SCIENCE SYLLABUS FOR ADMISSION INTO CLASS 9
2019
BIOLOGY
A healthy diet:
Nutrients, use of nutrients in body
Nutrient content of different foods
A balanced diet, malnutrition
Deficiency diseases
A healthy diet plan
Digestion:
Physical and chemical break down of nutrients
The role of saliva, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, liver and pancreas
Role of small and large intestine
The circulatory system:
The heart, blood vessels, blood, moving substances in the blood
A healthy heart and exercise
The respiratory system:
Parts of the respiratory system, air passage and tubes, air pump, breathing movements
Gaseous exchange, aerobic and anaerobic respiration
Smoking and health
PHYSICS
Density :
Measuring the density of solids, liquids and gases
Sinking and floating
Basic concept of kinetic particle model/theory
PRESSURE:
Pressure calculation and its SI unit
Pressure on a surface
Reducing and increasing pressure
Pressure in liquids and gases
Turning on a pivot:
Turning effect of forces
Types of levers
Moments and principle of moments
Moment calculations
Electrostatics:
The atom and electric charge
charging, insulators and conductors
Induced charge
Electricity:
Series and parallel circuits
Drawing circuits with appropriate symbols
Measuring current and voltage
Resistance
Properties of series and parallel circuits
Heat energy transfers:
Heat and internal energy
Conduction, convection and radiation
Evaporation
CHEMISTRY
Atomic Structure:
Atomic structure of first 20 elements
Isotopes
The periodic table:
How elements are arranged in groups and periods of periodic table
Properties and use of Group 1, 2, 7 and 8 of the periodic table.
Patterns of reactivity:
How metals react with oxygen, water and acids
Displacement reactions and the reactivity series
Preparing common salts:
Word equations for making salts
Making salts with acids and their reactions with metals, and metal carbonates
Rates of reaction:
Effect of concentration, temperature and particle size and catalyst on rate of reaction
Measuring rate of reaction by the change in mass of reactants
Measuring rate of reaction by change in volume of a product
(Class 8 Science Syllabus)