Electric current: Ohm's law, series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells, Kirchoffs laws, wheat-stone bridge and applications, heating effects of current, magnetic field due to a current, magnetic moment of a current loop, force on a moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter, electromagnetic induction. Faraday's and Lenz's laws, self mutual inductances.
. Rectilinear propagation and velocity of light, reflection and refraction at plane and curved surfaces, total internal reflection, critical angle, prism, minimum deviation, disperdon, spectrometer and spectra. Curved mirrors and thin lenses, magnification, microscope, telescope. Wave nature of light, interference phenomena. Young's double slit experiment, frige width.
Cathode rays, law of radioactivity, nature of alpha, beta and gamma rays, laws of radio-active decay, half-life, photons, photoelectric effect. Bohr's theory of hydrogen-like atoms, X-rays, production and properties. Atomic nucleus, binding energy, nuclear energy by fission and fusion. Diode rectification and triode amplification.

Chemistry : Electron, proton and neutron: Constitution of nucleus; properties of alpha, beta and gamma rays, Rutherford's scattering experiment, Bohr's atomic model (mathematical details excluded), quantum numbers, Pauli's exclusion principle, Hund's rule, Aufbau principle, electronic configuration of elements (up to atomic number 36), shapes of s, p and d orbitals.
Periodic Tables: Periods and groups, classification of elements with respect to s, p and d-blocks, periodicity in properties, namely, atomic and ionic radii, ionisation energy, electron affinity and electronegativity.
Chemical Bond: Electrovalent (ionic) and covalent (including coordinate) bonds, polarity in molecules, dipole moment (qualitative aspect only), concept of hybridisation involving s and p orbitals only, hydrogen bond. Behaviour of Gases: Avogadro’s law, equation of state for an ideal gas, diffusion of gases, kinetic theory of gases, root mean square velocity and its relation with temperature, average velocity, Gay Lussac's law.
Stoichiometry: Balancing equations for chemical reactions (including oxidation-reduction reactions using ion-electron and oxidation number methods), calculations involving oxidation ­reduction, neutralisation and displacement reactions, use of mole concept. Solutions: Expressing concentration in terms of mole fraction, molality, molarity and normality, lowering of vapour pressure, Raoult's law. Concepts of Chemical Equilibrium: Laws of mass action, equilibrium constant, exothermic and endothermic reactions, Le Chatelier's principle and its applications, ionic equilibria in aqueous solubility product, common ion effect, acid-base equilibria, hydrolysis of salts, pH, buffer solutions. Simple numerical problems based on above.
Thermochemistry: Heat of formations, heat of combustion and heat of reaction, Hess's law. Chemical Kinetics: Rates of reactions, order of reactions, rate, constant and half-life period of first order reactions, elementary concepts of catalysis, Faraday's laws of electrolysis, galvanic cells, cell reaction and e.m.f. of cells involving the following electrodes only: Zn/Zn++; Cu/Cu++; Fe/Fe++; Sn/Sn++; Pt, H2/H+; Cl/Cl2, Pt.

Electrochemical Series: Hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide preparation, properties and uses. Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium minerals, extraction, properties and hydroxides, carbonates, bicarbonates.
Aluminium: Minerals, extraction, properties and uses, compounds, alumina, aluminium, chloride and alums.
Carbon: Occurence, allotropes and oxides.
Tin and Lead: Important minerals, extraction, properties and uses, compounds, oxides and chlorides.
Nitrogen and Phosphorous: Sources, compounds, oxides and oxyacids, ammonia, fertilisers.
Oxygen and Sulphur: Properties, allotropes, compounds, hydrogen sulphate, sodium thiosulphate, oxides, sulphurous and sulphuric acids. Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine: Preparation, properties and uses, compounds, hydrochloric acids, oxy-acids of chlorine; bleaching powder. Iron, Copper, Silver and Zinc :Occurence, extraction; refining properties and uses, compounds, ferrous sulphate; ferric oxide", ferric chloride, copper sulphate; silver nitrate, silver bromide; zinc oxide and zinc sulphide.
Note: In the case, all the compounds mentioned above their preparation, properties and uses are included. Concepts of hybridisation of carbon, sigma and pi-bonds, resonance, homologous series, structural isomerism, nomenclature.
Alkanes: Substitution reactions, alkanes and alkynes, addition
reactions, ozoanalysis.
Benzene: Structure, nitration, sulphonation, halogenation and acylation reaction. Characteristics reactions of the following functional groups: Alcohol (esterification, dehydration, oxidation, reactions with sodium and phosphorus halides), Phenol (halogenation, nitration, sulphonation); aldehyde and ketone (Oxidation, reduction oxime and hydrazone formation, aldol, condensation and Canizzaro's reaction), carboxylic acid (formation of ester, amide and acid chloride).
Preparation, properties and uses of the following: Ethanol, ethylene, acetylene, di-ethylether, chloroform; carbon tetrachloride formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acetone, formic and acetic anhydride, ethyl and aniline.

Mathematics
Algebra: Complex number as an ordered pair of real numbers, geometrical representation, real and imaginary .parts, absolute value and conjugation, triangle inequality. Theory of quadratic equations and expression: Relationship between roots and coefficients, linear and quadratic in equations in one variable; arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, permutations and combinations, elementary applications of mathematical induction. Binomial theorem for a positive integral index. Determinants of order two and three and their elementary properties, solutions of simultaneous linear equations in two and three variables.

Coordinate Geometry: Rectangular Cartesian co-ordinates, distance between two points, area of a triangle, straight line, angle between two lines, parallel and perpendicular lines, distance of a point from a line, circle, equation of tangent and normal to a circle, parametric representation.

Trigonometry: Trigonometric functions and their graphs, additions and substraction formulae, multiple and submultiple angles, general solutions of trigonometric equations, solutions of triangles, simple applications in finding heights and distances.

Calculus: Functions, into, onto, and one-one functions, polynomial, rational, trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions. Notion of limit and continuity of a function, derivative of a point, derivatives of sum, differences, product and quotients of functions, derivatives of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions, geometrical interpretation of derivative, tangents and normals, sign of the derivative and monotonicity, maximum and minimum values of function, derivatives of composite and implicit functions. Integration as the inverse process of differentiation, integration by parts and by substitution, definite integral and its application of areas (simple cases).

Vectors: Additions of vectors, multiplications by a scalar, scalar product, cross product and scalar triple product with geometrical applications.

Probability: Probability, sum and product laws, conditional probability.