Grade 8 Term End Examination (November 2023)

Subject Topic Type of Paper Total Duration

Marks (in Minutes)

● Understanding Fiction Paper 2 (Fiction) 50 60+10 mins

English ● Narrative Writing marks reading time
● Poetry
● Elements of Perspective Written Component 50 65 mins
● Types of Information marks
● Causes and Consequences
Global Perspectives ● Research Analysis
● Testing Claims
● Evaluate Strengths of an Argument

Geography: Weather & Climate Paper 1- History & Geography 40 60 mins

● Meaning and difference between weather & climate marks
● Factors affecting weather and climate
● Inclination of earth’s axis
● Instruments used to measure weather & climate
History: The Revolt of 1857
● Nature of the revolt
● Causes that led to the revolt of 1857- Political,
History & Geography
Socio-Religious, Economic, Military and Immediate
cause
● Important centres and leaders of the revolt
● The course of revolt
● The consequences of the revolt
● Legacy of the revolt
● Mark the important centres of the revolt on a political
map of India.
Numbers
● Approx and rounding off, Paper 1 ( without Calculator) 60 70 min
● Sig fig, connection with discrete and continuous data marks
● Squares & square roots (only prime factorization)
● Cubes and cube roots (only prime factorization)
Exponents
● Laws of Indices (positive & negative), rational Indices
● Standard form
Rational & Irrational Numbers
● Understand the difference between rational and
irrational numbers.
● Writing recurring decimals in p/q form
Mathematics
● Fractions, Decimals and Percentage
● Application of percentage,
● Reverse percentage,
● Profit & Loss Percentage,
● Simple & Compound Interest
Ratio Proportion
● Ratio Proportion and all its applications
Geometry
● Interior and exterior angle property of polygons,
● Triangle & Quadrilateral properties
● Pythagoras theorem

● Atomic Structure MCQ and structured 60 70 mins

● Periodic Table and Trends (general trends with focus Combined Paper for Physics, marks
on Group 1 and 7) Chemistry and Biology
● Photosynthesis, Transportation and Transpiration. (scientific calculators to be
Science Reproduction in Plants allowed)
● Force and Motion (Distance- Time graphs,
velocity-time graphs, and acceleration; effect of
density on floating and sinking of objects)
● Chemical Bonding
 Grade 8 Term End Examination (November 2023)
Subject Topic Type of Paper Total Duration
Marks (in Minutes)

● Home Life and School Life (Reflexive verbs & Time) Paper 1 - Listening 8 55 mins
● Household chores Paper 2 - Reading 20
● School Subjects and extra curricular activities Paper 3 - Writing 12
Paper 4 - Speaking (to be taken 10
Spanish as a Foreign ● Preterito Indefinido (Past tense)
prior the examination)
Language ● Travel & Holiday Total
● Recreational activities 40 + 10
● Regular verbs, Irregular verbs , Verbs like Gustar etc. marks
● Adverbs, connectors & prepositions.

● Home Life & school life (review) Paper 1 - Listening 8 55 mins

Paper 2 - Reading 20
● Pronominal Verbs & time (review)
Paper 3 - Writing 12
● Household Chores Paper 4 - Speaking (to be 10
● School Subjects & Extra-curriculars assessed prior to the
● Past tense (avoir & être) examination) Total-
French as a Foreign 50
● Travel & Holiday - Describing a past holiday
Language marks
● Modes of transport
● Recreational activities (Music, cinema, reading, Tv &
radio, sports, shopping & eating out)
● Prepositions used for places
● Regular & irregular verbs

● Reading comprehension Paper 1- Reading and writing 33 60 mins

Hindi as a second marks
● Note taking
language
● Magazine article writing
● Application based on Logic Gates Project Work (Collaborative 20 ---
Digital Literacy
Task) marks