CISCE Class 11 Economics Syllabus - Free PDF Download
CISCE Syllabus 2025-26 Class 11: The CISCE Class 11 Economics Syllabus for the examination year 2025-26 has been released by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, CISCE. The board will hold the final examination at the end of the year following the annual assessment scheme, which has led to the release of the syllabus. The 2025-26 CISCE Class 11 Economics Board Exam will entirely be based on the most recent syllabus. Therefore, students must thoroughly understand the new CISCE syllabus to prepare for their annual exam properly.
The detailed CISCE Class 11 Economics Syllabus for 2025-26 is below.
Academic year:
CISCE Class 11 Economics Revised Syllabus
CISCE Class 11 Economics and their Unit wise marks distribution
CISCE Class 11 Economics Course Structure 2025-26 With Marking Scheme
| # | Unit/Topic | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | Understanding Economics | |
| 200 | Indian Economic Development | |
| 300 | Statistics | |
| Total | - |
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Syllabus
100 Understanding Economics
- What is Economics?
- Understanding Economics - Adam Smith (Father of Economic)
- Understanding Economics - Dr Alfred Marshall
- Understanding Economics - Lord Robbins
- Understanding Economics - Prof Samuelson
- Types of Economic System - Capitalism
- Types of Economic System -socialism
- Types of Economic System - Mixed Economy
- Meaning of Micro and Macro Economics
- Difference Between Micro and Macro Economics
- Meaning of Utility
- Features of Utility
- Types of Utility
- Total Utility and Marginal Utility
- Diminishing Marginal Utility
- Definition of Price
- General Rise and Fall in Price
- Meaning of Inflation
- Meaning, demand pull and cost push
- Inflation - Demand Pull and Cost Push
- Basic Concept of Value
- Value – Real Value Vs Nominal Value
- Term of Wealth
- Classification of Wealth
- Basic Concept of Welfare
- economic welfare, social welfare
- Relation Between Wealth and Welfare
- Meaning of Money
- Meaning of money
- Kinds of money
- Barter Economy Vs Money Economy
- Meaning and Definition of Market
- Meaning of Capital
- Meaning of Investment
- Investment as a Process of Capital Formation
- Factor of Income
- Meaning of Production
- Meaning of Consumption
- Individual Saving and Aggregate Savings
- Central Problems of an Economy
- What is produced and in what quantities?
- How are these goods produced?
- For whom are these goods produced?
- Efficient Utilization of Resource
- Basic Problem of Scarcity
- Developed and Developing of Economies
- A Comparison with Nighbours - India and China
- Merits and Demerits of Capitalism
- Merits and Demerits of Socialism
- Merits and Demerits of Mixed Economic System
- Mechanisms Used to Solve the Basic Problems Economic System
- Basic Concept of Business Cycle
- Concept of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
- Concepts of Production Possibility Frontier
200 Indian Economic Development
- Introduction to Indian Economy on the Eve of Independence
- Agricultural Sector
- Industrial Sector
- Foreign Trade
- Meaning
- Types of Foreign Trade
- Import Trade
- Export Trade
- Entrepot Trade
- Agriculture
- Institutional aspects and new agricultural strategy, etc.
- Land Reforms
- Land ceiling
- The Green Revolution
- Marketed surplus
- The Debate Over Subsidies
- Foodgrain Production
- Productivity Position of Tamil Nadu and India
- Subsistence Agriculture
- Primitive Subsistence Agriculture
- Intensive Subsistence Agriculture
- Plantation Agriculture
- Extensive Commercial Grain Cultivation
- Mixed Farming
- Dairy Farming
- Mediterranean Agriculture
- Market Gardening and Horticulture
- Co-operative Farming
- Collective Farming
- Industry and Trade
- Public and Private Sectors in Indian Industrial Development
- Industrial Policy Resolution 1956 (IPR 1956)
- Small-Scale Industry (SSI)
- Role and importance of Small-Scale Industry (SSI)
- Problems and Policies of Foreign Trade
- Parameters of Development - per Capita Income
- Parameters of Development - Human Development Index
- Planning and Economic Development in India. - Overview of Macro Objectives
- Major Thrusts of the Different Five Year Plans in India
- Main Feature Economic Reform
- liberalisation
- globalisation
- privatisation
- Meaning of Disinvestment
- Poverty - Absolute Poverty
- Poverty - Relative Poverty
- Main Programmes for Poverty Alleviation - a Critical Assessment
- Introduction to Rural Development
- Credit and Marketing in Rural Areas
- Credit
- Rural Banking - a Critical Appraisal
- Role of Cooperatives
- Diversification into Productive Activities
- agro-processing industries
- Animal Husbandry
- Fisheries
- Horticulture
- Other Alternate Livelihood Options
- Meaning of Alternative Farming Or Organic Farming
- Important of Alternative Farming Or Organic Farming
- How People Become Resource
- Role of Human Capital in Economic Development
- Growth of Education Sector in India
- Growth in Government Expenditure on Education
- Educational Achievements in India
- Human Capital Formation - Education
- Formal and Informal
- Unemployment
- Introduction
- Meaning of Unemployment
- Types of Unemployment
- Rural Unemployment
a. Seasonal unemployment
b. Disguised unemployment - Urban Unemployment
a. Educated Unemployment
b. Industrial Unemployment
i. Technological Unemployment
ii. Frictional Unemployment
iii. Cyclical Unemployment
iv. Structural Unemployment
- Rural Unemployment
- Causes for Unemployment
- Policy Measures of Unemployment (After 2000)
- Meaning of Economic Growth and and Development
- Difference of Economic Growth and Development
- Comparative Study of Indian and Chinese Economies
- GDP growth
- GDP per capita and GDP PPP
- direct foreign investment
- Unemployment
- Inflation
- Poverty
- Concept of Sustainable Development
- Case Study - Indira Gandhi Canal (Nahar) Command Area
- Measures for Promotion of Sustainable
Development
- Need for Sustainable Development for Improving the Quality of Life
- Global Warming
- Global Warming
- Causes of Global warming
- Effect of Global Warming
300 Statistics
- Meaning of Statistics for Economics
- Scope of Statistics for Economics
- Statistics and Economics
- Statistics and Firms
- Statistics and Commerce
- Statistics and Education
- Statistics and Planning
- Statistics and Medicine
- Statistics and Modern applications
- Importance of Statistics in Economics
- Limitations of Statistics
- Statistics is not suitable to the study of qualitative phenomenon
- Statistical laws are not exact
- Statistics table may be misused:
- Statistics is only one of the methods of studying a problem
- Sources of Data - Primary
- Personal Observations
- Interview
- Questionnaire/Schedule
- Other Methods
- Sources of Data - Secondary
- Published Sources
- Unpublished Sources
- How Basic Data is Collected
- Methods of Collecting Data
- Some Important Sources of Secondary Data
- Census of India
- National Sample Survey Organisation
- Organisation of Data
- Meaning of Variables
- Types of Variables
- Types of Frequency
- Tabular Presentation and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data - Geometric Form
- bar diagrams and
- pie diagrams
- Tabular Presentation and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data - Frequency Diagrams
- histogram
- polygon
- ogive
- Measures of Central Value - Average
- Measures of Central Value- Type of Averages
- Measures of Central Tendency - Mean
- simple
- weighted
- Measures of Central Tendency - Median
- Computation of median
- Discrete Series
- Continuous Series
- Quartiles
- Percentiles
- Measures of Central Tendency - Mode
- Computation of Mode
- Discrete Series
- Continuous Series
- Relationship Between Mean, Median and Mode
- Measures of Central Value - Nature of the Frequency
- symmetrical, positively skewed and negatively skewed
- Measures of Central Value - Ungrouped and Grouped Data
- Measures of Central Value - Numericals only on mean
- Measures of Central Value - Median and Mode for Both Ungrouped and Grouped Data
- Measures of Dispersion
- Measures of Dispersion - Absolute Dispersion
- Range
- Quartile deviation
- Mean or average deviation
- Standard deviation
- Measures of Dispersion - Relative Dispersion
- co-efficient of range
- co-efficient of quartile-deviation
- co-efficient of mean deviation
- co-efficient of variation
- Correlation Meaning
- Scatter Diagram of Correlation
- Statistics (Entrance Exam)
- Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation
- Measures of Correlation - Spearman's Rank Correlation
- Meaning of Index Numbers
- Meaning of Simple and Weighted Index Number
- Types of Simple and Weighted Index Number
- Purpose of Simple and Weighted Index Number
- Difference Between Simple and Weighted Index Number
- Problems Involved in Constructing a Price Index Number.
- Price Weighted Or Quantity Weighted
- Method to Measure - Laspeyer Method
- Method to Measure - Paasche's Index Numer
- Method to Measure - Fisher's Method
- Uses of Index Numbers
- Types of Index Number - Wholesale Price Index
- Types of Index Number - Consumer Price Index
- Types of Index Number - Index of Industrial Production
- Mathematical Tools Used in Economics - Equation of a Straight Line
- Mathematical Tools Used in Economics - Slope of a Straight
