DPS – MODERN INDIAN SCHOOL, DOHA- QATAR

HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATION (2024-25)

SUBJECT: ENGLISH

GRADE: VIII

PORTIONS FOR THE HALF-YEARLY EXAMINATION 2024-

TOTAL MARKS – 80 DATE: 17 - 9 - 2024

ALLOTTED TIME: 3 HOURS MAX. MARKS: 80

SECTION A – READING 20 Marks

UNSEEN PASSAGES

SECTION B WRITING – 15 Marks

1. Story Writing
2. Informal Letter
3. Diary Entry
4. Descriptive Paragraph

SECTION C GRAMMAR 20 Marks

1. Tenses
2. Subject Verb Agreement
3. Punctuation
4. Active and passive Voice
5. Types of sentences – Declarative, Imperative, Exclamatory and Interrogative
6. Question Tag
7. Finite and Non-finite Verbs
8. Defining and Non-defining Clauses
9. Integrated Grammar

SECTION D LITERATURE 25 Marks

1. Partition (Poem)
2. Partition
3. A Girl’s Incredible Journey from Syria
4. The Landlady
5. Mother Nature’s Treasure (Poem)
6. Sonam Wangchuk
7. The way through the woods (Poem)

LITERATURE READER

1. The Last Leaf

2. Rajam and Mani
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SYLLABUS
HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION (2024-2025)
GRADE VIII
SUBJECT: SCIENCE
DATE: 15-09-2024
CHAPTERS

Chapter 3: SYNTHETIC FIBRES AND PLASTICS

Chapter 5: COAL AND PETROLEUM
Chapter 7: CONSERVATION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS
Chapter 8: CELL- STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Chapter 11: FORCE AND PRESSURE
Chapter 12: FRICTION
Chapter 16: LIGHT
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PORTION FOR HALF YEARLY EXAM (2024-25)

GRADE: VIII
SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS
Max. Marks: 80 Date:19.09.2024

S.NO. CHAPTER
CHAPTER 1: RATIONAL
1 NUMBERS
CHAPTER 2: LINEAR
2 EQUATIONS IN ONE VARIABLE
CHAPTER 4: DATA HANDLING
3
CHAPTER 5: SQUARE AND
4 SQUARE ROOTS
CHAPTER 6: CUBES AND CUBE
5 ROOTS
CHAPTER 10: EXPONENTS
6 AND POWERS
 DPS-MODERN INDIAN SCHOOL, DOHA, QATAR
GRADE - VIII
HALF -YEARLY EXAMINATION (PORTION)
SUBJECT: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025
DATE: 22.09.2024

HISTORY:-
CH: 1 MODERN PERIOD IN INDIAN HISTORY – WHEN, WHERE AND HOW?
CH: 2 COLONIAL RULE IN INDIA
CH: 7 REVOLT OF 1857
*Map work

CIVICS:-
CH:1 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
CH: 2 SECULARISM AND THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION

GEOGRAPHY:-
CH 1: OUR RESOURCES
CH 2: LAND AND SOIL RESOURCES
CH3: WATER RESOURCES
*Map work