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HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
SESSION: 2024-25
CLASS: XII
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“Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them." —Josie Bisset
Dear Parents,
Summer brings with it the ever smiling sun, fresh breeze, blooming flowers and of course, holidays.
Summer vacation is considered as one of the most important holidays for students and parents can
make the best use of this time period to enhance their ward's skills and help them adapt learning
new hobbies.
To ensure that the learning momentum continues beyond the classroom and to make the most of the
summer holidays in fostering continuous academic growth, the school is providing summer holiday
homework assignments as appended below.
Here are some guidelines for the holistic growth of your ward:
• Organize your holiday schedule efficiently, honing your time management skills.
• Keep educating yourself by reading newspapers daily and foster a deep bond with books.
• Cultivate an appreciation for nature by planting trees and nurturing them, finding joy in their
growth and beauty.
• Give the screen a rest, to prioritize mindful living and meaningful connections.
• Extend kindness to the impoverished through acts of generosity, teaching, or volunteering,
enriching society through your knowledge.
• Whenever you are idle, try to do something creative.
• There's no sleeping all day or staying up all night.
General Instructions:
• Compilation of work needs to be done as per the instruction given with the subject
homework.
• Revise all the work done till date in all the subjects.
ENGLISH
English Literature:
Write the summary of the chapter, The Last Lesson in 100-120 words in your English notebook.
Writing Skills
1. In the chapter Lost Spring, Mukesh had a dream to be a motor mechanic. Fast forward your life
after 20 years. Do you think you will be able to fulfil your dream that you have now? Pen it down
in the form of a letter to your friend telling him whether you have achieved your childhood dream
or not.
2. From newspapers and magazines, collect examples of the following and paste them in your
English regular notebook:
i) Six different examples of advertisements.
ii) Any three public notices.
ART INTEGRATED PROJECT
Prepare the project with reference to the given poem and chapter.
1. VALUE EDUCATION – I Care For You.
Granny's Talk- Students to visit their grandparents and help them recall their past, how they used
to spend their time, what they miss these days and how they feel when they stay alone. Write it in
120-150 words. (Poem- My Mother at Sixty Six)
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2. Students to conduct an online interview with a psychologist or a psychiatrist and prepare a case
based project on the recent modern day issues and the problems that the youth is facing today.
(Chapter: The Third Level)
3. Recently you visited your friend in Arunachal Pradesh/Meghalaya. You were fascinated by the
beauty of that place and how the people there take care of their environment. Write a letter to
your friend who lives in a metro city, telling him/her what difference you see in your city and the
place you visited.
PSYCHOLOGY
Case Profile -Each child is required to prepare a case study on basis of the guidelines already shared
in the class. The main objective of preparing a case profile is to understand the individual in totality.
You can choose an individual who has any special needs like learning disability, autism or those
with interpersonal social problems i.e. poor body image, obesity, temper tantrums, substance abuse,
not getting along with peers, withdrawn or someone who is gifted. This is part of your Psychology
Practical Assessment.
Age group- Choose a child of 8-18 years of age only.
SUGGESTED FORMAT FOR PREPARING A CASE PROFILE
• Contents
• Certificate
• Acknowledgement
• What is a case study?
• Preliminary information
• Family tree
• Birth history
• Information about socioeconomic status consisting of information about mother's / father's
education and occupation, number of members in the family-brothers, sisters and their birth order
• Information about physical health, physical characteristics.
• Why did you choose your subject?
• How did you approach your subject?
• How did you make rapport with your subject?
• Methods used
• Childhood history Adolescent stage
• Relationships with father, mother, sibling, friends, teacher (under separate headings
• Psychometric testing: Any other information
NOTE: CASE PROFILE SHOULD BE HAND WRITTEN
2. Practical File-Write the history of Psychological testing and complete the basic concepts of
RSPM
Note: Revise for Periodic Test-I syllabus.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
2. Attempt all questions related to unit 1 and unit 2 from last 5 years‟ sample papers.
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3. Complete your exceptional file handling ppt shared in IVPS app.
General instruction:
Write answers to questions 2 & 3 in notebook and project work in soft copy.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Following work needs to be done in class notebook.
Complete your all notes of chapter 1.
You are organizing a Delhi State Athletic Meet in your school; make a list of events which can be
organized easily in Indus Valley Public School, Noida. Explain the duties of various required
committees on the basis of pre, during and post responsibilities.
What is league tournament? Draw a fixture of 9 teams on the basis of league tournament using
cyclic method and tabular method. Explain the British method to declare the winner.
Describe all the functions of sports management (POSDCO).
What are knock-out tournaments? Draw a fixture of 25 teams on the basis of knock-out
tournament with 4 teams special seeding. Explain the venue also of all matches.
Make a list of method to draw the fixtures of knock-out, league and combination tournament and
explain all the methods in detail.
Enlist all the Olympic Games and Asian Games with its venues.
Give a brief description of “Neeraj Chopra, M S Dhoni and P V Sindhu”. Also write their
achievements.
PAINTING
Complete the following paintings on A-3 size paper using any medium of colors:
Indian Folk Art*
Create two paintings inspired by Indian folk art styles such as Warli, Madhubani, etc.
Family Functions
Create one painting depicting family functions such as a birthday celebration or other gatherings.
Nature
Create two paintings showcasing different aspects of nature.
Still Life/Object Study
Create one painting focusing on still life or object studies.
Be creative and put in your best effort. Enjoy the process of creating your artwork!
Best regards,
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PHYSICS
Q1. Prepare a report on any one of the following topics:
• The topic chosen should be from any of the topics from XII class curriculum. Some of them are
listed below:
(i) Electromagnetic Induction (ii) Diffraction of light
(iii) Interference of light (iv) Polarisation of light using two Polaroid
(v) Light Dependent Resistor (vi) Electroscope
(vii) Eddy currents (viii) Transformer
(ix) Logic gates (x) Rectifier
(xi) Photo diode
General Guidelines:
• You can also choose any one from the suggested investigatory projects recommended by the
CBSE.
• Report should be neat, hand written on A4 sized sheets, should not be less than 10pages in any
case and should be according to the format mentioned below.
Name of the Topic selected
Detailed Theory of the topic
Related diagrams
Applications in various fields (list good number of applications of the topic chosen and explain any
two of them in detail .You can use pictures also to demonstrate applications)
Bibliography (books referred or any online material used)
Cover page must be designed by the student which should reflect the Topic of the report, Name,
Class, Section and Roll no. and should be typed.
Q2. Prepare your PHYSICS BOARD PRACTICAL FILE on the topics given in the link below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ui1aFN7Ej9HTX9z2_063oAdJvWK0VDvi/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xL_df-1DhW7Yz-2IhBbIMjxD9NhWJp4I/view?usp=drivesdk
Note:
Revise for Periodic Test-I.
Physics Board Practical Evaluation Scheme to be followed:
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CHEMISTRY
Q1. Make a project from the syllabus provided by CBSE:
• Study of the presence of oxalate ions in guava fruit at different stages of ripening. (Roll no .1, 9,
17, 25, 33)
• Study of quantity of casein present in different samples of milk. (Roll no. 2, 10, 18, 26, 34)
• Preparation of soybean milk and its comparison with the natural milk with respect to curd
formation, Effect of temperature, etc. (Roll no. 3, 11, 19, 27)
• Study of the effect of Potassium Bisulphate as food preservative under various conditions
(temperature, Concentration, time, etc.) (Roll no.4, 12, 20, 28)
• Study of digestion of starch by salivary amylase and effect of pH and temperature on it. (Roll no.
5, 13, 21, 29)
• Comparative study of the rate of fermentation of following materials: wheat flour, gram flour,
potato juice, carrot juice, etc. (Roll no. 6, 14, 22, 30)
• Extraction of essential oils present in Saunf (aniseed), Ajwain (carum), Illaichi (cardamom).
(Roll no. 7, 15, 23, 31)
• Study of common food adulterants in fat, oil, butter, sugar, turmeric power, chilli powder and
pepper. (Roll no. Roll no. 8, 16, 24, 32)
Note: Any other investigatory project, which involves about 10 periods of work, can be chosen
with the approval of teacher.
Q2. Write the experiments in practical file from the syllabus provided by CBSE for session 2024-25
(Experiment pdf will be shared)
Q3. Do the questions of chapter- Haloalkanes and Haloarenes and Chapter – Alcohols, Phenols and
ethers from given link:-
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:53d37909-1bc1-4ee0-bc49-aa38da76972e
Note:
Revise for Periodic Test-I.
The project and practical given in the holiday home work is going to be assessed
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for the Board’s Practical Assessment. The marks for the same will be given as
follows:
BIOLOGY
Specification:
1. Project Work
2. Practical Work
3. Revision for Periodic Test-I
1. PROJECT WORK
Materials /Resources Required:
One file for Project, Writing & Drawing Materials, Internet & Library support, Covering
Material, Reference Books, Newsprints, Photographs, Graphs where applicable.
Instructions /Guidelines:
• Check the project topic assigned individually by your teacher in the class and uploaded on
School App.
• Review the literature available & organize your writing material. Write in your own
handwriting in the file; computer print-outs are not allowed.
• Sub-headings: Title, Acknowledgement, Content page, Introduction, Actual Presentation /
Content, Observation (if applicable), Case study (if applicable), Conclusion, Bibliography.
• Add pictures, photographs, press-release, wherever necessary.
• Write the project title, your name, name of the School & year. Excessive decoration is not
required. Projects should be handwritten by the candidate.
• Written pages should not exceed 15-20 pages. Project should be done in a file. Cover it with
yellow chart paper and plastic transparent sheet.
2. PRACTICAL WORK: Draw, label and write about the following experiments in the practical
file:
Exp-1: Prepare a temporary mount to observe pollen germination.
Exp-2: Pollen germination on stigma through a permanent slide or scanning electron micrograph.
Exp-3: Flowers adapted to pollination by different agencies (wind, insects, and birds).
Exp-4: Controlled pollination - emasculation, tagging and bagging.
Exp-5: Identification of stages of gamete development, i.e., T.S. of testis and T.S. of ovary
through permanent slides (from grasshopper/mice).
Exp-6: T.S. of blastula through permanent slides (Mammalian).
APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Note:
Revise for Periodic Test-I.
The project given in the holiday home work is going to be assessed for the
Board’s Practical Assessment.
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MATHEMATICS
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Note: Revise for Periodic Test-I syllabus.
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ECONOMICS
Solve the following questions:
NATIONAL INCOME AND RELATED AGGREGATES (3- 4 Mark Questions)
1. Distinguish between GDPmp and GNP FC
2. Distinguish between nominal GNP and real GNP
3. What are the precautions to be taken while calculating national income through product
method (value added method)
4. Precautions to be taken while calculating national income through income method.
5. Precautions to be taken while calculations N.I under expenditure method.
6. Write down the limitations of using GDP as an index of welfare of a country
7. What is double counting? How can it be avoided?
8. If the Real GDP is 400 and Nominal GDP is 450, calculate the Price Index (base = 100).
9. If the Real GDP is 500 and Price Index (base = 100) is 125, calculate the Nominal GDP.
10. If the Nominal GDP is 600 and Price Index (base = 100) is 120, calculate the Real GDP.
11. Explain the circular flow of income.
ACCOUNTANCY
Prepare for your Periodic test and solve the following questions in a new assignment register.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gtzDh7tY56bxQa8B22cP9dElRfgMcyt5
BUSINESS STUDIES
You are required to make only ONE project from the selected unit.
I. Project One: Elements of Business Environment any one element of the following:
Changes witnessed over the last few years on mode of packaging and its economic impact.
The teacher may guide the students to identify the following changes:
a) The changes in transportation of fruits and vegetables such as cardboard crates being used
in place of wooden crates, etc. Reasons for above changes.
b) Milk being supplied in glass bottles, later in plastic bags and now in tetra-pack and
through vending machines.
c) Plastic furniture [doors and stools] gaining preference over wooden furniture.
d) The origin of cardboard and the various stages of changes and growth.
e) Brown paper bags packing to recycled paper bags to plastic bags and cloth bags.
f) Re use of packaging [bottles, jars and tins] to attract customers for their products.
g) The concept of pyramid packaging for milk.
h) Cost being borne by the consumer/manufacturer.
i) Packaging used as means of advertisements.
2. Changing role of the women in the past 25 years relating to joint families, nuclear families,
women as a bread earner of the family, changes in the requirement trend of mixers, washing
machines, micro wave and standard of living.
3. The changes in the pattern of import and export of different Products.
4. The trend in the changing interest rates and their effect on savings.
5. A study on child labour laws, its implementation and consequences.
6. The state of „anti plastic campaign,‟ the law, its effects and implementation.
7. The laws of mining /setting up of industries, rules and regulations, licences required for running
that business.
8. Social factors affecting acceptance and rejection of an identified product. (Dish washer, Atta
maker, etc)
9. What has the effect of change in environment on the types of goods and services? Can take
examples like:
a) Washing machines, micro waves, mixers and grinder.
b) Need for crèche, day care centre for young and old.
c) Ready to eat food, eating food outside, and tiffin centres.
10. Change in the man-machine ratio with technological advances resulting in change of cost
structure.
11. Effect of changes in technological environment on the behaviour of employee.
II. Project Two: Principles of Management
You are required to visit any one of the following:
1. A departmental store.
2. An Industrial unit.
3. A fast food outlet.
They are required to observe the application of the general Principles of managementadvocated
by Fayol.
Fayol‟s principles
1. Division of work.
2. Unity of command.
3. Unity of direction.
4. Scalar chain
5. Espirit de corps
6. Fair remuneration to all.
7. Order.
8. Equity.
9. Discipline
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10. Subordination of individual interest to general interest.
11. Initiative.
12. Centralisation and decentralisation.
13. Stability of tenure.
14. Authority and Responsibility
OR
They may enquire into the application of scientific management techniques by F.W.Taylor
in the unit visited.
Scientific techniques of management.
1. Functional foremanship.
2. Standardisation and simplification of work.
3. Method study.
4. Motion Study.
5. Time Study.
6. Fatigue Study
7. Differential piece rate plan.
(i) The observations could be on the basis of
The different stages of division of work resulting to specialisation.
Following instructions and accountability of subordinates to higher authorities.
Visibility of order and equity in the unit.
Balance of authority and responsibility.
Communication levels and pattern in the organisation.
Methods and techniques followed by the organisation for unity of direction and
coordination amongst all.
Methods of wage payments followed. The arrangements of fatigue study.
Derivation of time study.
Derivation and advantages of method study.
Organisational chart of functional foremanship.
Any other identified in the organisation
(ii) It is advised that students should be motivated to pick up different areas of visit. As
presentations of different areas in the class would help in better understanding to the
other students.
(iii) The students may be encouraged to develop worksheets. Teachers should help students
to prepare observation tools to be used for undertaking the project.
Examples; worksheets, questionnaire, interviews and organisational chart etc.
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inculcate the habit of watching business channels, reading businessjournals/newspapers and
seeking information from their elders.
You are expected to:
a) Develop a brief report on History of Stock Exchanges in India. (your country)
b) Prepare a list of at least 25 companies listed on a Stock Exchange.
c) To make an imaginary portfolio totalling a sum of Rs. 50,000 equally in any of the 5
companies of their choice listed above over a period of twenty working days.
You may be required to report the prices of the stocks on daily basis and present it
diagrammatically on the graph paper.
They will understand the weekly holidays and the holidays under the Negotiable Instruments
Act.
They will also come across with terms like closing prices, opening prices, etc.
During this period of recording students are supposed to distinctively recordthe daily and
starting and closing prices of the week other days under the negotiable instrument act so that
they acquire knowledge about closing and opening prices.
The students may conclude by identifying the causes in the fluctuations ofprices. Normally it
would be related to the front page news of the a business journal, for example,
Change of seasons.
Festivals.
Spread of epidemic.
Strikes and accidents
Natural and human disasters.
Political environment.
Lack of faith in the government policies.
Impact of changes in government policies for specific industry.
International events.
Contract and treaties at the international scene.
Relations with the neighbouring countries.
Crisis in developed countries, etc.
You are expected to find the value of their investments and accordinglyrearrange their portfolio. The
project work should cover the following aspects;
1. Graphical presentation of the share prices of different companies on different dates.
2. Change in market value of shares due to change of seasons, festivals, natural and human
disasters.
3. Change in market value of shares due to change in political environment/ policies of various
countries/crisis in developed countries or any other reasons
4. Identify the top ten companies out of the 25 selected on the basis of their market value of shares.
It does not matter if they have made profits or losses.
Identify one product/service from the above which the students may like to
manufacture/provide [pre-assumption].
Now the students are required to make a project on the identified product/servicekeeping
in mind the following:
1. Why have they selected this product/service?
2. Find out „5‟ competitive brands that exist in the market.
3. What permission and licences would be required to make the product?
4. What are your competitors Unique Selling Proposition.[U.S.P.]?
5. Does your product have any range give details?
6. What is the name of your product?
7. Enlist its features.
8. Draw the „Label‟ of your product.
9. Draw a logo for your product.
10. Draft a tag line.
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11. What is the selling price of your competitor‟s product?
(i) Selling price to consumer
(ii) Selling price to retailer
(iii) Selling price to wholesaler
What is the profit margin in percentage to the
Manufacturer.
Wholesaler.
Retailer.
HISTORY
1. Make a project on the topics given below on chart paper. Project must include cutouts of
timelines, collage of architecture and map showing important cities.
1. Indus Valley Civilization
2. Mauryan Empire
3.Gupta Empire
4.Teaching of Buddha
5.Teaching of Jaina
NOTE:
The Project should be prepared in a file.
The project should be neat and clean.
The pages used in preparing this should be only lined. (No floral printed paper should be used).
The project should be done under proper headings.
The project should be covered in black colour.
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3. Make a model representing cultural heritage of India and prepare a presentation to represent the
model with chart and relevant pictures.
Instructions
Temples and religious sites:
1. Vitthala Temple
2. Ram Mandir
3. Maha bodhi Temple
4. Konark Temple
Note:
Revise for Periodic Test-I.
The project given in the holiday home work is going to be assessed for the
Board’s Practical Assessment.
GEOGRAPHY
Mark and label the following on an outline world map:
a. Major areas of subsistence gathering
b. Major areas of nomadic herding of the world
c. Major areas of commercial livestock rearing
d. Major areas of extensive commercial grain faming
e. Major areas of mixed farming of the World
On an outline map of the world mark and label the following major airports of each
continent:
a. Asia: Tokyo, Beijing, Mumbai, Jeddah, Aden
b. Africa: Johannesburg & Nairobi.
c. Europe: Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome
d. North America: Chicago, New Orleans, Mexico City
e. South America: Buenos Aires, Santiago
f. Australia: Darwin and Wellington
Mark and label the following major sea ports of the world:
a. Europe: North Cape, London, Hamburg
b. North America: Vancouver, San Francisco, New Orleans
c. South America: Rio De Janeiro, Colon, Valparaiso Africa: Suez and Cape Town
d. Asia: Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Aden, Karachi, Kolkata
e. Australia: Perth, Sydney, Melbourne
Inland waterways:
Suez Canal, Panama Canal, Rhine waterways and St. Lawrence Seaways
On political map of India the students will mark and label three largest producing
states of Rice, Wheat, Jowar, Pulses, Oilseeds, Cotton, Jute, Sugarcane, Tea and Coffee.
Mark and label the major seaports and airports on an outline map of India.
a) Major Seaports: Kandla, Mumbai, Marmagao, Kochi, Mangalore, Tuticorin, Chennai,
Vishakhapatnam, Paradwip, Haldia
b) International Airports: Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati,
Delhi, Amritsar, Thiruvananthapuram & Hyderabad.
• Collect the data regarding the population of the above mentioned states and present them by
using different geographical techniques.
a) Population distribution – dot map
b) Sex ratio – bar graph
c) Occupational structure – pie chart
Note: Revise for Periodic Test-I syllabus.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Revise Chapter-1, 2 3 and 4 of Politics in India since Independence and prepare one source based
question and 5 MCQs from each chapter in political science register.
• Prepare a timeline of creation of states in India and mark them on the outline political map of
India.
• Go through both textbooks of Political Science, select a topic from your syllabus for the project
work and discuss with me. (Last date for the selecting the topic is 15 June). Find relevant materials
from books, magazines, newspaper and the internet. Prepare project synopsis and submit it for the
review after the summer vacation.
• Watch news on television and prepare a handmade news magazine showcasing important events of
the world. Besides written content the magazine should contain pictures, cartoon, maps and
graphs.
• Prepare a debate on the following topic for youth Parliament:
Freedom of speech and expression in India, with focus on impact of social media censorship and
measures to uphold democratic values.
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