Delhi Public School Shaheedpath

Class – XI

 Reporting time- 8:50am – 9:00am

 Time duration- 9:00 am -10:45 am
 Reading time- 15 minutes
 Dispersal time- 11:00 am

1. Students are required to bring their own writing and mathematical instruments. No
borrowing, lending or exchange of any materials is allowed during the Common Test.
2. Absentees must produce original medical certificates from approved clinics or hospitals. No
parents’ letter will be accepted. Students who are absent without valid reasons will be given a
“0” for the paper.
3. A student will be given “0” if he or she is caught cheating in the Common Test.
4. No mobile phones or electronic gadgets that can store, transmit, receive data or information
are allowed.
5. Students must not talk, whisper, do hand signal or any other form of verbal or non-verbal
communication during the Common Test. Such actions will be considered as having the
intention to cheat.
6. Students must be seated at their assigned desks by 8.55am.
7. Students who are late will not be given extra time.
8. Only essential writing materials are allowed on the student’s desk. All bags, books and any
unauthorised materials should be left at the front of the classroom.
 Syllabus

English
Reading Comprehension:
• Unseen passage (factual,
descriptive or literary/ discursive or persuasive)
• Case Based Unseen (Factual) Passage
Creative Writing Skills and Grammar:

Short Writing Tasks• Notice Writing

Long Writing Tasks
• Business or Official Letters( Making enquiries, registering
complaints, asking for or giving information, placing orders)
• Speech

Grammar
• Determiners
• Tenses
• Re-ordering of Sentences
{MCQs }
Literature:
Literary-prose/poetry extracts ( seen- texts ) comprehension and
appreciation. (Two
Extracts)
Questions Based on text.

Book-Hornbill:
• The Portrait of a Lady (Prose)
• A Photograph (Poem)
• “We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We (Prose)
• Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
• The Laburnum Top (Poem)
• Landscape of the Soul (Prose)
Book-Snapshots:
• The Summer of the Beautiful White
Horse(Prose)
• The Address (Prose)
• Ranga’s Marriage (Prose)
Mathematics 1. Sets
2. Relations and functions
3. Complex numbers and quadratic equations
4.Sequences and series
5. Straight lines
6. Limits
7. Statistics
Physics Physical World and Measurement
Chapter–1:PhysicalWorld
Chapter–2:UnitsandMeasurements
Kinematics
Chapter–3:MotioninaStraightLine
Chapter–4:MotioninaPlane
Laws of Motion
Chapter–5:LawsofMotion
Work, Energy and Power
Chapter–6:Work,EnergyandPower
 Motion of System of Particles and Rigid
Body
Chapter–7:SystemofParticlesand
Rotational Motion
Gravitation
Chapter–8:Gravitation
Chemistry 1. some basic concept of chemistry
2. structure of atom
3. classification of elements and periodicity in properties
4. chemical properties and molecular structure
5. redox reactions
6. hydrogen
7. organic chemistry- - some basic principles and techniques
Biology 1- The living world
2- Biological classification.
3- Plant kingdom.
4- Animal kingdom
5- Morphology of flowering plants.
6- Anatomy of flowering plants.
7- Structural Organisation in Animals.
8- Cell- The unit of life.
Accountancy Part A: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING-I
UNIT 1
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
1. INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING
2. THEORY BASE OF ACCOUNTING
UNIT 2
ACCOUNTING PROCESS
1. RECORDING OF BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS,
2. BANK RECONCILIATION STATEMENT,
3. DEPRECIATION, PROVISIONS AND RESERVES
Business Studies Part A Foundations of Business
1. Evolution and Fundamentals of Business
2. Forms of Business Organisations
3. Public, Private and Global Enterprises
4. Business Services
5. Emerging Modes of Business
6. Social Responsibility of Business and Business Ethics
History 1. Theme 2– writing and city life
2. Theme 3 – an empire across three continents.
3. Theme 4 – Central Islamic Lands
4. Theme 6 – The Three Orders
Economics Part A: Statistics for Economics:

1. Introduction
2. Collection, Organisation and Presentation of Data
3. Statistical Tools and Interpretation - Arithmetic Mean, Median and Mode

Part B: Introductory Microeconomics:

1. Introduction
2. Consumer's Equilibrium and Demand
Political Science Part A Constitution at work
1. Constitution
2. Election and Representation
3. Local government
Part B Political Theory
 4. Political Theory: An introduction
5. Rights
6. Development
Computer Science Unit I: Computer Systems and Organisation
● Basic Computer Organisation: Introduction to computer system,
hardware,software, input device,
output device, CPU, memory (primary, cache and secondary), units of
memory (Bit, Byte, KB, MB,
GB, TB, PB)
● Types of software: system software (operating systems, system utilities,
device drivers),
programming tools and language translators (assembler, compiler &
interpreter), application
software
● Operating system (OS): functions of operating system, OS user interface
● Boolean logic: NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, truth table, De Morgan’s
laws and logic circuits
● Number system: Binary, Octal, Decimal and Hexadecimal number system;
conversion between
number systems.
● Encoding schemes: ASCII, ISCII and UNICODE (UTF8, UTF32)
Unit II: Computational Thinking and Programming – 1
● Introduction to problem solving: Steps for problem solving (analysing the
problem, developing an
algorithm, coding, testing and debugging). representation of algorithms
using flow chart and
pseudo code, decomposition
● Familiarization with the basics of Python programming: Introduction to
Python, features ofPython,
executing a simple "hello world" program, execution modes: interactive
mode and script mode,
Python character set, Python tokens (keyword, identifier, literal, operator,
punctuator), variables,
concept of l-value and r-value, use of comments
● Knowledge of data types: number (integer, floating point, complex),
boolean, sequence (string,
list, tuple), none, mapping (dictionary), mutable and immutable data types
● Operators: arithmetic operators, relational operators, logical operators,
assignment operator,
augmented assignment operators, identity operators(is, is not),
membership operators(in, not in)
● Expressions, statement, type conversion & input/output: precedence of
operators, expression,
evaluation of expression, python statement, type conversion (explicit &
implicit conversion),
accepting data as input from the console and displaying output
● Errors: syntax errors, logical errors, runtime errors
● Flow of control: introduction, use of indentation, sequential flow,
conditional and iterative flow
control
● Conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif-else, flowcharts, simple
programs: e.g.: absolute value,
sort 3 numbers and divisibility of a number
● Iterative statements: for loop, range function, while loop, flowcharts,
break and continue
statements, nested loops, suggested programs: generating pattern,
 summation of series, finding
the factorial of a positive number etc
● Strings: introduction, indexing, string operations (concatenation,
repetition, membership &
slicing), traversing a string using loops, built-in functions: len(), capitalize(),
title(), lower(), upper(),
count(), find(), index(), endswith(), startswith(), isalnum(), isalpha(), isdigit(),
islower(), isupper(),
isspace(), lstrip(), rstrip(), strip(), replace(), join(), partition(), split()
Physical Education Ch1 : Changing Trends and career in physical education
Ch2: Olympic Value Education
Ch3 : Physical fitness , wellness and lifestyle
Ch4: Physical Education and sports for CWSN
Ch5: Yoga
Psychology Chapter 1 : What is Psychology?
Chapter 2 : Methods of Enquiry in Psychology
Chapter 3 : The Bases of Human Behaviour