Subjects
Two languages - commonly English and Hindi, or another first language - plus Mathematics, with art and physical activity woven in rather than timetabled separately. There is no standalone EVS or Science book at this level.
Class 1 · CBSE
Class 1 CBSE Tuition Online
Class 1 CBSE Tuition works from your school's own Mridang, Sarangi and Joyful Mathematics books, because CBSE sets no Class 1 syllabus, no textbook list and no exam. What CBSE has set is how the year is assessed: its own Holistic Progress Card, which describes a six-year-old as beginner, progressing or proficient rather than giving her a mark.
Parents typing "online tuition for class 1 cbse" are usually hunting for a syllabus that does not exist. CBSE's curriculum documents begin at Class 9; nothing is published for Class 1. What actually governs a CBSE-affiliated Class 1 classroom is the national Foundational Stage framework, the particular NCERT titles your child's school chose to teach it from, and CBSE's own report-card format for describing a young child's progress without reducing her to a number.
A free 20-minute assessment. We find where your child actually is, then tell you what we would do about it. No card, no commitment.
What is taught
The Class 1 CBSE syllabus, topic by topic
Books
Most CBSE schools now issue Mridang for English, Sarangi for Hindi and Joyful Mathematics - the current NCERT titles for the Foundational Stage. Others still use the older Marigold, Rimjhim and Math-Magic, which NCERT continues to host.
Assessment
No CBSE exam and no CBSE mark scheme exist for Class 1. Report cards increasingly follow the CBSE Holistic Progress Card, rating a child as beginner, progressing or proficient with symbols rather than marks.
Language
A third language is not part of the national framework until Class 6. A small number of CBSE schools introduce one earlier, as their own policy rather than a board requirement.
Class 1 CBSE in detail
Does CBSE set a syllabus for Class 1?
No. CBSE's curriculum portal publishes documents for Classes 9 to 12 only, and Class 1 sits nowhere in it. CBSE strongly advises, but does not require, that affiliated schools use NCERT or SCERT books for Classes 1 to 8. It has also adopted the national Foundational Stage framework, which shapes how a Class 1 classroom is run rather than what chapters it contains.
CBSE describes its own curriculum work as covering Secondary and Senior Secondary - Classes 9 to 12. There is no Class 1 section on its academic portal, because CBSE does not author one. This is the single most useful thing to know before searching for "the CBSE Class 1 syllabus", because the document being pictured genuinely does not exist.
What CBSE has done is adopt the National Curriculum Framework for the Foundational Stage for its affiliated schools, the same framework NCERT and the Ministry of Education published for every board. That framework describes Class 1 as part of a longer five-year stage taught through play, talk and concrete activity rather than a fixed chapter list - a teaching approach, not a syllabus with topics and dates attached.
The affiliation rules add one layer: schools are strongly advised to use NCERT or SCERT textbooks for Classes 1 to 8, but that advice stops short of a mandate, which only begins at Class 9. A Class 1 CBSE classroom is shaped by three things stacked together - the framework's approach, the books the school chose within it, and the school's own routine on top. None of the three is a CBSE-issued syllabus. See CBSE for Class 1 to 5 for how this holds across all five primary years.
What does a CBSE Class 1 report card actually show?
Increasingly, the CBSE Holistic Progress Card for the Foundational Stage, which covers Classes up to Class 2. Instead of marks, it rates a child as beginner, progressing or proficient across several areas, often shown with symbols such as a seedling or a flower rather than numbers. It is a genuine change in what 'doing well' looks like on paper at six.
A growing number of CBSE schools now issue the Holistic Progress Card CBSE has published for the Foundational Stage - the same stage running from pre-school through Class 2. Rather than a column of marks, it records how a child is doing across several areas of development using three descriptive levels: beginner, progressing and proficient. Many versions use symbols - a seedling, a growing plant, a flower - instead of numbers, deliberately, because a six-year-old is not meant to be ranked against her classmates.
- It usually asks for some input from you, not only the teacher, which is a real change from a marks sheet you only receive.
- It is not comparable across schools the way a percentage is. A "progressing" at one school and a "progressing" at another are not the same measurement, because there is no CBSE-set numerical scale behind the words.
- It is not the format your child will see once short written tests begin. Read it as a description of this specific year, not a permanent system.
If your school still issues a conventional marks-based report at Class 1, that is also within its rights - CBSE actively encourages the Holistic Progress Card for the Foundational Stage but does not mandate any report format below Class 9. Either way, read it as a description of what your child can now do, not as a verdict on her.
Which books will a CBSE Class 1 child actually use?
Most likely Mridang for English, Sarangi for Hindi and Joyful Mathematics for numbers - the current NCERT titles for Class 1. A meaningful number of CBSE schools still use the older Marigold, Rimjhim and Math-Magic, which NCERT continues to host. Both sets are legitimate; CBSE advises NCERT books for Class 1 but does not require them.
NCERT's current Class 1 titles are Mridang for English, Sarangi for Hindi and Joyful Mathematics for numbers, published under the newer Foundational Stage framework. Many CBSE schools have moved to them. Many have not - NCERT still hosts the older Marigold, Rimjhim and Math-Magic titles, and a school that has not yet switched is following CBSE's rules exactly as much as one that has, because the textbook clause only makes NCERT or SCERT books advised for Classes 1 to 8, not required.
There is no separate EVS or Science book at this level either way. NCERT folds environmental and social concepts into the language and maths books rather than giving them a subject of their own, which is why a Class 1 timetable with no EVS period is not missing anything.
The practical upshot: two children in the same city, both genuinely "CBSE Class 1", can be reading different English books with no contradiction between them. What matters for tuition is which book is actually in your child's bag - a photo of the cover and the contents page is enough to plan a class around, rather than a generic template.
How should CBSE Class 1 tuition actually be taught?
Around your child's actual book, not a generic worksheet, and without marks - oral, concrete and play-based, matching how the Foundational Stage framework expects the year to run. A good CBSE Class 1 class looks and sounds like play with a clear purpose behind it, in a group where a quiet six-year-old is still asked something directly.
Because CBSE sets no syllabus at Class 1, the honest starting point for tuition is not "the CBSE syllabus" - it is the actual Mridang, Sarangi or Joyful Mathematics page a child's school is on, taught in the order the school is already using it. A class that opens a generic Class 1 worksheet instead is teaching a syllabus CBSE never wrote.
- Sounds before spelling. Letter sounds and blending come first, matching how the Foundational Stage framework expects reading to begin. See phonics for early readers.
- Objects before numbers on paper. Counters, fingers and number lines, because Joyful Mathematics itself is built around concrete activity rather than written sums.
- No marks, no ranking. Progress is described in a monthly note - what a child can now do - echoing the language CBSE's own Holistic Progress Card uses rather than contradicting it with a percentage.
- Small live classes, so a child who will not yet raise her hand in a class of thirty is still asked something directly, every class.
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At a glance
Class 1 CBSE, topic by topic
What the year covers, and what a child on track can do by the end of it.
| Topic | What it actually involves |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Two languages - commonly English and Hindi, or another first language - plus Mathematics, with art and physical activity woven in rather than timetabled separately. There is no standalone EVS or Science book at this level. |
| Books | Most CBSE schools now issue Mridang for English, Sarangi for Hindi and Joyful Mathematics - the current NCERT titles for the Foundational Stage. Others still use the older Marigold, Rimjhim and Math-Magic, which NCERT continues to host. |
| Assessment | No CBSE exam and no CBSE mark scheme exist for Class 1. Report cards increasingly follow the CBSE Holistic Progress Card, rating a child as beginner, progressing or proficient with symbols rather than marks. |
| Language | A third language is not part of the national framework until Class 6. A small number of CBSE schools introduce one earlier, as their own policy rather than a board requirement. |
On track by the end of Class 1 looks like
- Recognises all letters and the sounds they make, and blends simple three-sound words
- Reads a short, unfamiliar sentence rather than reciting a memorised one
- Counts and writes numbers up to 99, and adds and subtracts confidently within 20
- Answers and asks something in class without every response needing to be prompted first
Where it usually goes wrong
- Parents search for a Class 1 CBSE syllabus PDF and cannot find one, because CBSE has never published one
- A report card with no marks reads as no information at all, until you know what the wording is actually saying
- Two CBSE schools nearby use different English books for Class 1, and neither school is doing anything wrong
- A child who has memorised the school reader sounds fluent, and has not yet learned to decode a page she has not seen
Fees
What Class 1 CBSE tuition costs
What Class 1 tuition costs
Class 1 sits in Class 1 to 5. One teacher across all subjects, building the basics.
- Spoken English8 live classes/month
- ₹2,000/month
- All Subjects16 live classes/month
- ₹3,000/month
- One-to-One12 live classes/month
- ₹5,000/month
Per child, per month. See every plan and what is included.
Where this comes from
Sources for what is on this page
Everything above about the syllabus is checked against the boards’ own material rather than against other tuition sites. If a claim cannot be traced back to one of these, it is not on the page.
Same class
Everything else we teach in Class 1
Questions
Class 1 CBSE, answered
Does CBSE have an exam in Class 1?
No. CBSE conducts board examinations only at Class 10 and Class 12, and publishes no curriculum or exam pattern for Class 1 at all - that gap runs across every CBSE primary class, not just this one. Whatever your child sits this year is designed by her own school, and NCF-SE 2023 states that explicit tests are inappropriate at this stage. Expect that to change by Class 3.
What is the CBSE Holistic Progress Card for Class 1?
It is CBSE's own report-card format for the Foundational Stage, the same stage that runs from pre-school through Class 2. Instead of marks, it rates a child as beginner, progressing or proficient across several areas, often using symbols rather than numbers. Not every CBSE school has adopted it yet, and CBSE does not require the format below Class 9, but a growing number of Class 1 report cards now look like this.
Which NCERT books does a CBSE Class 1 child use?
Most commonly Mridang for English, Sarangi for Hindi and Joyful Mathematics for numbers - the current NCERT titles for the Foundational Stage. A meaningful number of schools have not switched yet and still use the older Marigold, Rimjhim and Math-Magic, which NCERT continues to host. Both are equally valid under CBSE's rules, since NCERT books are only strongly advised for Classes 1 to 8, not required. Check your child's actual books rather than assuming.
Why does my child's Class 1 report card have no marks?
Because NCF-SE 2023 states that explicit tests and examinations are inappropriate at the Foundational Stage, and most CBSE schools follow that at Class 1. Instead of a percentage, you should be reading a description of what your child can now do - recognise a sound, blend a word, count to twenty. Marks generally return once short written assessments become appropriate, from Class 3 onward.
Should a CBSE Class 1 child be doing written homework every day?
Not much, and what there is should be short. The Foundational Stage framework expects Class 1 learning to happen mostly through talk, play and concrete activity, with writing building up gradually as pencil grip and hand strength develop. A child doing an hour of written homework nightly at six is doing more paperwork than the stage actually asks for, whatever her particular school's own habits are.
Is Class 1 the right time to start CBSE-specific tuition?
It is a reasonable time to start general reading and number-sense support, but there is nothing distinctly 'CBSE' to prepare for yet, since CBSE sets neither a syllabus nor an exam at this level. What is worth doing early is checking that a child is decoding new words rather than reciting memorised ones, because that particular gap is far cheaper to close at six than it is at nine.
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