West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

Vidyasagar Bhavan
9/2, Block DJ, Sector-ll, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 9l
No: L/PR"/164/2020 Date : 25.11.2020

NOTIFICATION

Attention : A ll Hea dso f Hish er Secondary Institutions . teachers .

H.S candidates for H.S Examination 2021

As directed by Hon'ble Minister-in-Charge , School Education

Department , Govt. of West Bengal , the Council has discarded 30-35%
of the H.S syllabus in all the subjects for H.S Examination ,2021 .

Moreover , it is being notified that questions being set on various

subjects for H.S Examination,202l will exclude those topics on which
questions were already set in H.S Examination ,2020 . Please note that ,

there will be no reduction in the syllabus of those subjects in which the

total allotted marks in the theory paper is less than or equal to 60.
You are requested to refer to the list of subject-wise discarded
topics being uploaded as enclosure to this Notification. Discarded
portions of Gujrati , Telugu , Nepali B and Anthropology will be
uploaded very shortly.

l"t"l^"-t*
President
W. B. Council of H. S. Education
 WEST BENGAL COUNCIL OF HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION
VIDYASAGAR BHAVAN
9/2 , BLOCK -DJ , SECTOR [ , SALT rAKE
KOLKATA - 7OOO91

Subject-wise discarded topics :

sl Subject Related Portions from H.5 syllabus

No
1 English B . Prose : Thank You Ma'am
. Poetry : On Killing a Tree
2 Bengali A (+GF " Cs' <IEIT CO <IF"I
E.FW SlFe-t (rl'95: rqqFf e-r'l
1frr srt 'qt{l-{ Ttiql' GIr$' 'sTcBI sf{lvl'
3[iTt
xrfils-t66r +Rst c{rs, 'Pp51;I' oF6I e<i
<rcIfr{ Frq e xrTB 6qgs' '2fli,{I sIIFEt {IBIT'
s[r{tBlt

3 Sanskrit fiTia
MCO ',t t2
SA 1X2
DESCRIPTIVE 5 Xl
ar{gtFIr{ !rl(E5 iEiIT 5 x 1

qqlRT ,{ ql?I tqmPl gltr {CII {IFI I

sz(E(E{ 5 li fifr
Trr+ffirg3 (1 x3) r cF{6 (2 x 3)
T{IlIr;n tt+6ro z tr x2)rift-{d (2r) I

4 French Poem : Une all6e du Luxembourg

Prose : La Tendress d'une de Pilote
5 Hindi A 1 +-er+n 4r afurra *xr;r{t-t Fr(.q)
wraitrw6ral
:ltrqffil srf€-s or gfi-6r€)
6 U rdu Prose : Md. Ali Jauhar
Poetry : Qasida
History of Urdu Literature : Sir Syed Tahreek ( Movemenl ) ( Unseen )
Ghazal by Nasir Kazni
Afsana Ficlion Bewazni
7 Arabic . Prose: Sl No5&9
. Poetry:Sl No5&8

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8 Persian

r\ir

A
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1d
t y",-rl*t'l-
.,t ,rtar,t' - ^:-

tlr,

9 Alternative Prose : The Mark ofVishnu

Poetry : Lotus
English
10 Santhali 1. <frq r'
a'.
t r-
--qF -
11 Odia Antarjatik Kabita
Bharati
t2 Hindi B Prose : trar€r *I #-<(n4aoi tl ruino)

tE
Poem :crfifrfrtE(rdt4(Pani Me Ghire Huye log)

Bengali B !R-rr qqIEI

FSf 'r{q+{ssTB-ffreE
English A Prose : A Chameleon
Dulce et Decorum
15 NepaliA K.Afl L,\
r.lrma*trfr.
GADHYA(IO
l.qrr*)<qr
NATAIi (ire6
,. dt fta d(t(
VYAllRAn' R.{ RACHANA
I ffi tfr (slort Answer Typc Qucstpn)
5. {+fiG llt{ @escriptivc Type Quetion)

16 Punjabi . Punjabi SvaUivani se Ansh :Ajil Kaur

. Sahit Roop:Sweiivani , Natak
. Ras
L7 Accountancy Death of a Panner
Accounting tor Oebenture
Financial Statement Anal
18 Business . Direcling
Studies
. Consumer Proteclion
. Business Environment
. Financial Markel
19 Costing and . Basic Concept o, Overhead
Taxation
. lncome from other sources
. Cost of Material ll
20 Commercial . The Law of lnsurance
Law and
. New Branches of Auditing

Preliminaries
of Auditlng
2L Modern . Networking : LAN , WAN protocols
Computer . Database Management System : lntrodudion to OBMS : OOL,OCLDML , ER
model , Relational Model- Database constraints , RelationalAlgebra & SQL
Applications . MS Access
22 Nutrition Oietetics &Diet planning : Preparalion of simple therapeutic diets
Methods of Food preservation
Nutrilion for the Community : Nutrition Education for lhe community including
cooking demonslrations
Methods of survey ot food consumption and food habits in families
23 Political . lntemational Relations in the post-second World war period
Science
. Foreign Policy
o UNO
24 Econom ics Faclor Ma*et
Equilibrium under Monopoly
Cost Oelermined Pricing
Oetermination of in@me and Employment
lntemationalTrade and Balance of Payment
Measures of Dispersion - Range -Standard Deviation -Lorenz Curve -Gini
Coefficient
Fiscal Policf
25 Education Group B : Educational provisions in lndian constitution related to women's
education , equalization of opportunity , education for minority , SC , ST
Group C : Educalion for the differently abled children
26 Psychology . Environment and Behavior
. ldentitv DeveloDment
27 Philosophy . HypotheticalandDisiuncliveSy'logism
. Argument
. Cause
. lndudive Fallacies

Geography Physical Geography :

Cycle of Erosion ,
Drainage Pattems ,
Man Environmont lnteraclion
Marine Processes and Associated Landfoms
Economic Geog6phy :
Tertiary , Ouaternary , Quinary Aclivities
Regional Economic Development

29 Statistics Statistical Quality Control

Testing of Hypothesis
S
30 History . Situating colonialism and imperialism in the 'l &2 centuries
. Decolonisation
. TtE Era of Cold War
3r. Computer . Command Line Arguments in C Programming
Science
. uO File Handling in C ( Ten files and Binary files )
Concept oI File Poinler , Modes of op€ning in file . Use of functions
. Oatabase Management System
Normalization - Definition , Different Normal Forms ( Normalizing a Relalion upto
3NF )

3
32 Home . Unit I: I ( Decision Making )
Managemen . Unit2:C (Work Simplification )

t & Family I

Resource
Managemen
t
33 Agronomy . Growth o, crops -----€ntire chapter
. Soil erosion and its control
. Crop production and propagation : whteat . sugarcane, banana
. Crop proleclion : proteciion against rodenG I

. Law of diminishing retum in fertilizers use , special features of rainfed and

inigated agriculture
34 Environment . Chapter Vl :Environment Management
alStudies
. Chapter Vll : Sub unit lV : Challeflges for sustainable Developmenl - social ,
political and economic consideratjons
Sub unit V: Support base for sustainable development
Sub unit Vl : Role of Nationat and International agencies
35 Physics Unit 4 : Alternating Current
Unit 5 : Electromagnelic waves
Unit 7 : Dual Nature of Radiation & Matter
Unit 8 : Atoms and Nuclei
Unit 10 : Communication system
36 chemistry Unit I : Solid State: Electrical and magnetic properties. Band theory
of metals, conductors, semiconductors and insulators and n and p
type
semi conductors.
Unit ll : Solutions : Abnormal molecular mass, Van't Hoff factor and
calculations involving it.
Unit lll : Electrochemistry : Lead accumulator.
Unit lV : Chemical Kinetics : Concept of collision theory, activation
energy, Anhenius equation.
Unit V : Surface Chemistry : Emulsion - types of emulsions,
catalysis: homogenous and heterogeneous, activity and selectivity ;
enzyme catalysis,
Unit Vl : General Principles and Processes of lsolation of Elements :
Entire unit
Unit Vll : p-Block Elements : Preparation and properties of
Phosphine,
industrial process of manufacture of Sulphuric acid , Oxides of
Nitrogen ; Phosphorus - allotropic forms, compounds of
Phosphorus: Preparation and properties of Halides and Oxo acids
(elementary idea only).
Unit Vlll : d and f Block Elements : Chemical reactivity of
lanthanoids, Actinoids -Electronic configuration, oxidation states
and comparison with lanthanoids. Preparation and properties of
KMnO4 and f\2:Cr2O7
Unit lX : Coordination Compounds : Structural and stereoisomerism,
importance of coordination compounds (in qualitative analysis,
extraction of metals and biological system).
Unit X : Haloalkanes and Haloarenes : Uses and environmental
effects of -dichloromethane,trichloromethane, tetrachloromethane,
iodoform, freons, DDT.
Unit Xl : Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers : uses wath special reference

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 to methanol and ethanol.
Unit Xlll : Amines : Diazonium salts: Preparation, chemical re
actions and
importance in synthetic organic chemistry.
Unit XIV : Biomolecules : Oligosaccharides (sucrose, lactose,
maltose), polysaccharides (starch, cellulose, glycogen), importance
of carbohydrates.
Vitamins- classification and fu nctions.
Unit XV : Polymers : entire chapter
Unit XVI : Chemistry in Everyday life : entire chapter

37 Mathematics Unit 'l : lnverse Trigonometric Functions

Unit 2: Determinant
Unit 3 : Linear Differential Equation , Significance of Derivatives , lncreasing
and Decreasing Functions
Unit 4 : Vectors
Unit 6 : Random Variable and its Distribution , Binomial Distribution

38 Biological o Mechanism of evolution

Science o Bio Technology and its Application
o Ecosystem

39 Journalism & . Specialization in Reporting: Science, Political , crime, Fashion,

Mass Fianncial and Agriculture - Journalism
Comunicatio . Unit 10 ----entirely omitted
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40 Sociology Unit I : ldeological perspective, Historical perspective, Structural Functional
perspective, Dialectical perspective, subaltern perspective