1) Practice Past Exam Papers of 2011, 2013, 2015

2) Most Important Chapters:

a) Chemical Reactions and Equations
b) Acids, Bases and Salts
c) Life Processes
d) How do Organisms Reproduce
e) Light- Reflection and Refraction
f) Human Eye and The Colorful World
g) Magnetic Effects of Electric Current
3) Chapter-Wise Important Topics:
a) Chemical Equations and Reactions
i) Balancing of Equations
ii) Types of Reactions (Double Displacement/Decomposition/Redox/Combination)
iii) Identifying Oxidants and Reductant/ Oxidizing and Reducing Agents)
iv) Rusting and Prevention
b) Acids, Bases and Salts
i) Properties of Acids and Bases (Taste, Touch, Indicator test, etc.)
ii) Chemical Properties of both (Reaction with metals and Neutralization)
iii) pH scale, Universal indicator full topic VERY important
iv) Plaster of Paris, Washing Soda and Baking Soda
c) Metals and Non-Metals
i) Chemical Properties of Metals (Reaction with acids and water with exceptions)
ii) Electrolytic Refining
iii) Ionic Bond formation of NaCl
iv) Roasting, Calcination, Corrosion, Reactivity Series
d) Carbon & its Compounds
i) Properties of Carbon Compounds (Catenation, Tetravalency, Covalent Bonding)
ii) Hydrocarbons (meaning and types- Alkane, Alkene, Alkyne and Nomenclature)
iii) Functional Groups
iv) Homologous Series
v) Ethanoic Acids
vi) Micelle Formation
e) Life Processes
i) Nutrition- Plant and Human Digestive System
ii) Respiration process
iii) Transportation in Humans (Working of heart, Pulmonary Veins, artery, aorta, Vena
Cava, Veins, Lymph)
iv) Transportation in Plants (Xylem and Phloem)
v) Excretion (Artificial Kidney)
f) Control and Coordination
i) Nervous System – Reflex Action (Reflex arc)
 ii) Coordination in Plants
iii) Hormones- Endocrine System in humans (table at end of chapter)
g) How do Organisms Reproduce
i) Asexual Reproduction (Regeneration, Vegetative Propagation)
ii) Sexual Reproduction (Flowering Plant- Diagram and Ovary, anther, filament in
that)
iii) Sexual Reproduction in Humans – Male Part and Female Part – diagram and
components
iv) Methods of Contraception
h) Heredity
i) Inherited Traits vs Acquired Traits
ii) Dominant Traits vs Recessive Traits
iii) Mendel’s Experiments and Law of Inheritance
iv) Sex Determination
i) Our Environment
i) Food Chain/Food Web
ii) Ozone Layer Depletion
j) Light
i) Both Mirror image formation and Ray Diagrams
ii) Laws of Reflection
iii) Laws of Refraction
iv) Important position of objects- Centre of Curvature (at C), between Centre of
curvature and Focus (between C & F)
v) Mirror Formula and Magnification
vi) Refractive Index
vii)Numericals related to image height and Refractive index of medium and speed of
light in medium
k) Human Eyes and the Colorful World
i) Defect of Eyes (Near Sightedness and Presbyopia)
ii) Refraction of Light through Prism- angle of Deviation, dual prism condition
iii) Atmospheric Refraction- Twinkling of Stars, Advanced Sunrise/Delayed Sunset
iv) Tyndall Effect- Sky appears Blue
l) Electricity
i) Ohm’s Law (learn basic law statement and derivation)
ii) Resistance and Resistivity
iii) Series and Parallel Combination
iv) Heating Effect
v) P = VI P = V2/R P = I 2R
vi) Numericals of Power Consumed
vii)Circuit Diagrams
m) Magnetic Effects of Electric Current
 i) Properties of Magnetic Field Lines
ii) Magnetic Field due to Current Carrying Loop
iii) Solenoid (VERY Important)
iv) Right Hand Thumb Rule and Fleming’s Lefts Hand Rule (Rule definition and
diagram)
4) Chapter-Wise Important Questions:
a) Chemical Equations and Reactions
i) Why do we balance chemical equations?
ii) Photosynthesis and Reduction Reactions
iii) Can a displacement reaction also be a redox reaction? Give example.
iv) What is a Chemical Reaction? Chemical Equation?
v) What are the characteristics of Chemical reactions?
vi) Decomposition Reactions examples and types
b) Acids, Bases and Salts
i) What happens when a base reacts with a non-metallic oxide
ii) What happens when CO2 gas passed through Lime Water?
iii) What is the result of reaction between zinc and Sodium hydroxide?
iv) Explain Chlor-alkali Process
v) Why is only one half of water molecule shown in Plaster of Paris?
vi) Give reason why NaHCO3 is used as an antacid.
vii)Hydrated Salt vs anhydrous salt
viii) What are acid-base indicators?
ix) What is water of crystallization?
c) Metals and Non-Metals
i) Learn all equations and their balancing
ii) Reaction of Na, Ca and Mg with Water
iii) Hydrogen gas is not evolved when most of the metals react with nitric acid. Why?
iv) Zinc oxide is considered as amphoteric Oxide. Why?
v) Metals vs Non-Metals
vi) Steps involved in extraction of pure metals
vii)How is copper obtained from its ore?
viii) Galvanization vs alloying
d) Carbon & its Compounds
i) Covalent Compounds have low melting and boiling points. Justify.
ii) Draw structure of methane and a cyclic unsaturated compound
iii) Why are most carbon compounds poor conductors of electricity?
iv) Meaning of Structural isomer?
v) Esterification vs Saponification
vi) Acetylene (other name for ethyne) burns with sooty flame. Give reason.
e) Life Processes
i) Steps involved in Photosynthesis
 ii) Enzymes released in Alimentary Canal
iii) Autotrophs vs heterotrophs
iv) Nutrition in Amoeba with diagram
v) What are Peristaltic Movements?
vi) Why is Nutrition necessary for human body?
vii)Diffusion is insufficient to meet our oxygen requirement. Why?
viii) Breathing vs Respiration
ix) Pathways for breakdown of glucose
x) Plant Respiration vs Animal Respiration
xi) What is translocation?
xii)Explain 3 types of Blood Vessels
xiii) Diagram of Excretory System
f) Control and Coordination
i) Sensory Nerves and Cranial Nerves
ii) Synapse, Reflex Arc, Dendrite and Axon
iii) Different Regions/parts of Brain
iv) What are Tropic Movements?
v) Geotropism, Phototropism, Hydrotropism
vi) Animal Hormones
vii)Nervous Control vs Chemical Control
g) How do Organisms Reproduce
i) Role of DNA in reproduction and DNA Copying Mechanism
ii) Binary vs Multiple Fission
iii) Modes of Asexual Reproduction
iv) Budding in Hydra with diagram
v) Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction
vi) Reproduction in Rhizopus with Diagram
vii)Functions of Ovary, Sperms and eggs
viii) Functions of Placenta, Fallopian Tubes
ix) Process and meaning of Pollination
x) Sexually Transmitted Diseases meaning and examples (Viral and Bacterial)
xi) ALL DIAGRAMS
h) Heredity
i) All NCERT Questions
i) Light
i) Characteristics of image formed by plane mirror
ii) Which mirror in Solar Furnace?
iii) Properties of Convex mirrors
iv) Why rear-view mirrors are convex?
v) Meaning of Pole, Centre of Curvature, Principal Axis, Focus
vi) Power of Lens
 vii)Snell’s Law
viii) Lateral Displacement of Light
j) Human Eyes and the Colorful World
i) Which part of eye is Iris? Cornea? Pupil? Ciliary Muscle? Crystalline Lens? Retina?
ii) Power of accommodation of eye?
iii) Describe Defects of Vision
iv) Formation of Rainbow
v) Dispersion of Whie light
vi) Meaning of Spectrum
vii)Why do stars twinkle but planets don’t?
viii) Explain Tyndall Effect
k) Electricity
i) Define 1 Ampere
ii) Ohm’s Law and V-I Graph
iii) Resistivity of Alloys?
iv) Resistance of Conductors?
v) Calculate resistance of a metal wire of length 2m, having cross section area as
1.55x106 m2, given the resistivity of the metal used is 2.8x10-8 Ωm
vi) How will the current be affected if the radius of the wire is halved?
vii)Why is parallel combination better than series?
viii) Electric Fuse
ix) Why filament of bulb made of tungsten?
x) Heating effect of Current (Joule’s Law of heating)
xi) All NCERT Numericals
l) Magnetic Effects of Electric Current
i) Magnetic Field Lines around a Bar Magnet
ii) What is a Solenoid? Properties? Construction? Diagram? Everything reacted to
Solenoid.
iii) Function of Earth Wire
iv) Examples/Intext Question/Give Reason Questions from NCERT.
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7) DO NEAT AND CLEAR WORK
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