1100 words. There will be at least 5 marks for assessing vocabulary. All questions on vocabulary will not be from the same passage. Care should be taken to cover all the three text types, ie factual, discursive and literary while selecting the passages. A poem may or may not be used as one of the three texts. Text I will be either factual or discursive. Apart from a poem, prose literary texts may include excerpts from authentic literature such as short story, autobiography, biography, travelogue, novel etc.
Whenever a poem or a prose literary text is used, the other two texts should be discursive and factual, thus covering all the three text types.
SECTION B: WRITING : 25 Marks
The writing section comprises four writing tasks as indicated below.
Q. 4 A short composition of upto 50 words in the form of a Notice, Message
or Diary Entry. : 4 Marks
Questions 4 & 5 will assess students' skill of expressing ideas in clear and
grammatically correct English, presenting ideas coherently and concisely,
writing a clear description, a clear account of events, expanding notes into a
piece of writing, transcoding information from one form to another or using a
style appropriate for a notice, message or diary entry.
Q. 5 A composition of upto 100 words in the form of Biographical sketch, Data Interpretation, Dialogue writing or Description (people, Objects or Events) : 6 Mark