New book names, some reordering, same board. A plain language guide for CBSE parents.
NCERT released fully redesigned Class 6 and 7 textbooks for 2026 to 27 under the National Education Policy. Maths is now Ganita Prakash, Science is now Curiosity, and Social Science is now Exploring Society: India and Beyond. Chapters are organised around themes rather than isolated topics, and older guides or previous years' papers no longer match the new structure closely enough to rely on alone.
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 is the plain language version, subject by subject, along with what this shift actually asks of your child when it comes to revising.
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 is 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 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 and 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.
Textbooks used to be organised by topics meant to be memorised one after another. They are now organised around themes and real situations, so a chapter on heat might connect naturally to daily life or geography instead of standing alone.
End of chapter questions used to test recall. New exercises are built to test observation, reasoning, and application, and this same shift is showing up in the exam papers themselves.
The core learning goals your child is being tested on haven't changed. This isn't a harder or easier syllabus, it is a reorganised one. But if you are revising with your child using notes, guides, or PDFs saved from a previous year or found online, it is worth double checking they are 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.
Look at your child's textbook and see if it carries a 2026 print date on the first page. If it does, any older revision material, including notes passed down from an older sibling, may not map cleanly onto this new structure.
Every LearningMap on The67Sprint is built directly against these current 2026-27 books, Ganita Prakash, Curiosity, Exploring Society: India and Beyond, and Kips Explore AI & Robotics, chapter for chapter, so you are never revising from an outdated map.
Why do the textbook names look different this year?
As part of the NEP 2020 rollout, NCERT renamed and restructured several core textbooks. Class 6 and 7 Maths is now Ganita Prakash, Science is now Curiosity, and Social Science is now Exploring Society: India and Beyond.
Are old notes or guides from an older sibling still useful?
They can still explain a concept, but the chapter structure, question types, and sometimes the content itself have changed enough that they should not be relied on as the primary revision source.