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DPS INTERNATIONAL 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) EVM BIOSPHERE LITHOSPHERE HYDROSPHERE ATMOSPHERE