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IGCSE
FIRST TERM SYLLABUS
English
First language English
Paper 1- Reading Passages
Max marks: 50; time: 2 hours
1) Directed writing
2) Effects of author's language
3) Summary
Paper 2 - Composition
Max marks - 50; time: 2 hours
1) Directed writing
2) Composition
a) Narrative
b) Argumentative
c) Descriptive
English as a Second Language
Paper 22 : Reading & writing
1. Comprehension
2. Form Filling
3. Summary writing
4. Note making
5. All Writing Skills
Paper 4: Listening Skills
Paper 6: Speaking Skills
ENGLISH LITERATURE (0486/42)
Paper 4
Time: 2 hrs 15 mins
Max. Marks – 75
Candidates attempt 3 questions of 25 marks each – 1 from each section
SECTION A – Poetry
Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’
Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Pied Beauty’
Allen Curnow, ‘Continuum’
Edwin Muir, ‘Horses’
Where I come from – Elizabeth Brewster
Christina Rossetti, ‘A Birthday’
Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’
Margaret Atwood, ‘The City Planners’
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’
William Wordsworth, ‘Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’
SECTION B – Prose
Thomas Hardy, ‘The Son’s Veto’
Katherine Mansfield, ‘Her First Ball’
V.S. Pritchett, ‘The Fly in the Ointment’
P.G. Wodehouse, ‘The Custody of the Pumpkin’
Graham Greene, ‘The Destructors’
R.K. Narayan, ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
Candidates will get a choice of 3 types of questions – one passage-based,
one textual and one empathic task
Paper 5 – A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – ENTIRE PLAY
Time: 45 mins
Max. Marks – 25
Candidates will get a choice of 3 types of questions – one passage-based,
one textual and one empathic task
SECTION C – The Importance of Being Earnest – Act –I
Ted Huges – The Roman Race
Accounting
1. Introduction to Accounting
2. Double entry Bookkeeping-Part A
3. Trial Balance
4. Double entry Bookkeeping-Part B
5. Business Documents
6. Prime Entry Books
7. Petty Cash Books
8. Final Accounts
9. Accounting Principles
10. Bank Reconciliation Statement
11. Accruals and Prepayments
12. Depreciation and Disposal of Fixed Assets
13. Bad Debts and Provision for Doubtful debts
14. Journal Entries and Correction of Errors
15. Control Accounts
16. Incomplete Records
17. Partnership Accounts
18. Accounts for Clubs and societies
Business Studies
1. The purpose of Business activity
2. Types of Business activity
3. Forms of Business Organisation
4. Organisational Structure
5. Managing a business
6. Communication in business
7. Motivation at work
8. Recruitment, training and human resources.
9. Employee and employer associations.
10. The market and Marketing
11. Market Research
12. Presentation of Information
13. The Marketing Mix-product and packaging
14. The Marketing Mix-price
15. The Marketing Mix-promotion
16. The Marketing Mix-place
17. Factors affecting location
18. Factors affecting Production
19. Government Influence on Business
20. Multinational
COMPUTER STUDIES
Paper-1
2.5 Hrs
100 Marks
Section-1 Application of Computers
Section-3 Programming
Section-4 Generic Software and Organisation of Data
Section-5 Hardware Systems And Communications
Paper-3
1.5 Hrs 60 Marks
Section-2 System Analysis and Designing
SPANISH
ClubPrisma text book Units 1-12
Assignment booklet Lecturas 1-12 and 23-31
Speaking Skills – Paper-3 on 19th April 2014
Biology
Chapter 1 -15
French
Metro Units 1-10
Tricolore Units 1-10
Note: Speaking Skills – paper 3 on 19th April
German 2Lang
Paper 1
Translation (Eng-Ger)
Picture description
Composition writing
Letter / Dialogue Writing
Paper 2
Reading Comprehension
True / False
Cloze Passage
MATHEMATICS
As per IGCSE Guidelines:
a. All about Numbers
b. Algebra-1 and 2
c. Trigonometry
d. Mensuration
e. Geometry
f. Data Handling
g. Sets and Functions
h. Vectors
(Note: Only Matrices and transformations is left out, rest all will be tested)
History
History
Paper 1 Marks -60- Time -2 Hours
Section -A
Answer 2 questions- No Choice
Chapter 4, 8,11,12
Section -B
Answer 1 question - No choice
Chapter - 6
Paper -2 Marks -50 Time - 2 Hours
Chapter -9
Paper-4 Marks -40 Time 1 Hour
Chapter -6
Information & Communication Technology
WRITTEN PAPER
1 Types and Components of Computer Systems
2 Input and Output Devices
3 Storage Devices and Media
4 Computer Networks
5 Data Types
6 The Effects of Using ICT
7 The ways in which ICT is used
8 Systems Analysis and Design
PRACTICAL PAPERS
9 Communications
10 Document Productions
11 Data Manipulation
12 Integration
13 Output Data
14 Data Analysis
15 Website Authoring
16 Presentation Authoring
Chemistry
Chapter 1-16
organic chemistry till petroleum refining
qualitative analysis
Economics
Sources:
1. Susan Grant Text Book sections 1-7
2. Susan Grant Work Book sections 1-7
3. Moynihan & Titley Sections 1-7
Topic details as below:
1 Basic economic problem: choice and the allocation of resources
• the nature of the economic problem (finite resources and unlimited wants);
• the factors of production (land, labour, capital, enterprise);
• opportunity cost and analyse particular circumstances to illustrate the concept;
• how production possibility curves can be used to illustrate choice and resource
allocation;
• implications of particular courses of action in terms of opportunity cost.
2 The allocation of resources: how the marketworks; market failure
• the allocation of resources in market and mixed economic systems;
• the principle of equilibrium price and analyse simple market situations with changes in
demand and supply;
• the causes of changes in demand and supply conditions and analyse such changes to
showeffects in the market;
• price elasticity of demand and supply and perform simple calculations;
• the usefulness of price elasticity in particular situations such as revenue changes,
consumer expenditure;
• the merits of the market system;
• the concept of market failure and explain the reasons for its occurrence;
• private and social costs1 and benefits and discuss conflicts of interest in relation to
these costs
and benefits in the short-term and long-term through studies of the following issues:
• conserving resources versus using resources;
• public expenditure versus private expenditure.
3 The individual as producer, consumer andborrower
• the functions of money and the need for exchange;
• the functions of central banks, stock exchanges, commercial banks;
• the factors affecting an individual’s choice of occupation (wage factors and non-wage
factors);
• likely changes in earnings over time for an individual;
• the differences in earnings between different groups of workers (male/female;
skilled/unskilled;
private/public; agricultural/manufacturing/services);
• trade unions and their role in an economy;
• the benefits and disadvantages of specialisation for the individual;
• the different motives for spending, saving and borrowing;
•how and why different income groups have different expenditure patterns (spending,
saving and borrowing).
4 The private firm as producer and employer
• the type of business organisation in the public and private sectors: sole proprietors,
partnerships, private limited companies, public limited companies, multinationals, cooperatives, publiccorporations;
• the effects of changes in the structure of business organisations;
• the demand for factors of production;
• labour-intensive and capital-intensive production;
• productivity and the difference between productivity and production;
• total and average cost, fixed and variable cost;
• changes in total and average cost as output changes;
• total and average revenue;
• the principle of profit maximisation as a goal and different goals of business
organisations;
• pricing and output policies in perfect competition and monopoly;
• the main reasons for the different sizes of firms (size of market, capital, organisation);
• integration -horizontal, vertical, lateral, economies and diseconomies of scale;
• advantages and disadvantages of monopoly.
5 Role of government in an economy
• government as a producer of goods and services and as an employer;
• aims of government policies, such as full employment, price stability, economic growth,
redistribution of income, balance of payments stability;
• fiscal, monetary and supply-side policies;
• possible conflicts between government aims;
• types of taxation (direct, indirect, progressive, regressive, proportional) and the impact
of taxation;
• government’s influence (regulation, subsidies, taxes) on private producers.
6 Economic indicators
• calculation of consumer prices index/retail prices index
• causes and consequences of inflation;
• causes and consequences of deflation.
• changing patterns and levels of employment;
• causes and consequences of unemployment.
With regards to output candidates should be able to:
• define Gross Domestic Product (GDP);
• define the term recession;
• describe and evaluate measures and indicators of comparative living standards, such
as GDP per head,Human Development Index (HDI).
4. Cur
7 Developed and developing economies: trends inproduction, population and living
standards
• why some countries are classified as developed and others are not;
• difference between absolute and relative poverty;
• policies to alleviate poverty;
• factors that affect population growth (birth rate, death rate, fertility rate, net migration)
and discuss reasons for the different rates of growth in different countries;
• problems and consequences of these population changes for countries at different
stages of development;
• effect of changing size and structure of population on an economy;
• differences in standards of living within countries and between countries, both
Developed and developing.
GEOGRAPHY
Paper 1 (1 hour 45 minutes) - 45% of total marks
Paper 2 (1 hour 30 minutes) - 27.5% of total marks
Paper 4 (1 hour 30 minutes) - 27.5% of total marks
1. Population dynamics
2. Settlement
3. Plate tectonics
4. Landforms and landscape processes (weathering, river and marine processes.)
5. Weather, climate and natural vegetation
6. Inter-relationships between the natural environment and human activities
7. Agricultural systems
8. Industrial systems
9. Leisure activities and tourism
10. Energy and water resources
11. Environmental risks and benefits: resource conservation and management
Physics :Unit 1: Measurement and Units
Unit 2: Forces and Motion
Unit 3: Forces and Pressure
Unit 4 : Forces and Energy
Unit 5: Thermal Effect
Unit 6: Waves and Sound
Unit 7: Rays and Waves
Unit 8: Electricity
Unit 9: Magnets and Currents (9.01, 9.02, 9.03 and 9.04)
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BIOSPHERE
LITHOSPHERE
HYDROSPHERE
ATMOSPHERE