NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Physical Education and Well-being – Khel Praveen

Class 9 Physical Education and Well-being carries a total of 100 marks, divided into three distinct components. Theory accounts for 40 marks and covers the conceptual content of all six units of Khel Praveen. The Sports or Practical component also carries 40 marks and rewards not just performance but fitness development, skill progression, and quality of play.
The remaining 20 marks are for Project work, which includes activities like designing inclusive games, conducting fitness surveys, documenting local sporting traditions or creating community awareness campaigns. This means rote memorisation alone is not enough in Class 9 PE – you also need to participate actively in practical sessions and complete your project work sincerely throughout the year.

Yoga is an integral part of Class 9 Khel Praveen and is not optional – Unit 6 on Yoga for Holistic Health and Personal Excellence is part of the standard curriculum for all students. The textbook positions yoga not as a set of physical postures but as a complete framework for living well.
Practices such as āsanas, prāṇāyāma and dhyāna are taught as pathways to self-awareness, stress management and emotional balance – skills that are especially important during adolescence. The yoga unit also contributes to theory marks through questions on the Pañchakośha framework, mindful eating (āhāra), quality sleep (nidrā) and daily lifestyle practices, all of which can appear in the Class 9 Physical Education written examination.

The Class 9 Physical Education and Well-being curriculum is guided by seven Curricular Goals that run through every unit and activity in Khel Praveen. These goals are:

• CG-1: Demonstrates high-level competence in movement concepts, strategies and principles in physical activities including sports and dance
• CG-2: Exhibits sensitivity and learns to navigate personal and social behaviour towards self and others
• CG-3: Demonstrates social sensitivity and mental engagement in physical activity and game situations
• CG-4: Plans and monitors personal physical fitness goals independently
• CG-5: Understands the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, expression and social interaction
• CG-6: Assesses their own growth and development
• CG-7: Learns about tournaments at international, national, state, district and block levels

Understanding these goals helps you connect individual chapters in Class 9 Khel Praveen to the bigger purpose of physical education and write stronger long-answer responses in exams.

Class 9 Khel Praveen – Physical Education and Well-being is a completely new textbook published for the very first time in April 2026 (Chaitra 1948) by NCERT, New Delhi. Its ISBN is 978-93-5729-372-3 and it is priced at ₹160. It is part of a carefully designed series – Khel Yoga was the book for the Preparatory Stage (Grades 3–5) and Khel Yatra was used at the Middle Stage (Grades 6–8).
Class 9 PE Khel Praveen is the first book in this series for the Secondary Stage, marking a significant step up in scope, depth, and engagement. All solutions in this guide are created exclusively for the 2026–27 first edition and are not based on any earlier Physical Education curriculum or textbook.

According to the Class 9 Khel Praveen textbook, Physical Education and Well-being is allocated 90 hours across the academic year, which translates to approximately 135 periods of 40 minutes each. This time is divided between two types of content. The ‘Knowing’ sections – theory, history, science and concepts – provide the intellectual background for physical activity.
The ‘Doing’ sections — actual games, fitness tasks, yoga practices and community activities – form the heart of Class 9 Physical Education lessons and take priority in time allocation. The textbook also mentions that sports activities may extend into pre-school or post-school hours when feasibility allows, giving students with particular aptitude or passion more opportunities to develop their potential.

Class 9 Khel Praveen is designed with a much broader vision than physical fitness alone. The book explicitly states that Class 9 Physical Education is also a space for growing up — helping students navigate adolescence with resilience, self-regulation and social sensitivity. The Science and Sports unit connects to Biology and helps students understand their own body scientifically.
The Olympism unit develops awareness of global history and human values. The Sports for All unit builds empathy, disability awareness and gender sensitivity. The Yoga unit provides tools for managing stress, emotional change and peer pressure. The Careers in Physical Education chapter opens students’ eyes to professional possibilities well beyond being an athlete or coach. Taken together, Class 9 PE Khel Praveen contributes to your child’s character development just as much as their physical growth.

Each chapter in Class 9 Physical Education and Well-being contains two interwoven types of content described as ‘Knowing’ and ‘Doing.’
The Knowing sections provide the conceptual, historical and scientific background that gives physical activity its origin and meaning. These are not meant to be delivered as lectures – Class 9 Khel Praveen specifically describes them as starting points for inquiry, discovery, discussion and connecting to students’ own experiences.
The Doing sections – activities, games, fitness tasks, yoga practices, observation of physiological processes and community engagement tasks – are the heart and soul of every lesson. They take precedence in both time allocation and energy levels during Class 9 PE periods. Teachers should plan their periods so that the Knowing content builds context quickly and the majority of time is reserved for active Doing.

Circle Time is a structured reflection period that Class 9 Khel Praveen specifically asks teachers to conduct after physical activities and games. During this time, students sit together and discuss what they experienced — how they responded to challenges, what values emerged during play, how they behaved towards teammates, and what they learned beyond the physical skill itself.
The Class 9 Physical Education and Well-being textbook states that the values and dispositions acquired through physical education will partly happen during the activity and partly through reinforcement in circle time. This is where cross-cutting themes such as gender sensitivity, inclusivity, Indian Knowledge Systems and value education emerge naturally from the lived experience rather than being taught as separate lessons. Teachers are encouraged to give sufficient time to circle time in every Class 9 PE period and to actively draw out these connections.

The Class 9 Khel Praveen textbook acknowledges this practical challenge directly. In Unit 5 on Sports, the introduction is followed by detailed treatment of gymnastics and swimming, while the remaining three chapters have separate QR codes containing skill demonstrations and execution guidance. This means that for sports where school infrastructure is limited, teachers can use the QR-linked digital content to give students conceptual and visual exposure even without physical facilities.
Additionally, Class 9 Physical Education presents multiple sports disciplines from which students select one based on the resources and facilities available within their school. For schools that want to build on sports introduced at the Middle Stage, NCERT’s Khel Yatra (Grades 6–8) introduced eight sports and can be referred to for coaching guidance. The Class 9 PE curriculum is intentionally flexible so that no school is disadvantaged by limited facilities.