Dawood Public School

Secondary Section
Syllabus for Mid Term 2024-25
Grade X

English
Paper 1
● Comprehension(Unseen)
● Summary and Response Task(Unseen)
Paper 2
● Directed Writing(Speech, Formal/Informal Letter or Email)
● Composition(Narrative/Descriptive Writing)

Urdu
‫ت آتش‬
ِ ‫ غزلیا‬، ‫قطعات‬،،‫مسدس حالی‬، ‫ آدمی‬:‫منظومات‬
‫خطوطِ غالب ۔‬، ‫آرام و سکون‬،‫اوورکوٹ‬،‫سفارش‬:‫اسباق‬

‫ دلیل۔بحث۔تفصیل۔بیان‬:‫مضمون نویسی‬

‫ اَن دیکھا اقتباس‬،‫تفہیم‬

Urdu B:

Paper 1
● Comprehension
● Multiple matching
● Notes making
● Summary writing
● Email writing/ Report writing/ letter writing

Paper 2
● Sentence transformation
● Cloze passage
● Extended writing
● Translation into Urdu
Islamiyat:
Paper 1:

● Passages from the Quran for special studies (all 15 passages contained in the syllabus with
detailed questions on themes.)
● History and Importance of the Holy Quran (The use of the Quran in legal thinking, and its relation
with the Hadith (Sunnah), consensus (Ijma) and Analogy (Qiyas).
● Life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in Makkah. ( complete topic)
● Life in Madina (1st till 7th AH)
● Life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) as the Model of Excellence.
● Some Outstanding Qualities of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
● Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) behavior towards others
● The Holy Prophet (PBUH) as the last Messenger of Allah (Seal of the Prophet).
● The first Islamic Community ( Following Topics)
● Descendants of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
● Ten Blessed Companions.
● Scribes of the divine revelation.
● Prominent companions, during the lifetime of Holy Prophet (PBUH)
● Hazrat Abuhurairah (RA), Hazrat Osama bin Zaid (RA), Hazrat Abu Sufyan (RA),
● Hazrat Bilal (RA), Hazrat Khlid Bin waleed (RA), Hazrat Abu Talib , Hazrat Jafer (RA)
● Hazrat Hamza (RA), Hazrat Amina (RA) and Hazrat Halima Sadia (RA).

Paper 2:

● Hadith of the Holy Prophet for special study of all 20 Hadiths contained in the syllabus with
detailed questions on its themes.)
● The use of the Hadith in legal thinking, and its relation with the Quran, consensus (Ijma) and
Analogy (Qiyas).
● History and Importance of the Hadith (complete topic)
● The period of the rule of the Rightly Guided Caliphs and their importance as leaders.
● Hazrat Umer (RA) Hazrat Uthman (RA) Hazrat Ali.
● Articles of faith (Tauhid, Angels, Revealed books, Prophets, Predestination, Day of Judgment)
● Struggle in the way of Allah (Jihad).
● The pillars of Islam (Shahada, Fasting, Hajj)
● Including all the work done in copies, lecture copies and PPT’s from the above Syllabus.

Maths
Topics
● Numbers (Decimals, Ratio, Rate, Speed, Time, Percentages, Scale and Map, Money, Estimation
and Approximation, Significant Figures, Recurring Decimals, Surds, Simple and Compound
Interest, Basic number problems, Standard form)
● Algebra (Excluding word problems of Quadratic equations)
● Volume of Prisms
 ● Trigonometry
● Arc Length and Area of Sector
● Statistics (Mean, Median, Mode, Scatter diagram, histogram)
● Probability
● Graphs of Functions and Graphical solutions. (Kinematics)

History

● Section 2: Congress establishment to 1947 Partition

● Partition Problem

Section 3: Governments of Pakistan 1947-1999

Geography

● Topography including drainage

● Climate
● Water Resources
● Mineral Resources
● Forests
● Fishing industry
● Agricultural Development
● Trade
● Power Resources
● Industrial Development
● Population

Biology:

● Cells
● Classification
● Movement into and out of Cells
● Biological molecules
● Enzymes
● Plant Nutrition
● Transport in Flowering Plants
● Human Nutrition
● Human Gaseous Exchange
● Respiration
● Transport in humans
● Diseases and Immunity
● Excretion
● Coordination and Response in Plants
● Biotechnology
Chemistry:

● States of matter
● Atoms, elements and compounds
● Stoichiometry
● Chemical energetics
● Chemical reactions
● Acids, bases and salts
● The Periodic Table
● Experimental techniques and Chemical Analysis

Physics:
● Physical Quantities, Units and Measurement
● Vectors and Scalars
● Kinematics
● Circular Motion
● Dynamics
● Momentum
● Mass, Weight and Density
● Turning Effect of Forces
● Deformation
● Work, Energy, Energy Sources and Power
● Pressure
● Kinetic Model of Matter (Gas Laws)
● Temperature
● Thermal Properties of Matter Heat Capacity, Melting and Boiling
● Thermal Expansion
● Transfer of Thermal Energy
● Light (Reflection and Refraction
● Light (Converging Lens)
● Dispersion of light
● General Wave Properties and Sound
● Diffraction of Waves

Accounting

Resource book: catherine Coucome

● Introduction to accounting
● Double entry book-keeping – Part A
● The trial balance
● Double entry book-keeping – Part B
● Petty cash book
● Business documents
● Books of prime entry
 ● Financial statements – Part A
● Financial statements – Part B
● Other payables and other receivables
● Accounting for depreciation and disposal of non-current assets
● Irrecoverable debts and provisions for doubtful debts
● Journal entries and correction of errors (without suspense accounting)
● Bank reconciliation statements
● Control accounts

Business Studies:

SECTION 1 Understanding business activity

● Business activity
● Classification of businesses
● Enterprise, business growth and size
● Types of business Organization
● Business objectives and stakeholder objectives

SECTION 2 People in business

● Motivating employees
● Organization and management
● Recruitment, selection and training of employees 9 Internal and external communication

SECTION 3 Marketing

● Marketing, competition and the customer

● Market research
● The marketing mix: product
● The marketing mix: price
● The marketing mix: place
● The marketing mix: promotion
● Marketing strategy

SECTION 4: Operations Management

● Achieving quality production

● Location decisions

Computer Studies :
Chapter1: Data Representation
Chapter 2: Data transmission
Chapter 7 Algorithm design and problem solving
Chapter 8 Programming(Excluding String Handling,Procedures and Functions & File Handling)

Sociology:
● Research methods.
● Identity, self and society.
● Social stratification and inequality.
● Page: 90-122
● 3.1 What is Social stratification?
● 3.2 What attempts have been made to reduce Social Inequalities.

English Literature

● Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen(Complete Novel)

● Poems
○ Follower by Seamus Heaney
○ A different History by Sujata Bhatt
○ Lament by Gillian Clarke
○ Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
○ Report to Wordsworth by Boey Kim Cheng
● Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Act 1)

Economics

Section 1: The basic economic problem

● Chapter 1 The nature of the economic problem
● Chapter 2 Factors of production
● Chapter 3 Opportunity cost
● Chapter 4 Production possibility curves

Section 2: The allocation of resources

● Chapter 5 Microeconomics and macroeconomics
● Chapter 6 The role of markets in allocating resources
● Chapter 7 Demand
● Chapter 8 Supply
● Chapter 9 Price determination
● Chapter 10 Price changes
● Chapter 11 Price elasticity of demand
● Chapter 12 Price elasticity of supply
● Chapter 13 Market economic system
● Chapter 14 Market failure
 ● Chapter 15 Mixed economic system

Section 3: Microeconomic decision makers

● Chapter 16 Money and banking
● Chapter 17 Households
● Chapter 18 Workers
● Chapter 19 Trade unions
● Chapter 20 Firms
● Chapter 21 Firms and production
● Chapter 22 Firms, costs, revenue and objectives

Section 4: Government and the macroeconomy

● Chapter 30 Employment and unemployment
● Chapter 31 Inflation and deflation

Section 5: Economic development

● Chapter 34 Population

Environmental Management
● Rocks and minerals
● Energy and the environment
● Agriculture and the environment
● Water and its management
● Oceans and fisheries
● Managing Natural Hazards
6.1. What is a natural hazard
6.2. What causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?

Add. Math:

● Simultaneous equations
● Logarithms
● Geometric Progression
● Coordinate geometry of circles.
● Linear law
● Functions
● Trigonometry
● Circular measure

World History:

Inter War Years:

 ● Peace Treaties
● League of Nations.
● Peace Collapsed

Dept Study: Germany

Global Perspectives:

Qs 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Written Component; as per CAIE specimen

Food and Nutrition;

Chapter 2
● All topics

Chapter 3
● Cereals
● Fats and oils
● Milk
● Cheese
● Yogurt
● Cream
● Vegetables
● Fruits