Assam HS Exam 2025 - Routine, Admit Card, Syllabus, Result

Bengali: Unit 01

Bengali: Unit 02

Bengali: Unit 03

Bengali: Unit 04

Bengali: Unit 05

Bodo: Unit 01

Bodo: Unit 02

Bodo: Unit 03

Bodo: Unit 04

Bodo: Unit 05

Garo: Unit 01

Garo: Unit 02

Garo: Unit 03

Garo: Unit 04

Nepali: Unit 01

Nepali: Unit 02

Nepali: Unit 03

Nepali: Unit 04

Nepali: Unit 05

Urdu: Unit 01

Urdu: Unit 02

Urdu: Unit 03

Urdu: Unit 04

Urdu: Unit 05

Khasi: Unit 01

Khasi: Unit 02

Khasi: Unit 03

Khasi: Unit 04

Mizo: Unit 01

Mizo: Unit 02

Mizo: Unit 03

Mizo: Unit 04

Mizo: Unit 05

Manipuri: Unit 01

Manipuri: Unit 02

Manipuri: Unit 03

Manipuri: Unit 04

Manipuri: Unit 05

Hmar: Unit 01

Hmar: Unit 02

Hmar: Unit 03

Hmar: Unit 04

Alternative english: Unit 01

• Testament of a Walker: R.K. Narayan
• The scarecrow: Satyajit Ray
• The gift of the magi: O’Henry

Alternative english: Unit 02

• Ozymandias of Egypt: Percy Bysshe Shelley
• La Belle Dame Sans Merci: John Keats
• Village Song: Sarojini Naidu

Alternative english: Unit 03

• Transformation of sentences (affirmative, interrogative, negative)
• Question tags
• Use of Prepositions

Alternative english: Unit 04

Sanskrit: Unit 01

Sanskrit: Unit 02

Sanskrit: Unit 03

Sanskrit: Unit 04

Arabic: Unit 01

• Prose
• Poetry

Arabic: Unit 02

• Grammar (applied)
• Writing skills
• Reading skills

Persian: Unit 01

• Advanced reading skill
• Advanced writing skills: (i) Letter and application writing, (ii) summary writing of a lesson in Persian/ English/ Assamese/ Bengali
• Applied grammar: (i) Definition of the following terms with example-(a) noun (Ism), (b) pronoun (zamir), (c) prepositions (ezafe), (d) verb (f’eil), (ii) Formation of the following: (a) Imperatives (a’mar) (b) aorists (muzare)
• Applied grammar: (iii) Conjugation of verbs in different tenses, (iv) translation into Persian from English/ Assamese/ Bengali

Persian: Unit 02

• Prose
• Poetry

English: Unit 01

• Reading unseen passage: (a) Factual passages example instructions, descriptions, reports. (b) Discursive passage involving opinion example argumentative, persuasive or interpretative text
• Reading unseen passage: (c) Literary passage example extract from fiction, drama, poetry, essay or biography

English: Unit 02

• Short compositions: Advertisement and notices
• A report or a factual description based on verbal input provided
• Letter: (a) Business or official letters (for making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for and giving information, placing orders and sending replies), (b) application for a job

English: Unit 03

• Narration: direct and indirect
• Voice
• Tenses
• Preposition

English: Unit 04

• The last lesson: Alphonse Daudet
• Lost spring: Anees Jung
• Indigo: Louis Fischer

English: Unit 05

• My mother at sixty six: Kamala Das
• Keeping quiet: Pablo Neruda
• A thing of beauty: John Keats

English: Unit 06

• The enemy: Pearl S. Buck
• On the face of it: Susan Hill
• Magh bihu or maghar domahi: Dr. Prafulla Dutta Goswami

Psychology: Unit 01

• Individual differences in human functioning, assessment of psychological attributes, intelligence: Theories of intelligence-theory of multiple intelligence, planning, attention arousal and simultaneous-successive model of intelligence
• Individual difference in Intelligence, culture and intelligence, emotional intelligence, special abilities

Psychology: Unit 02

• Concept of self, cognitive behavioural aspects of self-self esteem, self-efficacy, and self-regulation
• Culture and self, concept of personality
• Major approaches to the study of personality-type approach, trait approach, five factor model of personality, psychodynamic approach, behavioural approach, cultural approach, humanistic approach, healthy personality, assessment of personality

Psychology: Unit 03

• Nature, types, and sources of stress, coping with stress, promoting positive health and well-being

Psychology: Unit 04

• Concept of abnormality and psychological disorders, classifications of psychological disorders, factors underlying abnormal behavior, major psychological disorders

Psychology: Unit 05

• Nature and process of psychotherapy, types of therapies, rehabilitation of the mentally ill

Psychology: Unit 06

• Explaining social behaviour, natural and components of attitudes, attitude formation, prejudice and discrimination, strategies for handling prejudice, social cognition, impression formation and explaining, behaviour of others through attribution
• Behaviour in presence of others, prosocial behavior

Psychology: Unit 07

• Nature and promotion of groups, types of groups, influence of group an individual behavior, conformity, compliance, and obedience

Psychology: Unit 08

• Human environment relationship, environmental effects on human behaviour pollution, crowding, natural disasters, promoting pro-environmental behavior
• Psychology and social concerns: Poverty and discrimination, aggression, violence, and peace, Mahatma Gandhi on non-violence, health

Psychology: Unit 09

• Developing an effective psychologist, general skills, specific skills, counselling skills

Education: Unit 01

• Mudaliar commission: Defects of education, aims of education
• Kothari commission: Aims of education, structural pattern, vocationalisation of secondary education
• Secondary education in Assam in post independence period: Problems of secondary education in Assam

Education: Unit 02

• Distance education-meaning, definition objective, nature, and importance, open education-meaning, objective, merits, and demerits, open university-meaning, objective, and development of open university

Education: Unit 03

• Environmental education: Concept, objective, and scope, need and importance, principles of environmental education, environmental education in educational institutions
• Population education: Concept, objectives, and characteristics, need and importance, population education in educational institutions
• Value education: Meaning and characteristics, need and importance, value education in educational institutions

Education: Unit 04

• Meaning, nature, and characteristics, factors of learning, methods of learning-trial and error, learning by conditioning, insightful learning

Education: Unit 05

• Memory and forgetting: Meaning and characteristics of memory, the process of memorization, meaning of forgetting, causes of forgetting, role of teacher in improvement of memory
• Attention and interest: Meaning and characteristics of attention, determinants (conditions) of attention, types of attention, Interest-meaning and types, relation between attention and interest, educational significance of attention and interest

Education: Unit 06

• Mental health: Meaning and characteristics, characteristics of a mentally healthy person
• Mental hygiene: Meaning, objective, and scope, functions of mental hygiene, home environment and mental health, mental health and school

Education: Unit 07

• Concept of statistics, uses of statistics in education and psychology
• Measures of central tendency: Meaning and uses, various measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode)-their meaning, uses, merits and demerits
• Measures of central tendency: Calculation of mean, median, and mode-from grouped and ungrouped data (in case of mean both long and short method)
• Measures of variability: Meaning and uses, range-meaning, uses, merits-demerits and calculation, quartile deviation-meaning, uses, merits-demerits and calculation

Logic and philosophy-logic: Unit 01

• Its kinds-scientific induction

Logic and philosophy-logic: Unit 02

• Formal ground and material ground, paradox of induction

Logic and philosophy-logic: Unit 03

• Conditions of valid hypothesis

Logic and philosophy-logic: Unit 04

Logic and philosophy-philosophy: Unit 01

• Scientific realism

Logic and philosophy-philosophy: Unit 02

• Subjective idealism and objective idealism

Logic and philosophy-philosophy: Unit 03

• Its meaning and nature

Logic and philosophy-philosophy: Unit 04

• Its meaning and nature

Economics-introductory microeconomics: Unit 01

• What is microeconomics?, central problems of an economy, production possibility curve, and opportunity cost

Economics-introductory microeconomics: Unit 02

• Consumer’s equilibrium: Meaning and attainment of equilibrium through utility approach-one commodity cases
• Demand: Concept of demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve, market demand, movement along and shifts in demand curve, measurement of price elasticity of demand-percentage, total expenditure and geometric methods
• Demand: Total expenditure and geometric methods

Economics-introductory microeconomics: Unit 03

• Production function: Returns to factor
• Supply: Market supply, determinants of supply, supply schedule, supply curve, movement along and shifts in supply curve, price elasticity of supply, measurement of price elasticity of supply-percentage
• Cost and revenue: Concepts of costs, short-run cost curves (fixed and variable costs; total, average, and marginal costs); concepts of revenue-total, average and marginal revenue and their relationship

Economics-introductory microeconomics: Unit 04

• Forms of market: Perfect competition-their meaning and features
• Price determination under perfect competition: Equilibrium price, effects of shifts in demand and supply

Economics-introductory microeconomics: Unit 05

• Change in cost conditions and its impact on the form’s and market supply
• Geometric method to determine the elasticity of supply
• Effects of taxation: Per unit tax, lump sum tax

Economics-introductory macroeconomics: Unit 01

• Macroeconomics: Meaning
• Circular flow of income, concepts of GDP, GNP, NDP, NNP (at market price and factor cost)

Economics-introductory macroeconomics: Unit 02

• Aggregate demand, aggregate supply, and their components
• Propensity to consume and propensity to save (average and marginal)
• Meaning of involuntary unemployment and full employment
• Determination of income and employment: Two sector model
• Concept of investment multiplier and its working
• Measures to correct excess and deficient demand-availability of credit

Economics-introductory macroeconomics: Unit 03

• Money: Meaning, evolution, and functions
• Central bank: Meaning and functions
• Commercial banks: Meaning and functions
• Recent significant reforms and issues in Indian banking system: Privatisation and modernization

Economics-introductory macroeconomics: Unit 04

• Government budget-meaning and its components
• Objectives of government budget
• Classification of receipts-revenue and capital; classification of expenditure-revenue and capital, plan and non-plan and developmental and non-developmental
• Balanced budget, surplus budget and deficit budget: Meaning and implications
• Revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, and primary deficit: Meaning and implications; measures to contain different deficits
• Downsizing the role of government: Meaning and implications
• The introduction of GST in the Indian economy

Economics-introductory macroeconomics: Unit 05

• Foreign exchange rate-merits and demerits; determination through demand and supply
• Balance of payments accounts-components

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 01

• Emergence of two power blocs after the second world war
• Arenas of the cold war
• Challenges to bipolarity: Non aligned movement, quest for new international economic order

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 02

• Russia, Balkan states and Central Asian states, introduction of democratic politics and capitalism in post-communist regimes
• India's relations with Russia

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 03

• Growth of unilateralism: Afghanistan, first Gulf war, response to 9/ 11 and attack on Iraq
• India's renegotiation of its relationship with the USA

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 04

• Creation and expansion of European union, ASEAN
• India's changing relations with China

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 05

• Democratization and its reversals in Pakistan and Nepal
• Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka
• Impact of economic globalization on the region
• India's relations with its neighbours

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 06

• Restructuring and the future of the UN
• India's position in the restructured UN
• Rise of new international across: New international economic organizations, NGOs

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 07

• Traditional concerns of security and politics of disarmament
• Non-traditional or human security: Global poverty, health, and education
• Issues of human rights and migration

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 08

• Environment movement and evolution of global environmental norms
• Rights of indigenous people
• India's stand in global environmental debates

Political science-contemporary world-politics: Unit 09

• Economic, cultural and political manifestations
• India as an arena of globalization and struggles against it

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 01

• Nature of congress dominance at the national level, uneven dominance at the state level, coalitional nature of congress
• Major opposition parties

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 02

• Legacy of partition; challenge of ‘refugee’ resettlement, the Kashmir problem
• Organization and reorganization of states; political conflicts over language

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 03

• Five year plans, expansion of state sector and the rise of new economic interests
• Green revolution and its political fallouts

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 04

• Sino-Indian War of 1962, Indo-Pak War of 1965 and 1971
• India’s nuclear programme and shifting alliance in world politics

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 05

• Non-congressism and electoral upset of 1967, congress split and reconstitution, congress victory in 1971 elections

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 06

• Search for ‘committed’ bureaucracy and judiciary
• Navnirman movement in Bihar movement
• Emergency; context, constitutional and extra-constitutional dimensions, resistance to emergency
• 1977 elections and the formation of Janata Party
• Rise of civil liberties organizations

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 07

• Rise of regional parties
• The Kashmir situation
• Challenges and responses in the North East

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 08

• Farmers’ movements, women’s movement, environment and development-affected people’s movements

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 09

• Participatory upsurge in 1990s
• Rise of the JD and the BJP
• Increasing role of regional parties and coalition politics

Political science-Politics in India since independence: Unit 10

• Challenge of and responses to globalization: New economic policy and its opposition
• Rise of obcs in north indian politics
• Dalit politics in electoral and non-electoral arena

History-archaeology, ancient India and Assam through the ages: Unit 01

History-archaeology, ancient India and Assam through the ages: Unit 02

History-archaeology, ancient India and Assam through the ages: Unit 03

History-archaeology, ancient India and Assam through the ages: Unit 04

History-Medieval India: Unit 01

History-Medieval India: Unit 02

History-Medieval India: Unit 03

History-Medieval India: Unit 04

History-Medieval India: Unit 05

History-Modern India: Unit 01

History-Modern India: Unit 02

History-Modern India: Unit 03

History-Modern India: Unit 04

History-Modern India: Unit 05

History-Modern India: Unit 06

History-Modern India: Unit 07

Sociology-Indian society: Unit 01

• Introducing Indian society: Colonialism, nationalism, class and community, demographic structure, rural-urban linkages and divisions

Sociology-Indian society: Unit 02

• Tribal society, the market as a social institutions

Sociology-Indian society: Unit 03

• Caste prejudice, scheduled castes and other backward classes
• Marginalization of tribal communities, the protection of religious minorities

Sociology-Indian society: Unit 04

• Problems of communalism, regionalism, casteism and patriarchy, role of the state in a plural and unequal society, what we share

Sociology-changes and development in India: Unit 01

• Process of structural change: Colonisation, industrialization, urbanization, process of cultural change: Modernization, sanskritisation
• Social Reform Movements and Laws

Sociology-changes and development in India: Unit 02

• The constitution as an instrument of social change, parties, pressure groups and democratic politics

Sociology-changes and development in India: Unit 03

• The green revolution and agrarian society, from planned industrialization to liberalization, changes in the class structure

Sociology-changes and development in India: Unit 04

• Media and social change

Sociology-changes and development in India: Unit 05

• Class-based movements: Workers, peasants, caste-based movements: Dalit movement, backward castes, trends in upper caste responses, women’s movements in independent India, environmental movements

Geography-fundamentals of human geography: Unit 01

• Nature and Scope

Geography-fundamentals of human geography: Unit 02

• Population of the world-distribution, density and growth
• Age-sex ratio; rural-urban composition
• Human development-concept; selected indicators, international comparisons

Geography-fundamentals of human geography: Unit 03

• Primary activities-concept and changing trends; gathering, pastoral, mining, subsistence agriculture, modern agriculture; people engaged in agriculture and allied activities-some examples from selected countries
• Secondary activities-concept; manufacturing: Agro-processing, household, small scale, large scale; people engaged in secondary activities-some examples from selected countries
• Tertiary activities-concept; trade, transport, and communication; services; people engaged in tertiary activities-some examples from selected countries
• Quaternary activities-concept; knowledge based industries; people engaged in quaternary activities-some examples from selected countries

Geography-fundamentals of human geography: Unit 04

• Land transport-roads, railways-rail network, water transport-major ocean routes; air transport-intercontinental air routes; oil and gas pipelines; satellite communication and cyberspace
• International trade-basis and changing patterns; ports as gateways of international trade, role of WTO in international trade

Geography-fundamentals of human geography: Unit 05

• Settlement types-rural and urban; morphology of cities (case study); distribution of mega cities; problems of human settlements in developing countries

Geography-India: People and economy: Unit 01

• Population-distribution, density and growth; composition of population: Linguistic and religious; rural-urban population change through time-regional variations; occupation; migration: International, national-causes and consequences
• Human development-selected indicators and regional patterns

Geography-India: People and economy: Unit 02

• Rural settlements-types and distribution; urban settlements-types, distribution and functional classification

Geography-India: People and economy: Unit 03

• Land resources-general land use; agricultural land use-major crops; agricultural development and problems, common property resources
• Water resources-availability and utilization-irrigation, domestic, industrial and other uses; scarcity of water and conservation methods
• Mineral and energy resources-metallic and non-metallic minerals and their distribution; conventional and non-conventional energy sources
• Industries-types and distribution; industrial location and clustering; changing pattern of selected industries-iron and steel, cotton textiles, sugar, petrochemicals and knowledge based industries
• Planning in India-target area planning; idea of sustainable development

Geography-India: People and economy: Unit 04

• Transport and communication-roads, railways, waterways and airways; oil and gas pipelines; national electric grids; communication networking's-radio, television, satellite and internet
• International trade-changing pattern of India’s foreign trade; sea ports and their hinterland and airports

Geography-India: People and economy: Unit 05

• Environmental pollution; urban-waste disposal; urbanization-rural-urban migration; problem of slums; land degradation

Geography-Assam-land, people, and economy: Unit 01

Geography-Assam-land, people, and economy: Unit 02

Geography-Assam-land, people, and economy: Unit 03

Geography-Assam-land, people, and economy: Unit 04

Anthropology: Unit 01

• Preliminary knowledge of human genetics
• Mendel’s laws of heredity monohybrid and dihybrid ratio
• Definition of race and racial criteria, significance of skin colour, eye form and colour, head form, and ABa blood groups as racial criteria
• Distinctive physical features of the major racial groups of man: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid and Australoid

Anthropology: Unit 02

• Tool making: Techniques of manufacturing core and flake tools, primary and secondary flaking, pressure flaking, grinding, and polishing
• Materials used in making prehistoric tools
• Tool families: Pebble tools, hand axe, cleaver, scrapers, microliths, points, blades, awl, graver, Celts, sickles, spear-head, arrow-head and bone tools
• Prehistoric cultures: A brief outline of the following prehistoric cultures of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods

Anthropology: Unit 03

• Economic life: Meaning and aspects, characteristic features of primitive or simple economic system
• Subsistence economy: Domestication of animals-pastoralism, agriculture-shifting cultivation, horticulture, terrace cultivation and plough cultivation

Anthropology: Unit 04

• Social anthropology: (i) Family-definition, forms and types: Nuclear family, joint family, family of orientation, family of procreation, monogamous and polygamous (polygynous and polyandrous). (ii) Functions of family, social nature of family
• Ethnography: (i) A brief outline of the land and people of north-east India. (ii) Study of material culture and economic life of the following communities-the garo: Shifting or jhum cultivation. The mishing: Plough cultivation

Anthropology: Unit 05

• Meaning and definition of ecology and environment
• Man as the main agent to disturb the ecological balance

Statistics: Unit 01

• Operators A and E
• Construction of diagonal difference tables
• Estimation of missing values, idea of interpretation
• Statements and applications of Newton's forward, backward, and Lagrange's interpolation formula

Statistics: Unit 02

• Basic concepts of random experiment, sample point, sample space and event occurrence of an event, union and intersection of events
• Complement of an event
• Certain and null events
• Exhaustive, mutually exclusive, and equally likely events
• Probability of an event
• Classical (without introducing idea of measure theory)
• Unconditional probability, conditional probability, dependent and independent events
• Addition rule of probability
• Statements and application of multiplication rule of probabilities
• Random variable and distribution: Random variable; discrete and continuous distribution of a random variable, PMJ. and PDF, density function. Mathematical expectation of a random variable. Mathematical expectation of the function of a random variable
• Random variable and distribution: Theorems on expectation of the sum and product of random variables-only application (without derivation). Idea of Bernoulli trials; binomial distribution; mathematical form, occurrence of the distribution
• Derivation of the distribution, calculation of mean and variance. Mathematical form, occurrence of the distribution, calculation of mean and variance. Normal distribution, mathematical form (without proof). Important properties and their applications

Statistics: Unit 03

• Sample and sampling
• Random sampling, parameter and statistic
• Sampling distribution
• Unbiased estimate of a parameter
• Standard error of sampling mean and sample preparation for random sampling (without derivation)-simple applications
• Statistical hypothesis-null hypothesis alternative hypothesis, level of significance
• Test (only two tailed test) for a hypothetical population mean on the basis of information supplied by a random sample drawn from a normal having known standard deviation (application only)
• An assumed mean (examples only)

Statistics: Unit 04

• Sample survey and complete enumeration
• Basic principles of sample survey, validity of optimization
• Principal steps in a survey, errors in a survey
• Sampling and non sampling errors
• Advantage of sample survey over complete enumeration
• Simple random sampling with and without replacement, estimation population mean and total, use of formula-mean and estimated population total
• Limitations of SRS
• Idea of stratified random sampling

Mathematics: Unit 01

• Relations and functions: Types of relations-reflexive, symmetric, transitive and equivalence relations. One to one and onto functions
• Inverse trigonometric functions: Definition, range, domain, principal value branches. Elementary properties of inverse trigonometric functions

Mathematics: Unit 02

• Matrices: Concept, notation, order, equality, types of matrices, zero matrix, transpose of a matrix, symmetric and skew symmetric matrices. Addition, multiplication and scalar multiplication of matrices, simple properties of addition
• Matrices: Simple properties of multiplication and scalar multiplication. Non-commutativity of multiplication of matrices and existence of non-zero matrices whose product is the zero matrix (restrict to square matrices of order 2)
• Matrices: Proof of the uniqueness of inverse; if it exists; (here all matrices will have real entries)
• Determinants: Determinant of a square matrix (up to 3 × 3 matrices), properties of determinants, minors, cofactors and applications of determinants in finding the area of a triangle. Adjoint and inverse of a square matrix
• Determinants: Solving system of linear equations in two or three variables (having unique solution) using inverse of a matrix

Mathematics: Unit 03

• Continuity and differentiability: Continuity and differentiability, derivative of composite functions, chain rule, derivatives of inverse trigonometric functions, derivative of implicit function
• Continuity and differentiability: Concept of exponential and logarithmic functions and their derivatives. Logarithmic differentiation. Derivative of functions expressed in parametric forms. Second order derivatives
• Application of derivatives: Applications of derivatives-rate of change, tangents and normals. Simple problems (that illustrate basic principles and understanding of the subject as well as real-life situations)
• Integrals: Integration as inverse process of differentiation. Integration of a variety of functions by substitution, by partial fractions, and by parts, only simple integrals of the type
• Integrals: Basic properties of definite integrals and evaluation of definite integrals
• Applications of the integrals: Applications in finding the area under simple curves, especially lines, arcs of circles/ parabolas/ ellipses (in standard form only), area between the two above said curves (the region should be clearly identifiable)
• Differential equations: Definition, order and degree, general and particular solutions of a differential equation. Formation of differential equation whose general solution is given. Solution of differential equations by method of separation of variables

Mathematics: Unit 04

• Vectors: Vectors and scalars, magnitude and direction of a vector. Direction cosines/ ratios of vectors. Types of vectors (equal, unit, zero, parallel and collinear vectors), position vector of a point, negative of a vector, components of a vector
• Vectors: Addition of vectors, multiplication of a vector by a scalar, position vector of a point dividing a line segment in a given ratio. Scalar (dot) product of vectors, projection of a vector on a line. Vector (cross) product of vectors
• Three-dimensional geometry: Direction cosines/ ratios of a line joining two points. Cartesian and vectors equation of a line, coplanar, and skew lines, shortest distance between two lines. Cartesian and vector equation of a plane
• Three-dimensional geometry: Angle between-(i) two lines, (ii) two planes

Mathematics: Unit 05

• Introduction, related terminology such as constraints, objective function, optimization, different types of linear programming (LP) problems, mathematical formulation of LP problems, graphical method of solution for problems in two variables
• Feasible and infeasible regions, feasible and infeasible solutions, optimal feasible solutions (up to three non-trivial constraints)

Mathematics: Unit 06

• Multiplication theorem on probability
• Conditional probability, independent events, total probability, Bayes theorem
• Random variable and its probability distribution, mean and variance of haphazard variable

Home science: Unit 01

• Concept of prenatal period: Concept; stages of prenatal development characteristics of babyhood
• Some specific characteristics: Physical development height, weight, body proportions; motor development during 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months, 9-12 months and 1-3 years (milestones only); social and emotional developments recognition of people around
• Some specific characteristics: Socialization, expression of emotions; cognitive development; stages of cognitive development
• Protection from preventable diseases: Definition of disease, different types of childhood diseases and how they spread, immunity and immunization-concept and types (natural and acquired)
• Protection from preventable diseases: Breast feeding (one of the ways to develop natural immune) immunization chart symptoms of childhood diseases-TB, DPT, polio, measles, cholera, diarrhoea
• Special needs of disadvantaged and disabled children: Concept different needs of children causes, type of disabilities (handicap)-physical neurological, social maladjustment defect characteristics and needs
• Substitute care at little children: Concept, different needs of children kinds of substitute child care, ICDS-objective and functions

Home science: Unit 02

• Planning meals for the family: Meaning and importance of meal planning principles and factors affecting meal planning, planning meals for the family; keeping in mind the needs of individual members, including children
• Planning meals for the family: Members suffering from fever and diarrhoea; role and preparation of ORS
• Ways to ensure good health for the family: Water for health, function, qualities, household method of making water safe for drinking-chemical, physical, mechanical
• Ways to ensure good health for the family: Food adulteration-definition and meaning of food adulteration as given by PFA common adulterants of different food stuff
• Ways to ensure good health for the family: Simple test for detection of the adulteration ill effects of some of the adulterants present in the food, Kesari dal, metanil yellow, argemone seed

Home science: Unit 03

• Family finance/ management of family finance and consumer education
• Family income: Definition, types, sources of family income supplementing family income need and ways
• Management of family income: Planning family budget-objectives, importance, steps in planning budget. Types of budget, record keeping-meaning, needs and importance procedure
• Savings and Investment: Meaning and importance of savings, investment-institutions for savings and investment banks, post-office, LIC, units, PPF., PF;-basis for selection of method of investment-risk, security, profit, tax saving
• Consumer protection and education: Meaning, rights duties and responsibilities, problems faced by consumer, consumer aids; labels, standardization marks, advertising, guide books/ leaflets, consumer redressal forum

Home science: Unit 04

• Clothing and its relation to personality: Elements of design-line, form, colour, texture, light; principles of design: Balance, rhythm, proportion, harmony emphasis; factors influencing selection of clothe-personality, age, climate, occupation, figure
• Clothing and its relation to personality: Occasion, fashion; purchase of fabrics-purpose, quality, cost, season and reliable shops (buying place)
• Selection of readymade garments: Quality of garment and good workmanship. Fabric, drape, design, seams, hem plackets and pleats, fasteners etc
• Care of clothes: General principles and methods of removing stains, finishing, cleaning, agents: Soap and detergent. Water-importance, general rules and methods

Home science: Unit 05

• Knowledge of home science and its application in everyday life-application of skill learnt through home science for supplementing family income-needs and way
• Home science related vocations and careers
• Home science as a subject in schools, college and institute-high school level, higher secondary level, college level, university, institute provide certificate and diploma ITI and Institution providing through distance education

Physics: Unit 01

• Electric charges and their conservation
• Coulomb’s law-force between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution
• Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric dipole, electric field due to dipole; torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field
• Electric field lines; electric flux, Statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet
• Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge, a dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of charges and of electric dipoles in an electrostatic field
• Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a conductor
• Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitors and capacitance, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor
• Van De Graaff generator

Physics: Unit 02

• Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity and mobility, and their relation with electric current; Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I characteristics (linear and nonlinear), electrical energy and power
• Electrical resistivity and conductivity
• Temperature dependence of resistance
• Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of cells in series and in parallel
• Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications
• Wheatstone bridge, meter bridge
• Potentiometer-principle and applications to measure potential difference, and for comparing EMF of EMFs cell’s; measurement of internal resistance of a cell

Physics: Unit 03

• Concept of magnetic field, Ørsted's experiment
• Biot-Savart law and its applications to current carrying circular loop (both at centre and at axial point), finite straight conductor
• Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire, straight and toroidal solenoids
• Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field
• Force between two parallel current carrying conductors-definition of one ampere current
• Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer-its current sensitivity and voltage sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter
• Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment
• Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron
• Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements
• Permanent magnets

Physics: Unit 04

• Faraday’s expt, magnetic flux, electromagnetic induction; growth and decay of currents in DC LR, RC circuits, Faraday’s law, induced EMF and current; Lenz’s Law, Eddy currents
• Self and mutual inductance
• Alternating currents voltage, peak and rms value of alternating current/ voltage power; reactance and impedance; LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only), LCR series circuit resonance power in AC circuits
• AC generator and transformer

Physics: Unit 05

• Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only)
• Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves
• Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses

Physics: Unit 06

• Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibers, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lensmaker’s formula
• Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact
• Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism
• Optical instruments: Human eye, image formation and accommodation, correction of eye defects (myopia, hypermetropia, presbyopia and astigmatism) using lenses
• Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers
• Wave optics: Wave front and Huygens’ principle, reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wave fronts
• Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’ principle
• Interference, Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent sources and sustained interference of light
• Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum

Physics: Unit 07

• Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard’s observations; Einstein’s photoelectric equation-particle nature of light
• Matter waves-wave nature of particles, de Broglie relation

Physics: Unit 08

• Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford’s atomic model; Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum
• Composition and size of a nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones
• Mass-energy relation, mass defect; nuclear fission and fusion

Physics: Unit 09

• Semiconductors; semiconductor diode-I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED, photodiode, solar cell
• Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of a transistor, transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator
• Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND, and NOR)
• Transistor as a switch

Physics: Unit 10

• Elements of a communication system (block diagram only); bandwidth of signals (speech, TV and digital data); bandwidth of transmission medium
• Propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, sky and space wave propagation
• Need for modulation
• Production and detection of an amplitude-modulated wave

Chemistry: Unit 01

• Classification of solids based on different binding forces: Molecular, ionic, covalent and metallic solids, amorphous and crystalline solids (elementary idea), unit cell in two dimensional and three dimensional lattices
• Calculation of density of unit cell, packing in solids, voids, number of atoms per unit cell in a cubic unit cell, point defects

Chemistry: Unit 02

• Types of solutions, expression of concentration of solutions of solids in liquids, solubility of gases in liquids, solid solutions, colligative properties-relative lowering of vapour pressure, elevation of boiling point, depression of freezing point
• Osmotic pressure, determination of molecular masses using colligative properties

Chemistry: Unit 03

• Redox reactions; conductance in electrolytic solutions, specific and molar conductivity variations of conductivity with concentration, Kohlrausch’s law, electrolysis, galvanic cells; lead accumulator, EMF of a cell, standard electrode potential
• Nernst equation and its application to chemical cells

Chemistry: Unit 04

• Rate of a reaction (average and instantaneous), factors affecting rates of reaction: Concentration, temperature, catalyst; order and molecularity of a reaction; rate law and specific rate constant
• Integrated rate equations and half life (only for zero and first order reactions)

Chemistry: Unit 05

• Adsorption: Physisorption and chemisorption; factors affecting adsorption of gases on solids; colloidal state: Distinction between true solutions, colloids, and suspensions; lyophilic, lyophobic multimolecular and macromolecular colloids
• Properties of colloids; Tyndall effect, Brownian movement, electrophoresis, coagulation

Chemistry: Unit 06

• Principles and methods of extraction: Concentration, occurrence and principles of extraction of aluminium, copper, zinc, and iron

Chemistry: Unit 07

• Group 15 elements: General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence, oxidation states, trends in physical and chemical properties; nitrogen-preparation, properties and uses
• Group 15 elements: Compounds of nitrogen-preparation and properties of ammonia and nitric acid, oxides of nitrogen (structure only); halides (PCl₃, PCl₅) and oxoacids (elementary idea only)
• Group 16 elements: General introduction, electronic configuration, oxidation states, occurrence, trends in physical and chemical properties; dioxygen: Preparation, properties and uses; simple oxides; ozone. Sulphur-allotropic forms
• Group 16 elements: Compounds of sulphur preparation, properties and uses of sulphur dioxide; sulphuric acid: Industrial process of manufacture, properties and uses
• Group 17 elements: General introduction, electronic configuration, oxidation states, occurrence, trends in physical and chemical properties; compounds of halogens: Preparation, properties and uses of chlorine and hydrochloric acid
• Group 17 elements: Compounds of halogens-interhalogen compounds, oxoacids or halogens (structures only)
• Group 18 Elements: General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence, trends in physical and chemical properties, uses

Chemistry: Unit 08

• General introduction, electronic configuration, occurrence and characteristics of transition metals, general trends in properties of the first row transition metals-metallic character, ionization enthalpy, oxidation states, ionic radii, colour
• Catalytic property, magnetic properties, interstitial compounds, alloy formation
• Lanthanoids: Electronic configuration, oxidation states

Chemistry: Unit 09

• Coordination compounds: Introduction, ligands, coordination number, colour, magnetic properties and shapes, IUPAC nomenclature of mononuclear coordination compounds, bonding; Werner’s theory, VBT, CFT; isomerism

Chemistry: Unit 10

• Haloalkanes: Nomenclature, nature of C-X bond, physical and chemical properties, mechanism of substitution reactions
• Haloarenes: Nature of C-X bond, substitution reactions (directive influence of halogen for monosubstituted compounds only)
• Uses and environmental effects of-dichloromethane, trichloromethane, tetrachloromethane, iodoform, freons, DDT

Chemistry: Unit 11

• Alcohols: Nomenclature, methods of preparation, physical and chemical properties (primary alcohols only); identification of primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols; mechanism of dehydration of alcohol uses, some important compounds-methanol and ethanol
• Phenols: Nomenclature, methods of preparation, physical and chemical properties, acidic nature of phenols, electrophilic substitution reactions, uses of phenols
• Ethers: Nomenclature, methods of preparation, physical and chemical properties, uses

Chemistry: Unit 12

• Aldehydes and ketones: Nomenclature, nature of carbonyl group, methods of preparation, physical and chemical properties, and mechanism of nucleophilic addition, reactivity of alpha hydrogen in aldehydes; uses
• Carboxylic Acids: Nomenclature, acidic nature, methods of preparation, physical and chemical properties; uses

Chemistry: Unit 13

• Amines: Nomenclature, classification, structure, methods of preparation, physical and chemical properties, uses, identification of primary, secondary and tertiary amines
• Cyanides and isocyanides will be mentioned at relevant places in context

Chemistry: Unit 14

• Carbohydrates: Classification (aldoses and ketoses), monosaccharides (glucose and fructose)
• Proteins: Elementary idea of a-amino acids, peptide bond, polypeptides, proteins, primary structure, secondary structure, tertiary structure and quaternary structure (qualitative idea only), denaturation of proteins
• Hormones-elementary idea (excluding structures). Nucleic acids : DNA and RNA

Chemistry: Unit 15

• Classification: natural and synthetic, methods of polymerization (addition and condensation), copolymerization. Some important polymers: natural and synthetic like polythene, nylon, polyesters, Bakelite, rubber

Chemistry: Unit 16

• Chemicals in medicines-analgesics, tranquilizers, antiseptics, disinfectants, antimicrobials, antifertility drugs, antibiotics, antacids, antihistamines

Biology-Botany: Unit 01

• Sexual reproduction in flowering plants: (I) Flower-a fascinating organ of angiosperms; (ii) pre-fertilization: Structures and events; (iii) double fertilization; (iv) post-fertilization: Structures and events; (v) apomixis and polyembryony
• Human reproduction: (i) The male reproductive system; (ii) the female reproductive system; (iii) gametogenesis; (iv) menstrual cycle; (v) fertilization and implantation; (vi) pregnancy and embryonic development; (vii) parturition and lactation
• Reproductive health: (i) Reproductive health-problems and strategies; (ii) population explosion and birth control; (iii) medical termination of pregnancy; (iv) sexually transmitted diseases; (v) infertility

Biology-Botany: Unit 02

• Principles of inheritance and variation: (i) Mendel’s laws of inheritance; (ii) inheritance of one gene; (iii) inheritance of two genes; (iv) sex determination; (v) mutation; (vi) genetic disorders
• Molecular basis of inheritance: (i) The DNA; (ii) the search for genetic material; (iii) RNA world; (iv) replication; (v) transcription; (vi) genetic code; (vii) translation; (viii) regulation of gene expression; (ix) human genome project
• Molecular basis of Inheritance: (x) DNA fingerprinting
• Evolution: (i) Origin of life; (ii) evolution of life forms-a theory; (iii) evidences for evolution; (iv) adaptive radiation; (v) biological evolution; (vi) mechanism of evolution; (vii) Hardy-Weinberg principle

Biology-Botany: Unit 03

• Human health and diseases: (i) Common diseases in humans; (ii) immunity; (iii) aids; (vi) cancer; (v) drugs and alcohol abuse
• Strategies for enhancement in food production: (i) Animal husbandry
• Microbes in human welfare: (I) Microbes in household products; (ii) microbes in industrial products; (iii) microbes in sewage treatment; (iv) microbes in production of biogas; (v) microbes as biocontrol agents; (vi) microbes as biofertilizers

Biology-Botany: Unit 04

• Biotechnology; principles and processes: (I) Principles of biotechnology; (ii) tools of recombinant DNA technology; (iii) processes of recombinant DNA technology
• Biotechnology and its application: (i) Biotechnological applications in agriculture; (ii) biotechnological applications in medicine; (iii) transgenic animals; (iv) ethical issues

Biology-Botany: Unit 05

• Organisms and populations: (I) Organism and its environment; (ii) populations
• Ecosystems: (i) Ecosystem-structure and function; (ii) productivity; (iii) decomposition; (iv) energy flow; (v) ecological pyramids; (vi) ecological succession; (vii) nutrient cycling; (viii) ecosystem services
• Biodiversity and conservation: (I) Biodiversity; (ii) biodiversity conservation; (iii) national park and sanctuaries of Assam with special reference to conservation of endangered species
• Bioresearches of Assam: (i) Medicinal and timber yielding plants
• Environmental issues: (i) Air pollution and its control; (ii) water pollution and its control; (iii) solid wastes; (iv) agrochemicals and their effects; (v) radioactive wastes; (vi) greenhouse effect and global warming
• Environmental issues: (vii) Ozone depletion in the stratosphere; (viii) degradation by improper resource utilization and maintenance; (ix) deforestation

Biology-Zoology: Unit 01

• Sexual reproduction in flowering plants: (I) Flower-a fascinating organ of angiosperms; (ii) pre-fertilization: Structures and events; (iii) double fertilization; (iv) post-fertilization: Structures and events; (v) apomixis and polyembryony
• Human reproduction: (i) The male reproductive system; (ii) the female reproductive system; (iii) gametogenesis; (iv) menstrual cycle; (v) fertilization and implantation
• Reproductive health: (i) Reproductive health-problems and strategies; (ii) medical termination of pregnancy; (iii) sexually transmitted diseases

Biology-Zoology: Unit 02

• Principles of inheritance and variation: (i) Mendel’s laws of inheritance; (ii) inheritance of one gene; (iii) inheritance of two genes; (iv) sex determination; (v) mutation; (vi) genetic disorders
• Molecular basis of inheritance: (i) The DNA; (ii) the search for genetic material; (iii) replication; (iv) transcription; (v) genetic code; (vi) translation; (vii) human genome project
• Evolution: (i) Origin of life; (ii) evolution of life forms-a theory; (iii) evidences for evolution; (iv) adaptive radiation; (v) biological evolution; (vi) mechanism of evolution; (vii) Hardy-Weinberg principle; (viii) a brief account of evolution
• Evolution: (ix) Origin and evolution of man

Biology-Zoology: Unit 03

• Human health and diseases: (i) Common diseases in humans; (ii) immunity; (iii) AIDS; (vi) cancer; (iv) drugs and alcohol abuse
• Strategies for enhancement in food production: (i) Plant breeding; (ii) single cell protein; (iv) tissue culture
• Microbes in human welfare: (I) Microbes in household products; (ii) microbes in industrial products; (iii) microbes in sewage treatment; (iv) microbes in production of biogas; (v) microbes as biocontrol agents; (vi) microbes as biofertilizers

Biology-Zoology: Unit 04

• Biotechnology; principles and processes: (I) Principles of biotechnology; (ii) tools of recombinant DNA technology; (iii) processes of recombinant DNA technology
• Biotechnology and its application: (i) Biotechnological applications in agriculture; (ii) biotechnological applications in medicine; (iii) transgenic animals

Biology-Zoology: Unit 05

• Organisms and populations: (I) Organism and its environment; (ii) populations
• Biodiversity and conservation: (I) Biodiversity; (ii) biodiversity conservation; (iii) national park and sanctuaries of Assam with special reference to conservation of endangered species
• Bioresearches of Assam: (i) Medicinal and timber yielding plants; (ii) cervicogenic resources (muga and eri)
• Environmental issues: (i) Air pollution and its control; (ii) water pollution and its control; (iii) solid wastes

Geology: Unit 01

• Rocks, its definition, and types (igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic), their distinguishing characters
• Igneous: Its definition and composition, forms of igneous rock. Differentiation of magma. Texture and structure of igneous rock. Structure (columnar, flow, pillow, vesicular, sheet, amygdaloidal)
• Igneous: Classification of igneous rocks on the basis of texture, mineralogical composition and color. Study of the following rocks with respect to their mineralogical composition and texture: Granite, pegmatite, rhyolite, gabbro, dolerite, basalt
• Sedimentary: Texture and structure of sedimentary rocks. Processes of formation of sedimentary rocks. Study of the following rocks: Sandstone, limestone
• Metamorphic: Definition, agents and types of metamorphism. Study of the following rocks with respect to their mineralogical composition and texture and structure: Schist, gneiss, and quartzite

Geology: Unit 02

• Precambrian of NE India
• Precambrian of Vindhyan
• An outline of the tertiary stratigraphy of the NE with emphasis on its lithology, paleontology, and economic importance

Geology: Unit 03

• Definition of ore
• Elementary idea of the processes of formation of mineral deposits
• Origin and mode of occurrence of coal and petroleum
• Mode of occurrence, distribution in India and uses of the following in the NE-coal, petroleum

Geology: Unit 04

• Ground water: Definition, elementary idea of hydrologic cycle, porosity, permeability, aquifers, water table
• Engineering geology: Selection of dam site, flood-its geological causes, prevention with a view to proper utility

Geology: Unit 05

• Fossil: Definition, mode of preservation, uses
• A brief morphological study of the phylum/ class brachiopoda, and gastropoda

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 01

• Management-concept, objectives, importance
• Nature of management; management as science, art, profession
• Management functions-planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling
• Coordination-nature and importance

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 02

• Principles of management-meaning, nature, and significance
• Fayol’s principle of management
• Taylor’s scientific management-principles

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 03

• Business environment-meaning and importance
• Dimensions of business environment-social, technological, political, and legal
• Economic environment in India: Impact of government policy changes on business and industry with special reference to adoption of the policies of liberalization

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 04

• Meaning, features, importance, limitations
• Planning process

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 05

• Meaning and importance
• Steps in the process of organizing
• Delegation: Meaning, elements and importance
• Decentralization: Meaning and importance, _x0099_difference between delegation and decentralization

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 06

• Meaning, need, and importance of staffing
• Steps in staffing process
• Recruitment-meaning and sources
• Selection-meaning and process
• Training and development-meaning, need, methods-on the job and off the job methods of training

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 07

• Meaning, importance, and principles
• Elements of direction: Supervision-meaning and importance. Motivation-meaning and importance; financial and non-financial incentives, leadership-meaning, importance, qualities of a good leader
• Elements of direction: Communication-meaning and importance, formal and informal communication

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 08

• Meaning and importance
• Steps in the process of control

Business studies-principles and functions of management: Unit 09

• Business finance-meaning of financial management

Business studies-business finance and marketing: Unit 01

• Financial planning-meaning and importance
• Capital structure-meaning
• Fixed and working capital-meaning and factors affecting their requirements

Business studies-business finance and marketing: Unit 02

• Concept of financial market: Money market-nature, instruments; capital market: Nature and types-primary and secondary market
• Distinction between capital market and money market
• Stock exchange-meaning, functions, securities, and exchange board of India (SEBI)-functions

Business studies-business finance and marketing: Unit 03

• Marketing-meaning, functions, role
• Distinction between marketing and selling
• Marketing mix-concept and elements: Product-nature, classification, branding, labeling, and packaging, promotion-meaning and role, promotion mix, role of advertising and personal selling; price: Factors influencing pricing

Business studies-business finance and marketing: Unit 04

• Importance of consumer protection
• Consumer rights
• Consument responsibilities
• Way and means of consumer protection-consumer awareness

Business studies-business finance and marketing: Unit 05

Accountancy-accounting for not-for-profit organizations and partnership firms: Unit 01

• Meaning, characteristics and accounting records of not-for-profit organization
• Receipts and payments account: Meaning and preparation
• Income and expenditure account: Meaning, special terms used in not-for-profit organizations, treatment of some peculiar items in income and expenditure account, concept of fund based and non-fund based accounting
• Income and expenditure account: Preparation of income and expenditure account and balance sheet from a receipts and payments account and additional information and from a given trial-balance

Accountancy-accounting for not-for-profit organizations and partnership firms: Unit 02

• Basic concepts, characteristics of partnership, partnership deed, contents of partnership deed
• Maintenance of capital accounts of partners: Fixed and fluctuating capital, distribution of profit among partners, interest on capital, drawings
• Interest on drawings, interest on partner’s loan to a firm, salary/ commission to a partner
• Preparation of final accounts of partnership firm

Accountancy-accounting for not-for-profit organizations and partnership firms: Unit 03

• Modes of reconstruction of partnership firm
• Admission of new partner: Matters relating to admission of a new partner, new profit sharing ratio, sacrificing ratio
• Goodwill: Nature, needs, factors affecting and methods of valuation: Average profits, super profits, accounting treatment of goodwill on admission of a partner
• Treatment of accumulated profits and losses, revaluation of assets and reassessment of liabilities

Accountancy-accounting for not-for-profit organizations and partnership firms: Unit 04

• Ascertaining the amount due to retiring/ deceased partner
• Matters requiring attention at the time of retirement: New profit sharing ratio, gaining ratio, treatment of goodwill, revaluation of assets and reassessment of liabilities, adjustment of accumulated profits/reserve and losses
• Disposal of amount due to retiring partner
• Adjustment of partners capital

Accountancy-accounting for not-for-profit organizations and partnership firms: Unit 05

• Meaning, dissolution of partnership, dissolution of a firm
• Settlement of accounts: Preparation of realization accounts and other related accounts; (excluding piecemeal distribution, insolvency of a partner and sale to a company)

Accountancy-company accounts and analysis of financial statements: Unit 01

• Company: Meaning and definitions, features, and types
• Share capital: Meaning, classifications, nature and class of shares
• Accounting for issue and allotment of equity and preference shares, oversubscription-proportionate allotment, under subscription, calls-in-arrears, calls-in-advance, issue of share at par, at a premium and at a discount
• Accounting for forfeiture of shares and re-issue of forfeited shares

Accountancy-company accounts and analysis of financial statements: Unit 02

• Debentures: Meaning and types
• Accounting for issue of debentures: Issue of debentures at par, at a premium, at a discount, oversubscription
• Terms of issue of debentures
• Redemption of debentures: By payment in lump-sum

Accountancy-company accounts and analysis of financial statements: Unit 03

• Financial statement: Meaning, nature, objectives, types, uses and importance, limitations
• Income statement: Form and contents
• Balance sheet: Form and contents

Accountancy-company accounts and analysis of financial statements: Unit 04

• Meaning, significance, objectives, tools of financial statements: Comparative statement, common size statements, trend analysis, limitations of analysis of financial statements

Accountancy-company accounts and analysis of financial statements: Unit 05

• Meaning of accounting ratios
• Ratio analysis: Objectives, advantages, limitations and types-activity (turnover) ratios

Accountancy-company accounts and analysis of financial statements: Unit 06

• Meaning, nature, and objectives of cash flow statements

Accountancy-computerized accounting system: Unit 01

• Concept and types of computerized accounting system (CAS)
• Features of a computerized accounting system
• Structure of a computerized accounting System

Accountancy-computerized accounting system: Unit 02

• Steps in installation of CAS
• Preparation of chart of accounts, codification and hierarchy of account heads
• Data entry, date validation, and data verification
• Adjusting entries
• Preparation of financial statements
• Closing entries and opening entries, security features generally available in cas (students are expected to understand and practice the entire accounting process)

Accountancy-computerized accounting system: Unit 03

• Concept of DBMS
• Objective of DBMS: Tables, queries, forms, reports
• Creating data tables for accounting

Accountancy-computerized accounting system: Unit 04

• Concept of an electronic spreadsheet (ES)
• Features offered by electronic spreadsheet (ES)

Computer science and application: Unit 01

• Object oriented programming: Concept of object oriented programming-data hiding, data encapsulation, class and object, abstract class and concrete class, polymorphism (implementation of polymorphism using Function overloading as an example in C++)
• Object oriented programming: Inheritance, advantages of object oriented programming over earlier programming methodologies
• Implementation of object oriented programming concepts in C++: Definition of a class, member of a class-data members and member functions (methods), using private and public visibility modes, default visibility mode (private)
• Implementation of object oriented programming concepts in C++: Member function definition-inside class definition and outside class definition using scope resolution operator (::); declaration of objects as instances of a class
• Implementation of object oriented programming concepts in C++: Accessing members from object (s), objects as function arguments-pass by value and pass by reference
• Constructor and destructor: Constructor-special characteristics, declaration and definition of a constructor, default constructor, overloaded constructors, copy constructor, constructor with default arguments
• Destructor: Special characteristics, declaration and definition of destructor
• Inheritance (extending classes): Concept of inheritances, base class, derived classes, protected visibility mode; single level inheritance, multilevel inheritance and multiple inheritance, privately derived, publicly derived and protected derived class
• Inheritance (extending classes): Accessibility of members from objects and within derived class (es)
• Data file handling: Need for a data file
• Binary file: Modification of data in a file, header file-fstream classes
• Pointers: Introduction to pointer, declaration and initialization of pointer; dynamic memory allocation/ deallocation operators: New, delete; pointers and arrays: Array of pointers, pointer to an array (1 dimensional array), function returning a pointer
• Pointers: Reference variables and use of alias; function call by reference. pointer to structure: de-reference/dereference operator: *, ->; self referential structure

Computer science and application: Unit 02

• Introduction to data structure, primitive and non-primitive data structure, linear and non-linear structure, static and dynamic data structure
• Arrays: One and two dimensional arrays-sequential allocation and address calculation; one dimensional array: Traversal, searching (linear, binary search), insertion of an element in an array, deletion of an element from an array
• Arrays: Sorting (insertion, selection) two-dimensional arrays-ttraversal finding sum/ difference of two nxm arrays containing numeric values, interchanging row and column elements in a two dimensional array
• Stack (array and linked implementation of stack): Introduction to stack (LIFO_Last in First Out operations) operations on stack (PUSH and POP) and its Implementation in C++
• Stack (array and linked implementation of stack): Converting expressions from INFIX to POSTFIX notation and evaluation of POSTFIX expression
• Queue: (circular array and linked implementation): Introduction to queue (FIFO-first in first out operations)

Computer science and application: Unit 03

• Database concepts: Introduction to database concepts and its need
• Relational data model: Concept of domain, tuple, relation, key, primary key, alternate key, candidate key
• Structured query language: General concepts-advantages of using SQL, data definition language and data manipulation language; data types: Number/ decimal, character/ varchar/ varchar2, date
• Structured query language: SQL commands-create table, drop table, alter table, update ….set…., insert, delete; select, distinct, from, where, in, between, groupby, having, orderby
• Structured query language: SQL commands-SQL; functions: SUM, AVG, COUNT, MAX AND MIN; obtaining results (select query) from 2 tables using equi-join, Cartesian product and union

Computer science and application: Unit 04

• Role of logical operations in computing
• Binary-valued quantities, Boolean variable, Boolean constant and Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT; truth tables; closure property, commutative law, associative law, identity law, inverse law, principle of duality, idempotent law, distributive law
• Absorption law, involution law, DeMorgan's law and their applications; obtaining sum of product (SOP) and product of sum (POS) form from the truth table, reducing Boolean expression SOP and POS) to its minimal form
• Use of Karnaugh map for minimization of Boolean expressions (up to 4 variables)

Computer science and application: Unit 05

• Evolution of networking: ARPANET, internet, interspace different ways of sending data across the network with reference to switching techniques (circuit and packet switching)
• Data communication terminologies: Concept of channel, bandwidth (Hz, KHz, MHz) and data transfer rate (bps, kbps, mbps, gbps, tbps)
• Transmission media: Twisted pair cable, coaxial cable, optical fiber, infrared, radio link, microwave link and satellite link
• Network devices: Modem, RJ45 connector, ethernet card, router, switch, gateway, wifi card
• Network topologies and types: Bus, Star, Tree, LAN, WAN, MAN
• Network protocol: TCP/ IP, file transfer protocol (FTP), PPP, remote login (telnet), internet wireless/ mobile communication protocol such as GSM, CDMA, GPRS, WLL
• Mobile telecommunication technologies: 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G electronic mail protocols such as SMTP, POP3 protocols for chat and video conferencing VOIP wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi and WiMax
• Network security concepts: Threats and prevention from viruses, worms, trojan horse, spams use of cookies, protection using firewall; India IT act, cyber law, cyber crimes, IPR issues, hacking
• Introduction to web services: WWW, hyper text markup language (HTML), extensible markup language (XML); hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP); domain names; URL; website, web browser, web servers; web hosting

Banking: Unit 01

• Growth of banking in India, presidency banks, imperial banks, state bank of India
• Classification of banks, scheduled and non scheduled banks, private and public sector banks
• Banking system, branch system, branch banking vs. unit banking

Banking: Unit 02

• Organization, management of RBI, its functions, RBI as the controller of money and credit and banks

Banking: Unit 03

• Meaning and types of financial markets, money and capital market, definition of money market
• Features of Indian money market and capital market
• Stock exchange, functions of stock exchange

Banking: Unit 04

• Development banks: SFCI, NABARD, SIDC, etc. LICI, GICI
• International financial institutions-IBRD, IMF, IDA, IFC, ADB etc. their meaning and purpose

Banking: Unit 05

• Meaning of negotiable instrument, features of bill of exchange, promissory note, cheque and their differences, meaning of holder
• Endorsement, significance of different kinds of endorsement

Banking: Unit 06

• Bearer and order cheque, open and crossed cheque, types of crossing and their significance, not negotiable and account payee crossing
• Payment of cheque, proper form of cheque, date, amount
• Condition for dishonor of cheques

Banking: Unit 07

• Significance of liquidity, cash balance, cash reserves, statutory liquidity ratio, overdraft, cash credit, loans and advance

Insurance-fire insurance: Unit 01

• General insurance business (nationalization) act 1972 organization and its working GICI and its subsidiaries

Insurance-fire insurance: Unit 02

• Introduction-definition-meaning and causes of fire, functions of fire insurance
• Fundamental principles-utmost good faith, insurable interest, indemnity and subrogation
• Distinction between fire insurance and life insurance

Insurance-fire insurance: Unit 03

• Procedure for taking out a fire insurance policy; renewal of policy, cancellation, and assignment of a fire insurance policy
• Proposal form

Insurance-fire insurance: Unit 04

• Procedure for recovering claim under fire policy
• Effects of more than one fire and one policy on claim

Insurance-marine insurance: Unit 01

• Meaning and definition of marine insurance contract
• Subject matter of marine insurance policy
• Principles of marine insurance policy

Insurance-marine insurance: Unit 02

• Different types of marine insurance policy, clauses in a marine insurance policy

Insurance-marine insurance: Unit 03

• Types of marine losses-total loss
• Procedure for making a claim under marine policy
• Distinction between actual and constructive total loss

Insurance-marine insurance: Unit 04

• Personal accidental insurance, definition and feature of personal accidental insurance
• Motor vehicle insurance, burglary insurance, credit insurance, mediclaim

Engineering drawing: Unit 01

• Pictorial drawing (isometric sketching) of cubes, rectangles (simple variation), circles and irregular curves, objects having planes all parallel to the corresponding pictorial planes, objects in planes which are not parallel to them
• Corresponding pictorial planes, cylindrical feature or rounded corners, dimensioning

Engineering drawing: Unit 02

• Graphical representation of information: Rectilinear chart, triangular chart, polar charts, semi-log and log-log graphs, nomography, concurrency charts, alignment charts, BIS and ISO conversion

Engineering drawing: Unit 03

• Orthographic projection: Orthographic projection of standard machine elements. Conversion of pictorial views into orthographic views and vice-versa (1st and 3rd angle projection systems)

Engineering drawing: Unit 04

• Thread profiles for (i) for power transmission, for fastenings (ii) ISO metric screw thread profile IS 4218, (iii) BSW, BSF, BSP, BA (iv) IS-2643, IS 554, etc. (v) unified thread

Engineering drawing: Unit 05

• Screwed fastenings: (I) Sectional representation of external and internal threaded assembly (IS 696), (ii) different types of bolts and nuts as used in practical fields and screw head

Engineering drawing: Unit 06

• Rivets: (i) Sanap head, pan head, flat countersunk head (60), (ii) joints lap, butt, double riveted double strap butt joint, (iii) zigzag riveting offset full section, (iv) proportions

Engineering drawing: Unit 07

• Free hand sketch of bearing, rod-joint, pipe-joint couplings, pulleys, keys, gears, screw jack

Multimedia and web technology: Unit 01

• Database terminology: Data, record/ tuple, table, database, concept of keys: Candidate key, primary key, alternate key, and foreign key; Introduction to RDBMS: Various types or RDBMS, introduction to SQL, creation of database, tables and views
• Introduction to stored procedures, and triggers, backup and restoring of database, introduction of replications, connecting to a back end database using connection string and other ways

Multimedia and web technology: Unit 02

• Internet protocol (IP): IP classes, IPV4, lPV6
• Mobile computing/ communication, GSM, SMS, chat, video conferencing
• Network security concepts: Firewall, cyber law, encryption/ decryption

Multimedia and web technology: Unit 03

• Web-server: Internet information server (IIS)/ personal web server (PWS)/ apache server, active server pages (ASP): Concept of ASP, features of ASP; constants: String and numeric; Data types: integer, floating point (single, double), string, date, Boolean
• Data types: Currency, variant, object; variables: Explicit and implicit declaration; operators: Arithmetic: +, - (unary and binary), *, /, \ (integer division) mod, ^; Comparison: <, >, <=, >=, <>, =; logical: AND, OR, NOT, XOR, EQV, IMP
• String operator: & or + (for concatenation); functions: Conversion functions: Abs(), CBool(),, CByte(), Clnt(), CStr(), String manipulation functions: UCase(), LCase(), Len(), Left(), Right(), Mid(), LTrim(); time and date functions: Date(), day(), hour()
• Time and date functions: Month(), month name()
• Arrays: Declaration and use of 1 dimensional arrays; controls: IF..THEN, IF..THEN..ELSE..END IF, IF..THEN..ELSEIF..THEN..END IF, SELECT..CASE..END SELECT, FOR..NEXT, FOR EACH..NEXT, DO WHILE..LOOP, DO..LOOP WHILE, DO UNTIL. LOOP
• Procedures and functions, passing parameters/ arguments; concept of object model structure (client to server and server to client); types of objects: Response, request, application, session, server, ASP Error; response object: Write method, add header
• Response object: appendtolog, binary write, using shortcuts <%=value/ expr%>, controlling information: Buffer, flush clear, end; request object: Request object collection-query string, form, server variables, cookies, client certificate
• Application: Contents, lock, unlock, remove, remove all; ASP components: AD rotator, content rotator, counter, page counter, permission checker; Text files: Open and read content from a text file; connecting with databases: Creation of DSN, using OLEDB
• Working on database: Inserting, retrieving, modifying/ updation of records from tables in databases using server objects (ADODB. connection, ADODB. record set); server variables: HTTP_user_agent, REMOTE_ADDER, REMOTE_HOST, SERVER_NAME

Multimedia and web technology: Unit 04

• Movie file formats: AVI, MPEG, SWF, MOV, DAT; movie frames: Concept or frame, frame buffer and frame rate; authoring tools; making animation, embedding audio/ video, and embedding on the web page
• Multimedia authoring using macromedia flash: Making of simple flash movie, setting properties, frame rate, dimensions, and background color; scene: Concept of scene, duplicate scone, add scene, delete scene, and navigating between scenes
• Multimedia authoring using macromedia flash: Layers-concept of layer, layer properties, layer name, show/ hide/ lock layers, type of layer-adding/ deleting a layer; frame-creating a keyframe, inserting text into the frame
• Multimedia authoring using macromedia flash: Inserting graphical elements into the frame, converting text/ graphics to symbol, inserting symbol into the frame,
• Multimedia authoring using macromedia flash: Inserting blank frame, inserting blank keyframe, inserting keyframe into the blank frame, selecting all/ specific frames of a layer copying/ pasting selected frames, special effects: Motion tweening
• Multimedia authoring using macromedia flash: Special effects-shape tweening, color effect, inserting sound layer; testing a scene and movie; import/ export (movie/sound and other multimedia objects), publishing: Publishing a flash movie
• Multimedia authoring using macromedia flash: SWF (flash movie), HTML page, GIF image, JPEG image (*jpg), PNG image, windows projector (*.exe), quicktime (*mov), real player (*smil)

Biotechnology: Unit 01

• Protein based products, proteins, proteomics: An introduction, introduction to bioinformatics, information sources, analysis using bioinformatics tools

Biotechnology: Unit 02

• Recombinant DNA technology-definition and tools, making recombinant DNA, construction of DNA library: Genomic and CDNA, cloning vectors, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), genomics: An introduction

Biotechnology: Unit 03

• Bioremediation of oil pollution reducing environmental impact of chemical, biofertilizers-definition and uses
• Biofuels: Definition and application, genetically modified organisms, intellectual property rights

Biotechnology: Unit 04

• Microbial culture techniques, measurement of microbial growth, strain isolation and isolation of microbial products

Biotechnology: Unit 05

• Introduction; plant cell and tissue culture techniques, and media, application of plant tissue culture, gene transfer methods in plants

Biotechnology: Unit 06

• Introduction, animal cell culture technology and media, characterization of cell lines, application of animal cell culture

Entrepreneurship Development: Unit 01

• Identification of the project
• Enterprise planning and business module formulation
• Preparation of detailed project report (DPR)

Entrepreneurship Development: Unit 02

• Sources of assistance available: (i) Promotional (ii) financial (iii) technical (iv) marketing
• Project funding, registration, licensing and other legal formalities

Entrepreneurship Development: Unit 03

• Financial management: (i) Term finance (ii) short term finance (iii) cost of production and pricing
• Marketing management: (i) Channel of distribution (ii) sales promotion technique
• Record and account management
• Taxation (income tax/ VAT, CST, excise duty, etc)

Entrepreneurship Development: Unit 04

• Industrial policies (since liberalization, 1991)
• MSME act 2006

Salesmanship and advertising-fundamentals of salesmanship: Unit 01

• Methods of sales, selling through own organization or agents, their control, organization of sales department, sales routine, other departments, control of salesman, sales reports, its analysis and utility

Salesmanship and advertising-fundamentals of salesmanship: Unit 02

• Methods of selection, traits

Salesmanship and advertising-fundamentals of salesmanship: Unit 03

• Limits, allocation of territory, fixation of quota, sales conference
• Consumer rights, responsibilities, ways and means of consumer protection
• Consumer awareness and legal redressal with special reference to consumer protection act

Salesmanship and advertising-fundamentals of salesmanship: Unit 04

• Remuneration of salesman

Salesmanship and advertising-fundamentals of salesmanship: Unit 05

• Problems of soil erosion, soil conservation, cultivation of rice, wheat, tea, coffee, jute, and cotton

Salesmanship and advertising-publicity and advertising: Unit 01

• Definition of copy, its theme, essentials, size, feature, classification of lay-out

Salesmanship and advertising-publicity and advertising: Unit 02

• Organization of advertising department, functions, publicity programme, media selection, planning and policy, budget, market research, stock for sale, adequacy of finance, object

Salesmanship and advertising-publicity and advertising: Unit 03

• Study of buying motive, their uses

Salesmanship and advertising-publicity and advertising: Unit 04

• Meaning importance and needs

Salesmanship and advertising-publicity and advertising: Unit 05

• Identification of target groups in relation to a product

Economic geography-India: Unit 01

• Physiography, climate, population, forest, fishing

Economic geography-India: Unit 02

• Concept of green revolution

Economic geography-India: Unit 03

• Mineral resources available in India

Economic geography-India: Unit 04

• Industries and industrial regions, textile, iron and steel, cement, fertilizer and oil refining

Economic geography-India: Unit 05

• External trade-its features, major items of export and import
• Transport-railways, roadways, inland waterways
• Major ports in India

Economic geography-India: Unit 06

• Topography-climate, forest, agriculture, mining industries and transport
• Problems of flood and erosion
• Transport, tea industry, oil and gas, sericulture

Economic geography-other countries: Unit 01

• Agriculture, iron and steel industry, cotton textile industry

Economic geography-other countries: Unit 02

• Agriculture, industries and industrial regions

Economic geography-other countries: Unit 03

• Agriculture, fishing, iron and steel industry

Economic geography-other countries: Unit 04

• Climate, natural vegetation, agriculture

Commercial mathematics and statistics-commercial mathematics: Unit 01

• Simple and compound interest

Commercial mathematics and statistics-commercial mathematics: Unit 02

• Permutation and combination (elementary ideas and simple problems), binomial theorem for positive integral index (omit binomial coefficient)

Commercial mathematics and statistics-commercial mathematics: Unit 03

• Elementary ideas, elements, types of sets, subsets (proper and improper), union, intersection and difference of set, complement of set, Venn diagram, application of sets (simple problems)

Commercial mathematics and statistics-commercial mathematics: Unit 04

• Upto 3rd order, meaning, properties and simple problems, solution of equation by Cramer's rule

Commercial mathematics and statistics-commercial mathematics: Unit 05

• Definition and type of matrices, equality of matrices, addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication and matrix multiplication, (adjoint and inverse matrices should be excluded)

Commercial mathematics and statistics-statistics: Unit 01

• Meaning, purpose, measures, median, mode (for all series), their uses, merits and demerits, essential qualities of a good average

Commercial mathematics and statistics-statistics: Unit 02

• Quartiles

Commercial mathematics and statistics-statistics: Unit 03

• Meaning, objects and function-measures: Range, quartile deviation, mean deviation, standard deviation (all series), essential qualities of a good measure of dispersion, coefficient of variation

Commercial mathematics and statistics-statistics: Unit 04

• Meaning, definition (mathematical or classical approach), event, trial, random experiment, equally likely events, mutually exclusive events, favourable cases to an event
• Addition and multiplication theorem on probability should be excluded

Commercial mathematics and statistics-statistics: Unit 05

• Meaning, types, Karl Pearson’s and its significance