JAI GURU DEV

MAHARISHI VIDYA MANDIR SR. SEC. SCHOOL, CHETPET, CHENNAI – 31

MIDDLE SCHOOL
PREPARATORY & ANNUAL EXAMINATION - 2024
PORTIONS AND BLUE PRINT

CLASS: VIII MARKS: 80

SUBJECT: ENGLISH
PROSE: 1. Boyhood Days
2. Father’s Help
3. Jamaican Fragment
4. Springtime A La Carte
5. Her First Party
6. The Stalled Ox
7. The Unexpected
POEM: 1. The Secret of the Machines
2. A Newspaper is a collection of Half-Injustices
3. The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
4. On a Night of Snow
WRITING SKILL: 1. Paragraph Writing
2. Article Writing
3. Essay Writing
4. Bio-Sketch
5. Notice Writing
6. Note Making
7. Letter Writing (Formal & Informal Letter)
8. Report Writing
9. Advertisement
10. Post Card
11. Speech Writing
12. E-mail Writing
13. Story Writing
GRAMMAR: 1. Nouns and Noun Phrases
2. Pronouns
3. Adjectives
4. Articles
5. Verbs: Present Tense, Past Tense, Future tense
and Perfect tense
6. Subject Verb Agreement
7. Auxiliary Verbs
 8. Modals & Non-modals
9. Active and Passive Voice
10. Adverbs
11. Prepositions
12. Conjunctions
13. The Sentence
14. Phrases and Clauses
15. Conditionals
16. Direct and Indirect Speech
17. Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
18. Vocabulary

NON-DETAIL: A Tale of Two Cities

Part One Chapters 1 to 3
Part Two Chapters 1 to 12
Part Three Chapters 1 to 12

BLUE PRINT
I. READING 20 MARKS
a. Unseen passage comprehension - 10x1=10
b. Unseen passage comprehension - 10x1=10
II. WRITING SKILL & GRAMMAR 30 MARKS
a. Writing Skill - 1x7=7
b. Writing Skill - 1x7=7
c. Error - 8x½=4
d. Grammar (Do as directed) - 12x1=12
III. LITERATURE & NON-DETAIL 30 MARKS
a. Extract - 4x1=4
b. Extract - 4x1=4
c. Extract - 4x1=4
d. Answer in short - 4x2=8
e. Answer in detail - 2x5=10
TOTAL 80

SUBJECT: II LANGUAGE - TAMIL

SUBJECT: III LANGUAGE – TAMIL
SUBJECT: II LANGUAGE - HINDI – RASHTRABHASHA

BLUE PRINT
 TOTAL 80

SUBJECT: III LANGUAGE - HINDI – RASHTRABHASHA

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TOTAL 80
SUBJECT: III LANGUAGE - HINDI – CHANDRA KIRAN

BLUE PRINT

TOTAL 80

SUBJECT: II LANGUGAE - SANSKRIT

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SUBJECT: III LANGUGAE – SANSKRIT

BLUE PRINT

SUBJECT: II & III LANGUAGE - FRENCH

LECON –4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
BLUE PRINT
I. Les objectifs 20
II. Passe compose (avoir être) 10
III. Le futur 10
IV. Les fêtes /le météo
La lettre / la recette 15
V. Futur proche 5
VI. Passé récent 5
VII. Reliez 15
TOTAL 80
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS

BLUE PRINT

SUBJECT: SCIENCE
1. Ln-1 Crop Production and Management
2. Ln-2 Microorganisms
3. Ln-4 Materials: Metals and Non-metals
4. Ln-5 Coal and Petroleum
5. Ln-6 Combustion and Flame
6. Ln-7 Conservation of Plants and Animals
7. Ln-9 Reproduction in Animals
8. Ln-10 Reaching the Age of Adolescence
9. Ln-11 Force and Pressure
10. Ln-12 Friction
11. Ln-13 Sound
12. Ln-14 Chemical Effects of Electric Current
13. Ln-15 Some Natural Phenomena
14. Ln-16 Light
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SUBJECT: SOCIAL SCIENCE

1. Ln-3 Resources
2. Ln-5 Land, Soil, Water, Natural Vegetation and Wildlife Resources
3. Ln-7 When the People Revolt
4. Ln-8 Parliament and the Making of Laws
5. Ln-10 The Great War of Independence
6. Ln-14 Industries
7. Ln-15 Understanding Marginalisation
8. Ln-17 And the Fight Continues
9. Ln-18 Confronting Marginalisation
10. Ln-20 Human Resources
11. Ln-21 Tricolour Replaces Union Jack
12. Ln-22 Public Facilities
13. Ln-23 India Marches Ahead
14. Ln-24 Law and Social Justice
MAP: Refer Quarterly and Half Yearly Worksheet (India Political Map)
BLUE PRINT

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