PORTIONS FOR FIRST TERM EXAM – JANUARY 2025

ACCOUNTING

YEAR 10
All the Yr. 9 chapters.

Income statement and Statement of Financial Position, with year-end adjustments.

Other receivables & other payables ledger accounts, with accruals and prepayments.

Manufacturing account

Depreciation – asset account, provision for depreciation account and asset disposal account.

Theory from all the above chapters.

Control Accounts
 YEAR (10) PORTION FOR FIRST TERM EXAM2024-2025

ARABIC (B) YEAR

Topic:

READING:

-Lesson ( 1 ) My dream house ) ‫( منزل األحالم‬

-Lesson ( 2 ) Dream Job. ) ‫( وظيفة األحالم‬
-Lesson ( 3 ) Arab Wise (‫( حكيم العرب‬
Unseen text
All the vocabularies done
All verbs done
All exercises done on the worksheets and notebook on all the three topics.
Grammar

-Prepositions, Connectives, Adjectives, Adverbs of time and place, , Question

words

-The nominative sentence and the verbal sentence ‫الجملة االسمية والفعلية‬

-Plurals’ types ‫أنواع الجموع‬

-The nominal sentence and the predicate ‫المبتدأ والخبر‬

-Analyzing of the sentence‫اإلعراب‬

-The indeclinable noun & the declinable noun‫األسماء المبنية والمعربة‬

Writing
- Specifications of your dream home.
- A story about a homeless you saw from your window on a rainy day
- Writing a CV to apply for a job.
- Advertisement
 FIRST TERM Examination Portion– JAN 2025
COMPUTER SCIENCE - Year 10
Unit 1: Problem Solving
Chapter 1 – Understanding Algorithms
Chapter 2 – Creating Algorithms
Chapter 3 – Sorting and Searching Algorithms

Unit 2: Programming
Chapter 5 – Develop code
Chapter 6 – Making programs easy to read
Chapter 7 – Strings
Chapter 8 – Data structures

Unit 3: Data
Chapter 12 – Binary
Chapter 13 – Data Representation

Unit 4: Computers
Chapter 16 – Machines and computational models
Chapter 17 –Hardware
Chapter 18 – Logic
Chapter 19 – Software

Unit 5: Communication and the Internet

Chapter 21 - Networks

EDEXCEL INTERNATIONAL GCSE (9-1)

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Student Book (David Waller, Chris Charles, Pete Dring, Alex Hadwen-Bennett, Jason
Welch, Shaun Whorton)

Note: Refer TEXTBOOK, PowerPoint presentations and activities

Posted in Google Classroom
PORTIONS FOR FIRST TERM EXAM – JANUARY 2025

ECONOMICS

YEAR 10
Whole of Year 9 portion

Chapter – 17 – Economies and Diseconomies of scale

Chapter – 18 – Competitive markets

Chapter – 19 – Advantages and disadvantages of large and small firms

Chapter – 20 - Monopoly

Chapter – 21 - Oligopoly

Chapter – 22 – The Labour market

Chapter – 23 – The Impact of changes in the supply and demand for labour and Trade Union

activity in Labour markets

Chapter – 24 – Government Intervention

Chapter – 25 – Economic Growth

Chapter – 41 – Exchange rate determination

 PORTION FOR FIRST TERM EXAMINATIONS JANUARY 2025
ENGLISH LANGUAGE – YEAR 10

Paper 1 – Fiction and Imaginative Writing

Overview of content
• Study selections from a range of prose fiction.
• Develop skills to analyse and evaluate 19th century fiction extracts.
• Develop imaginative writing skills to engage the reader.
• Use spelling, punctuation and grammar accurately.
Overview of assessment
• Section A – Reading: questions on an unseen 19th century fiction extract.
• Section B – Writing: a choice of two writing tasks. The tasks are linked by a theme to the
reading extract.
The imaginative writing task may include:
o Short story based on a prompt or the images given.
o Recount writing
o Personal Narrative
o Descriptive writing
• The total number of marks available is 64.
• Assessment duration 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Paper 2 – Non-fiction and Transactional Writing

Overview of content
• Study a range of 20th and 21st century non-fiction texts (including literary non-fiction).
• Develop skills to analyse evaluate and compare non-fiction extracts.
• Develop transactional writing skills for a variety of forms, purposes and audiences.
• Use spelling, punctuation and grammar accurately.

Overview of assessment
• Section A – Reading: questions on two thematically linked, unseen non-fiction extracts.
• Section B – Writing: a choice of two writing tasks. The tasks are linked by a theme to the
reading extracts.
The transactional writing tasks may include:
o Newspaper article
o Magazine article
o Argumentative Writing
o Open Letter
o Letter Writing (Formal and Informal)
o Recount
o Newspaper Report

• The total number of marks available is 96.

• Assessment duration: 2 hours and 5 minutes.

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PATTERN OF THE FIRST TERM EXAMINATION PAPER JANUARY 2025

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE (9-1) CLASS: YEAR 10

Paper Reference: Specification Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9 - 1) in English

Language (1EN0/01)

PAPER 1 FICTION AND IMAGINATIVE WRITING

Total Marks 64

Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes.

(Including reading time)

There will be two sections in the paper. Students should be advised to spend 1 hour on Section
A and 45 minutes on Section B.

SECTION A : 19th Century Fiction- Unseen Passage (24 Marks)

• The length of the 19th-century fiction extract will be approximately 650 words.
• There will be a mixture of short and extended response questions on the extract.

Assessment Objectives covered are AO1, AO2 and AO4

AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas

Select and synthesize evidence from different texts

AO2: Explain, comment on and analyze how writers use language and structure to achieve
effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views

AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references

Section B: Imaginative Writing (Total marks 40)

• Writing tasks are linked by a theme to the reading extract. Different aspects of the
theme will be reflected in each task.
• One of the writing tasks will provide two images that students can use to help them
generate ideas for their writing. Students can write a response that draws on just
one or neither of the images.
Assessment Objectives covered are AO5 and AO6.

AO5: Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone,
style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences.

Organize information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support
coherence and cohesion of texts.

AO6: Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity,
purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.

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PAPER 2 NON-FICTION AND TRANSACTIONAL WRITING
Total Marks 96

Time: 2 hour and 5 minutes.

(Including reading time)

There will be two sections in the paper. Students should be advised to spend 1 hour 20 minutes
on Section A and 45 minutes on Section B

SECTION A: 20th and 21st Century Non-Fiction- Unseen Passages (Total marks 56)

• Two unseen non-fiction extracts, from 20th- and 21st-century texts. One of these
texts will be literary non-fiction.
• The word count across the two extracts will be approximately 1000 words. The
minimum length of an extract will be 300 words.
• Questions will be on Text 1, followed by Text 2. There will be a mixture of short
and extended response questions on the extracts.
• Students’ ability to synthesize across two texts will be assessed in a separate
question.
• The final question of this section requires students to compare the writers’ ideas and
how they are presented in the two texts.

Assessment Objectives covered are AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO4

AO1: Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas

Select and synthesize evidence from different texts

AO2: Explain, comment on and analyze how writers use language and structure to achieve
effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views

AO3: Compare writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across
two or more texts

AO4: Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.
Section B – Transactional Writing (Total marks 40)

• Writing tasks are linked by a theme to the reading extracts.

• It is possible for the same form (for example a letter, an article) to be present on
both tasks in the same paper but with a different focus and/or audience.
Assessment Objectives covered are AO5 and AO6.
AO5: Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone,
style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences.
Organize information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support
coherence and cohesion of texts

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AO6: Candidates must use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity,
purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.

Reading for Pleasure

The Reading for Pleasure activity, centered on the book ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho
assigned to the students at the beginning of the year, will be held alongside the Term-I
examination.

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 FIRST TERM EXAMINATION JANUARY 2025

MATHEMATICS PORTION

YEAR 10

PAPER 1 – NON CALCULATOR – 80 MARKS - 1 ½ HOURS

PAPER 2 – CALCULATOR – 80 MARKS - 1 ½ HOURS

TEXT BOOK : EDEXCEL GCSE ( 9 – 1 )

MATHEMATICS HIGHER STUDENT BOOK
• UNIT 2 -Algebra (2.6)
• UNIT 6 - Graphs ( 6.6 , 6.7, 6.8 )
• UNIT 9 – Equations and Inequalities
• UNIT 11- Multiplicative reasoning
• UNIT 12 – Similarity and Congruence
• UNIT 15 – Equations and Graphs
(15.1, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4 excluding Iteration)
• UNIT 16- Circle theorems
Year 10 Mathematics Revision Topics for First Term Exam

• UNIT 1 -Numbers ( Excluding Unit 1.1)

• UNIT 2 –Algebra
• UNIT 3 -Interpreting and representing data
• UNIT 4 -Fractions ,decimals and percentages.
• UNIT 5- Angles and Trigonometry
• UNIT 6 - Graphs

Note: All the work done in note book, text book and worksheets.
Please note that Formula Sheet will not be given.
All the formulae need to be memorised.
PORTIONS FOR FIRST TERM EXAM – JANUARY 2025

MORAL EDUCATION
YEAR 10
SR.No Unit Lesson

1. 1. Introduction to Lesson 4. World Moral Challenges

Global Ethics Lesson 5. Dealing with Global Ethical
Challenges
2 2. Financial Lesson 1. Realising The Value of Money
Awareness Lesson 2. Dangers of Wealth and Greed
 Psychology - 2024-2025

PORTIONS – Year 10
First Term Examinations
January 2025
Sr. No Topics

1 Psychological Problems Whole topic

2 The Brain and Whole topic

Neuropsychology

3 Social Influence Whole topic

Refer to psychology textbook and notebook.

All relevant resources, powerpoint presentation and notes are shared on Google
classroom foryour reference.
PORTIONS FOR FIRST TERM EXAM – JANUARY 2025

PHYSICS
YEAR 10
SP1 Motion (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d)

SP2 Motion and Forces (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e, 2f, 2g, 2h, 2i)

SP3 Conservation of energy (3a, 3b, 3c. 3d, 3e, 3f)

SP4 Waves (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, 4f, 4g)

SP 5 Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i)

SP 6 Radioactivity (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e, 6f, 6g)

PORTIONS FOR FIRST TERM EXAM – JANUARY 2025

UAE SOCIAL STUDIES

YEAR 10
TEXT BOOK Pages
Unit1 Topic

Lesson 2: The Bronze Age and Umm an Pages 124- 133

Nar
Lesson 3: The impact of the Falaj Pages 134-144
during the Iron Age

Video on Falaj and Sustainability ppt as uploaded on GC and all work done in the
Textbook and Notebook
PORTIONS FOR FIRST TERM EXAM – JANUARY 2025

VALUES EDUCATION
YEAR 10
Part 1: Beliefs and Values

2.8 - Childlessness & Celibacy

3.1 - Conflict and War

3.2 - Peace, Reconciliation and Forgiveness

3.3 - Bullying