Social Science, CBSE class 9
The longest syllabus in the school course: revolutions and the making of the modern world, the physical India, democracy as a set of institutions, and the economics of a village. Sixteen chapters, and no filler among them.
CBSE class 9 sets 16 chapters of social science, 74 topics between them.
Chapters
- Understanding Social Sciencetwo topics
- Shaping of the Earth's Surface4 topics
- Atmosphere and Climate5 topics
- Early Humans and Beginning of Civilisation8 topics
- State and Society (upto 1000 CE)4 topics
- Democracy4 topics
- Elections6 topics
- Building Blocks in Economics4 topics
- The Price Puzzle: What Drives the Market3 topics
- Oceans and Life4 topics
- Life on Earth4 topics
- Resistance and Resilience (1000 ce - 1700 ce)5 topics
- India and the World-I (1900 bce - 1200 ce)3 topics
- Authority4 topics
- From Ideas to Startups7 topics
- Smart Ways to Manage Your Finances7 topics
Is it possible to be good at this subject without a good memory?
Yes, and the children who do best at it usually are not memorising. They are holding a small number of causes and letting the detail hang off those. Wobo draws a cause and its consequences as a diagram you can point at, and reads the argument aloud, so the shape is what gets remembered.
Where this came from
From the official CBSE document for 2026-27, read on 3 September 2026.
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Open the document on the board's siteDocument hash c81d9237b8e7
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