Syllabus
Chemistry
Unit I: Chemical Substances - Nature and
Behaviour
Chemical reactions
- Chemical equation
- Balanced chemical equation
- Implications of a balanced chemical equation
- Types of chemical reactions: combination,
decomposition, displacement, double
displacement, precipitation, endothermic
exothermic reactions, oxidation and
reduction
Acids, bases and salts
- Their definitions in terms of furnishing of
H+ and OH– ions, General properties,
examples and uses, neutralization,
concept of pH scale (Definition relating to
logarithm not required), importance of pH
in everyday life
- Preparation and uses of Sodium
Hydroxide, Bleaching powder, Baking
soda, Washing soda and Plaster of Paris
Metals and nonmetals
- Properties of metals and non-metals
- Reactivity series
- Formation and properties of ionic
compounds
- Basic metallurgical processes
- Corrosion and its prevention
Carbon compounds
- Covalent bonding in carbon compounds
- Versatile nature of carbon
- Homologous series
- Nomenclature of carbon compounds
containing functional groups (halogens,
alcohol, ketones, aldehydes, alkanes and
alkynes)
- Difference between saturated hydro
carbons and unsaturated hydrocarbons;
Chemical properties of carbon compounds
(combustion, oxidation, addition and
substitution reaction)
- Ethanol and Ethanoic acid (only properties
and uses), soaps and detergents
Biology
Unit II: World of Living
Life processes: ‘Living Being’
- Basic concept of nutrition, respiration,
transport and excretion in plants and
animals
Control and co-ordination in animals and
plants
- Tropic movements in plants
- Introduction of plant hormones
- Control and co-ordination in animals:
Nervous system
- Voluntary, involuntary and reflex action
- Chemical co-ordination: animal hormones
Reproduction
- Reproduction in animals and plants
(asexual and sexual) reproductive health -
need and methods of family planning.
- Safe sex vs HIV/AIDS.
- Child bearing and women’s health.
Heredity and Evolution
- Heredity
- Mendel’s contribution- Laws for
inheritance of traits: Sex determination:
brief introduction: (topics excluded -
evolution; evolution and classification and
evolution should not be equated with
progress).
Our environment:
- Eco-system, Environmental problems,
Ozone depletion, waste production and
their solutions
- Biodegradable and non-biodegradable
substances
Physics
Unit III: Natural Phenomena
- Reflection of light by curved surfaces
- Images formed by spherical mirrors,
centre of curvature, principal axis,
principal focus, focal length, mirror
formula (Derivation not required),
magnification.
- Refraction
- Laws of refraction
- Refractive index
- Refraction of light by spherical lens
- Image formed by spherical lenses
- Lens formula (Derivation not required)
- Magnification
- Power of a lens
- Functioning of a lens in human eye,
defects of vision and their corrections,
applications of spherical mirrors and
lenses.
- Refraction of light through a prism,
dispersion of light, scattering of light,
applications in daily life (excluding colour
of the sun at sunrise and sunset).
Unit IV: Effects of Current
- Electric current
- Potential difference and electric current
- Ohm’s law
- Resistance, Resistivity, Factors on which
the resistance of a conductor depends.
Series combination of resistors, parallel
combination of resistors and its
applications in daily life.
- Heating effect of electric current and its
applications in daily life.
- Electric power, Interrelation between P, V,
I and R.
Magnetic effects of current
- Magnetic field, field lines, field due to a
current carrying conductor, field due to
current carrying coil or solenoid.
- Force on current carrying conductor,
Fleming’s Left Hand Rule, Direct current.
- Alternating current: frequency of AC,
Advantage of AC over DC.
- Domestic electric circuits.
