Syllabus Mid-Year Assessment

Fall Term, 2022

IGCSE 1

ISLAMIYAT

(Red and White Section)

Paper 1
 All topics of P1 (i.e.) section 1 to section 4
Paper 2
 Section 5, section 6, section 7, section 8

(Green section)
Paper 1
 Quranic Passages (1-15)
 History and Importance of the Holy Quran
 Three Themes of Quranic Passages
 Life and importance of the Holy prophet (P.B.U.H)
 First Islamic Community: Mothers of the Faithfuls, Descendants of the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H), Ten blessed
companions, Emigrants and Helpers, Imamat
Paper 2
 Ahadis (1-20)
 History and Importance of Hadis
 Individual and communal teachings of Ahadis
 The Four Rightly Guided Caliphs
 The Six Articles of Faith
 Pillars of Islam: Shahadah, Fasting and Zakat

PAKISTAN STUDIES

Paper 1 History
 Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 till Ayub Khan

Paper 2 Geography
 Unit 1 to Unit 8 (Power Resources)

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URDU

Paper 1
 Short answer questions
 Multiple matching exercise
 Note making exercise
 Summary writing
 E-mail writing
 Extended writing exercise

Paper 2 (Listening)
 Short answer questions
 Gap-fill sentences
 Multiple matching exercise
 Multiple choice questions

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

 Comprehension Task
 Summary
 Vocabulary
 Writer’s craft
 Extended response to reading/genre transformation
 Text type (letter, magazine article)

MATHEMATICS

 Chapter 1: Reviewing number concepts

 Chapter 3: Lines, Angles, and Shapes
 Chapter 5: Fractions and standard form
 Chapter 7: Perimeter, area and volume of 3D figures
 Chapter 9: Sets and Venn diagrams
 Chapter 12: Averages and measures of spread
 Chapter 13: Understanding measurement
 Chapter 14: Further solving of equations and inequalities

BIOLOGY

 Chapter 2: Cells
 Chapter 3: Movement in and out of Cell
 Chapter 4: Biological Molecules
 Chapter 5: Enzymes
 Chapter 6: Plant Nutrition
 Chapter 7: Human Nutrition
 Chapter 8: Transport in Plants

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CHEMISTRY

(Red Section)

 Unit 1: Experimental Chemistry

 Unit 2: Particles in Matter
 Unit 3: Methods of Purification
 Unit 4: Atomic Structure
 Unit 5: Element, Compound and Mixture
 Unit 6: Chemical Bonding and Structure
 Unit 7: Chemical Formulae and Equations
 Unit 8: The Mole

(Green Section)

 Atomic structure
 Elements, compounds and mixtures
 Chemical bonding
 Chemical formulae and equations
 Moles and stoichiometry
 States of Matter
 Experimental techniques

PHYSICS

1. Motion, forces and energy

1.1 Physical quantities and measurement techniques
1.2 Motion
1.3 Mass and weight
1.4 Density
1.5 Forces
1.6 Momentum
1.7 Energy, work and power

Book:
Physics for Cambridge IGCSE Course book: David Sang, Mike Follows & Sheila Tarpey (3rd Edition)

 Chapter 1 Making measurements

 Chapter 2 Describing motion
 Chapter 3 Forces and motion
 Chapter 4 Turning effects
 Chapter 5 Forces and matter (5.1, 5.2 & 5.3)
 Chapter 6 Energy stores and transfer
 Chapter 7 Energy resources
 Chapter 8 Work and power

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ACCOUNTS

 Accounting terminologies
 Accounting equation
 Books of prime entries
 Cash book and general journal
 Ledgers
 Trial balance
 Basic Income statement
 Basic statement of financial position

ECONOMICS

 SECTION 1: THE BASIC ECONOMIC PROBLEM

(Chapters 1-4)
 SECTION 2: THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES
(Chapters 5-15)

BUSINESS STUDIES

Book: IGCSE Business Studies (Karen Borrington and Peter Stimpson)

 Chapter 1: Business Activity

 Chapter 2: Classification of Businesses
 Chapter 3: Enterprise, Business Growth and Size
 Chapter 4: Types of Business Organisation
 Chapter 5: Business Objectives and Stakeholder Objectives
 Chapter 6: Motivating Workers
 Chapter 7: Organisation and Management

ENGLISH LITERATURE

 The Namesake

ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS

 Simultaneous equations and quadratics

 Indices and surds
 Factors and polynomials
 Logarithmic and exponential functions

COMPUTER SCIENCE

 Data Representation
 Data Transmission and Error Checking
 Logic Gates
 Basic Constructs of Algorithm

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  Algorithm
 Total
 Average
 Product
 Counting
 Minimum and Maximum
 Swap
 Arrays (Linear Search)

WORLD HISTORY

The peace treaties of 1919–23:

 the roles of individuals such as Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George in the peace making process
 the impact of the treaties on the defeated countries
 contemporary opinions about the treaties
The League of Nations:
 strengths and weaknesses in its structure and organisation: work of the League’s agencies/ humanitarian
work
 successes and failures in peacekeeping during the 1920s
 the impact of the world depression on the work of the League after 1929
 the failures of the League in the 1930s, including Manchuria and Abyssinia
 the collapse of international order in the 1930s
 the increasing militarism of Germany, Italy and Japan
Hitler’s foreign policy to 1939:
 the Saar
 remilitarisation of the Rhineland
 involvement in the Spanish Civil War
 Anschluss with Austria
 appeasement
 crises over Czechoslovakia and Poland
 the outbreak of war

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

 Bio diversity and ecosystems loss

ART AND DESIGN

 Imaginative composition based on their theme. Students need to take 4 photographs/ references and submit
them to the teacher a week before the midterm.
 Medium: Open choice
 Size: A4