SYLLABUS FOR THE TEST PAPER BASED ON THE SYLLABUS OF CLASS VIII
SUBJECT : ENGLISH
- Comprehension (Unseen Passage)
- Word and Sentence
- Structure Spelling
- Rearranging jumbled words
- Passivation
- Use of degrees of comparison
- Modal auxiliaries
- Use of prepositions
- Tense forms
- Reported speech
SUBJECT : GENERAL SCIENCE
1 Food – Crop Production and Management; Micro-organism; Food
Preservation
- Materials I – Synthetic fibres; Plastics; Metals and Non – metals
- Material II – Coal and Petroleum; Refining of Petroleum; Fossil Fuels;
Combustion and Flame - Living / Non living; Cell structure and Function; Conservation of Plants
and Animals – Wildlife Sanctuary and National Parks - Reproduction – Asexual and Sexual Reproduction, Reaching the age of
adolescence - Force – Frictional Force; Gravitational Force; Thrust and Pressure
- Light – Reflection of Light; Multiple Reflection; Human eye; Care of the
Eyes; Sound; Human ears; Loudness and Pitch, Audible and inaudible
Sounds - Chemical Effects of Electric Current; Electroplating
- Natural Phenomena – Lightning; Earthquakes, Pollution of Air and Water
- Solar system; Stars and Constellations
SUBJECT : MATHEMATICS
- Rational Numbers
- Squares and Square Roots
- Cubes and Cube Roots
- Exponents and Powers
- Direct and Inverse Proportions
- Comparing Quantities (Percentage, Profit and Loss, Discount,
Simple and Compound Interest) - Algebraic Expressions and Identities including Factorization
- Linear Equations in One Variable
- Understanding Quadrilaterals
(Parallelogram, rhombus, rectangle,
square, kite) - Mensuration:
a) Area of plane figures
b) Surface area and volume of cube, cuboids and cylinder - Data Handling (Bar graph, pie chart, organizing data, probability)
