New names, some reordering, same board. A plain language guide for Class 6 and 7 parents.
If you've opened your child's school bag this year and the textbook covers looked unfamiliar, you're not imagining it. For the 2026-27 academic session, NCERT renamed and restructured several of the core CBSE textbooks for Class 6 and Class 7, as part of the broader National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 rollout. The board is the same. The syllabus goals are the same. But the books themselves, and in places how the content is sequenced, have changed.
Here's the plain-language version, subject by subject.
Both Class 6 and Class 7 Maths now use Ganita Prakash. For Class 7, the book is split into two parts, Part I and Part II, so if your child brings home only "half" a Maths book at the start of the year, that's expected, not a printing error.
Both classes now study from Curiosity. It opens with a non-evaluative chapter on scientific thinking, the same as before. From there, it moves into living systems, matter, motion and Earth science, in a sequence that has been reworked from the older NCERT Science books.
This is the biggest restructuring of the three. Class 7's Social Science is now split into two parts covering geography, history, civics and economics together in each part, rather than as separate History/Geography/Civics books like before. Class 6 gets a single combined volume.
Artificial Intelligence is no longer an optional add-on. It now has real structure, built around Kips Explore AI & Robotics for both Class 6 and Class 7. The book covers what makes a machine "intelligent," hands-on robotics, visual programming and digital citizenship.
This is a real, separate change, not part of the textbook restructuring above, and it is the one most Class 6 parents haven't heard about yet. Under CBSE Circular Acad-17/2026, every Class 6 student must now study a third language, referred to as R3, alongside the two languages already being taught. Schools were given a short window to register their chosen R3 language with CBSE, so if your child's school hasn't communicated this yet, it is worth asking about directly.
The rule that matters most: at least two of your child's three languages must be Indian languages. English fills the one permitted non-Indian slot, so if your child already studies English and Hindi, R3 will be a third Indian language, not a foreign one. Schools can no longer offer French or German as the R3 option for a fresh Class 6 start this year.
There is no separate board exam for R3 at this stage, it is assessed internally by the school, the same way most subjects are at this level. But it is a compulsory subject, not an elective, and the language chosen in Class 6 is expected to continue through to Class 10.
One honest note: The67Sprint does not currently cover R3 or any language paper. Our English content is Grammar, a separate subject from R3, and we don't want to imply otherwise. For R3 specifics, your child's school is the right first call, since the language options and rollout details vary by school.
The core learning goals your child is being tested on haven't changed. This isn't a harder or easier syllabus, it's a reorganised one. But if you're revising with your child using notes, guides, or PDFs you saved from a previous year or found online, double-check they're built against the current 2026-27 editions. A "Class 6 Science notes" PDF from an old search result may still reference the pre-restructuring book, which can mean missing chapters or a different chapter order entirely.
Every LearningMap on The67Sprint is built chapter for chapter against these current 2026-27 books: Ganita Prakash, Curiosity, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, and Kips Explore AI and Robotics. You are never revising from an outdated map.