CBSE • Class 10 • English

Class 10 English — Chapter-wise PYQ (with Solutions)

Practice actual board Previous Year Questions arranged chapter-wise for First Flight (Prose & Poems) and Footprints Without Feet, plus Reading, Grammar and Writing tasks. Answers follow CBSE marking scheme—perfect for time-bound practice and last-mile revision.

Board PYQ • Marking Scheme
Solve in 2–3 sets per chapter, then check key points, cohesion, textual evidence, and concise conclusions to match full-mark responses.

What makes English PYQs effective?

Board evaluators reward textual accuracycontextual interpretation, and answer structure. Hodu Academy’s chapter-wise PYQs help you revise one text at a time—character arcs, themes, poem devices, tone, and author intent—while practising 2-, 4- and 6-marker formats including extract-based questions.

First Flight — Prose

Chapter-wise PYQ PDFs
1
A Letter to God
2
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
3
Two Stories About Flying (His First Flight • Black Aeroplane)
4
From the Diary of Anne Frank
5
The Hundred Dresses — I
6
The Hundred Dresses — II
7
Glimpses of India
8
Mijbil the Otter
9
Madam Rides the Bus
10
The Sermon at Benares
11
The Proposal (Play)

First Flight — Poems

Poem-wise PYQ PDFs
1
Dust of Snow
2
Fire and Ice
3
A Tiger in the Zoo
4
How to Tell Wild Animals
5
The Ball Poem
6
Amanda!
7
Animals
8
The Trees
9
Fog
10
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
11
For Anne Gregory

Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader)

Chapter-wise PYQ PDFs
1
A Triumph of Surgery
2
The Thief’s Story
3
The Midnight Visitor
4
A Question of Trust
5
Footprints Without Feet
6
The Making of a Scientist
7
The Necklace
8
The Hack Driver
9
Bholi
10
The Book That Saved the Earth

Reading Comprehension

Passages • Case-based • Literary
1
Factual/Informational Passages (PYQ Set)
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2
Discursive/Literary Passages (PYQ Set)
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Grammar (Integrated)

PYQ Worksheets
1
Tenses, Modals, Subject–Verb Agreement
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2
Reported Speech, Determiners, Editing/Omission
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Writing Skills

Exam-ready formats + PYQs
1
Formal Letter (Enquiry/Complaint/Placing Order)
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2
Analytical Paragraph (Chart/Data-based)
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3
Discursive Paragraph (Opinion/Argumentative)
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How to use these English PYQs effectively

Attempt extract-based and short-answer questions open book first, underline quotations and literary devices, then redo under exam conditions. Keep answers crisp: introduce idea, cite the line/event, analyse its effect, and conclude. This mirrors CBSE marking scheme and boosts reading-comprehension, inference, and expression.

All PDFs are curated by Hodu Academy to reflect the latest blueprint—perfect for board prep, school tests, and self-study.

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