Your roadmap · आपका रोडमैप
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Admission & first meetingप्रवेश और पहली मुलाकातEnquire at your nearest NDSS centre, meet the teacher, fix the batch time and get your study material.
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Term 1 (April – September)प्रथम सत्र (अप्रैल – सितंबर)First half of every subject, with a unit test every month.
Reading SkillsWriting SkillsGrammarBeehive: Prose (Lessons 1-5)
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Half-yearly examअर्धवार्षिक परीक्षाHalf-yearly test on the first-term chapters, with a report to parents.
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Term 2 (October – January)द्वितीय सत्र (अक्टूबर – जनवरी)Second half of every subject, with unit tests.
Beehive: Prose (Lessons 6-9)Beehive: PoetryMoments: Lessons 1-5Moments: Lessons 6-9
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Revision & mock testsरिवीजन और मॉक टेस्टFull-syllabus revision, sample papers.
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Annual / board examवार्षिक / बोर्ड परीक्षाClass 9 annual exam.
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Online tests & resultऑनलाइन टेस्ट और रिज़ल्टTake the tests online; your marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Syllabus · पाठ्यक्रम
1 subject · 8 chapters · 43 topics
01Reading Skills
5 topics+
- Discursive unseen passage
- Case-based / factual unseen passage
- Finding the main idea
- Inference questions
- Vocabulary in context
02Writing Skills
5 topics+
- Descriptive paragraph: person, place, event
- Diary entry
- Story writing from a given outline
- Informal letter
- Formal letter: complaint and request
03Grammar
7 topics+
- Tenses
- Modals
- Subject-verb agreement
- Reported speech: statements, questions, commands
- Determiners
- Clauses
- Gap filling, editing and omission
04Beehive: Prose (Lessons 1-5)
5 topics+
- The Fun They Had - Isaac Asimov
- The Sound of Music - Evelyn Glennie and Bismillah Khan
- The Little Girl - Katherine Mansfield
- A Truly Beautiful Mind - Albert Einstein
- The Snake and the Mirror - Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
05Beehive: Prose (Lessons 6-9)
4 topics+
- My Childhood - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Reach for the Top - Santosh Yadav and Maria Sharapova
- Kathmandu - Vikram Seth
- If I Were You - Douglas James (play)
06Beehive: Poetry
8 topics+
- The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
- Wind - Subramania Bharati
- Rain on the Roof - Coates Kinney
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W.B. Yeats
- A Legend of the Northland - Phoebe Cary
- No Men Are Foreign - James Kirkup
- On Killing a Tree - Gieve Patel
- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal - William Wordsworth
07Moments: Lessons 1-5
5 topics+
- The Lost Child - Mulk Raj Anand
- The Adventures of Toto - Ruskin Bond
- Iswaran the Storyteller - R.K. Laxman
- In the Kingdom of Fools - folk tale
- The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
08Moments: Lessons 6-9
4 topics+
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama - Harsh Mander
- The Last Leaf - O. Henry
- A House Is Not a Home - Zan Gaudioso
- The Beggar - Anton Chekhov
About this course
You will be able to
- Read unseen passages and answer factual, inference and vocabulary questions
- Write descriptive paragraphs, diary entries, stories and letters in the correct format
- Use tenses, modals, subject-verb agreement, reported speech and determiners correctly
- Explain the theme, characters and message of every prose lesson and poem in Beehive
- Answer questions on the supplementary reader Moments with examples from the text
- Speak and write simple, correct English with confidence
Who it is for
- Class 9 students of CBSE and UP Board schools
- Students from Hindi-medium backgrounds who want to improve English
- Learners who need help with grammar and writing formats
What you need
- Class 8 English completed; able to read simple English sentences
- NCERT Beehive and Moments textbooks for Class 9 and a notebook
Online tests & result
Practice and unit tests online; marks and result show in your student login and at the centre.
Student login →
Questions
Which books are taught?
The current rationalised NCERT books Beehive (main reader) and Moments (supplementary reader), plus reading, writing and grammar as per the CBSE / UP Board pattern.
My child's grammar is weak. Will this help?
Yes. Grammar is taught from basics with daily practice exercises, and writing tasks are corrected in class.
Do you help with spoken English?
Yes. Students read aloud, answer orally and take part in short speaking activities to build confidence.
How are tests conducted?
Chapter tests, grammar and writing tests every month, and half-yearly / final practice papers in exam pattern.
