English
I. English composition:
(a) Varieties of construction
(b) Idiomatic usage.
(c) Expansion of outlines.
(d) Drafting of letters. Reports and Memoranda.
(e) Brief Essay on a subject of common interest.
(f) Precis.
2. Comprehension and use of English:
(a) Essential Grammar with the following items:
The basic verb forms. Pronouns and the determinatives. the common prepositions,
the common conjunctions, time expression, basic sentence patterns, parts of
speech.
(b) Simple letter-writing.
(c) Paragraph writing.
(d) Unseen passages of simple modern prose of
about 100 words.
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Botany
1. (i)
Inflorescence. (ii) Flower. (iii) Fruits. (iv) Dispersal.
2. Floral characters and economic importance of
families: Ranuculaceae, Cruciferae, Malvaceae, Leguminosae, Reosaceae, Solanaceae,
Compositae, Liliacease, Graminea and Cucurbitaceae .
3. Cytology: Plant cell as a unit of structure
and function of protoplasm its organic and inorganic constituents, structure,
physical and chemical properties. Microscopic and submicroscopic structure of
a green plant cell.
4. Anatomy of plant tissue: Classification functions
and structure of permanent tissues. concepts of meristem.
5. Life history of Angiosperms in detail.
6. Elements of genetics.
7. (i) Elementary physiology: Diffusion,
transpiration, Respiration,
Photosynthesis, osmosis and "Growth and movement" .
(ii} Ecology: Its meaning
and different factors:
8. Structure and reproduction of the following
plants:
Algae: Spirogyra and Ulothrix
Fungi: Rhizopus, yeast and Penicillium.
Bacteria: A general Account.
Bryophytes : Riccia and funaria (Excluding details of development) .
Ptoridophytes: Fern (Excluding anatomy and details of development) .
Gymnosperms: Cycas and Pinus ( A general account)
9. Bolds, classification of the plant Kingdom.
10. Economic importance of Algae, Fungi, Bacteria
and Virus.
Zoology
1. Zoology: Its definition and scope.
Classification of animals.
2. Protoplasm: Its nature, composition and properties.
3. Ultra structure of animals cells, Cytoplasmic
organnelles, their structure and
function; cell division; mitosis
and meiosis.
4. Elementary genetics: Variations, heredity,
Mendal's Laws of inheritance.
5. Brief history of the idea of Organic Evolution
as proposed by Lamark, Darwin
and De Vries, Evidences of
Evolution.
6. Morphology, life history and economic or biomedical
importance of the
following: Amoeba proteus,
Entamoeba histolytica, Paramecium, trypanosma,
Plasmodium, Hydra, Fasciola
hepatica, Taenia solium, Ascaris lubricoides,
pheretima and Periplaneta amerlcana.
7. An elementary knowledge of the common nematode
parasites of man, viz. , Pin
worms, Hook worm and the Filaria
Worms .
8. Arthropodes as vectors of communicable diseases.
9. Type study of the following animals with particular
reference to their anatomy
and physiology .
(i) Frog (ii) Rabbit
10. Animal Associations. Commpensalism, Symbiosis,
Parasitism, Predation.
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Physics
1. Mechanism
of properties of matter
2. Heat
3. Light
4. Sound
5. Magnetism
6. Electricity
7. Electronics
8. Modem Physics
Chemistry
A. General Chemistry
Dalton atomic theory, atoms and molecules. Laws of chemical combinations, Gaseous
Laws of diffusions, Avagardo's hypothesis. Atomic, equivalent and molecular
weights. Types of chemical action, catalysis, theory of ionization and electrolysis.
Structure of atom and periodic classification of elements. Variation of the
properties of atom in the periodic table, oxidation-reduction reactions, oxidation
number .
B. Inorganic Chemistry
1. Preparation (including manufacture, properties
and uses of the following:
Ozone, hydrogen peroxide, ammonia, nitric acid,
chlorine, hydrogen sulphide,
sulphur dioxide, sulphuric acid.
2. Allotrophy of carbon and phosphorus
3. Hard and soft water
4. Fixation of nitrogen
5. Metallurgy, types of operations and furnaces.
Extraction of Fe, Cu, Xn, Ag, Sn, Al, Pb, Na,
Hg, and their alloys.
6. Position in the periodic table, general characteristics,
preparation and
properties of the following:
7. Halogen acids.
8. Oxides and Oxy acids of N, P and Cl.
9. Study of Artificial manures, photography, glass,
cement, bleaching powder, plaster of paris, Lunar caustic, potassium permanganate,
potassium dichromate, sodium thiosulphate, phosphine. Lead carbonate, Acetate
and Oxides, A1ums, Potassium Ferro and ferricynanides, caustic soda and sodium
Carbonate, phosphorus pentoxide and pentachloride.
C. Organic Chemistry
1. Nature of covalent bond, Organic redicles, ions and bases, indnetive, electromeric
and resonance effects, electrophillic and nucleophillic reagents
isomerism.
2. Preparation and functional group properties of the following cases of compounds
with emphasis on points noted against each of them:
(i) Alknoes: (free redical substitution),
alkanes (electrophillic addition)
Markownikoffs addition,
peroxide effect alkynes substitution reaction.
(ii) Alcohols : Classification, distinction,
fermentation and wood distillation.
(iii) Alkylhalides: Reactivity, nucleophilic substitution
and synthetic uses,
heloform-reaction.
(iv) Carbonyle compounds: Nucleophilic addition.
Polymerisation and
condensation.
(v) Ethers basic nature Ziesel's estimation.
(vi) Carboxylic acid: Molecular associations,
functional derivatives, abnormal
reaction of formic
acid, simple, substitute acid, Oxalic acid.
(vii) Amines: Classification, basic, nature, distinction
area.
3. Aromatic Compound: study of benzene (resonance), toluene, phenol conversion
of
benzene into benzyl alcohol, benzonic and salicylic
acid, pyridine.
4. Glycerol: Oils and fats.
5. Isolation of glucose, fructose, tartaric and citric acids.
