CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (CBSE)

Periodic Test 1 Portion

2024-25

GRADE 10
SUBJECT – ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

UNITS SUB-UNITS

First Flight (Prose)

 A Letter to God
 Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to
Freedom

 Dust of Snow
First Flight (Poetry)  Fire and Ice
 A Tiger in the Zoo

 A Triumph of Surgery
Footprints without Feet
 The Thief's Story

Words and Expression  Unit 1 and 2

 Tenses
Grammar
 Modals

 Descriptive paragraph
Reading
 Case-based study paragraph

 Letter Writing:
Writing Skills
Formal Letter- Letter to the Editor

SUBJECT – HINDI (B) 2nd LANGUAGE

UNITS SUB-UNITS

स्पर्श पाठ्यपुस्तक  बड़े भाई साहब

संचयन  पर्वत प्रदे श में पार्स

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लेखन  समास

व्याकरण  मुहावरे

 अपठित गद्ाां श

SUBJECT – SCIENCE

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Introduction to reflection of light and

reflection of light at curved surfaces

 Images formed by spherical mirrors

 Mirror formula and magnification

 Refraction and Refractive Index

PHYSICS: Light – Reflection and Refraction
 Power of lens

 Images formation by lens

 Exercise and numericals
 Practical: To determine the focal length
of the i) Concave mirror and ii) Convex
lens
 Practice on Practical based questions
(PBQ)

UNITS SUB-UNITS

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  Chemical equations
 Balanced chemical equations and
implications of balanced chemical
equations
 Types of Chemical reactions
o Combination
o Decomposition
o Displacement
CHEMISTRY: Chemical Reactions and o Double displacement
Equations o Precipitation and neutralisation
o Endothermic and exothermic
o Oxidation and reduction
 Effects of Oxidation in everyday life.
 Practical: To perform and observe the
following reactions and classify them
into combination, decomposition,
displacement, and double displacement
reaction.
 Action of water with quick lime
 Action of heat on ferrous sulphate
 Iron nails kept in copper sulphate
solution
 Reaction between sodium sulphate and
barium chloride

 Life processes
BIOLOGY: Life Processes  Autotrophic nutrition
 Heterotrophic nutrition
 Respiration
 Transportation in human being

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  Transportation in plants
 Excretion in human being
 Excretion in plants
 Practical: To prepare temporary mount
of a leaf peel to show stomata
 Practical: To experimentally show that
carbon dioxide is given out during
respiration

SUBJECT – MATHEMATICS

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Fundamental theorem of Arithmetic

Real Numbers  Properties of Irrational numbers and

proofs

 Zeroes of a Polynomial

Polynomials  Relationship between Zeroes and

Coefficients of Quadratic Polynomials

 Introduction of simultaneous linear

equations
 Graphical representation of linear
equation in two variables - Graphical

Linear Equation in two variables method

 Methods of solving linear equations in
two variables
oSubstitution
oElimination
 Condition for consistency/inconsistency
application

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  Simple situational problems

 BPT or Thales Theorem

Triangles  Converse of BPT

 Similarity of triangles

SUBJECT – SOCIAL SCIENCE

UNITS SUB-UNITS

HISTORY:
 The French revolution and the idea of
Section I: Events and Processes
the nation
Chapter 1: Rise of Nationalism in Europe
 The making of nationalism in Europe:
The aristocracy and the new middle
class
 What did liberal nationalism stand for?
 The age of revolutions: 1830-1848
 The making of Germany and Italy
 Visualising the nation
 Nationalism and Imperialism

POLITICAL SCIENCE:
 Belgium and Sri Lanka - A comparative
study
 Majoritarianism in Sri Lanka and
Chapter 1: Power Sharing accommodation in Belgium
 Why power sharing is important?
 Forms of power sharing

 What is Federalism?
 What makes India a federal country?
Chapter 2: Federalism
How is Federalism practiced in India?
 Decentralisation in India

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  Definition of 'Development'

ECONOMICS:  Traditional notion of development

Chapter 1: Development  Growth of NI-critical appraisal of

existing development indicators
 Important development goals of
individuals
 Need for health and educational
development
 Human development indicators
 Case Study: India and China (developing
countries) compared to USA (developed
country)

 Classification of the sectors

 Historical change in sectors,
Interdependence of various sectors
 Rising importance of the tertiary sector
 Reasons for growing importance of
Chapter 2: Sectors of the Indian Economy
service sector in India
 Where are most people employed?
 Organised unorganised sector
 Sectors in terms of ownership

 Concept
 Development of resources
GEOGRAPHY:
 Resource Planning - Resource Planning in
Chapter 1: Resources and Development
India, conservation of resources
 Land Resources and Land Utilization
 Land use pattern in India
 Land degradation and conservation

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 measures
 Soil as a resource - classification of soils,
soil erosion, and soil conservation

 Conservation of forests and wildlife in

India
Chapter 2: Forest and Wildlife
 Types and distribution of forests and
wildlife resources
 Community and conservation

 Water scarcity and the need for water

conservation and management
Chapter 3: Water Resources  Multi-purpose river projects and
integrated water resources
management
 Rainwater harvesting

SUBJECT – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

UNITS SUB-UNITS

 Methods of communication
 Communication cycle
Unit 1: Communication Skills – II  Communication barriers
 Effective communication
 Basic writing skills

 Stress management and its techniques

Unit 2: Self-Management Skills – II
 Ability to work independently

Unit 3: Information and Communication Skills

 Operating Systems
– II
 Managing files and folders
 Care and maintenance of a computer