CBSE Class 11 English Syllabus 2025-26

CBSE Syllabus for Class 11 English 2025-26 has been officially released by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on its website. This page provides the latest and complete Class 11 English syllabus exactly as prescribed by CBSE for the current academic year. It develops language proficiency and literary appreciation.

The updated CBSE Class 11 English Syllabus 2025-26 helps students understand the chapter-wise distribution of marks, exam pattern and learning outcomes in advance. By checking the official syllabus before starting the course, students can plan their studies in the right order, focus on high-weightage units and complete timely revision before the exam. Some of the important topics covered in the Class 11 English syllabus are:

• Reading Comprehension
• Writing Skills
• Grammar
• Literature (Prose and Poetry)
• Supplementary Reading
• and Language Development

CBSE Class 11 English Syllabus 2025-26

Class 11 English focuses on reading comprehension, advanced grammar, writing skills including notices, advertisements, posters, letters, reports, articles, speech and literature study. The curriculum develops language proficiency through comprehension passages, grammar exercises, creative writing and literary appreciation.

• CBSE Class 11 English Core Syllabus PDF 2025-26
• CBSE Class 11 English Elective Syllabus PDF 2025-26

CBSE Class 11 Syllabus for English Core 2025-26

Section A: Reading Skills

I Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage: 18 Marks

• Title
• Numbering and indenting
• Key/glossary
• Notes

• Content
• Expression

Section B

Section C:

Literature Textbook and Supplementary Reading Textbook

Prescribed Books

• The Portrait of a Lady (Prose)
• A Photograph (Poem)
• “We’re Not Afraid to Die… if we can be together
• Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues •The Laburnum Top (Poem)
• The Voice of the Rain (Poem) •Childhood (Poem)
• The Adventure
• Silk Road (Prose)
• Father to Son

• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (Prose)
• The Address (Prose)
• Mother’s Day (Play)
• Birth ( Prose)
• The Tale of Melon City

Internal Assessment for CBSE Class 11 English Core 2025-26

• Assessment of Listening Skills – 05 marks
• Assessment of Speaking Skills – 05 Marks
• Project Work – 10 Marks

CBSE Class 11 Syllabus for English Elective 2025-26

Section A:

Reading Comprehension (25 Marks)

Two unseen passages and a poem

Section B:

Creative Writing Skills (15 Marks)

Section C

• Presentation – book review /a play /a short story/a novel/novella (tale, table, parable) to be followed by a question answer session.
• Poetry reading to be followed by interpretative tasks based on close reading and literary analysis of the text.
• Critical review of a film or a play.
• Conducting a theatre workshop to be followed by a discussion

Prescribed Books:

• The Lament -Anton Chekhov
• A Pair of Mustachios -Mulk Raj Anand
• The Rocking-horse Winner- D.H. Lawrence
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
• Pappachi’s Moth
• The Third and FinalContinent

• The Peacock- Sujata Bhatt
• Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds William Shakespeare
• Coming- Philip Larkin
• Telephone Conversation – Wole Soyinka
• The World is tooMuch With Us
• Mother Tongue
• Hawk Roosting
• Ode to a Nightingale

• My Watch
• My Three Passions
• Patterns of Creativity
• Tribal Verse
• What is a Good Book?
• The Story
• Bridges