Academics Update – CBSE syllabus for Class IX-XII reduced by 30%

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday announced reduction of syllabus for Class IX to XII by up to 30% for the 2020-21 academic session in view of the disruption of the schedule caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Revised CBSE Syllabus for Class 9, 10, 11, and 12

• CBSE Class 9 and 10 Revised Syllabus
• CBSE Class 11 and 12 Revised Syllabus
• CBSE Online Resources – PDF Download

CBSE Class 9 and 10 Revised Syllabus

Initial Pages

Curriculum Deduction Details (Deleted Portion)

• Deleted – Mathematics
• Deleted – Science
• Deleted – Social Science
• Deleted – Computer Application
• Deleted – English – Language, and Literature
• Deleted – Hindi A
• Deleted – Hindi B
• Deleted – Home Science

Revised Main Subjects – (Group -A1)

• REVISED – Mathematics
• REVISED – Science
• REVISED – Social Science

Revised Other Academic Electives – Group A2

• REVISED – Carnatic Music (Vocal)
• REVISED – Carnatic Music (Melodic Instruments)
• REVISED – Carnatic Music (Percussion Instruments)
• REVISED – Hindustani Music (Vocal)
• REVISED – Hindustani Music (Melodic Instruments)
• REVISED – Hindustani Music (Percussion Instruments)
• REVISED – Painting
• REVISED – Home Science
• REVISED – National Cadet Corps (NCC)
• REVISED – Computer Applications
• REVISED – Elements of Business
• REVISED – Elements of Book Keeping and Accountancy

Revised Languages (Group – L)

• REVISED – Arabic
• REVISED – Assamese
• REVISED – Bahasa Melayu
• REVISED – Bengali
• REVISED – Bhutia
• REVISED – Bodo
• REVISED – English – Language and Literature
• REVISED – French
• REVISED – German
• REVISED – Gujarati
• REVISED – Gurung
• REVISED – Hindi Course-A
• REVISED – Hindi Course-B
• REVISED – Japanese
• REVISED – Kannada
• REVISED – Kashmiri
• REVISED – Lepcha
• REVISED – Limboo
• REVISED – Malayalam
• REVISED – Manipuri
• REVISED – Marathi
• REVISED – Mizo
• REVISED – Nepali
• REVISED – Odia
• REVISED – Persian
• REVISED – Punjabi
• REVISED – Rai
• REVISED – Russian
• REVISED – Sanskrit
• REVISED – Sindhi
• REVISED – Spanish
• REVISED – Sherpa
• REVISED – Tamang
• REVISED – Tamil
• REVISED – Tangkhul
• REVISED – Telugu AP
• REVISED – Telugu Telangana
• REVISED – Thai
• REVISED – Tibetan
• REVISED – Urdu Course A
• REVISED – Urdu Course B

Co-Scholastic Areas

• Art Education
• School Health Manuals
• Value Education

CBSE Class 11 and 12 Revised Syllabus

Initial Pages

Curriculum Deduction Details (Deleted Portion)

• Deleted – Accountancy
• Deleted – Applied Mathematics
• Deleted – Mathematics
• Deleted – Physical Education
• Deleted – Physics
• Deleted – Biology
• Deleted – Bio Technology
• Deleted – Business Studies
• Deleted – Chemistry
• Deleted – Computer Science
• Deleted – Economics
• Deleted – Engineering Graphics
• Deleted – English Core
• Deleted – English Elective
• Deleted – Entrepreneurship
• Deleted – Geography
• Deleted – Hindi Core
• Deleted – Hindi Elective
• Deleted – History
• Deleted – Home Science
• Deleted – Infomatics Practices
• Deleted – Legal Studies
• Deleted – Political Science
• Deleted – Psychology
• Deleted – Sociology

Revised Academic Electives

• REVISED – Accountancy
• REVISED – Biology
• REVISED – Bio Technology
• REVISED – Business Studies
• REVISED – Carnatic Melodic
• REVISED – Carnatic Vocal
• REVISED – Carnatic Percussion
• REVISED – Chemistry
• REVISED – Computer Science
• REVISED – Economics
• REVISED – Engineering Graphics
• REVISED – Entrepreneurship
• REVISED – Fine Arts
• REVISED – Dance
• REVISED – Geography
• REVISED – Hindustani Melodic
• REVISED – Hindustani Percussion
• REVISED – Hindustani Vocal
• REVISED – History
• REVISED – Home Science | Reference Material
• REVISED – Infomatics Practices
• REVISED – Knowledge Tradition – Practices India
• REVISED – Legal Studies
• REVISED – Mathematics
• REVISED – Applied Mathematics
• REVISED – NCC
• REVISED – Physical Education
• REVISED – Physics
• REVISED – Political Science | Reference Material | In Hindi
• REVISED – Psychology
• REVISED – Sociology

Revised Languages (Group – L)

Co-Scholastic Areas

According to the updated curriculum, among the chapters deleted from the Class 10 syllabus are democracy and diversity, gender, religion and caste, popular struggles and movement, challenges to democracy. For Class 11, the deleted portions included chapters on federalism, citizenship, nationalism, secularism, growth of local governments in India.

Similarly, Class 12 students will not be required to study chapters on India’s relations with its neighbours, changing nature of India’s economic development, social movements in India and demonetisation, among others.

Announcing the decision, HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal tweeted, “Looking at the extraordinary situation prevailing in the country and world, the CBSE was advised to revise the curriculum and reduce course load for the students of Class 9th to 12th.”

“To aid the decision, a few weeks back I also invited suggestions from all educationists on reduction of syllabus and I am glad to share that we received more than 1.5K suggestions. Thank you, everyone, for the overwhelming response,” he tweeted.