The Scheme of Studies for Class – VIII

 SUBJECTS TO BE STUDIED

Languages:

• First Language/(Mother Tongue)
• Odia / Bengali / Urdu / Telugu / Hindi / Alternative English
• Second Language : English/Hindi
• English for those who do not offer English as their First Language.
• Hindi for those who offer English as their First Language.
• Third Language : Hindi/Odia
• Hindi for those who offer Odia as their First Language.
• Odia for those who offer English or Hindi as their First Language.
• Odia or Hindi, to be opted by the pupils for those who offer Urdu/Bengali/ Telugu as their First Language.
• Classical Language :Sanskrit/Persian
• Sanskrit for those who offer Odia, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu as their First Language.
• Persian for those who offer Urdu as their First Language.
• Those who offer Higher English Alternative English as their First Language will not offer a classical language.
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Sciences
• Work Experience
• Art Education
• Health & Physical Education.

 

The Scheme of Studies for Class-IX

STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE:
Every pupil shall study the following languages as detailed below :-

• 1. First Language - (Mother Tongue)
  
  [Odia / Bengali / Telugu / Urdu / Hindi / Alternative English)
• Second Language - [ English/Hindi ]
• English for those who do not offer English as their First Language. 
• Hindi for those who offer English as their First Language.
• Environment & Population Education for the hearing impaired students only.
• Third Language - [ Hindi/Odia/Sanskrit/Persian.
• Hindi or Sanskrit for those who offer Odia as their First Language. 
• Odia or Hindi or Sanskrit for those who offer Bengali / Telugu as their First Language. 
• Hindi or Persian or Odia for those who offer Urdu as their First Language. 
• Odia or Sanskrit for those who offer Hindi as their First Language.
• Odia or Sanskrit or Persian for those who offer English as their First Language. 
• Visual Arts for the deaf and dumb Hearing Impaired students only.

N.B A student with hearing impairement may on his application be allowed to offer

• Environment and Population Education in lieu of Second Language and
• Visual Arts in lieu of Third language. He/she shall have to offer one language under first language.

Such students offering Environment & Population Education / Visual Arts in lieu of 2nd language / 3rd language will not be allowed to offer the subjects as optional subjects
The syllabus of the above said "Environment & Population Education" will be same with "Environment & Population Education (optional)" under Group-B.
Class-X students with hearing impairement will have to apply through the Headmaster concerned well in advance to avail themselves of the above said facility.

THE SCHEME STRUCTURE & WEIGHTAGE
The New Scheme of studies for Classes IX will contain the following internally assessable compulsory subjects with number of papers and maximum marks indicated against each.

• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Sciences
• Work Experience
• Art Education
• Health & Physical Education.

 

The Scheme of Studies for Class-X

Syllabus for Odia-
1. Comprehension- Unseen passage (120-150 words)
2. Essay Writing & Application Writing- Contemporary issues & Letter to the editor respectively
3. Grammar- a) Transformation of sentences (simple, complex, compound)
                              b) Correction of Common Errors
                              c) Chhanda: Bhagabata Bani, Bangalashree, Natabani            
                              d) Idioms & Phrases
                              e) Translation
4. Prose
5. Poetry
6. Short Story
7. One-Act Play

 

 Syllabus for Science-

• Chemical Substance- Nature and Behavior
• World of Living
• Natural phenomena
• Effects of Current
• Natural Resources

 

Syllabus for Mathematics-

• Number Systems
• Algebra
• Coordinate Geometry
• Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Mensuration
• Statistics & Probability