NCERT Class 10 English
First Flight, Footprints Without Feet, and Letter Writing — with one-page Quick Review boards for every chapter, plus summaries, themes, connections, and board practice for 2027.
Board priority
What to study first for 2027
Expect the modern three-section paper — master letter + analytical paragraph, then Tier 1 literature.
419 deduped literature prompts · patterns from 2020–2026
Very high mined frequency across 2020–2026. Master extracts + 1 long answer each.
- A Letter to God · ~27 hits
- Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom · ~26 hits
- A Triumph of Surgery · ~23 hits
- The Thief's Story · ~22 hits
- Two Stories About Flying · ~18 hits
Appears often in short answers and extracts. Keep ready with key incidents.
- From the Diary of Anne Frank · ~11 hits
- Madam Rides the Bus · ~11 hits
- The Midnight Visitor · ~11 hits
- Glimpses of India · ~10 hits
- Footprints without Feet · ~8 hits
- The Ball Poem · ~8 hits
- A Tiger in the Zoo · ~7 hits
Textbooks
Choose your book
Textbooks with board signal
Where to spend your study time
Each book card surfaces the chapters that show up most in previous papers — start there, then finish the rest.
19 chapters
9 prose · 10 poems
Highest literature frequency — Letter to God, Mandela, Flying
Board hotspots — revise these first
9 chapters
9 supplementary stories
Must-do irony & trust stories — Triumph, Thief, Midnight Visitor
Board hotspots — revise these first