UP Board Class 9 English Syllabus 2024-2025: Download Free Syllabus PDF Here!

Reading 

• One short unseen passage followed by three MCQs
• One unseen passage followed by three very short answer type questions. 3x2=6 And one vocabulary based question

Writing Skills 

• Letter (formal/informal)/Application
• Descriptive paragraph/Report/ Article (based on given verbal/figurative input)in about 80-100 words

Grammar

• Five MCQs based on parts of speech, tenses, articles, reordering of sentences, spellings
• Three very short answer type questions based on narration, voice, punctuation.
• Translation of a short passage from Hindi to English.

Literature 

Beehive (Prose)

• The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov
• The Sound of Music by Deborah Cowley 

         I. Evelyn Glennine

        II. Bismillah Kha

• The Little Girl by Katherine Mansfield
• A Truly Beautiful Mind
• The Snake and the Mirror by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer  
• My Childhood by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam  
• Reach for the Top

       (I) Santosh Yadav

      (II) Maria Sharapova  

• Kathmandu by Vikram Seth
• If I were you by Douglas James

- Two MCQs based on the given extract

- Three MCQs based on lessons.

- Two short answer type questions in about 30-40 words each

- One long answer type question in about 60 words

Beehive (Poetry)

• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
• Wind by Subramania Bharati 
• Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney  
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
• A Legend of the Northland by Phoebe Cary
• No Men Are Foreign by James Kirkup
• On Killing a Tree by Gieve Patel 
• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth

- Two MCQs based on the given extract

- One short answer type question based on poetry lessons in about 30-40 words

or 

- Four lines from any poem prescribed in the syllabus

- Central idea of the given poem

Moments (Supplementary Reader)

• The Lost Child by Mulk Raj Anand
• The Adventures of Toto by Ruskin Bond 
• Iswaran the Storyteller by R.K. Laxman 
• In the Kingdom of Fools by A.K. Ramanujan 
• The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
• Weathering the storm in Ersama by Harsh Mander 
• The Last Leaf by O Henry
• A House is not a Home by Zan Gaudioso 
• The Beggar by Anton Chekhov

- Five MCQs based on prescribed lessons

- One short answer type question in about 30-40 words

- One long answer type question in about 60 words

Words & Expression [Eng. Work book] 

Topic

Marks

Reading 

10

Writing Skills

10

Grammar

15

Literature 

• Beehive Prose 
• Beehive Poetry
• Moments

35

15

8

12

Theory Total

70

Internal Assessments

30

Grand Total

100

Assessment Type

Marks

First Internal Assessment (Oral Expression Based) August 

10

Second Internal Assessment(Creative Writing Based) December

10

Four Monthly Tests

• First Monthly Test (MCQs Based) May
• Second Monthly Test (Descriptive Questions Based) July 
• Third Monthly Test (MCQs Based) November
• Fourth Monthly Test (Descriptive Questions Based) December 

10