In this post, we will detail out the syllabus we have created for our Foundation program. This is designed keeping in mind the basic needs of our Class 9 students that goes beyond just the regular curriculum and pre-IIT context but also ensuring they get the right conceptual clarity for the topics in consideration.
PHYSICS SYLLABUS
Unit | Lecture Content |
Motion
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Intro to physics, scalars, vectors, distance, displacement |
velocity, speed, average speed | |
acceleration, numericals | |
equations of motion, motion under gravity | |
Graph (slope) and quadratic equations, distance time graphs | |
velocity time graph, question practice | |
uniform circular motion, centripetal acceleration | |
Numerical Practice | |
Board practice and test | |
Laws of motion
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Forces, effect of force, aristotle fallacy, galileo’s remedy |
First law of motion, Inertia | |
Linear momentum, impulse, second law of motion | |
Third law of motion, examples on laws of motion | |
Conservation of linear momentum | |
School revision practice (Relative Motion in straight line) | |
Revision and test | |
Gravitation
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Fundamental forces in nature, law of gravitation, universal gravitation constant |
Motion of planets, Kepler’s law, Centripetal force | |
Variation of g (with height, depth, shape), NCERT Practice | |
Free fall, motion under gravity, mass and weight (NCERT practice) | |
Weightlessness, Chapter test | |
Floatation
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Pressure,Thrust,Liquid pressure |
Buoyancy, archimede’s principle, Floating bodies | |
Law of floatation, desnsity, relative density | |
Chapter test | |
Heat
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Intro to heat and thermometry |
Thermal expansion of matter | |
Practice | |
Work, Power and energy
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Trigonometry |
Work | |
Energy : Types, kinetic energy | |
Potential energy, Transformation of energy | |
Conservation of energy, Power | |
Question Practice | |
Revision and test | |
Sound
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Production, propagation, nature of waves |
Wave characteristics | |
Speed of sound, range of human ear, sonic boom | |
Reflection of sound, SONAR | |
Forced vibrations and resonance | |
Problem practice | |
Electricity
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Charges, charging |
Potential difference, Ohm’s law | |
ohmic and non ohmic conductor, resistance, resistivity | |
resistance combination | |
Heating effect of current, electric power | |
Numerical Practice | |
Magnets, magnetic field, magnetic field lines | |
Reflection of light
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Nature of light, terms related to light, Law of reflection, Object, image discussion |
Lateral inversion, some fact related to reflection of light, spherical mirrors intro | |
Spherical mirrors terms, image formation by spherical mirrors | |
Image formation continued, mirror formula | |
Numerical Practice |
CHEMISTRY SYLLABUS
Unit | Lecture Content |
Matter in our surroundings
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Matter, Properties, Activities (NCERT), States of matter |
States of matter & their properties | |
Effect of temp. on various states of matter | |
Effect of pressure, Evaporation | |
Law of conservation of mass | |
Boyle’s law, Charle’s law | |
temperature and pressure, Gas equation | |
Practice | |
Practice Lecture | |
Is matter around
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Mixture, Substance, Compound, Element, Alloys, Solution and Types, Suspension |
Colloids and their types, dispersed phase & dispersion medium & conc. of Solution | |
Numericals, physical and chemical changes | |
Centrifugation, Sublimation, distillation and its types, use of seperating funnel | |
Recrystallisation, Air and water purification | |
Practice Lecture + Lab class and activities | |
Revision/Test + Lab class Continued | |
Atoms & Molecules
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Language of chemistry |
Physical and chemical change | |
Atom, Discovery of atom, sub-atomic particles, symbols, size of atom, Dalton’s theory | |
Laws and numericals | |
Atomic symbols, formulae of simple compounds | |
Atomicity, Aromic mass, Molecular on mass and their definition | |
Mole concept + Gram Atomic mass and Gram Molecular mass | |
Mole concept + Gram Atomic mass and Gram Molecular mass | |
Water | |
Practice class + Advance Class (laws) | |
Revision/Test + Advance class (Mole concept) | |
Structure of the atom
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Charged particles, Cathode/Anode Ray Exp, Thomson’s model |
Rutherford & Bohr’s Model | |
Discovery of sub-atomic particles and electronic distribution in shells | |
Valency of various elements, Oxidation number, Atomic number and Atomic mass | |
Isotopes, Isobars, Isotones, Isodiaphers and Isoelectronic species | |
Practice | |
Practice Lecture + Revision/ Test | |
Periodic properties
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Dobernierls Triads, Newland’s law, Introduction ot Mendeelev Periodic Table |
Mendeelev Perodic Table & its anomalies | |
Moderm Periodic Table and Position of Hydrogen | |
Characteristics of Periods & Groups | |
Periodicity trends | |
Periodicity trends | |
Practice / Advance (Detailed periodicity) | |
Hydrogen
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Production of hydrogen |
Production of hydrogen | |
Practice | |
Advance Topics
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Quantum Numbers and Electronic Configuration |
Mole concept + Molarity, Molality | |
Normality, Equivalent concept | |
Laws of chemical combinations | |
Colliods- lyophillic and lyophobic and examples. Techiques for elemental detection |
BIOLOGY SYLLABUS
Unit | Lecture Content |
The Fundamental unit of life
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Discovery of cell, Cell theory; Activity 5.1 What are living organisms made of? Microscope, Types of organisms |
Type of cells; Activity 5.2; cell shape, cell size, cell number, cell volume | |
Cell organisation:- Plasma membrane and its functions, Activity 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 | |
Cell wall, Nucleus, Activity 5.7 | |
Cytoplasm, cell organelles – Endomembrane system | |
Mitochondria, Plastids | |
Chapter revision and sybjective test | |
Tissues
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Introduction – Are plants and animals made of same types of tissues? Plant tissues – Classification, Activity 6.1 |
Desoription of meristematic, Simple permanent tissues | |
Protestine tissues, Activity 6.3, complex permanent tissues | |
Animal tissues – classification, epithelial tissue | |
Connective tissues, Muscular tissues, nervous tissues | |
Chapter revision and sybjective test | |
Improvement in food resources
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Crop production, crop season, Improvement in yields |
Crop variety improvement | |
Crop production management- Nutrition management and water requirement of plants | |
Cropping patterns, crop protection management | |
Storage of grains, animal husbandry – cattle farming | |
poultry farming, fish production, bee keeping | |
Chapter revision and sybjective test | |
Diversity in living organisms
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Basis of classification, classification and evolution, heirarchy of classification, system of classification |
Kingdom monera, kingdom protista, kingdom fungi | |
Kingdom plantae | |
Kingdom animalia – I | |
Kingdom animalia – II | |
Kingdom animalia – III, nomeclature | |
Economic importance of bacteria | |
Economic importance of fungi | |
Chapter revision and sybjective test | |
Why do we fall ill
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Health- its significance personal and community health, Disease and its causes, types of diseases |
Infections and non-infectious diseases, deficiency disease, means of spread of communicable diseases | |
Symptom of diseases, principles of treatment, prevention, vaccination | |
Bacteria | |
Virus | |
Parasites | |
Chapter revision and sybjective test | |
Natural Resources
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Classification of natural resources, air, composition of atmosphere and its layers, role in climate control |
Air pollution, sources and its harmful effects, acid rain, ozone depletion, global warming, water pollution | |
Nitrogen cycle, nitrogen fixation, carbon cycle | |
Oxygen cycle | |
Chapter revision and sybjective test | |
Extra Topics
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Dicot and monocot seed |
Germination of seeds | |
Respiration in plants | |
Respiration in plants | |
Nurition : Classes of food, functions of carbohydrates, fats, protiens, minerals, water and vitamins | |
Structure of tooth | |
Digestive system | |
Digestive system | |
Function of skelton, axial and appendicular skelton | |
Types of joints, structure and function of skin | |
Skin | |
Human repiratory system I | |
Human repiratory system II |
MATHEMATICS SYLLABUS
Unit | Lecture Content |
Number Systems
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Numbers: Number Line (Rational). Decimal representation. Conversion of decimals into rational |
Non terminating recurring to p/q, Irrational No.s, | |
Irrational number on number line Addition of 2 Nonterminating recurring decimals. | |
Properties of exponents, Question on exponents. | |
Question on exponents; Rationalisation | |
Question on Rationalisation. | |
Coordinate Geometry I
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Quadrants, Cartesian coordinate system Pts in Quadrant, Questions |
Straight line graph and plotting | |
Concept of slope and y-intercept | |
Polynomials
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Algebraic Identities; Question; Polynomials definition |
Question on identities and Rationalisation using identities | |
Question on identities; Factorization. | |
Factorization using identities and splitting the middle term, Cubic factorization. | |
Zeroes of polynomial, Remainder theorem | |
Factor theorem; Long division. | |
Introduction to Euclid’s Geometry | Aximos, postulates, Definitions theorem,Question |
Lines and Angles
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Types of angles; linear pair; Angle in a circle; Vertically opposite angles. Questions on Angles |
parallel lines, Transversal,corresponding and other angle properties. Question on angles and parallel lines. | |
Questions. | |
Triangles I
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Types; Angle sum property; Questions |
Exterior angle; Questions | |
Buffer | |
Congruency of triangles; Congruency rules | |
isosceles triangle properties; Questions | |
Questions on congruency | |
NCERT and other Questions | |
Inequality in a triangle. | |
Heron’s Formula
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Different types figures and their areas, Heron’s formula. Pythagoras theorem |
Questions on Heron’s formula | |
NCERT and other Questions | |
Exponents and Logarithms
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Expansions and Factorization |
Indices and exponents | |
Logarithms – intro | |
Laws of logarithms | |
Problem practice | |
Linear Equations in Two Variables
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One variable, Two variable equations solution of linear equations |
Graph of linear equations in two variables. Questions on graph | |
Questions on solution of linear equations in two variable. NCERT. | |
Extra Question on linear equations. | |
Quadrilaterals
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Types of Quadrilaterals, Polygon; Angle, sum property of Quadrilateral. |
Trapezium, isosceles trapezium, Parallelogram and properties of parallelogram and Rhombus | |
Question on parallelogram/Rhombus | |
Properties of Questions on parallelogram. | |
Properties of rectangle, Rhombus and Square. Questions. | |
Midpoint Theorem; Converse; Questions. | |
Questions; Miscellaneous | |
Commercial Maths
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Profit and loss |
Compound Interest | |
Problem practice | |
Area of Parallelogram and Triangle
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Properties/ theorem on areas Questions |
Triangles on same base and between the same parallel. Questions | |
Questions | |
NCERT full exercise and other Questions | |
Buffer | |
Trigonometry
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Trigonometric ratios – Intro |
Trigonometric ratios of standard angles | |
Concept of sine and cosine being complementry | |
Problem practice | |
Constructions
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Bisector of line segment, bisector of angle, Construction of same standard angles, Construction of triangles |
Questions | |
Surface Area and Volume
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Cube, Cubiod |
Questions | |
Cylinder | |
Questions | |
Cone | |
Questions | |
Sphere, Hemisphere | |
Questions. | |
Circles
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Arc of circle, degree measure of arc, Congruent arcs, Chord, Sector, Segment. Results on congruent arcs and chords |
Questions | |
Questions | |
Results on equal chords; Questions. | |
Angle subtended by arc at cnetre and in the segment. | |
Questions | |
Questions | |
Cyclic quadrilateral results. | |
Questions | |
Questions | |
Statistics
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Tally marks, frequency, table data, cumulative frequency |
Bar graph; Histogram | |
Frequency polygon; Mean | |
Mean of grouped data; Median; Mode | |
Probability | Definition; Questions |
Triangles II
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Midpoint Theorem |
Midpoint Theorem | |
Similar Triangles; Basic Proportionality Theorem converse of BPT | |
Questions on BPT | |
Internal and external bisector theorem, Questions. | |
Theorems based on B.P.T. | |
Critertia for similarity of Triangles. (A.A.A), (S.S.S), (S.A.S); Questions. | |
Questions | |
Questions | |
more on similarity of triangles (median, altitude angle bisector), Questions | |
Areas of two similar Triangles. Questions | |
Pythagoras theorem | |
Extra Questions | |
Coordinate Geometry II
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Definition; Distance formula; Questions |
Section formula; Questions | |
Area of triangle; Question | |
Mix Problems. | |
Equation of a line | |
Equation of a line | |
Problem practice |
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