Odisha Board Syllabus Class 9 – BSE Odisha Class 9 Scheme of Studies

Approved in the 47th Annual General Body Meeting of the Board held on 13.05.2005 and accepted by the Govt. of Odisha, Deptt. of School and Mass Education/ Bhubaneswar in its letter no. IX SME(BSE) 01/2005/13207 SME Dated. 02.07.05

A. SUBJECTS TO BE STUDIED

Every pupil shall study the following languages namely,

B. STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE:

Every pupil shall study the following languages as detailed below :-

1. First Language – (Mother Tongue)

Second Language – [ English/Hindi ]

• English for those who do not offer English as their First Language.
• Hindi for those who offer English as their First Language.
• Environment & Population Education for the hearing impaired students only.

Third Language – [ Hindi/Odia/Sanskrit/Persian.

• Hindi or Sanskrit for those who offer Odia as their First Language.
• Odia or Hindi or Sanskrit for those who offer Bengali / Telugu as their First Language.
• Hindi or Persian or Odia for those who offer Urdu as their First Language.
• Odia or Sanskrit for those who offer Hindi as their First Language.
• Odia or Sanskrit or Persian for those who offer English as their First Language.
• Visual Arts for the deaf and dumb Hearing Impaired students only.

N.B A student with hearing impairement may on his application be allowed to offer

• Environment and Population Education in lieu of Second Language and
• Visual Arts in lieu of Third language. He/she shall have to offer one language under first language.

Such students offering Environment & Population Education / Visual Arts in lieu of 2nd language / 3rd language will not be allowed to offer the subjects as optional subjects

The syllabus of the above said “Environment & Population Education” will be same with “Environment & Population Education (optional)” under Group-B.

Class-X students with hearing impairement will have to apply through the Headmaster concerned well in advance to avail themselves of the above said facility.

C. THE SCHEME STRUCTURE & WEIGHTAGE

The New Scheme of studies for Classes IX will contain the following internally assessable compulsory subjects with number of papers and maximum marks indicated against each.

SCHOLASTIC SUBJECTS

CO-SCHOLASTIC SUBJECTS

OTHER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

NOTE :
1. Four periods allocated to Work Education shall be in two consecutive periods each time twice a week.
2. Two periods allocated to Art Education shall be taken once a week in two consecutive periods.
3. The periods allocated to Health and Physical Education should as far as possible, be the last period of the day thrice a week, so that the children can continue their games beyond the school hours if they so like.

D. INSTRUCTIONAL TIME AND DURATION OF SCHOOL HOURS

. There will be 210 working days or 35 working weeks for class-IX and 120 working days or 20 working weeks for Class X for instruction during an academic session

The duration of school hours will be six hours as usual. There may be eight periods a day and duration of such period may be forty(40) minutes.