MP Board Class 11th English Syllabus
माध्यमिक शिक्षा मण्डल, मध्यप्रदेश भोपाल - हायर सेकंडरी परीक्षा 2025-26
Section A: Reading Skill
- Reading comprehension through unseen passages.
- Two unseen passages to assess comprehension, interpretation, inference, and vocabulary. The passage may be factual, descriptive, literary, or case-based.
- Multiple choice questions/objective type questions will be asked.
Section B: Writing Skills
- Note Making
- Summarizing
- Sub-titling
- Essay writing
- Letter writing (Formal/Informal)
- Creative writing
- Notice/Advertisement/Poster making
- Long Composition: Writing an essay/article/paragraph to present a coherent argument, develop research, communication skills, creative and critical thinking, and organization of thoughts.
Section C: Grammar
- Questions on gap filling: Tenses, Prepositions, Verbs, Conjunctions, Articles, Modals, Determiners, etc.
- Do as directed: Voices, Transformation of sentences, Clauses, etc.
Section D: Textbooks
- Variety of assessment items including multiple choice questions, objective type questions, short answer type questions, and long answer type questions to assess comprehension, analysis, interpretation, and extrapolation of the textbooks.
- Hornbill (Prescribed Textbook for 2023-24):
- The Portrait of a Lady – Khushwant Singh (Prose)
- A Photograph – Shirley Toulson (Poetry)
- We're Not Afraid to Die... If We Can All Be Together – Gordon Cook and Alan East (Prose)
- Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues – A.R. Williams (Prose)
- The Laburnum Top – Ted Hughes (Poetry)
- The Voice of the Rain – Walt Whitman (Poetry)
- The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement's Role – Nani Palkhivala (Prose)
- Childhood – Markus Natten (Poetry)
- The Adventure – Jay Jayant Narlikar (Prose)
- Silk Road – Nick Middleton (Prose)
- Father to Son – Elizabeth Jennings (Poetry)
- Snapshots (Supplementary Reader for 2023-24):
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse – William Saroyan
- The Address – Marga Minco
- Mother's Day – J.B. Priestley
- The Ghat of the Only World – Amitav Ghosh
- Birth – A.J. Cronin
- The Tale of Melon City – Vikram Seth