CBSE Class 10 · English

English: which chapter carries how many marks

How many marks and questions each chapter carried a year in CBSE’s 37 real papers of 2023–2026 — counted, not guessed. Start where the marks are.

#	Chapter	Marks/yr	Qs/yr
1	2. Case-based factual passage	15.6	11.4
2	1. Tenses	8.8	1.4
3	1. Formal letter	5	1
4	2. Analytical paragraph	5	1
5	1. A Letter to God	4.1	0.7
6	1. Discursive passage	3.8	1.3
7	2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	2.9	0.6
8	3. Two Stories about Flying	2.6	0.6
9	4. How to Tell Wild Animals	2.5	0.4
10	1. A Triumph of Surgery	2.2	0.6
11	8. Bholi	2.2	0.5
12	5. Footprints without Feet	2.0	0.4
13	7. Madam Rides the Bus	1.9	0.5
14	4. From the Diary of Anne Frank	1.8	0.3
15	3. A Tiger in the Zoo	1.6	0.3
16	7. The Necklace	1.5	0.3
17	5. Glimpses of India	1.5	0.6
18	2. The Thief's Story	1.5	0.4
19	5. The Ball Poem	1.2	0.3
20	9. The Tale of Custard the Dragon	1.1	0.3
21	6. Mijbil the Otter	1.1	0.3
22	6. Amanda!	1.1	0.3
23	4. A Question of Trust	1.0	0.3
24	8. The Sermon at Benares	1.0	0.3
25	6. The Making of a Scientist	0.8	0.3
26	1. Dust of Snow	0.8	0.3
27	3. The Midnight Visitor	0.7	0.3
28	10. For Anne Gregory	0.7	0.2
29	9. The Proposal	0.6	0.2
30	2. Fire and Ice	0.6	0.1
31	4. Reported speech	0.6	0.1
32	7. The Trees	0.4	0.1
33	9. The Book That Saved the Earth	0.4	0.1
34	5. Determiners	0.4	0.4
35	3. Subject–verb concord	0.3	0.0
36	2. Modals	0	0

Average = total marks of the chapter’s questions over those years ÷ the years (one of a choice counted).

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