Nagaland Board Class 10 Syllabus 2027: Subject Wise Topics, Weightage and PDF Download

Factual and discursive unseen passages; comprehension questions; note-making and summarising.

Formal and informal letter writing; article writing; speech writing; story writing; report writing; descriptive paragraph.

Tenses; determiners; modals; subject-verb agreement; reported speech; active and passive voice; subordinate clauses; editing and omission exercises; gap-filling.

A Letter to God; Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom; Two Stories about Flying; From the Diary of Anne Frank; The Hundred Dresses – I & II; Glimpses of India; Mijbil the Otter; Madam Rides the Bus; The Sermon at Benares; The Proposal (Play).

Dust of Snow; Fire and Ice; A Tiger in the Zoo; How to Tell Wild Animals; The Ball Poem; Amanda!; Animals; The Trees; Fog; The Tale of Custard the Dragon; For Anne Gregory.

A Triumph of Surgery; The Thief’s Story; The Midnight Visitor; A Question of Trust; Footprints without Feet; The Making of a Scientist; The Necklace; The Hack Driver; Bholi; The Book That Saved the Earth.

Polynomials; Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables; Quadratic Equations; Arithmetic Progressions.

Triangles; Circles; Constructions.

Introduction to Trigonometry; Some Applications of Trigonometry.

Areas Related to Circles; Surface Areas and Volumes.

Types of chemical reactions: combination, decomposition, displacement, double displacement, oxidation, reduction; balancing equations; corrosion and rancidity.

Properties of acids and bases; pH scale; neutralisation; important salts (NaCl, NaOH, baking soda, bleaching powder, plaster of paris).

Physical and chemical properties of metals; reactivity series; extraction of metals; ionic compounds; corrosion; alloys.

Covalent bonding in carbon; versatile nature of carbon; homologous series; nomenclature; saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons; soaps and detergents.

Dobereiner’s triads; Newlands’ law of octaves; Mendeleev’s periodic table; Modern periodic table; periodic trends (atomic size, metallic/non-metallic character, valency).

Nutrition (autotrophic and heterotrophic); human digestive system; respiration; transportation in plants and animals; excretion in plants and humans.

Nervous system; structure of brain; reflex arc; endocrine system; hormones in animals; tropic movements and coordination in plants.

Asexual reproduction (fission, budding, regeneration, vegetative propagation); sexual reproduction in flowering plants; human reproductive system; reproductive health.

Mendel’s laws of inheritance; sex determination; Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution; speciation; fossils; homologous and analogous organs.

Ecosystem components; food chains and food webs; ozone depletion; waste management; forest resources; water resources; coal and petroleum; biodiversity conservation.

Laws of reflection; spherical mirrors; mirror formula and magnification; laws of refraction; lenses; lens formula; power of a lens.

Structure of human eye; accommodation; defects of vision (myopia, hypermetropia, presbyopia); atmospheric refraction; dispersion; Tyndall effect; scattering of light.

Ohm’s law; resistance; series and parallel circuits; Joule’s heating effect; magnetic field lines; Fleming’s left/right-hand rules; electromagnetic induction; electric motor; generator; domestic wiring.

Conventional energy sources (fossil fuels, thermal power, hydropower); non-conventional sources (solar, wind, biogas, tidal, geothermal); nuclear energy; environmental impact.

French Revolution; concept of nationalism; formation of Germany and Italy; Frederic Sorrieu’s vision; nationalism and imperialism.

Non-Cooperation Movement; Civil Disobedience Movement; Salt March; sense of collective belonging; role of Mahatma Gandhi.

Silk routes; colonialism; the Great Depression; post-war reconstruction; Bretton Woods institutions; decolonisation.

Proto-industrialisation; factories; hand labour vs. machine; industrialisation in India under colonialism.

Gutenberg press; print in Europe; print in colonial India; religious reform; rise of novels; print and censorship.

Types and classification of resources; land use and soil conservation; flora and fauna diversity; Project Tiger; community and biosphere reserves.

Multi-purpose dams; water scarcity; rainwater harvesting; types of farming; cropping patterns; food security; Green Revolution.

Types and distribution of minerals; conventional and non-conventional energy; agro-based and mineral-based industries; industrial pollution and control.

Road, rail, water, and air transport; communication networks; international trade; tourism as an industry.

Belgium and Sri Lanka case studies; forms of power sharing; federalism in India; decentralisation; local self-government.

Social divisions; social inequalities; communalism; caste in politics; women and political representation.

Functions of political parties; national and regional parties; party systems; democratic accountability and outcomes.

Bolivia water war; Nepal’s democracy movement; Narmada Bachao Andolan; pressure groups; challenges and reforms in democracy.

Income and other development goals; Human Development Index; primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors; organised and unorganised sector; public and private sector.

Modern forms of money; banking; formal and informal credit; self-help groups; MNCs; integration of production; World Trade Organisation; impact of liberalisation.

Consumer in the marketplace; consumer movement; six consumer rights; COPRA; consumer redressal forums; consumer awareness.

Prose: Surdas ke Pad; Tulsidas – Ram Lakshman Parshuram Samvad; Devkidunandan Khatri; Mannu Bhandari – Ek Kahani Yeh Bhi; Yashpal – Lucknow ki Tehzeeb; Premchand – Bade Bhai Sahab; selected chapters as prescribed by NBSE.
Poetry: Surdas; Tulsidas; Suryakant Tripathi ’Nirala’; Nagarjuna; Girija Kumar Mathur; Rituraj; Manglesh Dabral; selected poems as prescribed by NBSE.

Mata Ka Anchal; George Pancham Ki Naak; Saana Saana Haath Jodi; Ehi Thaiyan Jhulni Herani Ho Rama; Main Kyun Likhta Hoon; selected chapters as prescribed by NBSE.

Rasa (Ras Parichay); Alankar; Shabd bhed; Vakya bhed; Samas; Muhavare aur Lokoktiyan; letter writing (formal and informal); essay writing; descriptive writing and paragraph composition.