CBSE Class 9 Sample Papers — What to Practise With in 2026-27

CBSE publishes official sample papers only for the Class 10 and Class 12 board exams. Class 9 exams are set by your school — and from 2026-27, Class 9 follows a new syllabus with new NCERT textbooks. Here is what to practise with, and how.

What to Practise With

• NCERT textbook exercises and in-text questions — the new Class 9 books are the syllabus, and school papers follow them closely.
• Your school's model papers and past papers — they show how your teachers set the paper.
• The Class 9 question design — every theory paper is 50% competency-focused questions, 20% MCQs and 30% short and long answers, 80 marks in 3 hours. See our Class 9 exam pattern guide for unit-wise marks.
• Chapter-wise practice questions — useful for fixing weak chapters before you attempt a full paper.

How to Use Practice Papers

1. Set a timer — 3 hours, as in the real exam.
2. Solve without notes — this tests what you actually know.
3. Check your answers honestly — note the chapters where you lost marks.
4. Re-attempt wrong questions after 2–3 days.

When to Start

• Once most of the syllabus for that exam is done — full papers are for testing, not first learning.
• A few weeks before the exam — leave time to fix what the papers show up.
• In the last week — solve at least one timed paper for each main subject.

Based on the CBSE Secondary Curriculum 2026-27 and CBSE's sample question paper pages on cbseacademic.nic.in (Class X and Class XII only).