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CBSE Class 11 English: Chapter-wise Notes and PYQs

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CBSE · Class 11 · 2026-27

CBSE Class 11 English: chapter-wise study guide

All 21 chapters of CBSE Class 11 English for the 2026-27 session. Each chapter page explains the ideas, gives tricks to remember them, shows where students lose marks, and links to practice.

  • 21 chapters
  • 21 topic pages
Start with the first chapter

Exam note: English Core (301). The syllabus prescribes the Class XI paper: Reading 26 (two passages, note-making and summary), Grammar and Creative Writing 23 (classified advertisement, poster, speech, debate) and Literature 31 (Hornbill and Snapshots). 'The Ailing Planet' is printed in Hornbill but is not in the CBSE list of prescribed texts.

Reading skills

  1. Note Making and Summarisation

Grammar

  1. Grammar: Gap Filling and Sentence Reordering or Transformation

Writing skills

  1. Classified Advertisements

  2. Poster Writing

  3. Speech Writing

  4. Debate Writing

Hornbill: prose

  1. The Portrait of a Lady

  2. We're Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together

  3. Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues

  4. The Adventure

  5. Silk Road

Hornbill: poems

  1. A Photograph

  2. The Laburnum Top

  3. The Voice of the Rain

  4. Childhood

  5. Father to Son

Snapshots

  1. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

  2. The Address

  3. Mother's Day

  4. Birth

  5. The Tale of Melon City

Syllabus source: CBSE English Core syllabus 2026-27 (Classes XI-XII), NCERT textbooks (Reprint 2026-27)