SALTLAKE SHIKSHA NIKETAN

SESSION: 2025-2026
SYLLABUS
CLASS–XII
ENGLISH CORE (301)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Comprehension (Factual,  Comprehension (Factual,  Comprehension (Factual, Descriptive, Literary
Descriptive, Literary and Descriptive, Literary and Case- and Case- based Factual Passage)
Case-based Factual based Factual Passage)  Notice
Passage)  Notice  Formal/Informal Invitation and Reply
 Notice  Formal/Informal Invitation and  Letter to the Editor
 Letter to the Editor Reply  Job Application with Bio-Data or Resume
 Article writing  Letter to the Editor  Article
 Article  Report Writing
Flamingo (Prose)  Report Writing Flamingo (Prose)
 Deep Water Flamingo (Prose)  Lost Spring
 The Rattrap  Lost Spring  The Rattrap
 The Rattrap  Indigo
Flamingo (Poem)  Indigo  The Last Lesson
 Keeping Quiet  The Last Lesson  Deep Water
 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers  Deep Water  Going Places
 Going Places  Poets and Pancakes
Vistas  The Interview
 The Third Level Flamingo (Poem) Flamingo (Poem)
 Keeping Quiet  Keeping Quiet
 Aunt Jennifer’s  Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Tigers  My Mother At Sixty –six
 My Mother At Sixty  A Thing of Beauty
–six  A Roadside Stand
 A Thing of Beauty Vistas
Vistas  The Tiger King
 The Tiger King  The Enemy
 The Enemy  The Third Level
 The Third Level  On the Face of It
 On the Face of It  Memories of Childhood
 Memories of Childhood  Journey to the End of the Earth

CHEMISTRY (043)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
1. Haloalkane and haloarenes 1. Aldehydes, ketones and 1. d and f block elements
2. Alcohols, phenols and ethers carboxylic acids 2. Coordination compounds
3. Solutions 2. Amines 3. Electrochemistry
3. Electrochemistry 4. Aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids
4. Chemical kinetics 5. Amines
5. Haloalkanes and haloarenes 6. Chemical kinetics
6. Alcohols, phenols and ethers 7. Biomolecules
7. Solutions 8. Haloalkanes and haloarenes
9. Alcohols, phenols and ethers
10. Solutions
Practical
1. Volumetric analysis
Determination of concentration/ molarity of KMnO4 solution by titrating it against a standard solution of:
A. Oxalic acid,
B. Ferrous Ammonium Sulphate
(Students will be required to prepare standard solutions by weighing themselves).
2. Salt analysis:
Determination of one cation and one anion in a given salt.
Cation: Pb2+, Cu2+ As3+, Al3+, Fe3+, Mn2+, Zn2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+, Mg2+, NH4 +
Anions: (CO3) 2- , S2- , (SO3) 2- , (NO2) - , (SO4) 2- , Cℓ - , Br- , I- , PO43- , (C2O4) 2- , CH3COO- ,NO3 - (Note: Insoluble salts excluded)
3. Content based experiment:
Tests for the functional groups present in organic compounds: Unsaturation, alcoholic, phenolic, aldehydic, ketonic, carboxylic
and amino (Primary) groups.

BUSINESS STUDIES (054)

Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Chapter-1 Nature and  Chapter-1 Nature and Significance of  Chapter-1 Nature and Significance of
Significance of Management Management Management
 Chapter-9 Financial  Chapter-2 Principles of Management  Chapter-2 Principles of Management
Management  Chaptwr-3 Business Environment  Chaptwr-3 Business Environment
 Chapter-10 Financial  Chapter-4 Planning  Chapter-4 Planning
Markets  Chapter-5 Organising  Chapter-5 Organising
 Chapter-6 Staffing  Chapter-6 Staffing
 Chapter-7 Directing  Chapter-7 Directing
 Chapter-9 Financial Management  Chapter-8 Controlling
 Chapter-10 Financial Markets  Chapter-9 Financial Management
 Chapter-10 Financial Markets
 Chapter-11 Marketing Management
 Chapter-12 Consumer Protection

BIOLOGY (044)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Chapter-1: Sexual Reproduction in  Chapter-1: Sexual Reproduction in  Chapter-1: Sexual Reproduction in Flowering
Flowering Plants Flowering Plants Plants
 Chapter-4 Principles of Inheritance  Chapter-2: Human Reproduction  Chapter-2: Human Reproduction
and Variation  Chapter-4: Principles of Inheritance  Chapter-3 Reproductive Health
 Chapter-7: Human Health and and Variation  Chapter-4: Principles of Inheritance and
Diseases  Chapter-5: Molecular Basis of Variation
 Chapter-9: Biotechnology - Inheritance  Chapter-5: Molecular Basis of Inheritance
Principles and Processes  Chapter-7: Human Health and Diseases  Chapter-6: Evolution
 Chapter-11: Organisms and  Chapter-8: Microbes in Human  Chapter-7: Human Health and Diseases
Populations Welfare.  Chapter-8: Microbes in Human Welfare.
 Chapter-9: Biotechnology - Principles  Chapter-9: Biotechnology - Principles and
and Processes Processes
 Chapter- 10: Biotechnology and its  Chapter- 10: Biotechnology and its
Applications Applications
 Chapter-11: Organisms and  Chapter-11: Organisms and Populations
Populations
 Chapter-12: Ecosystem
 Chapter13: Biodiversity and Conservation
 ENTREPRENEURSHIP (066)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Sensing Entrepreneurial  Sensing Entrepreneurial  Sensing Entrepreneurial
Opportunities Opportunities Opportunities
 Entrepreneurial Planning  Entrepreneurial Planning  Entrepreneurial Planning
 Enterprise Growth Strategies  Enterprise Growth Strategies
 Enterprise Marketing  Business Arithmetic
 Enterprise Marketing
 Resource Mobilization

MATHEMATICS (041)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Chapter 1: Relations and  Chapter 4: Determinants.  Includes the full syllabus of PA- 1, TERM-I
Functions.  Chapter 5: Continuity and  Chapter 9: Differential Equations
 Chapter 2: Inverse Differentiability.  Chapter 10: Vector Algebra
Trigonometric Functions.  Chapter 6: Applications of Derivatives.  Chapter 11: Three Dimensional Geometry
Chapter 3: Matrices.  Chapter 7: Integrals  Chapter 13: Probability
 Chapter 5: Continuity and  Chapter 8: Applications of Integrals
Differentiability.
 Chapter 12: Linear Programming.

PHYSICS (042)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Chap 1-Electric charges and  Chap 1-Electric charges and Field  Chap 1-Electric charges and Field
Field  Chap 2-Electrostatic Potential  Chap 2-Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
 Chap 2-Electrostatic and Capacitance  Chap 3-Current Electricity
Potential and  Chap 3-Current Electricity  Chap 4-Moving Charges and Magnetism
Capacitance  Chap 4-Moving Charges and  Chap 5-Magnetism and matter
 Chap 3- Current Magnetism  Chap 6-Electromagnetic Induction
Electricity  Chap 5-Magnetism and matter  Chap 7-Alternating Current
 Chap 6-Electromagnetic Induction  Chap 8-Electromagnetic Waves
 Chap 7-Alternating Current  Chap 9-Ray optics and optical Instruments
 Chap 8-Electromagnetic Waves  Chap 10-Wave optics
 Chap 9-Ray optics and optical  Chap 11-Dual nature of Radiation & Matter
Instruments  Chap 12-Atoms
 Chap 13-Nuclei
 Chap 14-Semiconductor devices

COMPUTER SCIENCE (083)

PA I

1. Python revision Tour

2. Function - types of function (built-in functions, functions defined in module, user defined functions), creating user
defined function, arguments and parameters, default parameters, positional parameters, function returning value(s),
flow of execution, scope of a variable (global scope, local scope)

3. Exception Handling - Introduction, handling exceptions using try-except-finally blocks

4. File Handling – up to Text File - opening a text file, text file open modes, closing a text file, opening a file using with
clause, writing/appending data to a text file using write() and writelines(), reading from a text file using read(),
readline() and readlines(), seek and tell methods, manipulation of data in a text file.
.TERM I

1. Function (from PA I Syllabus)

2. File Handling - (Text file, Binary file, CSV file)

a. Text File - opening a text file, text file open modes, closing a text file, opening a file using with clause,
writing/appending data to a text file using write() and writelines(), reading from a text file using read(), readline()
and readlines(), seek and tell methods, manipulation of data in a text file

b. Binary file: basic operations on a binary file: open using file open modes, close a binary file, import pickle module,
dump() and load() method, read, write/create, search, append and update operations in a binary file

c. CSV file: import csv module, open / close csv file, write into a csv file using writer(), writerow(), writerows() and
read from a csv file using reader()

3. Database Management - Database concepts, Relational data model, Structured Query Language

PRE BOARD (Entire Class XII CBSE Syllabus)

1. PA I + TERM I Syllabus

2. Computer Networks - Evolution of networking, Data communication terminologies, Transmission media, Network
devices, Network topologies and Network types, Network protocol, Introduction to web services

3. Data Structure: Stack, operations on stack (push & pop), implementation of stack using list.

4. Interface of python with an SQL database: connecting SQL with Python, performing insert, update, delete queries
using cursor, display data by using connect(), cursor(), execute(), commit(), fetchone(), fetchall(), rowcount, creating
database connectivity applications, use of %s format specifier or format() to perform queries.

ACCOUNTANCY (055)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Cash Flow Statement  Fundamentals of Partnership  Accounting for Partnership
 Fundamentals of partnership  Goodwill Firms
 Goodwill  Change in profit sharing ratio
 Goodwill: Nature and Valuation
 Change in Profit sharing ratios
 Change in profit sharing ratio  Admission of a partner
 Admission of a partner
 Retirement
 Retirement of a partner
 Death of a partner  Death of a partner
 Dissolution of a firm  Dissolution of a partner
 Financial statement  Issue of Shares
 Financial statements analysis  Issue of Debentures
 Cash flow statement  Financial statements of a Company
 Financial statement analysis
 Accounting ratios
 Cash flow
 Sociology (039)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
Social change and Development in India Social change and Development in India
Indian Society
 CHAPTER 1. Structural Change  CHAPTER 8. Social Movements
Indian Society CHAPTER 6.
 CHAPTER 2. Cultural Change
The Challenges of
 CHAPTER 4. Change and Development  CHAPTER 1. Introducing Indian Society
Cultural Diversity
in Rural Society  CHAPTER 2. The Demographic Structure
AND ENTIRE
 CHAPTER 5. Change and Development in of Indian Society
SYLLABUS OF XII.
Industrial Society  CHAPTER 3. Social Institutions: Continuity
and Change
 CHAPTER 5. Patterns of Social Inequality
and Exclusion

ECONOMICS (030)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
Introductory Introductory Introductory Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics- Macroeconomics 1) National Income and Related
1) National Aggregates
Income and Related 1) National Income and Related
2) Money and Banking
Aggregates Aggregates
3) Determination of Income and
2) Money and Banking Employment
3) Determination of Income and 4) Government Budget and the
Employment. Economy
Indian Economic Development Indian Economic Development 5) Balance of Payments
1) Development Indian Economic Development
1. Development Experience Experience (1947- 1) Development Experience
(1947-90) 90) and Economic (1947-90) and Economic
Reforms since 1991 Reforms since 1991
2) Current Challenges facing Indian
2) Current Challenges Economy.
facing Indian 3) Development Experience of India –
Economy- Human A Comparison with Neighbours
Capital Formation
,Rural Development,
Employment

PSYCHOLOGY (037)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
 Variations in  Variations in Psychological  Variations in Psychological Attributes
Psychological Attributes Attributes  Self and Personality
 Self and Personality  Self and Personality  Meeting Life Challenges
 Meeting life  Meeting Life Challenges  Psychological Disorders
Challenges  Psychological Disorders  Attitude and Social Cognition
Practical – Personality, Anxiety  Therapeutic Approaches  Social Influence and Group
Case Profile- using Practical- On adjustment, Processes
appropriate methods like Personality, anxiety  Therapeutic Approach
interview, observation Case Profile- using appropriate  Practical- On intelligence
and psychological test. methods like interview,
observation and psychological test.
 POLITICAL SCIENCE (028)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I
Contemporary World Politics Contemporary World Politics
 The End of Bipolarity  The End of Bipolarity
Politics in India since  Contemporary Centres of Power
independence  Contemporary South Asia
 Challenges of Nation  International Organizations
Building  Security in contemporary world Includes the full
 Era of One Party  Globalisation
Dominance
syllabus of
 Environment and Natural Resources.
 Planned Development Periodic
Politics in India since independence
 India’s External Relations  Challenges of Nation Building Assessment I and
 Era of One Party Dominance Term 1
 Politics of Planned Development Examination.
 India’s External Relations
 Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System
 The Crisis of Democratic Order
 Regional Aspirations.
 Recent Developments in Indian Politics

BENGALI (105)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board I

Includes the full syllabus

of Periodic Assessment I
and Term 1 Examination &

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (048)

1 * Project File
( Yoga, Physical Fitness Test: SAI Khelo India Fitness Test & Games and Sports * )
2 * Demonstration of Fitness Activity: Yoga, Physical Fitness Test & Games and Sports of CHOICE**
* Viva.
3 (Project File; Yoga, Physical Fitness Test & Games and Sports of CHOICE** )
 Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board
 Management of Sporting  Management of Sporting Events  Management of Sporting Events
Events  Children & Women in Sports  Children & Women in Sports
 Children & Women in Sports  Yoga as Preventive Measure for  Yoga as Preventive Measure for
 Yoga as Preventive Measure for Lifestyle Diseases Lifestyle Diseases
Lifestyle Diseases  Physical Education & Sports for CWSN  Physical Education & Sports for CWSN
 Sports & Nutrition  Sports & Nutrition
 Test & Measurement in Sports  Test & Measurement in Sports
 Physiology & Injuries in Sports  Physiology & Injuries in Sports
 Biomechanics & Sports
 Psychology & Sports
 Training in Sports

GEOGRAPHY (029)
Periodic Assessment I Term I Pre-Board
Book- Fundamental of Human Book- Fundamental of Human Geography Book- Fundamental of Human Geography
Geography Chapter name –  Human Geography
Chapter name –  Human Geography  The World Population distribution
 Human Geography  The World Population distribution density and growth
 The World Population density and growth  Human development
distribution density and growth  Human development  Primary activities
 Human development  Primary activities  Secondary activities
 Primary activities  Secondary activities  Tertiary and Quaternary activities
 Transport and Communication  Tertiary and Quaternary activities  Transport and Communication
Book - India People and Economy  Transport and Communication  International Trade
Chapter name-  International Trade Book – India People and Economy Chapter
 Population distribution, Book – India People and Economy Name-
density, growth and Chapter Name -  Population distribution, density, growth and
composition  Population distribution, density, composition
growth and composition  Human settlement
 Human settlement  Land resources and Agriculture
 Land resources and Agriculture  Water resources
 Water resources  Minerals and Energy Resources
 Minerals and Energy Resources  Planning and sustainable
 Planning and sustainable development in Indian context
development in Indian context  Transport and Communication
 Transport and Communication  International trade
 Geographical perspective on selected issues

MAP ITEMS
BOOK- FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
(Map Items for identification only on outline political map of the World)
CHAPTER- Primary Activities
 Areas of subsistence gathering  Major areas of extensive commercial grain faming
 Major areas of nomadic herding of the world  Major areas of mixed farming of the World
 Major areas of commercial livestock rearing
CHAPTER: Transport, Communication and Trade
A. Terminal Stations of Transcontinental Railways–
 Trans-Siberian  Trans-Canadian  Trans-Australian Railways
 B. Major Sea Ports
 Europe: North Cape, London, Hamburg  Asia: Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Aden, Karachi,
 North America: Vancouver, San Francisco, New Orleans Kolkata
 South America: Rio De Janeiro, Colon, Valparaiso  Australia: Perth, Sydney, Melbourne
 Africa: Suez and Cape Town
C. Major Airports:
 Asia: Tokyo, Beijing, Mumbai, Jeddah, Aden  North America: Chicago, New Orleans, Mexico City
 Africa: Johannesburg & Nairobi  South America: Buenos Aires, Santiago
 Europe: Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome  Australia: Darwin and Wellington
D. Inland Waterways
 Suez Canal  Rhine waterways
 Panama Canal  St. Lawrence Seaway
BOOK- INDIA - PEOPLE AND ECONOMY
(Map Items for locating and labelling on political outline map of India)
CHAPTER : Population Distribution Density Growth and Composition
 State with highest population density & state with lowest population density (2011)

CHAPTER : Land Resources and Agriculture

Leading producing states of the following crops:
 Rice  Cotton  Sugarcane
 Wheat  Jute  Tea
 Coffee

CHAPTER : -Mineral And Energy Resources

• Iron-ore mines: Mayurbhanj, Bailadila, Ratnagiri, Bellary • Bauxite mines: Katni, Bilaspur and Koraput
• Manganese mines: Balaghat, Shimoga • Coal mines: Jharia, Bokaro, Raniganj, Neyveli
• Copper mines: Hazaribagh, Singhbhum, Khetari • Oil Refineries: Mathura, Jamnager, Barauni

CHAPTER- International Trade

Mark and label the major sea ports and airports on an outline map of India.
Major Sea Ports:
 Kandla  Mangalore  Paradwip
 Mumbai  Tuticorin  Haldia
 Marmagao  Chennai
 Kochi  Vishakhapatnam
International Air ports:
 Ahmedabad  Kolkata  Thiruvananthapuram
 Mumbai  Guwahati  Hyderabad
 Bengaluru  Delhi
 Chennai  Amritsar

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