CBSE Class 10 English Marks Distribution Chapter-Wise 2025-26

CBSE has released the Class 10 English chapter-wise marks distribution for 2025–26, with Literature carrying the highest weightage. The blueprint helps students plan targeted revision, focus on scoring sections.

CBSE Class 10 English Paper: The CBSE Class 10 English Marking Scheme 2025–26 helps the candidates to get an understanding of the 80-mark board exam and the weightage of each section. The Paper is divided into three sections: Reading, Writing & Grammar, and Literature, with Literature carrying the maximum marks. Knowing this division helps students to concentrate more on scoring parts like prose, poetry, and supplementary reader, as they also help to develop basic skills like comprehension and writing. The chapter-wise weightage also plays a crucial role in guiding students to focus on important chapters for practice accordingly, so as to enable them to prepare well for both the objective and the subjective types of questions in the main exam.

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CBSE Class 10 English Marks Distribution Chapter-Wise 2025-26

Find the detailed chapter-wise marks distribution for CBSE Class 10 English 2025–26 below.

Section Number	Disciption	Weightage (Marks Distribution)
Section A	Reading Skills	20 Marks
Section B	Writing Skills with Grammar	20 Marks
Section C	C Language through Literature	40 Marks
Total Marks		80

CBSE Class 10 English Question Paper Design 2025–26

Students can find the question paper design for CBSE Class 10 English 2025–26 below:

Section	Competencies	Marks
A: Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage	Conceptual understanding, decoding, analyzing, inferring, interpreting, and vocabulary	20
B: Writing Skills with Grammar	Creative expression of an opinion, reasoning, justifying, illustrating, appropriate style and tone, using appropriate format and fluency. Applying conventions, using integrated structures with accuracy and fluency	20
C: Language through Literature	Recalling, reasoning, appreciating, applying literary conventions, illustrating, and justifying. Extract relevant information, identifying the central theme and sub-theme, understanding the writer’s message, and writing fluently	40

PDF: CBSE Class 10 English Marks Distribution Chapter-Wise 2025-26

Students are advised to note that the CBSE Class 10 English Question Paper for 2025-26 will have the following types of questions: Objective Type, Short and Long Writing Questions, Reading Comprehension, Grammar-Based Questions, and Literature-based questions from Prose, Poetry & Supplementary Passages. Further, students can expect to be given internal options for about 33% of questions, so they don’t have to answer every question on the paper.

For better scores in the board exam, students must study NCERT English Textbooks, First Flight, and Footprints Without Feet, along with NCERT grammar exercises and the reading comprehension worksheets. These provide systematic practice and involve enhancing vocabulary and analytical skills, and the leveled tasks help reinforce of concept as per the blueprint.

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