| PHYSICS |
| CHAPTERS | CHAPTERS NAME | TOPICS |
| 1 | Electric Charges and Fields | Electric Charge, Conductors and Insulators, Basic Properties of Electric Charge, Coulomb’s Law, Forces between Multiple Charges, Electric Field, Electric Field Lines, Electric Flux, Electric Dipole, Dipole in a Uniform External Field, Continuous Charge Distribution, Gauss’s Law, Applications of Gauss’s Law |
| 2 | Electrostatic Potential And Capacitance | Electrostatic Potential, Potential due to a Point Charge, Potential due to an Electric Dipole, Potential due to a System of Charges, Equipotential Surfaces, Potential Energy of a System of Charges, Potential Energy in an External Field, Electrostatics of Conductors, Dielectrics and Polarisation, Capacitors and Capacitance, The Parallel Plate Capacitor, Effect of Dielectric on Capacitance, Combination of Capacitors, Energy Stored in a Capacitor (only formula). |
| 3 | Current Electricity | Electric Current, Electric Currents in Conductors, Ohm’s law, Drift of Electrons and the Origin of Resistivity, Limitations of Ohm’s Law, Resistivity of Various Materials, Temperature Dependence of Resistivity, Electrical Energy, Power, Cells, emf, Internal Resistance, Cells in Series and in Parallel, Kirchhoff’s Rules, Wheatstone Bridge. |
| 4 | Moving Charges And Magnetism | Magnetic Force, Motion in a Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart Law, Magnetic Field on the Axis of a Circular Current Loop, Ampere’s Circuital Law, The Solenoid, Force between Two Parallel Currents – the Ampere, Torque on Current Loop, Magnetic Dipole, The Moving Coil Galvanometer. |
| 5 | (Magnetism And Matter | The Bar Magnet, The magnetic field lines,Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid (Only qualitative study),The electrostatic analog,Magnetism and Gauss’s Law, Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity, Magnetic Properties of Materials-Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism and Ferromagnetism |
| 6 | (Electromagnetic Induction | The Experiments of Faraday and Henry, Magnetic Flux, Faraday’s Law of Induction, Lenz’s Law and Conservation of Energy, Motional Electromotive Force, Inductance , AC Generator. |
| 7 | Alternating Current | AC Voltage Applied to a Resistor, Representation of AC Current and Voltage by Rotating Vectors — Phasors, AC Voltage Applied to an Inductor, AC Voltage Applied to a Capacitor, AC Voltage Applied to a Series LCR Circuit, Power in AC Circuit: The Power Factor, Transformers. |
| 8 | (Electromagnetic Waves | Displacement Current, Electromagnetic Waves, Electromagnetic Spectrum . |
| 9 | Ray Optics And Optical Instruments | Reflection of Light by Spherical Mirrors, Refraction, Total Internal Reflection, Refraction at Spherical Surfaces and by Lenses, Refraction through a Prism, Optical Instruments-The microscope,Telescope. |
| 10 | Wave Optics | Huygens Principle, Refraction and Reflection of Plane Waves using Huygens Principle, Coherent and Incoherent Addition of Waves, Interference of Light Waves and Young’s Experiment (Only formula of bright and dark fringes), Diffraction (Only qualitative study), Polarisation. |
| 11 | (Dual Nature Of Radiation And Matter | Electron Emission, Photoelectric Effect, Experimental Study of Photoelectric Effect, Photoelectric Effect and Wave Theory of Light, Einstein’s Photoelectric Equation: Energy Quantum of Radiation, Particle Nature of Light: The Photon, Wave Nature of Matter. |
| 12 | Atoms | Alpha-particle Scattering and Rutherford’s Nuclear Model of Atom, Atomic Spectra, Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom(Only formula of radius of nth orbit), The Line Spectra of the Hydrogen Atom(Only qualitative study), De Broglie’s Explanation of Bohr’s Second Postulate of Quantisation. |
| 13 | Nuclei | Atomic Masses and Composition of Nucleus, Size of the Nucleus, Mass-Energy and Nuclear Binding Energy, Nuclear Force, Radioactivity, Nuclear Energy. |
| 14 | Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices And Simple Circuits | Classification of Metals, Conductors and Semiconductors, Intrinsic Semiconductor, Extrinsic Semiconductor, p-n Junction, Semiconductor Diode, Application of Junction Diode as a Rectifier. |
| CHEMISTRY |
| UNIT | UNITES NAME | TOPICS |
| 1 | Solution | Types of solutions, Expressing Concentration of Solutions, Solubility, Vapour Pressure of Liquid Solutions, Ideal ad Non-ideal Solutions, Colligative Properties and Determination of Molar Mass, Abnormal Molar Masses. |
| 2 | Electrochemistry | Electrochemical Cells, Galvanic Cells, Nernst Equation, Conductance of Electrolytic Solutions, Electrolytic Cells and Electrolysis Batterries, Fuel Cells, Corrosion. |
| 3 | Chemical Kinetics | Rate of a Chemical Reaction, Factors Influencing rate of a reaction, Integrated rate equations, Temperature Dependence of the rate of a reaction, Collision Theory of chemical reactions. |
| 4 | d- and f- Block Elements | Position in the Periodic table, Electronic Configurations of the d-Block Elements, General Properties of the ransition elements (d-Block), Some Important Compounds of transition elements, the lanthanoids, the actinoids, Some Applications of d- and f- Block Elements. |
| 5 | Coordination Compounds | Werner’s Theory of Coordination compounds, Definitions of some important terms pertaining to coordination compounds, Nomenclature of coordination compounds, Isomerism in Coordination compounds, Bonding in Coordination compounds 9.6 Bonding in Metal Carbonyls, Importance and Applications of Coordination compounds. |
| 6 | Haloalkanes and Haloarenes | Classification, Nomenclature, Nature of C-X Bond, Methods of Preparation of Haloalkanes, Preparation of Haloarenes, Physical Properties, Chemical Reactions, Polyhalogen Compounds. |
| 7 | Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers | Classification, Nomenclature, Structures of Functional Groups, Alcohols and Phenols, Some Commercially Important Alcohols, Ethers. |
| 8 | Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids | Nomenclature and Structure of Carbonyl Group, Preparation of Aldehydes and Ketones, Physical Properties, Chemical Reactions, Uses of Aldehydes and Ketones, Nomenclature and Structure of Carboxyl Group, Methods of Preparation of Carboxylic Acids, Physical Properties, Chemical Reactions, Uses of Carboxylic Acids. |
| 9 | Amines | Structure of Amines, Classification, Nomenclature, Preparation of Amines, Physical Properties, Chemical Reactions, Method of Preparation of Diazonium Salts, Physical Properties, Chemical Reactions, Importance of Diazonium Salts in Synthesis of Aromatic Compounds. |
| 10 | Biomolecules | Carbohydrates, Proteins, Enzymes, Vitamins, Nucleic Acids, Hormones |
| BIOLOGY |
| UNIT | UNITES NAME | TOPICS |
| 1 | Reproductive | Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants | The flower- an attractive part of angiosperm pre-fertilization structures and phenomena: stamens, microfibrils and pollinators, pistil, neoplasms and embryos, pollination, double fertilization, fertilization, post-formations and events, embryos, embryos, seeds , apomixis and polyembryony. |
| Human Reproduction | The Male Reproductive System, The Female Reproductive System, Gametogenesis, Menstrual Cycle, Fertilisation and Implantation, Pregnancy and Embryonic Development, Parturition and Lactation. |
| Reproductive Health | Reproductive health–problems and strategies, population stabilization and birth control, medical termination of pregnancy, sexually transmitted iseases, infertility. |
| 2 | Genetics and Evolution | Principles of Inheritance and Variation | Mendel’s Laws of inheritance, inheritance of one gene: law of dominance, law of segregation, co-dominance, inheritance of two genes: law of independent assortment, chromosomal theory of inheritance, linkage and recombination, polygenic inheritance, pleiotropy, sex determination: sex determination in honey bee and humans, mutation, genetic disorders: pedigree analysis, mendelian disorders-colour blidness, haemophilia, sickle-cell anaemia, phenylketonuria, thalassemia, chromosomal disorders. |
| Molecular Basis Of Inheritance | The DNA, the search for genetic material, rna world, replication, transcription, genetic code, translation, regulation of gene expression, human genome project, dna fingerprinting. |
| Evolution | Origin of life, evolution of life forms – a theory, what are the evidences for evolution?, what is adaptive radiation, biological evolution, mechanism of evolution, hardy – weinberg principle, a brief account of evolution, origin and evolution of man. |
| 3 | Biology in Human Welfare | Human Health and Disease | Common Diseases in Humans- Bacterial borne, Virus borne, fungal borne, protozoan and worm borne, Immunity – Innate Immunity, Acquired Immunity, Active and Passive Immunity, vaccination and Immunization, Allergies, Auto Immunity, Immune System in The Body, AIDS, CANCER, Drugs and Alcohol Abuse. |
| Microbes in Human Welfare | Microbes in household products, microbes in industrial products, microbes in sewage treatment, microbes in production of biogas, microbes as biocontrol agents , microbes as biofertilisers. |
| 4 | Biotechnology | Biotechnology: Principles and Processes | Principles of biotechnology-genetic engineering, bioprocess engineering , tools of recombinant dna technology-restriction enzymes, cloning vectors, competent host (for transformation with recombinant DNA) , processes of recombinant dna technology-isolation of the genetic material (DNA), cutting of dna at specific locations, amplification of gene of interest using pcr, insertion of recombinant dna into the host cell/organism, obtaining the foreign gene product, downstream processing. |
| Biotechnology and its Applications | Biotechnological applications in agriculture, biotechnological applications in medicine-genetically engineered insulin, gene therapy, molecular diagnosis, transgenic animals, ethical issues. |
| 5 | Ecology | Organims and Population | Populations, population attributes, population growth, life history variation, population interactions. |
| Ecosystem | Ecosystem–structure and function, productivity, decomposition, energy flow, ecological pyramids. |
| Biodiversity and Conservation | Biodiversity: patterns of biodiversity, loss of biodiversity, biodiversity conservation. |
