Written Assessment

English

• Creative writing: Letter writing (informal and formal), email writing, narrative writing, descriptive writing, factual essays.
  
• Rubrics: Coherence, imagination, description, vocabulary, spelling, sentence construction and basic grammar rules.
  
• Grammar concepts: Types of sentences , conditional sentences, participles, gerunds, change of voice, change of narration, tenses, modal verbs, prepositions, use of articles.
  
• Reading comprehension: Analyze or make inferences from an unseen passage. It would be in accordance with students level of understanding and interest
  
• Listening, speaking and reading will be accessed through differentt activities.

Mathematics

• Mensuration: Area, Perimeter and Volume of different figures/objects, Similar figures and their areas, Concept of right prism, its surface area, volume and perimeter of any face, Pythagoras Theorem,
  
• Polygons: A polygon and its elements, Interior and Exterior angles, Sum of interior angles of a polygon, Units of measure; area and perimeter; circles, arcs and sectors; Surface area and volume, compound shapes and parts of shapes.
  
• Trigonometry: Pythagoras theorem, Right angled triangles, Non right angled triangles, bearings
  

Urdu

• " پڑھائی: 110 سے 130 الفاظ ایک منٹ میں، اشعار کی تشریح ، , واحد جمع (عربی قاعدے سے), سابقے لاحقے، فاعل، مفعول حروف تذکیر و تانیث (الفاظ کو جملوں میں استعمال کر کے ان کی تذکیر و تانیث معلوم کرنا), فعل (ماضی, حال, مستقبل) فعل ماضی کی قسمیں ( فعل کے لحاظ سے جملوں کی ساخت میں تبدیلی) اسم نکرہ, اسم معرفہ، اسم صفت، اسم موصوف، اسم ضمیر، اسم علم ، اسم اشارہ اسم موصول، اسم ذات، اسم نکرہ کی قسمیں ( اسم ظرف، ظرف زماں، ظرف مکاں اسم آلہ، اسم تصغیر ،اسم مکبر )،شعری اصطلاح ( مطلع ، مقطع، لقب،تخلص،خطاب ) مترادف الفاظ، متضاد الفاظ، جملوں کی درستی (گرامر کے لحاظ سے)، محاورات کا جملوں میں استعمال، خط، درخواست، مضمون، کہانی، مکالمہ، تخلیقی لکھائی ( اپنے تصور کو استعمال کرتے ہوئے کسی بھی عنوان پر اپنے خیالات کا اظہار کر سکیں، ( 200 الفاظ), ضرب الامثال، غلط فقرات کی درستگی ,تفہیم نگاری (مفہوم اور سوالات کے اپنے الفاظ میں جوابات تحریر کر سکیں)، انگریزی سے اردو ترجمہ "

Biology

• Respiration: The human respiratory system (Why do we need oxygen, The structure of the human respiratory system), Gas Exchange (Air sacs, The structure of an air sac, Gas exchange in the air sacs), The process of breathing, Respiration (Aerobic respiration, Energy from food and production of heat), Blood (delivery requirement of cells, components of blood i.e. Plasma, red blood cells, and white blood cells)
  
• Ecosystems: The Sonoran Desert (Desert Habitat, Species common in the desert, Factors e.g. temperature, wind, etc.), The Desert Ecosystem, Different ecosystems (Mangrove forest, Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, Rice paddy), Intruders in an Ecosystem: New species in an ecosystem (Introduced species in New Zealand), Bioaccumulation (DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) insecticide and its accumulation in food chains, Bioaccumulation and biomagnification)
  
• Diet and growth: Nutrients (Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, Energy stores, Vitamins (vitamins A, B, C, and D, Minerals (calcium, iron), and Water), A balanced diet (What is a balanced diet, how much energy your body needs, diets vary from person to person, What is the importance of fibers in diet, Food groups, and food triangle, Too much of anything is harmful), Growth, development, Exercise, and health, Smoking (nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, particulates)
  
• Moving the body: The skeleton, Joints (hinge, ball and socket joint), Joints in the arm, Muscles (Contraction and relaxation, tendons, biceps, triceps, Antagonistic muscles)
  
• Syllabus Cambridge O Level Biology 5090 (for exams 2024 - 2028): 1. Cells, 2. Classification, 3. Movement into and out of cells, 4. Biological molecules, 5. Enzymes.
  

Chemistry

• Materials and Properties: (Describe the relationship between Atoms, elements and the periodic table, Why and how atoms of same and different elements join together, explain what are groups and periods, why elements are arranged in groups and periods, what are chemical symbols and why are they used? metals vs non metals, Structure of an atom (discovery and introduction to subatomic particles, their electrical charges, nucleus, atomic mass, atomic number, electrostatic forces of attraction between nucleus and electrons, JJ Thompson’s atomic model, Rutherford’s gold foil experiment and atomic theory, Bohr’s atomic model), Define Purity(pure substances element and compounds, gold 24 carat, silver, diamond vs blue, green diamond),What is Atmosphere, Climate vs Weather, Electronic configuration of first 20 elements, Define and explain valency, valence electrons and how chemical bonds form? Element vs compound with examples and their properties, explain the formation of ionic and covalent bonds with examples i.e water, NaCl, carbondioxide. Chemical vs Physical changes, changes brought about by heat can be reversible and irreversible, chemical reactions involving oxygen (burning, rusting and tarnishing),briefly describe greenhouse effect and global warming, Use of scientific terms related to dissolving (solute, solvent, mixture, homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures, solution vs suspension and their properties),Understand and Explain Solubility (soluble vs insoluble substances, principle of solubility: like dissolve like, concentrated and dilute solutions, saturated, unsaturated and supersaturated solutions, effect of temperature on solubility along with graphical representation), Prove that water is a universal solvent, Separating techniques: Filtration, evaporation, sublimation, Paper chromatography (procedure, principle, chromatogram, chromatography of ink in water)
  
• Chemical Reactions: What is a chemical reaction? Define exothermic reaction, reactions of metals with acid and water, oxidation reaction, how to measure temperature rise in reactions),Uses of exothermic reactions (self heating cans),Define and explain Endothermic reactions with examples, Uses (ice packs):
  
• Syllabus Cambridge O Level Chemistry 5070 (for exams 2024 - 2028): 1.States of matter, 2.Atoms, elements and compounds, 3.Chemical Energetics, 4.Chemical reactions.
  

Physics

• Light: Reflection (How light is reflected from a plane surface, understanding of laws of reflection, Ray diagrams to show reflection of light), Refraction (How light is refracted at the boundary between air and glass or air and Water, how light changes speed when it passes between different substances, Ray diagrams to show refraction of light), Making Rainbows (How white light is made from many colors, How dispersion of white light done through prism, Learn colors of white light in correct order), Colors of light (Discover what happen when colors of light are added or subtracted, Discover why we see different colors), Galaxies (Discover that galaxies contain dust, gas, stars and other solar systems), Rock in space (Discover that asteroids are rocks that are smaller than planets)
  
• Magnetism: Magnetic field (Describe magnetic field, understand that magnetic fields surround magnets and how magnetic fields interact), Earth is a giant magnet (Discover that the Earth has a magnetic field, learn that the core of the Earth acts as a magnet), Electromagnets (Describe how to make an electromagnet and its applications.
  
• Syllabus Cambridge O Level Physics 5054 (for exams 2024 - 2028): 1. Motion, 2. Forces and Energy.