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The Caribbean Examinations Council® (CXC®), in response to the needs of its stakeholders amidst the
challenges presented by COVID-19, has prepared this document outlining the main areas of study for
the June/July 2021 examinations.
The main areas of study are being provided to assist with examination preparation for Papers 02 and
032 and they do not represent the actual questions that will be on the examinations. Candidates are
reminded that comprehensive knowledge of the syllabus is critical in preparation for the CXC®
examinations as the multiple-choice paper will continue to assess the entire syllabus.
Introductory Calculus
Differentiation, to include stationary values and
Kinematics
Integration, to include area under curve and
Kinematics
1. Environmental Monitoring
2. Technologies for Non-conventional Crop Production
1. Land Preparation and Farm Machinery
3. Management Practices for Livestock – Pest and Disease
2. Crop Management – Disease Control
4. Harvesting, Post-harvesting Management and Value
3. Animal Nutrition and Management – Animal ration
Agricultural Science (Double Addition
4. Animal Products
Award) 5. Post-production Handling and Processing of Livestock
5. Farm Organization and Planning
6. Agro-engineering – Farm Structures and Farm Buildings
6. Marketing of Agricultural Products
7. Entrepreneurship in Agriculture – Financial Statements
7. Bee Management and Production
and SWOT Analysis
8. Communication in Agri-business
1. Nutrition
2. Biotic and Abiotic factors
3. Food Chains
4. Predator/Prey Relationships 1. Food Tests
5. Decomposers 2. Ecological Study and Appropriate Sampling Methods
Biology
6. Treatment and Control of Diseases 3. The Eye
7. Transport 4. Disease
8. Excretion
9. Reproduction
10. Continuity and Variation
1. Atomic Structure
2. Periodic Table and Periodicity
3. Mole Concept
4. Acids, Bases and Salts 1. Mole Concept
5. Electrochemistry 2. Acids, Bases and Salts
Chemistry
6. Sources of Hydrocarbon Compounds 3. Rates of Reaction
7. Organic Chemistry – An Introduction 4. States of Matter
8. Reactions of Carbon Compounds
9. Non-metals
10. Qualitative Analysis
1. Candidates must be familiar with creating documents 1. Candidates must be familiar with creating documents
using the following software programs: using the following software programs:
Word processing Word processing
Spreadsheet Data management
Data management 2. Candidates must be familiar with the following:
2. Candidates must be familiar with the following: Letter and memorandum layouts (blocked, semi-
Electronic Document Letter and memorandum layouts (blocked, semi- blocked, indented)
Preparation and Management blocked, indented) Displays
Displays Tabular work
Tabular work Insertion of graphics
Insertion of graphics Manuscript signs
Manuscript signs Creating and manipulating databases
Creating charts
Creating and manipulating databases
Circle Geometry/Theorem
Statistics
Measures of Central Tendency
Probability
Measurement
Area
Volume,
Surface Area
Investigation
Number Theory
Identifying and Manipulating Patterns and
Sequences
Paper 04 Topics
1. History and Development of Physical Education
Physical Education and Sport and Sport Not applicable
2. Anatomy and Physiology
3. Fitness and Performance
4. Health and Nutrition
5. Trends and Social Issues
1. Accounting as a Profession
1. Ledgers and the Trial Balance 2. Accounting as a System
2. Accounting as a System 3. Books of Original Entry
3. Books of Original Entry 4. Ledgers and the Trial Balance
4. Accounting Adjustments 5. The Preparation and Analysis of Financial Statements of
5. Control Systems the Sole Trader
Principles of Accounts 6. Preparation and Analysis of Financial Statements of 6. Accounting Adjustments
the Sole Trader 7. Control Systems
7. Accounting for Limited Liability Companies, Co- 8. Accounting for Partnerships
operatives and Non-Profit Organizations 9. Accounting for Limited Liability Companies,
8. Accounting for the Entrepreneur Co-operatives and Non-Profit Organizations
9. Accounting for Partnerships 10. Manufacturing and Inventory Control
11. Accounting for the Entrepreneur
UNIT I
SUBJECT
PAPER 02 PAPER 03/032
1. Game Genres
2. Economic Value of Games and Animation
3. Associated Risks for the Industry
4. Motion Analysis
5. Life Drawing
Animation and Game Design Not applicable
6. Synopsis Development
7. Narratives
8. Character Theory and Design
9. Drawing Perspectives
10. Depth of Fields
Production Papers
Art and Design Paper 02 – Two-dimensional art design Not applicable
Paper 03 – Three-dimensional art design
1. Aspects of Biochemistry
2. Cell Structure and Functions
1. Aspects of Biochemistry
3. Structure and Roles of Nucleic Acids
2. Patterns of Inheritance
Biology 4. Cell Division and Variation
3. Reproduction in Plants
5. Aspects of Genetic Engineering
6. Reproduction in Plants
7. Sexual Reproduction in Humans
Engineering Drawing
1. Standard Engineering Curves
2. Orthographic Projection
3. Surface Development
4. Helix
5. Working and Assembly Drawings
Building and Mechanical 6. Solutions to Engineering Problems
Not applicable
Engineering Drawing
Building Drawing
1. Standard Engineering Curves
2. Orthographic Projection
3. Surface Development
4. Helix
5. Producing and Modifying Building Drawing
Research Process
Research Design
Collecting Information
1. Impact of Geographical phenomena – coral reefs
Presenting and Interpreting Data
2. Associations Related to Integration in the Caribbean
Drawing Conclusions
3. Impact of Societal Institutions on Caribbean People
Caribbean Studies
– Religion: African, Asian, European-derived,
The Use of Technology in Education in a Named Caribbean
syncretic
Country since 1980
4. Contributions of Sports to Caribbean Development
OR
Festivals in the Caribbean Country
1. Atomic Structure
2. Mole Concept
3. Redox Reactions
1. The Mole Concept
4. Rates of Reaction
Chemistry 2. Rates of Reaction
5. Chemical Equilibria
3. Identification of Cations and Anions
6. Buffers and pH
7. Group II elements
8. First Row Transition Elements
Candidates will be asked to write THREE essays in which they Candidates will be asked to write THREE essays in which they
will be required to do the following: will be required to do the following:
1. Analyse an expository passage written in Standard English 1. Analyse an expository passage written in Standard English
Summarize main message and identify author’s Summarize main message and identify author’s purpose.
purpose Assess the effectiveness of the organizational and
Assess the effectiveness of the organizational and rhetorical strategies used to convey the message and
rhetorical strategies used to convey the message and achieve the writer’s purpose.
achieve the writer’s purpose.
2. Analyse a narrative passage which includes Caribbean Creole
2. Analyse a narrative passage which includes Caribbean English
Creole English Discuss the use of elements of language, such as dialectical
Communication Studies Discuss the use of elements of language, such as variety, language registers, communicative behaviours and
dialectical variety, language registers, communicative attitudes to language.
behaviours and attitudes to language. Envision how the communicative behaviours could be
depicted.
3. Write a proposal for the delivery of a message to a specific
audience and justify the use of the following for the 3. Analyse a message in which they
targeted audience. identify the audience
Promotional strategies justify the author’s strategies for appealing to this
Rhetorical appeals audience
Presentation strategies justify context of message dissemination.
Technological devices
The timeline for delivery
1. Offshore Banking
2. Financial Markets and Financial Mediation
3. Common Stock and the Theory of Expectation and
Three structured questions based on research activities.
Efficient Market Hypothesis
This paper will test knowledge of Financial Services
Financial Services Studies 4. Markowitz Investment Theory
concepts contained in the syllabus and research skills
5. Risk–return Efficient Frontier of Risky Assets
relevant to Financial Services.
6. Efficient Market Hypothesis
7. Money Laundering
8. Cybersecurity
1. Population Distribution
2. Population Change
3. Population Structure
4. Population and Resources 1. Population Change
5. Settlement Processes 2. Settlement Processes
6. Hydrology 3. Hydrology
7. Fluvial Processes and Landforms 4. Fluvial Processes and Landforms
Geography
8. Coastal Processes and Landforms 5. Coastal Processes and Landforms
9. Processes and Landforms in Limestone 6. Natural Events, Hazards and Disasters
Environments 7. Plate Tectonics
10. Natural Events, Hazards and Disasters 8. Response to Hazards
11. Flooding
12. Plate Tectonics
13. Response to Hazards
1. Current Trends Related to the Utilization of Natural
Resources
2. Concepts of Sustainable Development, Sustainability
and Efficiency A written paper consisting of a report based on a case
Green Engineering I–II
3. The Need for Sustainability study
4. Principles of Green Engineering
5. Principles of Industrial Ecology
6. Green Engineering in Practice
1. European Contact with West Africa up to 1492
2. African Contact with the Americas prior to 1492
3. The Haitian Revolution, 1789–1804 This paper will consist of questions related to candidates’
4. Eric Williams: Decline Thesis research and is designed to assess their ability to
5. Caribbean Integration 1. evaluate primary and secondary sources
History
6. Labour Protests in the Second Half of the 2. relate the topic to a theme in the syllabus
Nineteenth Century: 3. place the topic in the wider historical context
• Vox Populi, 1862 4. synthesize the results of the research.
• Morant Bay, 1865
• Confederation, 1876
1. Numbers
2. Coordinate Geometry
3. Functions, Graphs, Equations and Inequalities
4. Logarithms and Exponents
1. Probability, Probability Distributions and Regression
5. Remainder and Factor Theorem
2. Data and Sampling
6. Sequences and Series
3. Presentation of Data
7. Matrices and Systems of Equations
4. Measures of Location and Spread
8. Trigonometry
Integrated Mathematics 5. Functions, Graphs, Equations and Inequalities
9. Data and Sampling
6. Trigonometry
10. Measures of Location and Spread
7. Differentiation
11. Permutations and Combinations
8. Application of Differentiation
12. Probability, Probability Distributions and Regression
9. Integration
13. Limits and Continuity
14. Differentiation
15. Application of Differentiation
16. Integration
1. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility 1. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
2. Impact of Globalization on Business 2. Decision-making
3. The Functions and Theories of Management (the 3. Impact of Globalization on Business
Planning Function of Management) 4. Theory of Motivation
4. Theory and Application of Motivation (Causes and 5. Management of Change
Management of Business
Effects of Motivation) 6. Functions of Human Resource Management
5. Theories of Leadership 7. Sources of Finance
6. Sources of Finance 8. Money and Capital Markets
7. Components of Financial Statements 9. Analysis and Calculation of Investment Appraisal
8. Financial Statements Analysis Methods
1. Motions
2. The Effect of Forces
1. Motions
3. Harmonic Motion
2. Properties of Waves
Physics 4. Properties of Waves
3. Design and Use of Thermometers
5. Physics of the Ear and Eye
4. Mechanical Properties of Materials
6. The Kinetic Theory of Gases
7. Heat Transfer
1. Key Concepts
2. Issues Affecting Tourism
3. Sectors of Tourism 1. Sustainable Tourism
4. Tourism Linkage and Leakage 2. Community Participation
Tourism
5. Economic Impacts 3. Measuring and Monitoring Sustainable Tourism
6. Sustainable Tourism 4. Policy, Planning and Management
7. Community Participation
8. Policy, Planning and Management
UNIT II
SUBJECT
PAPER 02 PAPER 032
1. Inventory or Stock Valuation Methods
1. Cost and Management Accounting vs
2. Overhead Costs
Financial Accounting
3. Costing Systems
2. Manufacturing Accounts
4. Job Costing
3. Remuneration
5. Activity-based Costing
4. Job Costing
Accounting 6. Marginal Costing and Absorption Costing
5. Process Costing
7. Income Statements
6. Managerial and Absorption Costing
8. Budgeting
7. Standard Costing
9. Master Budget
8. Variance Analysis
10. Standard Costing
9. Cost Volume Profit Analysis
11. Capital Budgeting Techniques
1. Linear Programming
2. Assignment Models
3. Graph Theory and Critical Path Analysis
1. Logic and Boolean Algebra
4. Logic and Boolean Algebra
2. Assignment Models
5. Probability
3. Continuous Random Variables
6. Discrete Random Variables
Applied Mathematics 4. Chi-square Test
7. Continuous Random Variables
5. Coplanar Forces and Equilibrium
8. Chi-square Test
6. Kinematics and Dynamics
9. Coplanar Forces and Equilibrium
7. Work, Energy and Power
10. Kinematics and Dynamics
11. Projectiles
12. Work, Energy and Power
1. Data Structures
Computer Science 2. Software Engineering Not applicable
3. Operating Systems and Computer Networks
1. Design Principles
2. Prototypes using Design Principles
3. Tools and Techniques for Content Development 1. Visual and Interactive Design
Digital Media 4. Factors that Impact the Mobile User Experience 2. Web and Digital Publishing
5. Benefits of Local Apps 3. Mobile App Development
6. Tools and Techniques to Create a Mobile
Application
OPTION A
1. Elements of a Communication System
2. Multimedia and Wireless Communication Systems
3. Digital Communication Systems
4. Operational Amplifiers
5. Problem-solving – Operational Amplifiers
6. Transistors
7. Combinational Logic and Truth Tables
8. Instrument and Electrical System
9. Programmable Logic Control (PLC) Systems
10. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
Electrical and Electronic
systems Not applicable
Technology
OPTION B
1. Safety Standards
2. Power Machines and Systems
3. Wind Energy
4. Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
5. Geothermal Systems
6. Fossil Power Plants
7. Steam Turbine
8. Diesel Engine
1. Types of Risk and Benefits of Ventures 1. Types of Risk and Benefits of Ventures
2. Legal and Regulatory Framework 2. Legal and Regulatory Framework
3. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility 3. Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
4. Market Research, Feasibility Analysis and Business 4. Market Research, Feasibility Analysis and
Entrepreneurship Plan Business Plan
5. Financial Statements, Savings and Investment 5. Financial Statements, Savings and Investment
6. E-commerce 6. E-commerce
7. Venture Life Cycle 7. Venture Life Cycle
8. Venture Valuation 8. Venture Valuation
1. Defamation
Law 2. Formation and Discharge of Contracts Fixtures and Chattels
3. Law of Easements
1. Capacity Planning
2. Inventory Management 1. Forecasting Techniques
3. Techniques for Improving Quality 2. Costing
4. Lean Production 3. Lean Production and Quality Management
5. Characteristics of Marketing Concepts 4. The Concept of Marketing
6. Stages of Marketing Research 5. Implications of Different Marketing Concepts
Management of Business 7. Principles of Market Segmentation 6. Internet Marketing
8. The Nature and Characteristics of 7. The Nature and Characteristics of
Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship
9. Major Challenges and Opportunities faced by Small 8. Major Challenges and Opportunities faced by
Businesses Small Businesses
10. Importance of the Sections of the Business Pan for
a Small Business
1. Forces
2. Principles of Force and Motion
3. Concept of Energy
4. Management and Leadership
5. Legal Issues
Physical Education and Sport Not applicable
6. Facilities Management
7. Marketing
8. Technology in Sport
9. Methods of Dissemination of Sports Information
10. Use of Social Media
1. Electrical Quantities
2. Electrical Circuits
1. Electrical Quantities
3. Electric Fields
2. Electrical Circuits
Physics 4. Capacitors
3. Radioactivity
5. Operational Amplifiers
4. Alternating Currents
6. Particulate Nature of Electromagnetic Radiation
7. Radioactivity
1. Complex Numbers
1. Complex Numbers
2. Differentiation
2. Differentiation
3. Integration
3. Integration
4. Sequences
4. Series
5. Series
Pure Mathematics 5. The Binomial Theorem
6. The Binomial Theorem
6. Roots of Equations
7. Roots of Equations
7. Counting
8. Counting
8. Matrices and Systems of Linear Equations
9. Matrices and Systems of Linear Equations
9. Differential Equations and Modelling
10. Differential Equations and Modelling
1. Concepts of Development
2. Indicators of Development
3. The Sociological Perspectives of Development Three structured questions based on research
4. Concepts Related to Crime and Deviance activities.
5. Perspectives on Crime and Deviance This paper will test knowledge of sociological
Sociology
6. Concepts Underlying Major Caribbean Social Issues concepts contained in the syllabus and skills of
7. Sociological Perspectives on the Causes and Effects sociological research.
of the Major Caribbean Social Issues
8. Causes and Effects of Major Caribbean Social
Issues
1. Human Rights
2. Tourism
3. Genetic Practices
All the novels and themes are selected for the
4. Disease Prevention and Cure examination, as per the syllabus. However,
Spanish 5. Information Communication Technology and Social students will select questions based on the novels
Life and themes studied in their respective schools.
6. Information Communication Technology and
Economic Life