Chapter Notes & Practice — CBSE & ICSE Board Prep
Chapter Notes & Practice
Every chapter ships with 7 free artefacts — Notes Deck, Quick Drill, Board Paper, Marking Scheme, interactive CBT, Cheat Sheet, Parent Pager.
📚 Class 9 · CBSE
First chapters of every Class 9 core subject. Each ships with 6 free PDFs + an editable lecture PPTX + a 20-question CBT — built to CBSE annual-exam / SQP pattern.
📐Number Systems
CH 1Rational vs irrational numbers, decimal expansions, locating √x on the number line, surds & rationalising denominators, and the laws of exponents for real bases.
🔬Matter in Our Surroundings
CH 1The particle nature of matter, the three states and their properties, change of state, latent heat of fusion & vaporisation, sublimation, and evaporation as a cooling process.
📖The Fun They Had (Beehive)
CH 1Isaac Asimov's 'The Fun They Had' — a 2157 schoolroom, telebooks versus the attic paper book, and the irony of children envying the old kind of school. (+ Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'.)
✒दो बैलों की कथा (क्षितिज)
CH 1प्रेमचंद की 'दो बैलों की कथा' — हीरा-मोती की मित्रता, स्वतंत्रता की चाह, अहिंसक विद्रोह, और बैल = पराधीन किसान का प्रतीक।
🏛️The French Revolution (History)
CH 1The French Revolution (1789): the three estates, Enlightenment thinkers, the storming of the Bastille, the Republic and execution of Louis XVI, the Reign of Terror, and the rise of Napoleon.
🔬Is Matter Around Us Pure?
CH 1Is Matter Around Us Pure? — pure substances vs mixtures, solutions/colloids/suspensions, Tyndall effect, separation techniques (filtration, distillation, chromatography, crystallisation), physical vs chemical changes.
🧮Polynomials
CH 1Polynomials — degree + types, remainder theorem, factor theorem, factorisation by splitting middle term, and all 9 algebraic identities including (x+y)³ and x³+y³+z³−3xyz.
🔬Atoms and Molecules
CH 1Atoms and Molecules — laws of chemical combination, Dalton's atomic theory, atomic and molecular mass, the mole concept (6.022×10²³), and writing chemical formulae by criss-cross.
📐Coordinate Geometry
CH 1Coordinate Geometry — the Cartesian plane, x- and y-axes, the four quadrants and their sign conventions, abscissa and ordinate, and plotting points accurately.
🎓 Class 10 · CBSE
Foundation chapters for Boards 2026 · all PYQ-tagged 2017–2024 · free to download.
📐Real Numbers
CH 1Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, irrationality proofs, decimal expansions. Topper templates show the exact step-by-step structure CBSE markers reward with full marks.
🧪Chemical Reactions & Equations
CH 1Balancing, the 4 reaction types, redox, corrosion, rancidity. Highest-yield Chemistry chapter — 3 topper-answer templates with mark-by-mark structure.
📖A Letter to God (First Flight)
CH 1G. L. Fuentes's 'A Letter to God' — Lencho's unshakeable faith, the irony of blaming the post office, and the goodness of ordinary people. (+ Frost's 'Dust of Snow' & 'Fire and Ice'.)
✒सूरदास के पद (क्षितिज भाग-2)
CH 1सूरदास के पद (भ्रमरगीत प्रसंग) — उद्धव-गोपी संवाद, निर्गुण-योग की अस्वीकृति, गोपियों का वाक्-चातुर्य और सगुण भक्ति की विजय।
🏛️The Rise of Nationalism in Europe (History)
CH 1The Rise of Nationalism in Europe — the French Revolution's legacy, liberal nationalism, the Zollverein, and the unification of Germany (Bismarck) and Italy (Cavour, Garibaldi).
🧪Acids, Bases and Salts
CH 1Acids, Bases and Salts — pH scale, indicators, reactions of acids and bases with metals/carbonates/oxides, chlor-alkali process, and key salts (NaOH, NaHCO₃, Na₂CO₃·10H₂O, CaSO₄·½H₂O).
📊Polynomials
CH 1Polynomials — zeroes and their geometric meaning, sum/product of zeroes for quadratics (-b/a, c/a) and cubics, and forming a polynomial from given zeroes.
📖Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (First Flight)
CH 2Your child is studying a true, first-person extract from the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. It describes the historic day — 10 May 1994 — when…
📖Two Stories about Flying (First Flight)
CH 3This is a TWO-IN-ONE lesson. The first story, 'His First Flight' by Liam O'Flaherty, is about a young seagull who is too frightened to fly. His…
📖From the Diary of Anne Frank (First Flight)
CH 4Your child is studying the fourth literature lesson — a real diary excerpt by Anne Frank, a German-Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis during World…
📖The Hundred Dresses – I (First Flight)
CH 5Your child is studying a prose lesson from the English board syllabus — 'The Hundred Dresses – I', an excerpt from a novel by the American writer…
✒राम-लक्ष्मण-परशुराम संवाद — तुलसीदास (क्षितिज भाग-2)
CH 2यह आपके बच्चे की कक्षा 10 हिंदी (क्षितिज भाग-2) के काव्य खंड का दूसरा पाठ है। यह गोस्वामी तुलसीदास के महाकाव्य 'श्रीरामचरितमानस' से लिया गया एक…
✒देव — सवैया और कवित्त (क्षितिज भाग-2)
CH 3यह आपके बच्चे की कक्षा 10 हिंदी (क्षितिज भाग-2) के काव्य खंड का तीसरा पाठ है, जिसमें रीतिकाल के प्रसिद्ध कवि 'देव' के दो सवैया एवं दो कवित्त हैं।…
✒आत्मकथ्य (क्षितिज भाग-2)
CH 4यह आपके बच्चे की कक्षा 10 हिंदी (क्षितिज भाग-2) के काव्य खंड का अध्याय 4 है — छायावाद के प्रवर्तक कवि जयशंकर प्रसाद की कविता 'आत्मकथ्य'। 'हंस'…
✒यह दंतुरित मुसकान एवं फसल (क्षितिज भाग-2)
CH 5यह आपके बच्चे की कक्षा 10 हिंदी (क्षितिज भाग-2) के काव्य खंड का पाँचवाँ पाठ है, जिसमें प्रगतिवादी कवि नागार्जुन की दो कविताएँ हैं — 'यह दंतुरित…
📐Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables
CH 3This chapter is the most heavily-weighted of all Class 10 algebra chapters (5–8 marks). The skill of translating an English word problem into two…
📐Quadratic Equations
CH 4Quadratics are the gateway to all advanced algebra: Class 11 sequences and conic sections, Class 12 calculus optimisation, and every JEE / NEET /…
📐Arithmetic Progressions
CH 5Your child is learning to recognise and work with number patterns that grow by a fixed step each time — called Arithmetic Progressions (for example…
🔬Metals and Non-metals
CH 3Metals and Non-metals — CBSE Class 10.
🔬Carbon and its Compounds
CH 4Carbon and its Compounds — CBSE Class 10.
🔬Life Processes
CH 5Your child is learning the four basic processes that keep every living thing alive: nutrition (how plants make their own food by photosynthesis and…
🌍Federalism (Political Science)
CH 2Your child is learning how India shares the power to govern between different LEVELS — the central (Union) government in Delhi, the State…
🌍Gender, Religion and Caste (Civics)
CH 3Your child is learning how three social differences — gender, religion and caste — enter politics in a democracy, and how a healthy democracy should…
🌍Money and Credit (Economics)
CH 4Your child is studying how money works in a modern economy and why borrowing (credit) can either lift a family up or pull it down. The chapter…
🌍Manufacturing Industries (Geography)
CH 5Your child is studying how India turns raw materials into finished goods — the 'manufacturing' or factory sector of the economy. The chapter explains…
🔬Metals and Non-metals
CH 1Metals and Non-metals — physical and chemical properties, the reactivity series, ionic bonding, extraction of metals (roasting/calcination/reduction), and corrosion with its prevention.
📐Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables
CH 1Pair of Linear Equations in Two Variables — graphical and algebraic methods (substitution, elimination, cross-multiplication), consistency conditions, and word problems.
📚 Class 11 · CBSE
First chapters across the Class 11 streams — Humanities, Commerce and Science. Each ships 6 free PDFs + an editable lecture PPTX + a 20-question CBT, built to the CBSE Class 11 school-exam pattern.
🏛️Writing and City Life (Mesopotamia)
CH 1Mesopotamia (c.3200 BCE) — the rise of the city, the temple economy, and the invention of cuneiform writing on clay tablets. (Themes in World History)
🗳️Constitution: Why and How?
CH 1What a constitution is and why we need one — the Constituent Assembly, the adoption on 26 Nov 1949, and the core ideals of the Indian Constitution.
🌍Geography as a Discipline
CH 1Geography as an integrating discipline — systematic vs regional approaches (Humboldt & Ritter), the physical–human dualism, and the branches of the subject.
👥Sociology and Society
CH 1The sociological imagination (C. W. Mills) — private troubles vs public issues, society beyond the individual, and how sociology differs from common sense.
🧠What is Psychology?
CH 1Psychology as the science of mind and behaviour — from Wundt's 1879 Leipzig lab through behaviourism and psychoanalysis to the cognitive revolution.
📊Introduction to Accounting
CH 1What accounting is and why it matters — the accounting process, book-keeping vs accountancy, users of accounts, and the basic terms (capital, assets, liabilities, debtors/creditors).
💼Business, Trade and Commerce
CH 1Business, trade and commerce — economic vs non-economic activity, the industry/commerce classification, the aids to trade, and the objectives and risks of business.
📈Introduction (Statistics for Economics)
CH 1Statistics for Economics — the singular (method/science) vs plural (data) senses of statistics, its functions in economics, scope, and limitations.
🔢Numbers, Quantification and Numerical Applications
CH 1Numbers & numerical applications — modulo arithmetic, indices & logarithms, and word-problems (averages, alligation & mixture, boats-streams, pipes-cisterns).
⚛Units and Measurements
CH 1Units & measurement — the SI base units, accuracy vs precision, error propagation, significant figures, and dimensional analysis (and its limits).
🧪Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry
CH 1The mole concept, the laws of chemical combination, atomic & molecular masses, empirical vs molecular formula, stoichiometry & limiting reagent, and concentration terms.
📐Sets
CH 1Sets — representation, subsets & power sets (2ⁿ), Venn diagrams, union/intersection/complement, De Morgan's laws, and the n(A∪B) cardinality formula.
🌿The Living World
CH 1What 'living' means, biodiversity & the need for classification, binomial nomenclature, the taxonomic hierarchy (Kingdom→Species), and taxonomical aids.
📖The Portrait of a Lady (Hornbill)
CH 1Khushwant Singh's 'The Portrait of a Lady' — the three phases of the bond with the grandmother, her serene faith, and the sparrows' silent mourning. (+ the poem 'A Photograph'.)
✒कबीर — हम तौ एक एक करि जांनां · संतों देखत जग बौराना (आरोह भाग-1)
CH 1कबीर के पद एवं सबद (आरोह भाग-1) — 'हम तौ एक एक करि जांनां' का अद्वैत-भाव और 'संतों देखत जग बौराना' का बाह्याडंबर-खंडन एवं हिन्दू-मुस्लिम समन्वय।
💻Computer System
CH 1Computer System — functional units (CPU/ALU/CU, memory, I/O), the von Neumann model, hardware vs software, the memory hierarchy, RAM vs ROM, the boot process, and encoding (ASCII/Unicode).
🖥️Introduction to Computer System
CH 1Introduction to Computer System — components & CPU, memory hierarchy and units, system vs application software, FOSS vs proprietary, the OS's role, booting, and mobile vs desktop.
🏃Changing Trends and Career in Physical Education
CH 1Physical education — meaning, aims & objectives, the development of PE in India (HVPM, YMCA, LNIPE, NSNIS), changing trends (Khelo India, Fit India), and career options.
🚀Entrepreneurship: Concept and Functions
CH 1Entrepreneur vs entrepreneurship vs enterprise; characteristics & functions (innovation + risk-bearing); the entrepreneurial process; Danhof's types; and the role of entrepreneurship in the economy.
⚖Theory and Sources of Law
CH 1Theory and Sources of Law — the nature & functions of law, the five schools of jurisprudence (natural/positivist/historical/sociological/realist), the sources of law, and the classifications of law.
🏡Concept and Scope of Home Science
CH 1Home Science as an interdisciplinary applied science — the name evolution (Home Economics → HEFS), the five areas (Food & Nutrition, Human Development, Fabric & Apparel, Resource Management, Communication & Extension), and careers.
🏛️An Empire Across Three Continents (The Roman Empire)
CH 1Rome across three continents — Republic to Principate (Augustus, 27 BCE), the army & Senate, the third-century crisis, slavery and manumission, and the rise of Christianity.
🗳️Rights in the Indian Constitution
CH 1Rights in the Indian Constitution — the six Fundamental Rights (Articles 14–32), the five writs, the Directive Principles, and the Fundamental Duties.
🌍The Origin and Evolution of the Earth
CH 1How the Earth formed — early theories (nebular, planetesimal, tidal), the Big Bang, the solar system, and the Earth's differentiation into core, mantle and crust.
👥Terms, Concepts and their Use in Sociology
CH 1The sociologist's toolkit — social groups, status & role, community vs society (Tönnies), the four systems of stratification, and social control.
🧠Methods of Enquiry in Psychology
CH 1How psychologists find things out — the goals of enquiry, observation and the experimental method (IV vs DV), correlation vs causation, and research ethics.
📊Theory Base of Accounting
CH 1The theory base — GAAP, the accounting concepts and assumptions (going concern, accrual, matching, prudence), and the dual-aspect equation Assets = Liabilities + Capital.
💼Forms of Business Organisation
CH 1Forms of business organisation — sole proprietorship, Joint Hindu Family, partnership, cooperative society and the joint-stock company, compared on liability, control and continuity.
📈Collection of Data (Statistics for Economics)
CH 1Collecting data — primary vs secondary sources, the collection methods, census vs sample, sampling & non-sampling errors, and India's sources (Census of India, NSSO).
🔢Algebra — Sets, Relations & Functions, Sequences & Series
CH 1Algebra — sets and Venn diagrams, relations & functions (domain/range, types), and arithmetic & geometric progressions (nth term and sums).
🏛️Nomadic Empires (The Mongols)
CH 1Nomadic Empires — the Central Asian steppe, Chinggis Khan's rise (1206) and his decimal army, the Mongol campaigns and administration (yam, Yasa), and the empire after him.
🗳️Election and Representation
CH 1Election and Representation — First-Past-The-Post vs proportional representation, reserved constituencies, universal adult franchise, and the Election Commission of India.
🌍Interior of the Earth
CH 1Interior of the Earth — direct and indirect sources, earthquakes and seismic waves (P vs S waves and the shadow zones), the layered structure (crust/mantle/core), and volcanoes.
👥Understanding Social Institutions
CH 1Understanding social institutions — the functionalist and conflict views, and the family/marriage/kinship, work, political, religious and educational institutions.
🧠The Bases of Human Behaviour
CH 1The bases of human behaviour — the nervous system, the brain, the endocrine system, heredity (nature vs nurture), and the cultural bases of behaviour.
📊Recording of Transactions – I
CH 1Recording of transactions — the accounting equation, the rules of debit and credit, source documents and vouchers, and journalising (with fully worked entries).
💼Private, Public and Global Enterprises
CH 1Private, public and global enterprises — the three forms of public-sector enterprise, the changing role of the public sector, MNCs, joint ventures and PPP.
📈Organisation of Data (Statistics for Economics)
CH 1Organisation of data — classification, variables (discrete vs continuous), and building a frequency distribution (inclusive vs exclusive, class limits vs boundaries).
🔢Mathematical Reasoning
CH 1Mathematical reasoning — statements and truth values, negation, AND/OR, the quantifiers, implications, and the converse / inverse / contrapositive.
🏛️The Three Orders
CH 1The Three Orders — medieval Western European feudalism: those who pray, those who fight and those who work; the manor, the role of the Church, and the 14th-century crisis.
🗳️Executive
CH 1Executive — parliamentary vs presidential systems, the President of India (the nominal head), the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (the real executive), and the bureaucracy.
🌍Distribution of Oceans and Continents
CH 1Distribution of Oceans and Continents — Wegener's continental drift and its evidence, sea-floor spreading, and the theory of plate tectonics.
👥Culture and Socialisation
CH 1Culture and Socialisation — material vs non-material culture, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism, cultural lag, and the agencies of socialisation.
🧠Human Development
CH 1Human Development — the life-span perspective, heredity and environment, Bronfenbrenner's ecological model, and the stages from infancy to old age.
📊Recording of Transactions – II
CH 1Recording of Transactions II — posting to the ledger and balancing accounts, the special purpose books, and the cash book (with contra entries).
💼Business Services
CH 1Business Services — the goods-vs-services distinction and the key services: banking, insurance (and its principles), transport, warehousing and communication.
📈Presentation of Data
CH 1Presentation of Data — tabular presentation, bar and pie diagrams, and the graphic presentation of frequency distributions (histogram, polygon, ogive).
🔢Calculus
CH 1Calculus — functions and limits, the rules of differentiation, and applications: rate of change, marginal cost & revenue, and maxima–minima.
🎨Changing Cultural Traditions
CH 1Changing Cultural Traditions (c.1300-1700) — the Italian Renaissance, the printing press, Luther's Reformation, Calvin, the Counter-Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution.
🏛️Legislature
CH 1Legislature — Lok Sabha + Rajya Sabha, how a Bill becomes Act, Money vs Ordinary Bill, Question Hour, Parliamentary Committees, anti-defection (10th Schedule).
🏔️Geomorphic Processes
CH 1Geomorphic Processes — endogenic (diastrophism, volcanism), exogenic (weathering, mass movement, erosion, deposition), and pedogenesis factors.
🔬Doing Sociology: Research Methods
CH 1Doing Sociology — participant observation (Malinowski, M.N. Srinivas), surveys, interviews, ethics, and the Indian fieldwork tradition.
👁️Sensory, Attentional and Perceptual Processes
CH 1Sensory, Attentional and Perceptual Processes — thresholds, eye/ear anatomy, selective attention (Broadbent, Treisman), Gestalt laws, depth cues, illusions.
🏦Bank Reconciliation Statement
CH 1Bank Reconciliation Statement — why cash book and pass book differ, the seven typical causes, two preparation methods, and overdraft handling.
💻Emerging Modes of Business
CH 1Emerging Modes of Business — e-business scope (B2B/B2C/C2C), security tools (firewall/encryption/SSL), online transaction flow, BPO + KPO outsourcing.
📊Measures of Central Tendency
CH 1Measures of Central Tendency — arithmetic mean, median, mode (with continuous formulae), the empirical relation Mean − Mode = 3(Mean − Median), and choosing the right measure.
🎲Probability
CH 1Probability — sample space, events, classical and conditional probability, independence, and Bayes' theorem with worked examples.
⚛️Motion in a Straight Line
CH 1Motion in a Straight Line — position vs displacement, average vs instantaneous velocity and acceleration, the four kinematic equations, free fall under gravity, and reading v-t / x-t graphs.
⚗️Structure of Atom
CH 1Structure of Atom — discovery of subatomic particles, Bohr model and its limits (E_n = −13.6/n² eV), hydrogen spectrum, dual nature, quantum numbers, and Aufbau/Pauli/Hund electronic configurations.
📐Relations and Functions
CH 1Relations and Functions — Cartesian product, types of relations (reflexive/symmetric/transitive/equivalence), types of functions (one-one/onto/bijective), composition and inverse.
🦠Biological Classification
CH 1Biological Classification — Whittaker's 5-kingdom system (Monera/Protista/Fungi/Plantae/Animalia), bacteria and archaea, fungi classes, viruses/viroids/prions/lichens, and the 3-domain refinement.
⚛️Motion in a Plane
CH 1Motion in a Plane — vectors and their addition, resolution into components, dot and cross products, projectile motion (range, height, time of flight), and uniform circular motion.
⚗️Classification of Elements and Periodicity in Properties
CH 1Classification of Elements and Periodicity — the modern periodic law, s/p/d/f blocks, and periodic trends in atomic radius, ionisation enthalpy, electron gain enthalpy and electronegativity.
📐Trigonometric Functions
CH 1Trigonometric Functions — radian measure, the unit-circle definitions, ASTC sign rule, fundamental identities, sum/difference and double-angle formulae, and general solutions of trig equations.
🧬Plant Kingdom
CH 1Plant Kingdom — algae, bryophytes, pteridophytes, gymnosperms and angiosperms; pigments and life cycles; and the alternation of generations (haplontic/diplontic/haplo-diplontic).
🎓 Class 12 · CBSE
First chapters across Sciences (PCM/PCB) and Commerce streams. Each ships with 7 free artefacts, PYQ-tagged 2017–2024.
⚛Electric Charges and Fields
CH 1Coulomb's law, electric field, Gauss's law, dipole — the launchpad of all electromagnetism.
🧪Solutions
CH 1Concentration units, Raoult's law, colligative properties, van't Hoff factor.
📐Relations and Functions
CH 1Equivalence relations, bijective functions, composition, inverse functions.
🌿Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
CH 1Embryo sac (8-nucleate), double fertilisation, post-fertilisation seed and fruit.
📊Accounting for Not-for-Profit Organisation
CH 1NPO accounting: R&P, I&E, Balance Sheet, capital fund, subscriptions, donations.
💼Nature and Significance of Management
CH 1Management: characteristics, objectives, levels, functions, coordination as essence.
📈Introduction to Macroeconomics
CH 1Macro vs micro, central problems, stock vs flow, circular flow of income.
🇮🇳Indian Economy on the Eve of Independence
CH 1British rule's impact: deindustrialisation, drain of wealth, stagnant agriculture.
🏛️Bricks, Beads and Bones — The Harappan Civilisation
CH 1Harappan civilisation (2600-1900 BCE): urban planning, script, decline. Source-based + map work.
🌍Human Geography — Nature and Scope
CH 1Three schools of thought: environmental determinism, possibilism, neo-determinism. Scope of human geography.
🗳️The Cold War Era
CH 1Cold War (1945-1991): origins, Cuban Missile Crisis, NAM with Nehru-Nasser-Tito, end of bipolarity.
👥Introducing Indian Society
CH 1Sociological imagination (Mills), Indian diversity, colonialism's comprehensive impact, key sociologists.
🧠Variations in Psychological Attributes
CH 1Theories of intelligence: Spearman g-factor, Gardner MI, Sternberg triarchic, Indian integral, Goleman EI.
📖The Last Lesson
CH 1Alphonse Daudet's 'The Last Lesson' — Alsace, 1870, the Franco-Prussian War, M. Hamel's last French lesson + linguistic chauvinism.
✒आत्म-परिचय · एक गीत — दिन जल्दी-जल्दी ढलता है
CH 1बच्चन की दो कविताएँ — 'आत्म-परिचय' का विरोधाभास-दर्शन एवं 'दिन जल्दी-जल्दी ढलता है' की प्रत्याशा-त्रिकोण।
🔢Numbers, Quantification and Numerical Applications
CH 1Modulo arithmetic + allegation + boats-streams + pipes-cisterns + numerical inequalities — the four headline formulas of practical maths.
💻Python Revision Tour – I
CH 1Python revision — tokens, mutable/immutable types, operators (/ vs //), range() endpoint, control flow with break/continue.
🐼Data Handling Using Pandas – I
CH 1Pandas Series + DataFrame, .loc/.iloc, head/tail, add/delete/rename columns, Boolean indexing, CSV import/export.
🏃Management of Sporting Events
CH 1Five POSDC functions of event management, knock-out and league fixtures, intramural vs extramural, committees.
🚀Entrepreneurial Opportunity
CH 1Idea vs opportunity, PESTEL framework, sources of opportunities, four-dimension feasibility, opportunity assessment.
⚖Judiciary
CH 1Indian court hierarchy, Collegium for SC/HC appointments, judicial review + Kesavananda Bharati basic-structure doctrine, tribunals.
🏡Work, Livelihood and Career
CH 1Work / livelihood / career definitions, paid vs unpaid work, five Home Science sub-disciplines, 4-step career planning framework.
📊National Income Accounting
CH 2National Income aggregates (GDP/GNP/NDP/NNP at MP/FC), three calculation methods (Value-Added, Income, Expenditure), depreciation + NIT + NFIA conversions, Real vs Nominal GDP + Deflator, GDP welfare limitations.
🧮Accounting for Partnership Firms — Fundamentals
CH 2Partnership Act 1932 (Section 4 essentials, Section 13 defaults), Partnership Deed, P&L Appropriation A/c, Fixed vs Fluctuating Capital, Interest on Drawings (Average Period method), guarantee of profit.
📜Principles of Management
CH 2Fayol's 14 principles + Taylor's 4 principles + 5 techniques of Scientific Management, Functional Foremanship, Mental Revolution, Bethlehem Steel pig-iron experiment, Gang Plank exception to Scalar Chain.
📜Indian Economy 1950-1990
CH 2Planning Era 1950-1990: Five-Year Plans + Mahalanobis Model, Four goals of planning, Land Reforms (Zamindari + Tenancy + Ceiling), Green Revolution (HYV seeds + MSP + Punjab/Haryana), IPR 1956 + IDR Act 1951 + Import Substitution.
⚡Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
CH 2Electric potential V, equipotential surfaces, V due to point/multiple charges + dipole, capacitance C = Q/V, parallel-plate capacitor with dielectric C = Kε₀A/d, series/parallel combinations, energy stored ½CV² + redistribution.
🔋Electrochemistry
CH 2Galvanic + electrolytic cells, SHE reference, standard electrode potentials, Nernst equation E = E° − (0.0591/n)log Q, Faraday's two laws (m = ZIt), molar conductivity + Kohlrausch's law, batteries + fuel cells + corrosion.
🏛️Kings, Farmers and Towns — Early States and Economies
CH 1Kings, Farmers and Towns (c.600 BCE–600 CE) — the Mahajanapadas, the Mauryas (Ashoka, Arthashastra, Megasthenes), agrarian change, the evolution of coinage, and how inscriptions are read.
🌍The World Population — Distribution, Density and Growth
CH 1The world's people — patterns of population distribution and density, the components of growth (birth/death/migration), the demographic transition theory, and doubling time.
🗳️The End of Bipolarity
CH 1The end of bipolarity — Gorbachev's perestroika & glasnost, the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), the disintegration of the USSR (1991), shock therapy, and US unipolarity.
👥The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
CH 1India's demographic structure — formal vs social demography, the demographic transition, sex ratio and the dependency ratio, the demographic dividend, and population policy.
🧠Self and Personality
CH 1Self and personality — self-concept and self-esteem, and the type, trait (the Big Five), psychodynamic (Freud) and humanistic approaches, plus personality assessment.
🔢Algebra (Matrices and Determinants)
CH 1Algebra — matrices and their operations, types of matrices, determinants, minors & cofactors, the adjoint and inverse, and solving linear systems (matrix method & Cramer's rule).
🏛️Kinship, Caste and Class — Early Societies (c. 600 BCE–600 CE)
CH 1Kinship, Caste and Class (c.600 BCE–600 CE) — the Mahabharata as a source, the rules of kinship and marriage, the varna order and the Manusmriti, and life beyond the four varnas.
🌍Human Development
CH 1Human Development — the concept (Mahbub-ul-Haq & Amartya Sen), the four pillars, and how the Human Development Index measures it (health, education, income).
🗳️US Hegemony in World Politics
CH 1US Hegemony in World Politics — the post-1991 unipolar moment, the Gulf War, 9/11 and the War on Terror, the three senses of hegemony, and its constraints.
👥Social Institutions: Continuity and Change
CH 1Social Institutions: Continuity and Change — caste and its colonial reshaping, tribal communities, and the changing forms of the family.
🧠Meeting Life Challenges
CH 1Meeting Life Challenges — the nature and sources of stress, Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome, appraisal and coping (problem- vs emotion-focused), and stress management.
📊Reconstitution of a Partnership Firm — Admission of a Partner
CH 1Admission of a Partner — the new and sacrificing ratios, the treatment of goodwill, revaluation of assets and liabilities, and adjustment of capitals (fully worked numericals).
💼Business Environment
CH 1Business Environment — its meaning and five dimensions (economic, social, technological, political, legal) and the impact of the 1991 LPG reforms on business.
📊Money and Banking
CH 1Money and Banking — the functions of money, the measures of money supply, credit creation (the money multiplier), and the RBI's monetary-policy tools.
🇮🇳Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation: An Appraisal
CH 1Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation — the 1991 crisis and reforms, the LPG measures (including the WTO, 1995), and an appraisal of their impact.
🔢Calculus — Differentiation, Applications & Integration
CH 1Calculus — higher-order derivatives, increasing/decreasing functions and maxima–minima, marginal cost & revenue, integration, and consumer/producer surplus.
🏛️Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments (c. 600 BCE – 600 CE)
CH 1Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings (c. 600 BCE–600 CE) — Buddhism, Jainism, the Sangha, stupas at Sanchi and Amaravati, jataka tales, and the rise of Bhakti.
🏘️Human Settlements
CH 1Human Settlements — rural vs urban, settlement types and patterns, urban functions and hierarchy (town → conurbation → megalopolis), and problems of urbanisation.
🌐Alternative Centres of Power
CH 1Alternative Centres of Power — the rise of the European Union, ASEAN's three pillars, China's post-1978 transformation, and shifting India–China relations.
🛍️The Market as a Social Institution
CH 1The Market as a Social Institution — weekly haats, caste-embedded markets, Nakarattar trade networks, commodification, and globalised consumption.
🧠Psychological Disorders
CH 1Psychological Disorders — the 4 Ds of abnormality, ICD-11 + DSM-5 classification, anxiety / mood / dissociative / schizophrenia / childhood disorders, and substance dependence.
📊Reconstitution of Partnership: Retirement and Death of a Partner
CH 1Retirement and Death of a Partner — gaining ratio, treatment of goodwill, revaluation A/c, accumulated reserves, executor's account, and settlement (lump sum / instalments).
📋Planning
CH 1Planning — its features, importance, limitations, the 7-step planning process, and types of plans (objective, strategy, policy, procedure, method, rule, budget, programme).
📈Determination of Income and Employment
CH 1Determination of Income and Employment — Keynesian AD = C + I equilibrium, the consumption function, the investment multiplier k = 1/(1−MPC), and deflationary / inflationary gaps.
🇮🇳Poverty
CH 1Poverty — who the poor are, the Tendulkar poverty line, head-count ratio, causes of poverty, and the three-pronged policy response (growth, anti-poverty schemes, basic needs).
🎲Probability Distributions
CH 1Probability Distributions — random variables and PMF, E(X) and Var(X), the binomial and Poisson distributions, and the standard normal distribution with z-scores.
🧭Through the Eyes of Travellers: Perceptions of Society (c. 10th to 17th century)
CH 1Through the Eyes of Travellers — Al-Biruni's Kitab-ul-Hind, Ibn Battuta's Rihla, and Bernier's critique of the Mughal land system: what foreign observers reveal about Indian society.
🌾Primary Activities
CH 1Primary Activities — hunting and gathering, pastoralism, subsistence vs commercial agriculture (jhum, wet-rice, plantation, dairy), and mining (surface vs shaft).
🌏Contemporary South Asia
CH 1Contemporary South Asia — India-Pakistan, India-Bangladesh, India-Sri Lanka relations, Nepal's democracy, the Gujral Doctrine, SAARC, and China in the region.
⚖️Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion
CH 1Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion — caste (Mandal, SC/ST Act), adivasis (Forest Acts, FRA 2006), OBCs, women (POSH 2013), and disability (RPwD 2016).
🛋️Therapeutic Approaches
CH 1Therapeutic Approaches — psychodynamic, behavioural (Wolpe), cognitive (Ellis ABC, Beck triad), humanistic (Rogers), biomedical, alternative, and rehabilitation.
📑Dissolution of Partnership Firm
CH 1Dissolution of Partnership Firm — modes of dissolution, the Realisation Account, order of payment, Garner v Murray rule, and piecemeal distribution.
🗂️Organising
CH 1Organising — 5-step process, functional vs divisional structures, formal vs informal organisation, delegation (authority/responsibility/accountability), and decentralisation.
💰Government Budget and the Economy
CH 1Government Budget and the Economy — revenue vs capital budget, direct and indirect taxes, fiscal/revenue/primary deficits, FRBM Act 2003, and subsidies.
🎓Human Capital Formation in India
CH 1Human Capital Formation — sources (education, health, training, migration, info), HC vs HD (Sen), RTE 2009, PM-JAY 2018, NEP 2020.
📈Inferential Statistics
CH 1Inferential Statistics — sampling, the Central Limit Theorem, point + interval estimation, confidence intervals (z=1.96/2.58), and hypothesis testing (z-test, t-test, chi-square).
🔌Current Electricity
CH 1Current Electricity — Ohm's Law, drift velocity, resistivity, Kirchhoff's KCL+KVL, cells in series/parallel, the Wheatstone bridge balance condition, potentiometer, and the meter bridge.
⏱️Chemical Kinetics
CH 1Chemical Kinetics — rate of reaction, order vs molecularity, integrated rate laws for zero + first order (t½ for each), and the Arrhenius equation k = A·e^(−Ea/RT).
🌀Inverse Trigonometric Functions
CH 1Inverse Trigonometric Functions — principal value branches for all six inverse trig functions, plus the identities sin⁻¹x + cos⁻¹x = π/2 and tan⁻¹x + tan⁻¹y = tan⁻¹((x+y)/(1−xy)).
👶Human Reproduction
CH 1Human Reproduction — male + female reproductive systems, spermatogenesis and oogenesis, the 28-day menstrual cycle, fertilisation in the ampulla, implantation, pregnancy hormones (hCG/hPL), parturition, and lactation.
⚛️Moving Charges and Magnetism
CH 1Moving Charges and Magnetism — magnetic force on moving charges, the cyclotron, Biot-Savart and Ampère's laws, field of a solenoid, torque on a current loop, and the moving-coil galvanometer.
⚗️d- and f-Block Elements
CH 1d- and f-Block Elements — variable oxidation states, colour and magnetic moment (√n(n+2)), catalytic behaviour, KMnO₄ and K₂Cr₂O₇ chemistry, and lanthanide contraction.
📐Matrices
CH 1Matrices — order and types, addition and (non-commutative) multiplication, transpose properties, symmetric and skew-symmetric decomposition, and the inverse via elementary operations.
🧬Reproductive Health
CH 1Reproductive Health — the RCH programme, contraceptive methods, the MTP and PCPNDT Acts, sexually transmitted infections, and assisted reproductive technologies (IVF, ZIFT, GIFT, ICSI).
- Class 12 Physics Ch 1 — Electric Charges & Fields (in authoring)
- Class 10 Maths Ch 2 onward · Class 10 Science Ch 2 onward
- Class 11 Physics / Chemistry / Maths Ch 1
- ICSE / ISC chapters for selected subjects