FORMAT FOR DOCUMENTING INVESTIGATORY PROJECT GRADE 11 and 12

1. COVER PAGE​ : ​Issued by the school for grade 12​; this will contain the
registration number, signatures of the principal, Concerned teacher and the
external examiner.Grade 11 students do not need this page.

2. TITLE PAGE​ ( Font style-Times New Roman,Font size- 27,All in Capital letters) :
(a) School name on the top, Bangalore, Year (all central aligned)
(b) School logo : width 4.5 cm X Length 9cm (central aligned)
(c) Biology Project ( central aligned)
(d) Title of the project (central aligned) e.g HUMORAL IMMUNITY
(e) Name of the student (right aligned)
(f) Grade (right aligned)

3. Page set up for the all the following headings​ : 1 inch margin to be left on all
sides, Heading/ subheadings central aligned and text left aligned.

4. Font​ : ​Headings​ - Font style -Times New Roman; Font size - 27; in Bold; Central
aligned.
​Subheadings​ - Font style- Times New Roman; Font size - 20; In Bold; Central
aligned.
​Rest of the Text ​- Font style - Calibri; Font size -14; Left aligned.

5. Scientific Names​ : Scientific names of plant or animal should be either

underlined or typed in italics. For example,​ Homo sapiens​ or ​Homo sapiens​.

6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT​ : Student will thank the Principal and teachers. For

example,‘ I would like to thank ​my principal Dr. Dakshayini Kanna and my
teachers Dr/Ms. Teacher’s name and Ms teacher’s name for their

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 exemplary guidance, monitoring and constant encouragement throughout
the course of this project’.

7. Index​ : Make a table with two columns. Content will list the headings from Aim
onwards till Bibliography and their corresponding page numbers. Index can be
central/Left aligned.

Content Page number

8. Aim​ : State the aim of the project. E.g. The aim of the this study is to understand
the effect of different chemicals on germination of legume seeds.

9. Introduction​ : Introduce the topic with a description of what, where, when and
how.

10. Material and Method​ : If the project includes experiments then this heading will
include materials used for the experiments such as name of the chemicals, paper
cups, seeds etc. A stepwise detail of the procedure for the experiments and
taking the readings should be mentioned.

11. Students who are not writing an experiment based project ​should​ ​omit ​material
and method heading. They ​should write​ ​Introduction and Discussion​ ​after Aim​.
Introduction and Aim​ will Include details of introducing the disease, types if any,
where does it occur, Statistics of occurrence in the world or India, Inflammation
during the disease course, symptoms, Diagnostic methods, Modes of treatment
and any other specific feature.​ Each part will be under a Subheading​ e.g.
Occurrence in the world, Inflammation observed, Diagnostic methods,
Symptoms, Subtypes etc. ​Please do not write a question e.g What is cancer,
How can we prevent cancer etc. as a subheading. This is a formal report
hence has to follow a format.

12. Observations :​ Students who are conducting experiments for their project will
include observation tables, graphs and pictures based on the experiments.
Observation Table can be made and filled in pencil or on computer while writing
the text. Graph to be made on graph sheets and pasted under this subheading or
on the back of the previous sheet.

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 13. Result​: Under this heading results obtained will be discussed. For example,
chemical A was shown to increase the time of germination of the seeds, whereas
chemical B was observed to shorten the time of generation of the seeds.

14. Conclusion​ : This will include a paragraph on summarizing your project/study.

Second paragraph should be on ​what the student learn​t from this
research/study and ​propose some future areas of research​ the student think
are important. .

15. Bibliography​ : List all the sources that have been used while doing the project
such as books and websites including those used for taking the supporting
pictures and diagrams.​This is to strictly avoid plagiarism.

16. Pictures​ : Pictures (black and white /coloured) can be taken from the websites
and pasted under appropriate subheadings to support the written text. These
should be legible and easy to understand​. If the student wants, then neat
labeled diagrams can be drawn in pencil.

17. The project should be of​ 20 pages​ including the bibliography and the pictures.

18. Project should be ​spiral bound ​with all the pages in the correct order.

19. To Summarise​, ​for students who include experiments in their project will use
following headings in this order only; Aim - Introduction - Material and Methods -
Observation - Result - Conclusion - Bibliography. ​For students who have just
theory based projects,​ following headings are to be included in this order only;
Aim - Introduction and Discussion - Conclusion - Bibliography.

Good Luck! hope the investigatory project becomes a fun and a learning exercise
and not a last minute burden.