a) General Awareness:

• Current Affairs
• Indian Geography, History, and Freedom Struggle
• Indian Polity and Constitution
• Indian Economy
• Environmental Issues (India & World)
• Sports, General Scientific, and Technological Developments

b) Physics and Chemistry:

• Up to 10th Standard CBSE Syllabus

c) Basics of Computers and Applications:

• Computer Architecture
• Input and Output Devices
• Storage Devices
• Networking
• Operating Systems (Windows, Unix, Linux)
• MS Office, Data Representation
• Internet, Email, Websites, Web Browsers
• Computer Virus

d) Basics of Environment and Pollution Control:

• Environmental Basics
• Pollution Control Strategies
• Air, Water, and Noise Pollution (Effects and Control)
• Waste Management, Global Warming, Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion

E) Technical ABILITIES

1. Measurements, Units, and Dimensions

• Types of errors in measurements
• Significance of accuracy in measurement

2. Light

• Basic principles of light
  • Reflection, refraction, laws of reflection
  • Total internal reflection, interference, diffraction, and polarization
• Formula for magnification of microscope and telescope
• Electromagnetic spectra

3. Heat

• Heat as energy
• Sources of heat
• Transmission of heat
• Expansion of solids, liquids, and gases
• Temperature (based on thermal equilibrium)
• Different scales of temperature
• Calorimetry
• Applications of specific heat and latent heat
• Anomalous expansion of water and its significance in nature
• Combustion, calorific value, and specific heat of gases

4. Sound

• Sources of sound
• Propagation of sound
• Velocity of sound in different media/substances
• Characteristics of sound
• Reflection of sound, echo, resonance, sonar, and Doppler effect

5. Mechanics

• Scalars and vectors
• All types of motion
• Friction
• Newton’s laws of motion
• Momentum
• Equations of motion (under gravity and freely falling), projectile, range
• Laws of floatation
• Work, power, and energy
• Conservation of energy
• Center of mass, center of gravity
• Stability and equilibrium
• Universal law of gravitation
• Relation between ‘g’ and ‘G’
• Circular motion and Kepler’s laws
• Elasticity and Hooke’s law

6. Magnetism

• Magnetic field
• Uniform and non-uniform magnetic fields
• Magnetic induction
• Magnetic lines of force
• Magnetic pole strength and magnetic moment
• Inverse square law of magnetism
• Magnetic properties of materials and their classification

7. Electricity & Electromagnetism

• Electric charge, field, electric intensity, electric potential, potential difference
• Simple electric circuits
• Conductors, non-conductors/insulators
• Coulomb’s inverse square law
• Primary and secondary cells
• Ohm’s law and its limitations
• Resistances in series and parallel
• EMF of a circuit; specific resistance
• Kirchhoff’s laws
• Relation between electric potential and electric energy, electric power (wattage)
• Heating effect of electric current and Joule’s law
• Ampere’s law, circular loop, and solenoid
• Magnetic force on moving charged particle and long straight conductors
• Fleming’s left-hand rule, electric motor
• Electromagnetic induction – Faraday’s law, electromagnetic flux
• Lentz's law, generators, and alternating currents
• Inductance – self, mutual inductance, and principles of transformers

8. Modern Physics

• Discharge of electricity through gases
• Cathode rays, anode rays and their properties
• X-rays
• Atomic models: JJ Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr’s models
• Atomic nucleus and its structure
• Mass defect
• Radioactivity: discovery, properties of alpha, beta, and gamma radiations
• Applications of alpha, beta, and gamma radiations, alpha and beta decays
• Half-life period, isotopes, isobars, and isotones
• Artificial radioactivity, radioisotopes, and their uses in different fields
• Radioactive series, chain and controlled nuclear reactions
• Fission and fusion of nuclei – atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb

9. Electronics and Communications

• Semiconductors, diode, p-n junction characteristics
• Transistor – pnp & npn characteristics and uses
• Zener diode characteristics
• Simple electronic circuits, logic gates – applications
• Modulation and demodulation

10. Matter

• States of matter
• Elements, compounds, and mixtures
• Methods of separation of mixtures
• Chromatography
• Behavior of gases; measurable properties of gases; gas laws
• Mole concept; Dalton, Avogadro, Berzelius laws

11. Chemical Reactions

• Physical and chemical changes
• Types of chemical reactions
• Physical and chemical properties of various compounds
• Chemical calculations
• NaOH, bleaching powder, baking soda, washing soda, and their uses
• Plaster of Paris

12. Acids and Bases, Salts

• Strength and uses of acids & bases
• Neutralization
• Nature and uses of different salts
• Water of crystallization
• Complex, neutral, and double salts
• Oxidation and reduction, rancidity
• Identification of acids and bases – indicators: natural and chemical
• pH scale - role of pH in daily life (agriculture, medicine)
• Classification of salts based on affinity to water
• Examples of acidic, basic, mixed, complex, neutral, and double salts
• Solutions - types of solutions; solubility, ionization, concentration
• Oxidation number concept
• Balancing of redox reactions, calculation of concentrations, stoichiometry

13. Atomic Structure

• Electromagnetic spectrum, atomic spectrum
• Characteristics of electron, proton, and neutron
• Rutherford’s model of an atom
• Nature of electromagnetic radiation, Planck’s quantum mechanics
• Explanation of photoelectric effect, features of atomic spectra
• Characteristics of hydrogen spectrum, Bohr’s theory of structure of atom
• Bohr’s explanation of spectral lines, failure of Bohr’s theory
• Wave-particle nature of electrons, de Broglie’s hypothesis
• Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
• Important features of the quantum mechanical model of an atom
• Quantum numbers, concept of orbitals, definition of an atomic orbital in terms of quantum numbers
• Shapes of s, p, and d orbitals
• n + l rule, energies of electronic energy levels (n+l) rule
• Aufbau principle, Pauli’s exclusion principle, Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity
• Electronic configuration of atom, explanation of stability of half-filled and completely filled orbitals

14. Periodic Classification of Elements

• Characteristics of elements in groups and periods
• Significance of atomic number and electronic configuration as the basis for periodic classification
• Classification of elements into s-block, p-block, d-block, f-block and their main characteristics
• Periodic trends in physical and chemical properties of elements
• Study of different groups of the periodic table

15. Chemical Bonding

• Ionic and covalent bonds: Introduction to chemical bonding
• Electronic configuration of noble gases
• Sigma, pi bonds with examples
• Shapes of molecules, bond lengths, and bond angles in molecules
• Hybridization and explanation of H₂O, BF₃, CH₄, NH₃, etc.
• Hydrogen bonding and types of hydrogen bonds

16. Carbon and its Compounds

• Need to study carbon compounds separately
• Classification of organic compounds: hydrocarbons - alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic and aliphatic compounds with examples
• Bonding in carbon including hybridization
• Allotropes of carbon
• Versatile nature of carbon: tetravalency, chains, branches, and rings
• Catenation, isomerism
• Saturated and unsaturated carbon compounds
• Bonding of carbon with other elements
• Functional groups in carbon compounds
• Homologous series
• Chemical properties of carbon compounds: combustion and oxidation, addition reactions, substitution reaction
• Important carbon compounds: nomenclature of organic compounds
• Carbohydrates and their classification
• Proteins (examples), oils and fats (examples)
• Polythene, nylon, PVC, polyvinyl alcohol; rubber – uses in daily life
• Polymers and other important organic compounds

17. Environmental Chemistry

• Different types of pollution
• Acid rains, ozone and its reactions
• Effects of depletion of the ozone layer
• Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Green chemistry as an alternative tool for reducing pollution

18. Metallurgy

• Occurrence of metals
• Minerals, ores - examples
• Extractions of metals – activity series and related metallurgy
• Flow chart of steps involved in the extraction of metals from ore
• Refining metals, electrolytic refining
• Corrosion – prevention of corrosion
• Alloys and their uses