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(Download) NCERT Revised syllabus Of History (Class 11 to 12
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Rationale
These classes will introduce students to the idea that
historical knowledge develops through debates and that sources need to be
carefully read and interpreted. As the learners have been introduced to
chronologically ordered histories of India in Classes VI to VIII, these
histories will not be repeated within the same format in Classes XI and XII.
Instead, the focus would be on certain select themes, which will be examined in
some depth.
Through a focus on a series of critical historical issues and
debates (Class XI) or on a range of important historical sources (Class XII),
the students would be introduced to a set of important historical events and
processes. A discussion of these themes, it is hoped, would allow students not
only to know about these events and processes, but also to discover the
excitement of doing history.
Objectives
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The effort in these senior secondary classes would be to
emphasise to students that history is a critical discipline, a process of
enquiry, a way of knowing about the past, rather than just a collection of
facts. The syllabus would help them understand the process through which
historians write history, by choosing and assembling different types of
evidence, and by reading their sources critically. They will appreciate how
historians follow the trails that lead to the past, and how historical
knowledge develops.
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The syllabus would also enable students to relate/compare
developments in different situations, analyse connection between similar
processes located in different time periods, and discover the relationship
between different methods of social enquiry within different social
sciences.
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The syllabus in Class XI is organised around some major
themes in world history. The themes ave been selected so as to (i) focus on
some important developments in different spheres — political, social,
cultural and economic, (ii) study not only the grand narratives of
development — urbanisation, industrialisation and modernisation — but also
to know about the processes of displacements and marginalisation. Through
the study of these themes students will acquire a sense of the wider
historical processes as well as an idea of the specific debates around them.
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The treatment of each theme in Class XI would include (a)
a broad picture of the theme under discussion, (b) a more detailed focus on
one region of study, (c) an introduction to a critical debate associated
with the issue.
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In Class XII the focus will shift to a detailed study of
some themes in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Indian history. The objective
would be to study a set of these themes in some detail and depth rather than
survey the entire chronological span of Indian history. In this sense the
course will build on the knowledge that the students have acquired in the
earlier classes.
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Each theme in Class XII will also introduce the student
to one type of source for the study of history. Through such a study
students would begin to see what different types of sources can reveal and
what they cannot tell. They would come to know how historians analyse these
sources, the problems and difficulties of interpreting each type of source,
and the way a larger picture of an event, a historical process, or a
historical figure, is built by looking at different types of sources.

(Download) NCERT Revised syllabus Of Psychology (Class 11 to
12 )
Rationale
Psychology is introduced as an elective subject at the higher
secondary stage of school education. As a discipline, psychology specialises in
the study of experiences, behaviours and mental processes of human beings within
a socio-cultural and socio-historical context. This course purports to introduce
the learners to the basic ideas, principles and methods in psychology so as to
enable them to understand themselves and their social world better. The emphasis
is put on creating interest and exposure needed by learners to develop their own
knowledge base and understanding. The course deals with psychological knowledge
and practices which are contextually rooted. It emphasises the complexity of
behavioural processes and discourages simplistic cause-effect thinking. This is
pursued by encouraging critical reasoning, allowing students to appreciate the
role of cultural factors in behaviour, and illustrating how biology and
experience shape behaviour. The course while developing an appreciation of
subjectivity, also focuses on multiplicity of worldviews.
It is suggested that the teaching-learning processes should
involve students in evolving their own understanding. Therefore, teaching of
psychology should be based on the use of case studies, narratives, experiential
exercises, analysis of common everyday experiences, etc.
Objectives
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To develop appreciation about human behaviour and
human mind in the context of learners’ immediate society and environment.
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To develop in learners an appreciation of
multidisciplinary nature of psychological knowledge and its applications in
various aspects of life.
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To enable learners to become perceptive, socially
aware and self-reflective.
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To facilitate students’ quest for personal growth
and effectiveness, and to enable them to become responsive and responsible
citizens.
CLASS XI
Semester I: Foundations of Psychology - I
(Total 90 Periods)
Unit I: What is Psychology?
(12 Periods)
The unit seeks to develop understanding and appreciation of
psychology as a discipline, its evolution, its applications and its
relationships with other sciences through appropriate and interesting examples
and analysis of everyday experience .
What is psychology?; Popular notions about discipline of
psychology; Understanding mind and behaviour; Evolution of psychology; Branches
of psychology: Themes of research and applications; Psychology and other
disciplines ; Psychologists at work ; Psychology in everyday life; Development
of Psychology in India.
Unit II: Methods of Enquiry in Psychology
(18 Periods)
The objective of this unit is to discuss methods of enquiry
for collecting psychological data.
Goals of psychological enquiry; Nature of psychological data;
Some important methods:
Observational, Experimental, Correlational, Survey, Psychological testing, Case
Study; Analysis of data; Limitations of psychological enquiry; Ethical issues.
Unit III: The Bases of Human Behaviour
(18 Periods)
The unit will focus on the role of biological and
socio-cultural factors in the shaping of human behaviour.
Evolutionary perspective; Biological basis : Biological and
cultural roots; Biology of behaviour:
Structure and functions of nervous system and endocrine
system; Relationship of nervous system and endocrine system with behaviour and
experience; Brain and behaviour; Heredity: Genes and behaviour; Cultural basis :
Socio-cultural shaping of behaviour (e.g. family, community, faith, gender,
caste, disability etc.); Socialisation , enculturation and acculturation.
Unit IV: Human Development
(20 Periods)
This unit deals with variations in development and the
developmental tasks during the life span.
Meaning of development; Factors influencing development;
Context of development; Overview of developmental stages: Infancy, Childhood,
Challenges of Adolescence, Adulthood and Old age.
Unit V: Sensory, Attentional and Perceptual Processes
(22 Periods)
This unit aims at understanding how various sensory stimuli
are received, attended to and given meaning.
Knowing the world ; Nature and varieties of stimulus; Sense
modalities; Adaptation; Attentional processes; Selective and sustained attention
; Perceptual processes; The Perceiver; Principles of perceptual organisation;
After images; Perception of space, depth and distance; Perceptual constancies;
Illusions; Socio-cultural influences on perception.
Semester II: Foundations of Psychology-II
(Total 90 Periods)
Unit VI: Learning

(Download) NCERT Revised syllabus Of Social Science (Class 11
to 12 )
Introduction
The revised syllabus for the Social Sciences in Classes
VI-XII attempts to advance an on-going process of assisting children and young
people to understand that a healthy engagement with the world must come as much
from the way society takes shape and functions as from a proper sense of its
material and physical foundations. From this, it is expected, a vision will
evolve that the Social Sciences provide both essential skills of comprehension
that are fundamental to any activity, and a means of self-understanding and
fulfilment that can be diverting, exciting and challenging. The syllabus assumes
that the knowledge apparatus of the child and the young person is itself complex
— both given the wide range of materials that the visual and print media have
drawn into country and urban life and the nature of the problems of everyday
life. To negotiate the diversity and confusion and excitement the world throws
up itself requires activity and insight that the Social Sciences can
substantially provide. To have a firm and flexible perspective on India’s past
and the world from which, and in which, the country develops, sensitivity to
crucial social problems is essential. The syllabus attempts to encourage such
sensitivity and provide it with the ground on which it may deepen — stressing
that attention should be paid to the means through which sensitivity and
curiosity are aroused as much as the specific information that stimulates it.
The Social Sciences have been a part of the school curriculum
before Class VI as part of the teaching of Environmental Studies. The revised
EVS syllabus has attempted to draw the child’s attention in Classes III-V to the
broad span of time, space and the life in society, integrating this with the way
in which she or he has come to see and understand the world around them.
In Classes VI-X, this process continues, but with a greater
attention to specific themes and with an eye to the disciplines through which
Social Science perspectives have evolved. Up to a point, the subjects that are
the focus of college-level teaching — History, Geography, Political Science, and
Economics — are meant to take shape in the child’s imagination during these
years but only in a manner where their boundaries are open to dispute, and their
disciplinary quality is understated. With such intentions, syllabus-makers have
been more concerned with theme and involvement rather than information. Textbook
writers will be concerned to ensure that understanding does not suffer through
suffocation by obsession with detail. Equally, the themes and details that are
brought before the child for attention and discussion are also meant to clarify
doubts and disputes that take shape in contemporary society — through an
involvement of the classroom in discussions and debates via the medium of the
syllabus.
With such a focus in mind, syllabus-makers for the Upper
Primary and Secondary stages have sought to ensure that their course content
overlaps at various levels, to strengthen understanding, and provide a
foundation in detail from which natural curiosity and the capacity for
investigation may evolve and develop. It is also anticipated that, in keeping
with the spirit of the National Curriculum Framework the syllabus itself will
promote project work that encourages the child to take stock of the overlap, to
see a problem as existing at different and interconnected levels. Guides to this
as well as specific instances will be provided in textbooks.

(Notification) NCERT Doctoral Fellowship - 2015
Applications are invited for the award of a maximum of 10
NCERT Doctoral Fellowships in the field of education and other disciplines
directly related to education. The fellowships are intended for young aspirants
to pursue doctoral work in a recognized university/research institution of their
choice. Young scholars from different disciplinary perspectives will be
encouraged to research in the field of education. It is to be noted that 4 out
of 10 fellowships are reserved for 4 Regional Institutes of Education (RIEs),
one each for Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar and Mysore .
Fellowship will be given for research pertaining to the following priority
areas:
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA): This
scheme was launched in March, 2009 with the objective to enhance access to
secondary education and to improve its quality. The implementation of the scheme
started from 2009-10. The academic aspect of RMSA needs to be researched, which
may among other things, include -issues of implementation; current problems of
secondary education vis a vis RMSA activities; barriers in achieving RMSA;
universal access of secondary education; equality and social justice; curricular
aspects; challenges for teachers and administrators; opportunities for students
and communities; improvement in education of students of weaker section of
society; role in removing gender disparity; effect of RMSA on enrolments for the
children from under privileged society and the children Below Poverty Line (BPL)
families; indigenous knowledge and curriculum development; Language, Science and
Mathematics Education at secondary level; Social science education and its
contextualization; RMSA and environment management/sustainable development in
schools; issues of arts and aesthetics in secondary school; monitoring and
supervision mechanism; library and laboratories in schools; organic linkages
between secondary and higher education; vocationalization and secondary
education; issues of adolescence and guidance and counseling at secondary level
of education; sports and physical education and RMSA; role of ICT in schools and
RMSA; etc.

(Download) NCERT Revised syllabus Of Chemistry (Class 11 to
12 )
Rationale
Higher Secondary Stage is the most crucial stage of school
education because at this stage specialised discipline based, content oriented
courses are introduced. Students reach this stage after 10 years of general
education and opt for Chemistry with a purpose of mostly for pursuing their
career in basic sciences or professional courses like medicines, engineering,
technology and studying courses in applied areas of science and technology at
tertiary level. Therefore, at this stage, there is a need to provide learners
with sufficient conceptual background of Chemistry, which will make them
competent to meet the challenges of academic and professional courses after the
higher secondary stage.
National Curriculum Framework for School Education – 2005
recommends a disciplinary approach with appropriate rigour and depth with the
care that syllabus is not heavy and at the same time it is comparable to the
international level. It emphasizes a coherent focus on important ideas within
the discipline that are properly sequenced to optimize learning. It recommends
that theoretical component of Higher Secondary Science should emphasize on
problem solving methods and the awareness of historical development of key
concepts of science be judiciously integrated into content. The present exercise
of syllabus development in Chemistry at Higher Secondary Stage is based on this
framework.
Salient features of the present syllabus are thus:
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Some background of Chemistry from secondary stage
is assumed; however, no specific knowledge of topics in Chemistry is
pre-supposed.
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The course is self-contained and broadly covers
fundamental concepts of Chemistry.
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Attempt has been made to see discipline of
Chemistry does not remain only the science of facts but becomes related to
modern applications in the world around us.
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The syllabus provides logical sequencing of the
‘Units’ of the subject matter with proper placement of concepts with their
linkages for better understanding.
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Emphasis has been on promoting process – skills,
problem solving abilities and applications of concepts of Chemistry useful
in real life situation for making learning of Chemistry more relevant,
meaningful and interesting.
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An effort has been made on the basis of feedback,
to remove repetition besides reducing the content by suitably integrating
the different content areas.
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Practical syllabus has two components. There are
core experiments to be undertaken by the students in the classroom and will
be part of examination while each student will carry out one investigatory
project and submit the report for the examination. With this background, the
Chemistry curriculum at the higher secondary stage attempts to
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promote understanding of basic principles in
Chemistry while retaining the excitement in Chemistry;
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develop an interest in students to study Chemistry
as discipline;
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strengthen the concepts developed at the secondary
stage and to provide firm foundation for further learning of Chemistry at
tertiary level more effectively;
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develop positive scientific attitude, and
appreciate contribution of Chemistry towards the improvement of quality of
human life;
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develop problem solving skills and nurture
curiosity, aesthetic sense and creativity;
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inculcate values of honesty, integrity,
cooperation, concern for life and preservation of the environment;
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make the learner realise the interface of Chemistry
with other disciplines of science such as Physics, Biology, Geology, etc;
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equip students to face challenges related to
health, nutrition, environment, population, whether industries and
agriculture.
CHEMISTRY CLASS XI
Theory
Total Periods 180
Unit I: Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry
(Periods 14)
General Introduction: Importance and scope of chemistry.
Historical approach to particulate nature of matter, laws of chemical
combination, Dalton’s atomic
theory: concept of elements, atoms and molecules.
Atomic and molecular masses. Mole concept and molar mass; percentage
composition and empirical and molecular formula; chemical reactions,
stoichiometry and calculations based on stoichiometry.
Unit II: Structure of Atom
(Periods 16)
Discovery of electron, proton and neutron; atomic number,
isotopes and isobars. Thompson’s model and its limitations, Rutherford’s model
and its limitations, Bohr’s model and its limitations, concept of shells and
subshells, dual nature of matter and light, de Broglie’s relationship,
Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concept of orbitals, quantum numbers, shapes
of s, p, and d orbitals, rules for filling electrons in orbitals – Aufbau
principle, Pauli exclusion principle and Hund’s rule, electronic configuration
of atoms, stability of half filled and completely filled orbitals.
Unit III: Classification of Elements and Periodicity in
Properties
(Periods 8)
Significance of classification, brief history of the
development of periodic table, modern periodic law and the present form of
periodic table, periodic trends in properties of elements – atomic radii, ionic
radii, inert gas radii, ionization enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy,
electronegativity, valence.
Unit IV: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure
(Periods 16)
Valence electrons, ionic bond, covalent bond, bond
parameters, Lewis structure, polar character of covalent bond, covalent
character of ionic bond, valence bond theory, resonance, geometry of covalent
molecules, VSEPR theory, concept of hybridization involving s, p and d orbitals
and shapes of some simple molecules, molecular orbital theory of homonuclear
diatomic molecules (qualitative idea only), hydrogen bond.
Unit V: States of Matter: Gases and Liquids
(Periods 14)
Three states of matter, intermolecular interactions, type of
bonding, melting and boiling points, role of gas laws in elucidating the concept
of the molecule, Boyle’s law, Charles’ law, Gay Lussac’s law, Avogadro’s law,
ideal behaviour, empirical derivation of gas equation, Avogadro’s number, ideal
gas equation, deviation from ideal behaviour, liquefaction of gases, critical
temperature. Liquid State – Vapour pressure, viscosity and surface tension
(qualitative idea only, no mathematical derivations).
Unit VI: Thermodynamics
(Periods 16)
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