MBOSE HSSLC 2025: Exam Dates, Syllabus, Admit Card, Result

Assamese: Unit 01

Assamese: Unit 02

Assamese: Unit 03

Assamese: Unit 04

Assamese: Unit 05

Assamese: Unit 06

Bengali: Unit 01

Bengali: Unit 02

Bengali: Unit 03

Bengali: Unit 04

Bengali: Unit 05

Hindi: Unit 01

Hindi: Unit 02

Hindi: Unit 03

Hindi: Unit 04

Khasi: Unit 01

Khasi: Unit 02

Khasi: Unit 03

Nepali: Unit 01

Nepali: Unit 02

Nepali: Unit 03

Nepali: Unit 04

Alternative english: Unit 01

• Pieces to be read: (i) The face on the wall-by E. V. Lucas, (ii) Sparrows-by K.A. Abbas, (iii) Love across the desert-by K. N. Dharuwala, (iv) The redemption-by Victor Hugo, (v) The castaway-by Rabindranath Tagore

Alternative english: Unit 02

• Pieces to be read: (i) The soul‘s prayer-by Sarojini Naidu, (ii) The education of nature-by William Wordsworth, (iii) The human seasons-by John Keats, (iv) Enterprise-by Nissim Ezekie

Alternative english: Unit 03

• The prescribed plays are: (i) The Bishop‘s candlesticks-by Norman Mckinnell, or, (ii) Macbeth-by William Shakespeare

Alternative english: Unit 04

• Reading: Unseen passages (descriptive/ narrative/ speech form)
• Writing: (i) Precis writing, (ii) amplification of an idea
• Grammar and usage: (a) Correction of grammatical errors in the given sentences, (b) active and passive voice, (c) use of adverbs, (d) question tags, (e) modals, (f) one word substitution

Environmental education: Unit 01

• Concepts and values of biodiversity: Concepts of biodiversity; species of various gene pools; biodiversity in an ecosystem; values of biodiversity; why value diversity
• Types of biodiversity (species, ecosystem and genetic): Species diversity; ecosystem diversity, marine ecosystem; estuarine ecosystem; genetic diversity
• Interdependence between species: Interactions between plants and animals
• Economic potential of biodiversity: Introduction; economic potential of plant diversity; economic importance of animal diversity
• Loss of biodiversity (threatened, endangered and extinct species): Introduction; causes leading to loss of biodiversity; threatened, endangered and extinct species
• Strategies for conservation of biodiversity: Introduction; why conserve biodiversity

Environmental education: Unit 02

• Need for environmental development vis-i-vis development: Introduction development levels and environment impacts

Environmental education: Unit 03

• Need for sustainable agriculture: Key components in the industrialization or modern agriculture
• Green revolution: Impact of green revolution on the environment; ecological impact; sociological impacts
• Impact of agrochemicals on environment
• Management or agriculture produce: Storage and preservation; transportation

Environmental education: Unit 04

• Concept of sustainable development; Introduction
• Concept or sustainable consumption: Lessons on sustainable consumption; contemporary concept or sustainable consumption
• Challenges for sustainable development: Econonic considerations; need for sound economic policies; political considerations; social considerations; need for a transformation in social conditions
• Role of individual and community

Political science (political theory-II): Unit 01

• Rights: Meaning and characteristics of rights; kinds of rights; classification of rights; relation between rights and duties
• Liberty: Negative and positive meaning of liberty; kinds of liberty-natural, civil, political, economic, national; relation between law and liberty
• Equality: Negative and positive meaning of equality; kinds of equality-natural, social, civil, political, economic; the relationship between liberty and equality
• Justice: The varied meanings of justice; kinds of justice-natural, social, economic, political, legal
• Law: Meaning; source-customs, religion, equity, scientific commentaries judicial decisions, legislature; kinds of law; relationship between law and morality
• Citizenship: Meaning of citizenship; legal and moral aspects of citizenship; similarities and differences between citizens and aliens; citizens and nationals; methods of acquiring citizenship-by birth and by naturalisation; double citizenship
• Citizenship: Loss or termination of citizenship

Political science (political theory-II): Unit 02

• Meaning and basis of franchise; universal adult franchise arguments for and against
• Systems of representation: Kinds of representations-proportional (Hare system and list system), functional, territorial, communal, and their merits and demerits

Political science (political theory-II): Unit 03

• Liberalism: Its meaning and essence; classical or negative liberalism and contemporary or positive liberalism and the shift from classical liberalism
• Marxism: Genesis; tenets of Marxism-dialectical materialism, historical materialism, class struggle, surplus value, revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat, classless society

Political science (political theory-II): Unit 04

• Origins of the United Nations, development, aims and principles of the United Nations organization of the United Nations

Political science (the Indian constitution and political system in operation): Unit 01

• Characteristics; kinds of fundamental rights; writs for enforcement of the fundamental rights; evaluation of the fundamental rights
• The fundamental duties: Kinds, characteristics and evaluation
• The directive principles of state policy: Sources, meaning and objectives. Classification-social welfare, Gandhian, economic, administrative, educational and cultural principles. Constitutional significance of the directive principles
• The directive principles of state policy: Distinction between fundamental rights and directive principles

Political science (the Indian constitution and political system in operation): Unit 02

• The president of India: Qualifications, method of election, tenure and removal, privileges, powers and functions, constitutional position
• The vice-president of India: Qualifications, election, tenure and removal, privileges, functions, position
• The union council of ministers: Composition, powers and functions
• The prime minister: Appointment, tenure, powers, functions and position of the council of ministers, distribution of portfolios, as a supervisor of and coordinator between the different ministries, as a leader of the parliament
• The prime minister: Appointment, tenure, powers, functions and position of the council of ministers, distribution of portfolios, as a link between the president and the parliament, etc

Political science (the Indian constitution and political system in operation): Unit 03

• The Rajya Sabha (council of states): Composition, qualifications of members, term of office, presiding officers, privileges, quorum, powers and functions
• The Lok Sabha (house of the people): Composition, qualifications of members, election, term of office, privileges, quorum, powers and functions-legislative, executive, financial, constituent and miscellaneous
• The Lok Sabha (house of the people): The speaker of the Lok Sabha-election, tenure, powers and functions, position
• The judiciary: The Supreme Court of India-composition, appointment of judges, qualifications of judges, tenure and method of removal of judges. Powers and functions-original jurisdiction, appellate jurisdiction, advisory jurisdiction, miscellaneous
• The judiciary: Evaluation of the Supreme Court

Political science (the Indian constitution and political system in operation): Unit 04

• India and the United Nations; India and SAARC; India‘s role in the non-align movement; India‘s approach to major world issues like disarmament, human rights and globalisation

History: Unit 01

History: Unit 02

History: Unit 03

History: Unit 04

History: Unit 05

History: Unit 06

History: Unit 07

History: Unit 08

History: Unit 09

History: Unit 10

History: Unit 11

History: Unit 12

History: Unit 13

History: Unit 14

History: Unit 15

Philosophy: Unit 01

• Relation between induction and deduction, kinds of inductio-scientific induction, unscientific induction, analogy, perfect induction, colligation of fact, parity of reasoning
• Laws of thought: Meaning and characteristics

Philosophy: Unit 02

• Formal ground of induction-law of uniformity and law of causation, cause–definition, qualitative and quantitative marks of causation, cause and condition, plurality of cause, paradox of induction, material grounds of induction-observation and experiment

Philosophy: Unit 03

• Method of agreement, method of difference, joint method of agreement and difference, method of concomitant variation and method of residue, hypothesis-meaning, forms and conditions of hypothesis

Philosophy: Unit 04

• Statement and arguments, statement form and argument form, logical connectives-conjunction, disjunction, implication, implication symbolization, constructionof truth tables (tautology, contradictory, contingent), proving invalidity

Philosophy: Unit 05

• Definition of philosophy with reference to indian philosophy, distinctive feature of indian philosophy, rationalism and empericism

Geography (fundamental of human geography): Unit 01

Geography (fundamental of human geography): Unit 02

• Population of the world-distribution, density and growth
• Population change-spatial patterns and structure; determinants of population change
• Age-sex ratio, rural-urban composition
• Human development-concept, selected indicators (literacy and occupation)

Geography (fundamental of human geography): Unit 03

• Primary activities-concept and changing trends, subsistence agriculture, modern agriculture, major crops-rice, wheat, tea, coffee, rubber and sugarcane (conditions of growth and distribution)
• Mining-world distribution of iron ore, copper, bauxite, coal and petroleum
• Secondary activities-concept; manufacturing-agro-processing, household, small scale, large scale; iron and steel industries, location of industries
• Tertiary activities-concept; knowledge –based industries (information technology industry)
• Quaternary activities-concept, knowledge-based industries (information technology industry)

Geography (fundamental of human geography): Unit 04

• Land transport-roads, railways, trans-continental railways
• Water transport-inland waterways; major ocean routes
• Air transport-intercontinental air routes
• Oil and gas pipelines
• satellite communication
• International trade-based, and changing patterns; ports as gateways of international trade, role of WTO in International trade

Geography (fundamental of human geography): Unit 05

• Settlement types-rural and urban; morphology of cities, distribution of mega cities; problems of human settlement in developing countries

Geography (India people and economy): Unit 01

• Population-distribution, density and growth; composition of population: Linguistic and religious compositions; occupations
• Migration-international, national-causes and consequences
• Human development-selected indicators (literacy and occupations)

Geography (India people and economy): Unit 02

• Urban settlements-types and 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
• Water resource utilization: Irrigation; scarcity of water and conservation method-rain water harvesting
• Minerals and energy resources: Metallic mineral (iron ore, copper, bauxite) and non-metallic minerals (limestone and dolomite). 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
• Industries: Petrochemicals and knowledge-based industries impact of liberalization, privatization and globalizationon industrial location

Geography (India people and economy): Unit 04

• Transport and communication: Roads, railways, waterways and airways; oil and gas pipelines; national electric grid; satellite communication
• International trade: Changing patterns of India‘s foreign trade; seaports and their hinterland and airports

Geography (India people and economy): Unit 05

• Environment pollution, urban-waste disposal
• Urbanization–rural–urban migration; problems of slum
• Land degradation

Geography (India people and economy): Unit 06

• Relief, climate, agriculture and minerals

Education (education): Unit 01

• Concept of curriculum
• Principles of curriculum construction
• Types of curriculum: (a) Child centred, (b) subject centred, (c) activity centred
• Approaches to curriculum development

Education (education): Unit 02

• Meaning and concept
• Importance of inclusive education (as a basic human right)
• Children with special needs (physically and mentally challenged)-preliminary idea
• Approaches to inclusive education-discrimination and psycho-social implications

Education (education): Unit 03

• Concept of art education
• Modes of expression-visual arts
• Performing arts
• Need and importance of art education
• Stages and process of imparting art education

Education (education): Unit 04

• Meaning and definition of educational technology
• Types of educational technology
• Aspects and steps of educational technology
• Forms of educational technology

Education (psychology): Unit 01

• Individual differences in human functioning-meaning, factors and significance
• Intelligence: Concept of intelligence. Theories of Intelligence: Spearman‘s theory, Thurstone‘s theory
• Individual Differences in Intelligence

Education (psychology): Unit 02

• Personality-concept, definition and nature
• Factors affecting personality development
• Structure of personality-type and trait approaches

Education (psychology): Unit 03

• Attention: Characteristics, types
• Attention and interest-their educational implications
• Memory: Meaning and definition, factors involved in memory
• Forgetting: Nature and causes
• Enhancing memory
• Conditions that stimulate thinking
• Reasoning: Concept and steps in reasoning
• Training in thought and reasoning

Education (psychology): Unit 04

• Concept and nature of thinking

Home science: Unit 01

• Community development: Definition, objectives, principles and philosophy of community development
• Food laws and food standards: Consumer rights, consumer challenges, food adulteration and voluntary agencies
• Community development programmes: Feeding programmes (local, state, national), rural employment programme (TRYSEM, village cooperatives, mahila mandals, youth clubs), adult education programmes
• Kitchen gardening: Importance of kitchen gardening, layout of a kitchen garden, selection of Rabi and Kharif crops selection of manures, compost making

Home science: Unit 02

• Fibre science: Classification of fibres with examples, properties of fibres (chemical and physical) of cotton, wool, silk, polyester
• Fibre science: Identification of fibres (visual inspection, microscopic observation, burning and chemical tests/ of cotton, wool, silk, polyester)
• Yarn: Yarn making processing, types of yarns
• Stains: Meaning, classification of stains with examples. Removal of stains from different fabrics. Fabrics: Cotton, wool, silk, synthetics. Stains-blood, ink, curry, lipstick, grease, tea, ice-cream
• Bleaching: Meaning and use of different bleaching agents. Types of bleaching agents
• Sewing: Sewing equipments and tools

Home science: Unit 03

• Food and nutrition: Definition and meaning of food, nutrition and health. Functions and constituents (nutrients) of food. Food guide
• Diets: Definition and meaning of balanced and therapeutic diets. Balanced diet and nutritional requirements during: Infancy (0-2 yrs), pre-school (2-6 yrs), school age (6-12 years) and adolescence (12-18 yrs)
• Deficiency diseases: Definition, causes and preventive measures of: Protein-calorie malnutrition (Kwashiorkor, Marasmus and Marasmic Kwashiorkor), iron deficiency, iodine deficiency, vitamin-A deficiency
• Methods of food preparation: General principles and methods of food preparation-boiling, steaming, pressure cooking, deep and shallow frying, roasting and grilling

Geology: Unit 01

• Processess of formation of sedimentary rocks: Disintegration and decomposition, transporation, deposition, diagenesis and lithification
• Textures of sedimentary rocks
• Structures of sedimentary rocks-beds, laminations, ripple marks, current beddings, mud cracks, rain prints, borings, flute casts, load casts, nodules and concretions
• Genetic classification of sedimentary rocks: Clastics-(rudaceous, arenaceous and argillaceous) and non-clastics
• Elementary idea of the classification of sedimentary environments of deposition

Geology: Unit 02

• Paleontology: Definition and scope
• Fossils: Definition, conditions for preservation and modes of preservation
• Habits and habitats of organisms
• Morphological study of the following phyla: Brachiopoda and mollusca (Lamellibranchia, Gastropoda and Cephalopoda)
• Study of the following Gondwana flora: Glossopteris, Gangamopteris, vertebraria and ptillophylum

Geology: Unit 03

• A brief idea of stratigraphic correlation
• Lithostratigraphy of the following: Precambrian of Dharwar supergroup of Karnataka, Vindhyan supergroup of Sone valley, Palaeozoic of Spiti and tertiary of upper Assam
• Lithostratigraphy of Meghalaya

Geology: Unit 04

• Mineral resources: definition and its importance
• Definition of ore, gangue and tenor
• Processes of formation of mineral deposits-magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic processes
• Genetic classification of mineral deposits-primary (syngenetic and epigenetic) and secondary deposits
• Study of the mode of occurrence, distribution in India and uses of the following mineral resources: Galena, chalcopyrite, hematite, bauxite, magnetite, chromite and mica
• Energy resources: Sources and types
• Petroleum: Origin, migration and accumulation; occurrence of petroleum in north-eastern region
• Coal: Origin and mode of occurrence; types of coal; coal deposits of north-eastern region
• Study of the mode of occurrence, distribution in India and uses of the radioactive minerals

Geology: Unit 05

• Engineering geology: Definition. Geological considerations in the construction of dams
• Groundwater: Definition and occurrence; porosity and permeability; hydrologic cycle; aquifer
• Environment: Definition and components; impact of open-cast and underground mining on the environment
• Disasters: Landslides-causes, effects and remedial measures; earthquakes-effects and mitigation

Anthropology: Unit 01

• Australopithecine
• Homo-Erectus
• Homo-Neanderthal

Anthropology: Unit 02

• Concept of adaptation
• Morphological adaptation
• Ecological adaptation (cases of mountain, desert, coastal and riverine)

Anthropology: Unit 03

• Concept of growth
• Stages of growth
• Factors responsible for growth and development

Anthropology: Unit 04

• Race formation
• Major races of the world
• Classification of Indian population by Risley and Guha

Anthropology: Unit 05

• Emergence of life on earth, geological time-scale and cultural-chronology
• Nature, causes and evidences of Glaciation
• Bio-cultural mechanism behind the evolution of man

Anthropology: Unit 06

• Techniques of tool-making
• Paleolithic typologies (chopper, hand-axes and cleavers)
• Mesolithic and neolithic typologies (microliths and celts)

Anthropology: Unit 07

• Paleolithic: Lower, middle and upper paleolithic cultures
• Mesolithic and neolithic cultures
• Prehistoric arts

Anthropology: Unit 08

• Traditional political structure in tribal societies
• Sanctions and taboo, customary law and statutory law
• Justice and punishment in tribal societies

Anthropology: Unit 09

• Concept of sex and gender, gender roles and socialization
• Women in the public and private domain
• Women‘s status in north-east India (patrilineal and matrilineal societies)

Anthropology: Unit 10

• Caste: Origin, formation and characteristics of caste; concept of schedule caste and OBC
• Tribe: Concept of tribe, tribal problems and welfare measures
• Social change in India: Culture contact, Sanskritization and modernization

Statistics: Unit 01

• Definition of random variable and expectation
• Statement of theorem on the expectation of sum and product of several variables (proof not necessary)
• Simple problems

Statistics: Unit 02

• Definition of Bernoulli trials, binomial, Poisson and normal distributions
• Their definitions, expressions for mean and standard deviation, properties, example and simple problems involving their uses, no derivations

Statistics: Unit 03

• Construction and use of index numbers; simple and weighted relative of aggregates and averages of relatives; Laspeyre‘s, Paasche‘s, Marshall Edgeworth‘s and Fisher‘s formulae

Statistics: Unit 04

• Components of time series and moving average
• To determine trends (only free hand smoothing and method of moving averages)

Statistics: Unit 05

• Sampling versus census; sources of errors in a survey-sampling and non-sampling: Simple random sampling (definitions, uses, expressions for estimation of mean, total and standard deviations)
• Stratified random sampling; definition, uses, advantages, expression for the estimates of mean and total (derivation is not necessary)

Elective English: Unit 01

• Pieces to be read: (i) The conquest of malaria-by T.C. Bridges and H.H. Tiltman, (ii) On the rule of the road-by A.G. Gardiner

Elective English: Unit 02

• Pieces to be read: (i) The highwayman-by Alfred Noyes, (ii) The solitary reaper- by William Wordsworth, (iii) On his blindness- by John Milton

Elective English: Unit 03

• The Guide- by R.K. Narayan

Elective English: Unit 04

• Arms and the man-by Bernard Shaw

Elective English: Unit 05

• Phonology
• Comprehension (unseen)
• Essay: Argumentative, discursive, reflective, narrative and descriptive

Music: Unit 01

• Three-part diatonic secondary triads (ii, iii, vi, vii), root position and 1st inversion in either clef in major keys only: (a) By letter name (ex: Bm, Am+, F#º), (b) by roman numeral in key context with figured bass symbols (ex: key of G: vi, iii, ii)
• Three-part diatonic secondary triads (ii, iii, vi, vii), root position and 1st inversion in either clef in major keys only: (c) By triad name/function (ex: key of E major: (i) Median-root position; (ii) supertonic-1 st inversion)
• Four-part secondary triads in major keys: Median and submediant (root position) and supertonic (root position and 1st inversion), with any tone in the Soprano
• V7 chord in root position, in major and minor keys, with its correct resolution, on either staff; and in 4-part harmony (on 2 staves), root position with any tone in the soprano
• Four-part chord progressions in any major key: (a) I, iii, IV, ii, I, V7, I. (start with the tonic in the soprano), (b) I, vi, ii, V7, I (start with the tonic in the soprano), (c) I, vi, IV, V7 (or V), I (start with any tone in the soprano)
• Non-harmonic tones (non-essential tones, non-chord tones): (a) Passing tone (PT)-diatonic and chromatic, (b) neighbor tone (NT)-diatonic and chromatic, (c) anticipation (A)

Music: Unit 02

• Characteristics of musical tones: Pitch, duration (length), intensity (dynamics), quality (tone colour/timbre)
• Basic elements of music: Rhythm, melody, harmony
• Additional musical elements
• Meter, tempo, tonality and mode, modulation
• Source of musical sound: (i) Human voices, (ii) string instruments (chordophones), (iii) wind instruments (aerophones): Woodwinds, brass, (iv) percussion instruments (membranophones, idiophones), (v) keyboard-family
• Source of musical sound: (vi) Electronic instruments (electrophones)
• Musical textures: (i) Monophony, (ii) heterophony, (iii) polyphony, (iv) homophony
• Musical forms: One part, binary, ternary, strophic, rondo, sonata-allegro, theme and variations
• Art music, folk (traditional) music and popular music

Music: Unit 03

• Brief overview of western musical history (1600-1900 A.D.): (i) Renaissance-Burgundian period; Flanders; musical genres; musical instruments
• Brief overview of western musical history (1600-1900 A.D.): (ii) Baroque (1600-1750): (a) Musical characteristics-unity of mood, rhythm, melody, terrace dynamics, texture, figured bass, (b) Bach and Handel
• Brief overview of western musical history (1600-1900 A.D.): (iii) Classical period (1750-1828)- (a) Sonata, (b) chamber music: String quartet, (c) orchestral music: Symphony, concerto, (d) Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
• Brief overview of western musical history (1600-1900 A.D.): (iv) Romantic period (1828-1900)-(a) Piano piece (Chopin), (b) programme music, (c) nationalism in music, (d) opera, (v) other musical mediums: Choirs bands
• Music in non-western cultures: (i) Historical perspective-(a) cultural differences and similarities, (b) cultural interchange, (ii) characteristics: (a) Timbre, (b) texture-rythmic polyphony, diaphony, call and response, (c) duration
• Music in non-western cultures: (ii) Characteristics-(d) pitch-pentatonic scales, microtones, (e) dynamics

Physical education: Unit 01

• Meaning and need of sports environment
• Essential elements of positive sports environment
• Role of individual in improvement of sports environment
• Role of spectators and media in creating positive sports environment
• Women participation-as discourse and ideology

Physical education: Unit 02

• Meaning and objectives of adventure sports
• Types of activities-camping, rock climbing, tracking, river rafting and mountaineering
• Material requirement and safety measures
• Identification and use of natural resources
• Conservation of environment
• Creating leaders through physical education

Physical education: Unit 03

• Balanced diet and nutrition: Macro and micro nutrients
• Nutritive and non-nutritive components of diet
• Eating disorders-anorexia nervosa and bulemia
• Effects of diet on performance
• Eating for weight control-a healthy weight, the pitfalls of dieting, food intolerance and food myths

Physical education: Unit 04

• Meaning and Objectives Of Planning
• Various Committees and its Responsibilities
• Tournament-knock-out, league or round robin and combination
• Procedure to draw fixtures-knock-out (bye and seeding) and league (staircase and cyclic)
• Intramural and extramural-meaning, objectives and its significance
• Specific sports programme (sports day, health run, run for fun, run for specific cause and run for unity)

Physical education: Unit 05

• Meaning and concept of correct postures-standing and sitting
• Advantages of correct posture
• Common postural deformities-knock knee; flat foot; round shoulders; lordosis, kyphosis, bow legs and scolioses
• Physical activities as corrective measures

Physical education: Unit 06

• Motor development in children
• Factors affecting motor development
• Physical and physiological benefits of exercise on children
• Advantages and disadvantages of weight training and food supplement for children
• Activities and quality of life

Physical education: Unit 07

• Measurement of muscular strength-Kraus Weber test
• Motor fitness test-AAPHER
• Measurement of cardio vascular fitness-Harward step test/ Rockfort test
• Measurement of flexibility-sit and reach test
• Rikli and Jones-senior citizen fitness test
• Chair Stand Test for lower body strength
• Arm Curl Test for upper body strength
• Chair Sit and Reach Test for lower body flexibility
• Back Scratch Test for upper body flexibility
• Eight Foot Up and Go Test for agility
• Six Minute Walk Test for Aerobic Endurance

Physical education: Unit 08

• Physiological factor determining component of Physical Fitness
• Effect of exercise on Cardio Vascular System
• Effect of exercise on respiratory system
• Effect of exercise on circulatory system
• Physiological changes due to ageing and role of regular exercise on ageing process

Physical education: Unit 09

• Projectile and factors affecting Projectile Trajectory
• Angular and linear movements
• Introduction to work, power and energy
• Friction
• Mechanical analysis of walking and running

Physical education: Unit 10

• Understanding stress, anxiety and its management
• Coping strategies-problem focused and emotional focused
• Personality, its dimensions and types; role of sports in personality development
• Motivation, its type and technique
• Self-esteem and body image

Physical education: Unit 11

• Strength-definition, types and methods of improving strength-isometric, isotonic and isokinetic
• Endurance-definition, types and methods to develop endurance-continuous training, interval training and Fartlek training
• Speed-definition, types and methods to develop speed-acceleration run and pace run
• Flexibility-definition, types and methods to improve flexibility
• Coordinative abilities-definition and types

Psychology: Unit 01

• Individual differences in intelligence: Theories of Intelligence; culture and intelligence; emotional intelligence; aptitude: Nature and types, assessment of psychological attributes, dynamic assessment

Psychology: Unit 02

• Aspects of self: Self concept-self-esteem and self-regulation; culture and self; personality: Concept; approaches to personality: Type and trait, psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioural and cultural
• Assessment of personality: Self-report measures, behavioural analysis, and projective measures

Psychology: Unit 03

• Life challenge and adjustment; concept of adaptation; human strengths and virtues: Nature, types and effects on psychological functioning; coping with stress; concepts of health and well-being though life style changes

Psychology: Unit 04

• Concepts of abnormality and psychological disorder, causal factors associated with abnormal behaviour, classification of disorder, major psychological disorders: Anxiety, somato-form dissociative, mood, schizophrenic
• Major psychological disorders: Developmental and behavioural substance related

Psychology: Unit 05

• Nature and process of therapy; nature of therapeutic relationship; types of therapies: Psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, behaviour; alternative therapies: Yoga, meditation; Zen; rehabilitation of mentally ill people
• Counselling Prevention of mental disorder

Psychology: Unit 06

• Explaining behaviour through attributions; social cognition; schemas and stereotypes; impression formation; nature and components of attitudes; attitude formation and change; behaviour in the presence of others: Pro-social behaviour
• Behaviour in the presence of others: Strategies for handling prejudice

Psychology: Unit 07

• Influence processess: Nature of conformity, obedience and compliance: Cooperation and competition; groups: nature, formation and types; influence of group on individual behaviour; social identity; Inter-group conflict; conflict resolution strategies

Psychology: Unit 08

• Human-environment relationship; environmental effects on human behaviour
• Noise, pollution, crowding, natural disasters, social issue: aggression and violence; social Inequality and poverty; media and human values; promoting pro-environmental behaviour, human rights and citizenship; peace

Psychology: Unit 09

• Application of psychology to following areas: (i) Sports, (ii) education, (iii) communication, (iv) organisation

Sociology (Indian society): Unit 01

• Rural-urban linkages and divisions

Sociology (Indian society): Unit 02

• Family and Kinship
• The Caste System

Sociology (Indian society): Unit 03

• Market as a social institution

Sociology (Indian society): Unit 04

• Caste prejudice, scheduled castes and other backward classes
• Marginalization of Tribal Communities
• The struggle for women’s equality
• The protection of religious minorities
• Caring for the differently abled

Sociology (Indian society): Unit 05

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

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 01

• Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 02

• Modernization, westernization, Sanskritisation, secularization
• Social Reform Movements and Laws

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 03

• The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change
• Parties, pressure groups and democratic politics
• Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 04

• Land reforms, green revolution and agrarian society

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 05

• From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
• Changes in the class structure

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 06

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 07

Sociology (change and development in Indian society): Unit 08

• Class-based movements: Workers, peasants
• Caste-based movements: Dalit movement, backward castes, trends in upper caste responses
• Women’s Movements in Independent India
• Tribal Movements
• Environmental Movements

Informatics practices: Unit 01

• Computer networking: (a) Networking-a brief overview, (b) communication media: Wired technologies-co-axial, ethernet cable, optical fiber, wireless technologies-bluetooth, infrared, microwave, radio link, sattelite link, (c) Network devices: Hub, switch
• Computer networking: (c) Network devices-repeater, gateway and their functions, (d) types of network-LAN, MAN, WAN, PAN, (e) network topologies: Star, bus, tree, (f) network protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, PPP
• Computer networking: (g) Identifying computers and users over a network: Basic concept of domain name, MAC (media access control), and IP address, domain name resolution, (h) network security-denial of service, intrusion problems, snooping
• Open source concepts: (a) Open source software (OSI norms), common FOSS examples (Gnu/ Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice), common open standards (OSS) common FOSS/FLOSS examples (e.g. Gnu/ Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice, Java, netbeans, MySQL)
• Open source concepts: (a) Common open standards (WWW, HTML,XML,ODF, IP,TCP), (b) Indian language computing: Character encoding, UNICODE, different types of fonts (open type vs true type, static vs dynamic)
• Open source concepts: (b) Indian language computing-entering Indian language text-phonetic and keymap based

Informatics practices: Unit 02

• Programming fundamentals: (a) Refer to appendix A for sample guidelines of GUI programming, and appendix B for swing control methods and properties, (b) basic concepts of access specifier for classes, members and methods, basic concept of Inheritance
• Programming fundamentals: (c) Commonly used libraries-string class and methods: Tostring(), concat(), length(), tolowercase(), touppercase(), trim(), substring(), (d) math class method: pow(), round()
• Programming fundamentals: (c) Commonly used libraries-accessing MySQL database using ODBC/JDBC to connect with database, (d) Web application development: URL, web server, communicating with the web server, concept of client and server side
• Programming fundamentals: (e) HTML based web pages covering basic tags-HTML, title, body, H1..H6, paragraph (P), line break (BR), section separator (HR), font, table, list (UL, OL), form
• Programming fundamentals: (e) HTML based web pages covering basic tags-creating and accessing static pages using HTML and introduction to XML

Informatics practices: Unit 03

• Database fundamentals: (a) Concept of database transaction, committing and revoking a transaction using commit and revoke, (b) grouping records: Group by, group functions-max(), min(), avg(), sum(), count(); using count(*), distinct clause with count
• Database fundamentals: (b) Grouping records-group functions and null values
• Displaying data from multiple tables: Union, equi-join and Cartesian products; concept of foreign key; creating a table with primary key and not null constraints, viewing constraints, viewing the columns associated with constraints using DESC command
• Displaying data from multiple tables: Alter table for deleting a column, alter table for modifying data types of a column for adding a constraint enabling constraints, dropping constraint
• Drop table for deleting a table

Informatics practices: Unit 04

• Front-end interface: Introduction; content and features; identifying and using appropriate component (text box, radio button, checkbox, list, etc) as learnt in unit-2 (programming) for data entry, validation and display
• Back-end database: Introduction and its purpose; exploring the requirement of tables and its essential attributes
• Front-end and database connectivity: Introduction, requirement and benefits demonstration and development of appropriate front-end interface and back-end database for e-governance, e-business and e-learning applications)
• Front-end and database connectivity: Impact of ICT on society-social and economics benefits and Info mania

Tourism and travel techniques (tourism marketing): Unit 01

• Meaning and role of tourism marketing, difference between selling and marketing; special features of tourism marketing; marketing concepts, elements of marketing-product promotion, physical distribution and price

Tourism and travel techniques (tourism marketing): Unit 02

• Basis of segmentation, identifying target market, types of tourism, profile of tourists

Tourism and travel techniques (tourism marketing): Unit 03

• Promotion-establishing a product, creating a position statement, principles of product positioning, pricing the product. Meaning, importance, methods, tourism communication, advertising: Publicity, VCR, coupons, picture postcard; personal selling
• Press and media, public relations and communication

Tourism and travel techniques (tourism marketing): Unit 04

• Marketing techniques of a travel agency; marketing of fairs and festivals; marketing of congress: Conventions, incentive travel, workshops, seminars

Tourism and travel techniques (computer applications in tourism): Unit 01

• Parts of computers, operating systems-DOS, UNIX, WINDOWS, types of languages and packages

Tourism and travel techniques (computer applications in tourism): Unit 02

• Word processing, spread sheet, storing and retrieval of information, customer data base, promotional mailing, making (developing) tour packages/ programmes
• Road, transport, airlines, hotel booking and different packages

Tourism and travel techniques (computer applications in tourism): Unit 03

• Basics of accounting systems, maintenance of ledger, simple final accounts
• Familiarity with foreign exchange, credit card transactions

Tourism and travel techniques (accommodation and hospitality operations): Unit 01

• Meaning and role, futuristic view of growth; nature and scope, forms and types, classification and approval of hotel properties and restaurants; components of a hotel-front office, house keeping and maintenance, food and beverages services
• Food and beverages production, security, marketing and sale, HRD, account, coordination of different departments

Tourism and travel techniques (accommodation and hospitality operations): Unit 02

• Meaning, aims, objectives and role, layout and design, organisation of front office, manpower deployment, coordination with other departments, functions, information, reservation and reception, cash and billing, telephone department
• Coordination with other departments, guest handling procedure.

Tourism and travel techniques (accommodation and hospitality operations): Unit 03

• Meaning; objectives, nature and principle, organisational structure, manpower division and skills, duties and responsibilities of housekeeping staff, liaisoning with other departments and room cleaning
• Types of line on and equipment and materials used in hotel properties, nine gems of maintenance department-tailor, carpenter, mason, electrician, plumber, gardener, laundry, painter, florist

Tourism and travel techniques (accommodation and hospitality operations): Unit 04

• Meaning, nature and objectives, manpower structure-bearers, steward, captains- types; layout and design of food beverage service area, types of catering establishments-industrial, commercial, transportational and institutional, F and B equipments
• Cutleries, variety of menus, alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages, billing and payment procedure, traits and grooming of F and B service staff, coordination with other departments

Horticulture (floriculture and landscaping): Unit 01

• History and styles of gardens.
• Elements and principles of landscape design
• Design and layout of gardens for home, school, college, public buildings, parks, villages
• Important components and features of gardens-gate, lawn, shrubbery, flower beds, borders, paths, hedges, edges, steps, statues, fountains, bird baths, streams, pools, waterfalls, planters, terraces, rockeries, pergolas, arches
• Indoor gardening, principles of interior scaping
• Ornamental trees, shrubs, climbers and groundcovers, their selection based in landscape
• value and use, their planting and maintenance
• Avenue trees
• Colour schemes with plant materials
• Establishment and maintenance of lawns
• Cultivation of bedding plants, bulbs and pot plants
• Commercial cultivation of the following cut flower crops with respect to soil, climate, varieties, propagation, nutrition, irrigation, weeding, pest control, flower regulation, harvesting, grading, packing and marketing: Rose, chrysanthemum, gladiolus
• Packing and marketing: Marigold, carnation, tuberose, jasmine, orchids, crossandra, gerbera, snapdragon, aster and lilies
• Flower arrangements, use of preservatives for prolonging vase life
• Principles of making Bonsai
• Protected cultivation
• Seed production of important flower crops
• Participation in flower shows and exhibitions
• Economics of cultivation of some commercial flowers

Horticulture (commerical crops): Unit 01

• Commercial cultivation of the following with respect to origin, distribution, area and production, soil, climate, improved varieties, propagation and nursery techniques, lay out and planting, cultural practices related to nutrition
• Commercial cultivation of the following with respect to water management, intercultivation, weed control, plant protection, harvesting, processing, products, storage and marketing of the following
• Plantation crops: Coconut, arecanut, oil palm, cashewnut, coffee, cacao, rubber, tea and betelvine
• Spice crops: Cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, clove, ginger, turmeric, fennel, cumin and coriander
• Medicinal crops: Dioscorea, periwinkle, sarpagandha, ashwagandha, steroid bearing solanum, isabgol, senna and liquorice
• Aromatic crops: Lemon grass, citronella, palmarosa, vetiver (khus), geranium, patchaouli, davana, mints and rosemary
• Mushrooms: Their types, environmental requirements, containers, media and its preparation, disinfection, seeding, look after and care, harvesting, dehydration and packing. Preparation and maintenance of culture

Horticulture (post harvest technology): Unit 01

• Post harvest changes in different horticultural produce and causes of spoilage/ deterioration including role of bacteria and enzymes
• Post harvest handling procedures: Cleaning, sorting, grading, treatments, packing, storage and transportation
• Storage of fruits, vegetables and flowers: Methods, condition, preparation for storage like pulsing, pre-cooling, dip-treatment, waxing, packing
• Principles and methods of preservation and processing: Refrigeration and freezing; carbonation, heat processing, sundrying and dehydration; use of chemical additives and preservatives and fermentation
• Establishment of small scale processing unit: Site, finance, buildings, water and power supply, sanitation and drainage, labour, machinery and equipment, lay out plan, economics
• Canning of important fruits and vagetables: Canning equipment, machinery and containers; selection of fruits and vegetables, sorting and grading, washing, preparation, blanching, filling, syruping or brining, lidding or crunching, exhausting, sealing
• Canning of important fruits and vagetables: Sterilization, cooling, inspection of defects, labeling, storage and marketing
• Preparation and preservation of fruit and vegetable juices and beverages: Equipment, machinery and containers, types of fruit beverages and methods of their preservation
• Preparation and preservation by sugar: Jam, jelly, marmalade preserve, candy and crystalised fruits
• Preparation and preservation of tomato juice, puree and ketchup
• Preparation and preservation of chutney, sauce spreads
• Preparation and preservation of pickles
• Drying and dehydration of important fruits and vegetables: Equipment, pre-treatment, drying, packaging and storage
• Evaluation of quality of preserved/ processed products
• Processed products specifications and regulations
• Fruit products order (FPO) and prevention of food adulteration act (PFA)