ST. MARK’S SR. SEC.

PUBLIC SCHOOL, MEERA BAGH

CLASS - XI (2023-2024)
SYLLABUS

ENGLISH

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Reading - Comprehension Passage

Hornbill - The Portrait of a Lady
Poems - A Photograph
Snapshots - The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
Grammar - Rearranging jumbled words into meaningful sentences, Tenses
Writing Skill - Poster, Speech

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Reading Skills - Long reading comprehension and Note making.

Hornbill - The Portrait of a Lady; We’re not Afraid to Die…If We Can All Be Together; Discovering Tut – The
Saga Continues.
Poems - A Photograph; The Laburnum Top.
Snapshots - The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse; The Address
Grammar - Rearranging of words or phrases into meaningful sentences; Transformation of sentences;
Gap Filling (Tenses and Clauses)
Writing Skills - Classified Advertisements, Poster, Speech, Debate

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Reading Skills - Long reading comprehension and Note making.

Hornbill - The Adventure, Silk Road.
Poems - The Voice of the Rain; Childhood; Father to Son.
Snapshots - Mother's Day; Birth ; The Tale of Melon City
Grammar - Rearranging of words and phrases into meaningful sentences; Transformation of sentences;
Gap Filling (Tenses and Clauses)
Writing Skills - Classified Advertisements, Poster, Speech, Debate
(+ Entire Syllabus of Mid Term Examination and Project work)

POLITICAL SCIENCE

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Book - Indian Constitution at Work

1. Constitution: Why and how?
2. Rights in the Indian Constitution.

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MID TERM EXAMINATION

Book - Indian Constitution at Work

1. Constitution: Why and How?
2. Rights in the Indian Constitution
3. Election and Representation
4. Executive
5. Legislature
6. Judiciary
7. Federalism
8. Local Governments
9. Constitution as a Living Document
10. The Philosophy of the Constitution

Class Discussion on additional reference material provided in the curriculum 2023-2024 + Project Work

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Book – Political Theory

1. Political Theory: An Introduction
2. Freedom
3. Equality
4. Social Justice
5. Rights
6. Citizenship
7. Nationalism
8. Secularism
+ Entire Syllabus of Mid Term

Class Discussion on additional reference material provided in the curriculum 2023-24 + Project Work.

INFORMATICS PRACTICES

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Unit 1: Introduction to Computer System

● Introduction to computers and computing: evolution of computing devices, components of a
computer system and their interconnections, Input/Output devices.
● Computer Memory: Units of memory, types of memory – primary and secondary, data deletion, its
recovery and related security concerns.
● Software: purpose and types – system and application software, generic and specific purpose
software.

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Unit 2: Introduction to Python
● Basics of Python programming, Python interpreter - interactive and script mode, the structure of a
program, indentation, identifiers, keywords, constants, variables, types of operators, precedence of
operators, data types, mutable and immutable data types, statements, expressions, evaluation of
expressions, comments, input and output statements, data type conversion, debugging
● Control statements: if-else, for loop.
● List operations - creating, initializing, traversing and manipulating lists, list methods and built-in
functions.: len(), list(), append(), extend(), insert(), count(), find(), remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(),
sorted(), min(), max(), sum()

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Unit 1: Introduction to Computer System

● Introduction to computers and computing: evolution of computing devices, components of a
computer system and their interconnections, Input/Output devices.
● Computer Memory: Units of memory, types of memory – primary and secondary, data deletion, its
recovery and related security concerns.
● Software: purpose and types – system and application software, generic and specific purpose
software.

Unit 2: Introduction to Python

● Basics of Python programming, Python interpreter - interactive and script mode, the structure of a
program, indentation, identifiers, keywords, constants, variables, types of operators, precedence of
operators, data types, mutable and immutable data types, statements, expressions, evaluation of
expressions, comments, input and output statements, data type conversion, debugging,
● Control statements: if-else, for loop.
● List operations - creating, initializing, traversing and manipulating lists, list methods and built-in
functions.: len(), list(), append(), extend(), insert(), count(), find(), remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(),
sorted(), min(), max(), sum()
● Dictionary: concept of key-value pair, creating, initializing, traversing, updating and deleting
elements, dictionary methods and built-in functions: len(), dict(), keys(), values(), items(),
get(),update(),clear(),del()

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Unit 3: Database concepts and the Structured Query Language

● Database Concepts: Introduction to database concepts and its need, Database Management System.
Relational data model: concept of attribute, domain, tuple, relation, candidate key, primary key,
alternate key, foreign key.
● Structured Query Language: Data Definition Language, Data Query Language and Data
Manipulation Language, Introduction to MySQL: Creating a database, using database, showing
tables using MySQL,
● Data Types : char, varchar, int, float, date.
● Data Definition Commands: CREATE, DROP, ALTER (Add and Remove primary key, attribute).
• Data Query Commands: SELECT-FROM- WHERE, LIKE, BETWEEN, IN, ORDER BY, using arithmetic,
logical, relational operators and NULL values in queries, Distinct clause Data Manipulation
Commands: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.
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 Unit 4: Introduction to the Emerging Trends
● Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing,
● Immersive experience (AR, VR), Robotics
● Big data and its characteristics, Internet of Things (IoT), Sensors, Smart cities,
● Cloud Computing and Cloud Services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS);
● Grid Computing, Block chain technology. Syllabus covered in Mid Term as well.

MATHEMATICS

PERIODIC TEST - 1

1. Sets
2. Relations and Functions
3. Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations

MID TERM EXAMINATION

1. SETS
Sets and their representations, Empty set, Finite and Infinite sets, Equal sets, Subsets, Subsets of a
set of real numbers especially intervals (with notations). Universal set. Venn diagrams. Union and
Intersection of sets. Difference of sets. Complement of a set. Properties of Complement.

2. RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS

Ordered pairs. Cartesian product of sets. Number of elements in the Cartesian product of two finite
sets. Cartesian product of the set of reals with itself (upto R x R x R). Definition of relation, pictorial
diagrams, domain, co-domain and range of a relation. Function as a special type of relation. Pictorial
representation of a function, domain, co-domain and range of a function. Real valued functions,
domain and range of these functions, constant, identity, polynomial, rational, modulus, signum,
exponential, logarithmic and greatest integer functions, with their graphs. Sum, difference, product
and quotients of functions.

3. TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
Positive and negative angles. Measuring angles in radians and in degrees and conversion from one
measure to another. Definition of trigonometric functions with the help of unit circle. Truth of the
identity sin2x + cos2x = 1, for all x. Signs of trigonometric functions. Domain and range of
trigonometric functions and their graphs. Expressing sin (x±y) and cos (x±y) in terms of sinx, siny,
cosx & cosy and their simple applications. Deducing identities like the following:

tan 𝑥 ± tan 𝑦 cot 𝑥 cot 𝑦 ∓ 1

tan(𝑥 ± 𝑦) = , cot(𝑥 ± 𝑦) =
1 ∓ tan 𝑥 tan 𝑦 cot 𝑦 ± cot 𝑥

1 1
sin 𝛼 ± sin 𝛽 = 2 𝑠𝑖𝑛 (𝛼 ± 𝛽)𝑐𝑜𝑠 (𝛼 ∓ 𝛽)
2 2

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cos 𝛼 + cos 𝛽 = 2 𝑐𝑜𝑠 (𝛼 + 𝛽)𝑐𝑜𝑠 (𝛼 − 𝛽)
2 2

1 1
cos 𝛼 − cos 𝛽 = −2 𝑠𝑖𝑛 (𝛼 + 𝛽)𝑠𝑖𝑛 (𝛼 − 𝛽)
2 2

Identities related to sin 2𝑥, cos 2𝑥, tan 2𝑥, sin 3𝑥, cos 3𝑥 𝑎𝑛𝑑 tan 3𝑥 .

4. COMPLEX NUMBERS AND QUADRATIC EQUATIONS

Need for complex numbers, especially √−1, to be motivated by inability to solve some of the
quadratic equations. Algebraic properties of complex numbers. Argand plane

5. LINEAR INEQUALITIES
Linear inequalities. Algebraic solutions of linear inequalities in one variable and their representation
on the number line.

6. SEQUENCES AND SERIES

Sequence and Series. Arithmetic Mean (A.M.) Geometric Progression (G.P.), general term of a G.P.,
sum of n terms of a G.P., infinite G.P. and its sum, geometric mean (G.M.), relation between A.M.
and G.M.

7. STRAIGHT LINES
Brief recall of two dimensional geometry from earlier classes. Slope of a line and angle between two
lines. Various forms of equations of a line: parallel to axis, point -slope form, slope-intercept form,
two-point form, intercept form, Distance of a point from a line.

8. INTRODUCTION TO THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY

Coordinate axes and coordinate planes in three dimensions. Coordinates of a point. Distance
between two points.

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

9. PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS

Fundamental principle of counting. Factorial n. (n!) Permutations and combinations, derivation of
Formulae for nPr and nCr and their connections, simple applications.

10. BINOMIAL THEOREM

Historical perspective, statement and proof of the binomial theorem for positive integral indices.
Pascal’s triangle, simple applications.

11. STATISTICS
Measures of Dispersion: Range, Mean deviation, variance and standard deviation of
ungrouped/grouped data.

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 12. CONIC SECTIONS
Sections of a cone: circles, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, a point, a straight line and a pair of
intersecting lines as a degenerated case of a conic section. Standard equations and simple properties
of parabola, ellipse and hyperbola. Standard equation of a circle.

13. PROBABILITY
Events; occurrence of events, ‘not’, ‘and’ and ‘or’ events, exhaustive events, mutually exclusive
events, Axiomatic (set theoretic) probability, connections with other theories of earlier classes.
Probability of an event, probability of ‘not’, ‘and’ and ‘or’ events.

14. LIMITS AND DERIVATIVES

Derivative introduced as rate of change both as that of distance function and geometrically. Intuitive
idea of limit. Limits of polynomials and rational functions trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic
functions. Definition of derivative relate it to scope of tangent of the curve, derivative of sum,
difference, product and quotient of functions. Derivatives of polynomial and trigonometric functions.

Note: All Chapters of Mid term to be included in Final Term.

Internal Assessment – Periodic Test – 10 marks and Project Work – 10 marks (Total – 20 marks)

ECONOMICS

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Statistics for Economics

Unit 1: Introduction: What is Economics? - 1. Economics: An Introduction, 2. Meaning, scope & Importance
of Statistics
Unit 2: Collection and Organization of Data – Collection of data - sources of data - primary and secondary;
how basic data is collected with concepts of Sampling; methods of collecting data; some important sources
of secondary data: Census of India and National Sample Survey Organisation.
Organisation of Data: Meaning and types of variables; Frequency Distribution.

Introductory Microeconomics
Unit 4: Introduction – Meaning of Economics, Positive and normative economics, central problems of an
economy, opportunity cost, production possibility frontier.

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Statistics for Economics

Unit 1: Introduction: What is Economics? - Meaning, scope, functions and importance of statistics in
Economics

Unit 2: Collection and Organization of Data - Collection of data - sources of data - primary and secondary;
how basic data is collected with concepts of Sampling; methods of collecting data; some important
sources of secondary data: Census of India and National Sample Survey Organization.
Organization of Data: Meaning and types of variables; Frequency Distribution.
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 Unit 3: Statistical Tools and Interpretation - Measures of Central Tendency- Arithmetic mean, median and
mode

Introductory Microeconomics
Unit 4: Introduction: Meaning of microeconomics and macroeconomics - positive and normative
economics - What is an economy? Central problems of an economy: what, how and for whom to produce;
concepts of production possibility frontier and opportunity cost.

Unit 5: Consumer's Equilibrium and Demand - Consumer's equilibrium - meaning of utility, marginal
utility, law of diminishing marginal utility, conditions of consumer's equilibrium using marginal utility
analysis, Indifference curve analysis of consumer's equilibrium-the consumer's budget (budget set and
budget line), preferences of the consumer (indifference curve, indifference map) conditions of consumer's
equilibrium, Demand, market demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve and its
slope, movement along and shifts in the demand curve; price elasticity of demand - factors affecting price
elasticity of demand; measurement of price elasticity of demand – percentage- change method and total
expenditure method.

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Statistics for Economics

Unit 2: Presentation of Data - Tabular Presentation and Diagrammatic Presentation of Data - (i)Geometric
forms (bar diagrams and pie diagrams), (ii) Frequency diagrams (histogram, polygon and Ogive) and (iii)
Arithmetic line graphs (time series graph), Correlation – meaning and properties, scatter diagram;
measures of correlation – Karl Pearson’s method (two variables ungrouped data) Spearman’s rank
correlation, Introduction to Index Numbers – meaning, types – wholesale price index, consumer price
index and index of industrial production, uses of index numbers: Inflation and index numbers.

Introductory Microeconomics
Unit 6: Producer Behaviour and Supply - Meaning of Production Function – Short-Run and Long-Run Total
Product, Average Product and Marginal Product, Returns to a Factor Cost: Short run costs - total cost, total
fixed cost, total variable cost; Average cost; Average fixed cost, average variable cost and marginal cost-
meaning and their relationships, Revenue - total, average and marginal revenue - meaning and their
relationship. Producer's equilibrium-meaning and its conditions in terms of marginal revenue-marginal
cost. Supply, market supply, determinants of supply, supply schedule, supply curve and its slope,
movements along and shifts in supply curve, price elasticity of supply; measurement of price elasticity of
supply - percentage-change method.

Unit 7: Forms of Market and Price Determination under Perfect Competition with simple applications -
Perfect competition - Features; Determination of market equilibrium and effects of shifts in demand and
supply, Simple Applications of Demand and Supply: Price ceiling, price floor.

(ENTIRE SYLLABUS OF MID-TERM WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED IN THE FINAL TERM)

Project Work: Case Study along with a questionnaire and its analysis.

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 BIOLOGY

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Chapter 1 - The Living World, Chapter 2- Biological Classification, Chapter 8-Cell: The Unit of Life,
Chapter 10 - Cell Cycle and Cell Division

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Unit-I Diversity of Living Organisms - Chapter-1: The Living World, Chapter-2: Biological Classification,
Chapter-3: Plant Kingdom, Chapter-4: Animal Kingdom
Unit-II Structural Organization in Animals and Plants - Chapter-5: Morphology of Flowering Plants,
Chapter-6: Anatomy of flowering Plants (to be assessed through practicals only), Chapter-7: Structural
Organisation in Animals
Unit-III Cell - Structure and Function, Chapter-8: Cell-The Unit of Life, Chapter-10: Cell Cycle and Cell
Division

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Unit-III Cell: Structure and Function - Chapter-9: Biomolecules

Unit-IV Plant Physiology - Chapter-11-deleted (as per CBSE), Chapter-12-deleted (as per CBSE),
Chapter-13: Photosynthesis in Higher Plants, Chapter-14: Respiration in Plants, Chapter-15: Plant - Growth
and Development

Unit-V Human Physiology - Chapter 16- deleted (as per CBSE), Chapter-17: Breathing and Exchange of
Gases, Chapter-18: Body Fluids and Circulation, Chapter-19: Excretory Products and their Elimination,
Chapter-20: Locomotion and Movement, Chapter-21: Neural Control and Coordination, Chapter-22:
Chemical Coordination and Integration
AND MID TERM SYLLABUS

CHEMISTRY

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Chapter 2 -Structure of Atom, Chapter 3-Classification of elements and periodicity of properties

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Unit I: Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry - General Introduction: Importance and scope of Chemistry.
Nature of matter, laws of chemical combination, Dalton's atomic theory: concept of elements, atoms and
molecules. Atomic and molecular masses, mole concept and molar mass, percentage composition,
empirical and molecular formula, chemical reactions, stoichiometry and calculations based on
stoichiometry.

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 Unit II: Structure of Atom - Discovery of Electron, Proton and Neutron, atomic number, isotopes and
isobars. Thomson's model and its limitations. Rutherford's model and its limitations, Bohr's model and its
limitations, concept of shells and subshells, dual nature of matter and light, de Broglie's relationship,
Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concept of orbitals, quantum numbers, shapes of s, p and d orbitals,
rules for filling electrons in orbitals - Aufbau principle, Pauli's exclusion principle and Hund's rule,
electronic configuration of atoms, stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals.

Unit III: Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties - Significance of classification, brief history
of the development of periodic table, modern periodic law and the present form of periodic table, periodic
trends in properties of elements -atomic radii, ionic radii, inert gas radii, Ionization enthalpy, electron gain
enthalpy, electronegativity, valency. Nomenclature of elements with atomic number greater than 100.

Unit IV: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

1. Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry

2. Structure of Atom
3. Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties
4. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
5. Chemical Thermodynamics
6. Equilibrium
7. Redox Reactions
8. Organic Chemistry: Some basic Principles and Techniques
9. Hydrocarbons

ALL CHAPTERS TO BE INCLUDED IN FINAL TERM EXAM

PHYSICS

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Chapter 1 -Units and Measurements, Chapter 2 - Motion in a straight line.

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Unit I: Physical World and Measurement - Chapter–2: Units and Measurements -Need for measurement:
Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units. significant figures.
Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.

Unit II: Kinematics - Chapter–3: Motion in a Straight Line -Frame of reference, Motion in a straight line,
Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion, uniform and non- uniform
motion, and instantaneous velocity, uniformly accelerated motion, velocity - time and position-time
graphs. Relations for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment), Chapter–4: Motion in a Plane
Scalar and vector quantities; position and displacement vectors, general vectors and their notations;
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 equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a real number; addition and subtraction of vectors, Unit
vector; resolution of avector in a plane, rectangular components, Scalar and Vector product of vectors.
Motion in a plane, cases of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration projectile motion, uniform circular
motion.

Unit III: Laws of Motion Chapter - 5: Laws of Motion - Intuitive concept of force, Inertia, Newton’s First
law of motion; Momentum and Newton’s Second law of motion; Impulse; Newton’s Third law of motion.
Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications. Equilibrium of concurrent forces, Static and
kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction, lubrication. Dynamics of uniform circular motion:
Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicle on a level circular road, vehicle on a banked road).

Unit IV: Work, Energy and Power - Chapter–6: Work, Energy and Power - Work done by a constant force
and a variable force; kinetic energy, work energy theorem, power. Notion of potential energy, potential
energy of a spring, conservative forces: non- conservative forces, motion in a vertical circle; elastic and
inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

Unit V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body - Chapter–7: System of Particles and Rotational
Motion - Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conservation and Centre of mass motion.
Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of mass of a uniform rod. Moment of a force, torque, angular
momentum, law of conservation of angular momentum and its applications. Equilibrium of rigid bodies,
rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions.
Moment of inertia, radius of gyration, values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects (no
derivation).

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Unit VI: Chapter–8: Gravitation - Kepler's laws of planetary motion, universal law of gravitation.
Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Gravitational potential energy and
gravitational potential, escape speed, orbital velocity of a satellite.

Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter - Chapter–9: Mechanical Properties of Solids - Elasticity, Stress-strain
relationship, Hooke's law, Young’s modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity (qualitative idea
only), Poisson's ratio, elastic energy, Chapter–10: Mechanical Properties of Fluids - Pressure due to a fluid
column; Pascal's law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes), effect of gravity on fluid
pressure, Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, critical velocity,
Bernoulli's theorem and its simple applications, Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact,
excess of pressure across a curved surface, application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and
capillary rise, Chapter–11: Thermal Properties of Matter - Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal
expansion of solids, liquids and gases, anomalous expansion of water; specific heat capacity; Cp, Cv -
calorimetry; change of state - latent heat capacity. Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation,
thermal conductivity, qualitative ideas of Blackbody radiation, Wein's displacement Law, Stefan's law.

Unit VIII: Thermodynamics - Chapter–12: Thermodynamics - Thermal equilibrium and definition of

temperature zeroth law of thermodynamics, heat, work and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics,
Second law of thermodynamics: gaseous state of matter, change of condition of gaseous state -
isothermal, adiabatic, reversible, irreversible, and cyclic processes.

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 Unit IX: Behavior of Perfect Gases and Kinetic Theory of Gases - Chapter–13: Kinetic Theory - Equation of
state of a perfect gas, work done in compressing a gas. Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of
pressure. Kinetic interpretation of temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of
equi-partition of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases; concept of
mean free path, Avogadro's number.

Unit X: Oscillations and Waves - Chapter–14: Oscillations - Periodic motion - time period, frequency,
displacement as a function of time, periodic functions and their application. Simple harmonic motion
(S.H.M) and its equations of motion; phase; oscillations of a loaded spring- restoring force and force
constant; energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential energies; simple pendulum derivation of expression for its
time period, Chapter–15: Waves - Wave motion: Transverse and longitudinal waves, speed of travelling
wave, displacement relation for a progressive wave, principle of superposition of waves, reflection of
waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and harmonics, Beats.
All the Units covered in MID TERM EXAMINATION.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Chapter - 1 and Chapter - 5 (N.C.E.R.T)

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Unit I: Computer Systems and Organisation

● Basic Computer Organisation: Introduction to computer system, hardware, software, input
device, output device, CPU, memory (primary, cache and secondary), units of memory (Bit,
Byte, KB, MB, GB, TB, PB)
● Types of software: system software (operating systems, system utilities, device drivers),
programming tools and language translators (assembler, compiler & interpreter), application
software
● Operating system (OS): functions of operating system, OS user interface
● Boolean logic: NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, truth table, De Morgan’s laws and logic circuits
● Number system: Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal number system; conversion between
number systems.
● Encoding schemes: ASCII, ISCII and UNICODE (UTF8, UTF32)

Unit II: Computational Thinking and Programming – 1

● Introduction to problem solving: Steps for problem solving (analysing the problem, developing
an algorithm, coding, testing and debugging). representation of algorithms using flow chart and
pseudo code, decomposition
● Familiarization with the basics of Python programming: Introduction to Python, features of
Python, executing a simple "hello world" program, execution modes: interactive mode and script
mode, Python character set, Python tokens (keyword, identifier, literal, operator, punctuator),
variables, concept of l-value and r-value, use of comments

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 ● Knowledge of data types: number (integer, floating point, complex), boolean, sequence (string,
list, tuple), none, mapping (dictionary), mutable and immutable data types
● Operators: arithmetic operators, relational operators, logical operators, assignment operator,
augmented assignment operators, identity operators (is, is not), membership operators (in, not
in)
● Expressions, statement, type conversion & input/output: precedence of operators, expression,
evaluation of expression, python statement, type conversion (explicit & implicit conversion),
accepting data as input from the console and displaying output
● Errors: syntax errors, logical errors, runtime errors
● Flow of control: introduction, use of indentation, sequential flow, conditional and iterative flow
control
● Conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif-else, flowcharts, simple programs: e.g.: absolute value,
sort 3 numbers and divisibility of a number
● Iterative statements: for loop, range function, while loop, flowcharts, break and continue
statements, nested loops, suggested programs: generating pattern, summation of series,
finding the factorial of a positive number etc
● Strings: introduction, indexing, string operations (concatenation, repetition, membership &
slicing), traversing a string using loops, built-in functions: len(), capitalize(), title(), lower(),
upper(), count(), find(), index(), endswith(), startswith(), isalnum(), isalpha(), isdigit(), islower(),
isupper(), isspace(), lstrip(), rstrip(), strip(), replace(), join(), partition(), split()

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Unit II: Computational Thinking and Programming – 1 (Contd)

● Lists: introduction, indexing, list operations (concatenation, repetition, membership & slicing),
traversing a list using loops, built-in functions: len(), list(), append(), extend(), insert(), count(),
index(), remove(), pop(), reverse(), sort(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum(); nested lists, suggested
programs: finding the maximum, minimum, mean of numeric values stored in a list; linear
search on list of numbers and counting the frequency of elements in a list
● Tuples: introduction, indexing, tuple operations (concatenation, repetition, membership &
slicing), built-in functions: len(), tuple(), count(), index(), sorted(), min(), max(), sum(); tuple
assignment, nested tuple, suggested programs: finding the minimum, maximum, mean of
values stored in a tuple; linear search on a tuple of numbers, counting the frequency of
elements in a tuple
● Dictionary: introduction, accessing items in a dictionary using keys, mutability of dictionary
(adding a new item, modifying an existing item), traversing a dictionary, built- in functions: len(),
dict(), keys(), values(), items(), get(), update(), del, clear(), fromkeys(), copy(), pop(), popitem(),
setdefault(), max(), min(), count(), sorted(), copy(); suggested programs : count the number of
times a character appears in a given string using a dictionary, create a dictionary with names of
employees, their salary and access them
● Introduction to Python modules: Importing module using 'import <module>' and using from
statement, Importing math module (pi, e, sqrt, ceil, floor, pow, fabs, sin, cos, tan); random
module (random, randint, randrange), statistics module (mean, median, mode)

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 Unit III: Society, Law and Ethics
● Digital Footprints
● Digital society and Netizen: net etiquettes, communication etiquettes, social media etiquettes
● Data protection: Intellectual Property Right (copyright, patent, trademark), violation of IPR
(plagiarism, copyright infringement, trademark infringement), open source softwares and
licensing (Creative Commons, GPL and Apache)
● Cyber-crime: definition, hacking, eavesdropping, phishing and fraud emails, ransomware,
preventing cyber crime
● Cyber safety: safely browsing the web, identity protection, confidentiality, cyber trolls and
bullying.
● Safely accessing web sites: malware, viruses, trojans, adware
● E-waste management: proper disposal of used electronic gadgets
● Indian Information Technology Act (IT Act)
● Technology & Society: Gender and disability issues while teaching and using computers. Syllabus
covered in Mid Term as well.

BUSINESS STUDIES

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Chapter 1: Business, Trade and Commerce, Chapter 2: Forms of Business Organisation, Chapter 7: Formation
of a Company, Chapter 3: Private, Public and Global Enterprises

MID TERM EXAMINATION

PART-A FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS - Chapter 1- Nature and Purpose of Business, Chapter 2- Forms of
Business Organisations, Chapter 7- Formation of a Company (Part of chapter-2 as per latest CBSE
Curriculum) Chapter 3- Public, Private and Global Enterprises, Chapter 4- Business Services, Chapter 5-
Emerging Modes of Business

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

PART-A FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS - Chapter 1- Nature and Purpose of Business, Chapter 2- Forms of
Business Organisations (includes Chapter-7 Formation of a Company, as per latest CBSE Curriculum),
Chapter 3- Public, Private and Global Enterprises, Chapter 4- Business Services, Chapter 5- Emerging
Modes of Business, Chapter 6- Social Responsibility of Business and Business Ethics

PART-B CORPORATE ORGANISATION, FINANCE AND TRADE - Chapter 8- Sources of Business Finance,
Chapter 9- Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Chapter-10 Internal Trade, Chapter 11- International
Business and Project work

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 ACCOUNTANCY

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Accounting, Chapter 2 - Basic Accounting Terms, Chapter 3 – Theory Base of
Accounting, Accounting Standards and Indian Accounting Standards (Ind-AS), Chapter 4 – Bases of Accounting,
Chapter 5 – Accounting Equation, Chapter 6 – Accounting Procedures – Rules of Debit and Credit, Chapter 7 –
Origin of Transactions- Source Documents and Preparation of Vouchers, Chapter 8 – Journal (with GST)

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Unit 1: Theoretical Framework Introduction to Accounting Theory Base of Accounting

Unit 2: Accounting Process (Recording of Business Transactions- Voucher, Journal, Special Purpose books -
Cash Book and other books including GST, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation Statement)
Project Work

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Unit 2: Accounting Process Depreciation, Provisions and Reserves Trial Balance and Rectification of Errors
Unit 3: Financial Statements of Sole Proprietorship (without adjustments and with adjustments)
Incomplete Records
Project Work
AND ENTIRE MID TERM SYLLABUS

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Unit 1 - Changing Trends and Carrier in physical education, Unit 2 - Olympism.

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Unit 1: Changing trends and career in physical education. Unit: 2 Olympic value education, Unit 3: Physical
fitness, wellness and lifestyle, Unit 4: Physical education and sports for CWSN (children with special needs)
Unit 5: Yoga, Unit 6: Physical activity and leadership training.

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Unit 7: Test measurement and evaluation, Unit 8: Fundamentals of Anatomy, Physiology & kinesiology,
Unit 9: Psychology & Sports, Unit 10: Training & Doping in sports, And the entire syllabus of Mid term
Examination.

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 SOCIOLOGY

PERIODIC TEST - 1

1. Introducing sociology-sociology, society, and its relationship with other social science.
2. Terms, concepts and their use in sociology.

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Book - Introducing Sociology

1. Sociology, Society and its relationship with other Social Science disciplines
2. Terms, concepts and their use in Sociology
3. Understanding Social Institutions
4. Culture and Socialization

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Book - Understanding Society

7. Social Change and Social order in Rural and Urban Society
9. Introducing Western Sociologists
10. Indian Sociologists

And the entire syllabus of Mid term Examination.

HISTORY

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Chapter-1 Writing and City life, Chapter -2 An Empire across three Continents

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Chapter-1 Writing and City Life, Chapter-2 An Empire across three Continents, Chapter-3 Nomadic Empires,
Chapter-4 The Three Orders

Projects for practicals

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Chapter-5 Changing Cultural Traditions, Chapter-6 Displacing Indigenous People, Chapter-7 Path to
Modernization

*The entire syllabus of Mid Term Examination and Project Work will also be included.

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 HOME SCIENCE

PERIODIC TEST - 1

Ch - Introduction to Home Science, Ch - Understanding the Self - A. ‘Who am I’?, B. Development and
Characteristics of the Self (Development characteristics and needs of adolescents), C. Influences on Identity

MID TERM EXAMINATION

Ch - Introduction to Home Science, Ch.- Understanding the Self - A. ‘Who am I’?, B. Development and
Characteristics of the Self (Development characteristics and needs of adolescents), C. Influences on Identity,
Ch.- Food, Nutrition, Health and Fitness, Ch. - Management of Resources, Ch.- Fabric Around us, Ch.- Media and
Communication Technology, Ch. - Concerns and needs in diverse contexts:- a. Nutrition, Health and Hygiene,
b. Resources Availability and Management

FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

Ch.- Food, Nutrition, Health and Fitness, Ch. - Management of Resources, Ch.- Fabric Around us, Ch.- Media and
Communication Technology, Ch. - Concerns and needs in diverse contexts:- a. Nutrition, Health and Hygiene,
b. Resources Availability and Management, Ch.-Survival, Growth and Development, Ch.- Nutrition, Health and
Wellbeing, Ch.- Our Apparel, Ch.- Health and Wellness, Ch.- Financial Management and planning, Ch.- Care and
Maintenance of Fabrics

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