Syllabus

Admission Test Syllabus for Science Base School

General Information

Parents seeking admission of their children must fill in Registration Form for each child.
Registration forms are available at all schools.
Registration starts in March and September every year.
They must also obtain a copy of school prospectus.
All students must clear the admission test to obtain admission in school.
The admission test is prepared in accordance with the level of the student.
Once the admission is approved by the Principal, necessary fee chalan is issued.

Admission will be confirmed on deposit of fee as well as receipt of the following:

For Fresh Admission

Parent’s / Guardian’s CNIC Copy
Birth Certificate or Form-B of the Child
Two Passport sized latest photographs of the student

For Migrating Students

Parent’s / Guardian’s CNIC Copy
Two Passport sized latest photographs of the student
School Leaving Certificate
Last Progress Report

Fee

Once the admission is confirmed by the Principal, a non-refundable admission fee will be charged for each student. Monthly Tuition fee will be charged according to area, class level and other relevant factors. Fee may be varied from branch to branch due to the services provided by the concerned branch. Parents should contact concerned branch for exact fees structure. If the dues are not paid by the due date, name of the student will be struck off from the school rolls and readmission will be administered. The school will formally intimate the parents that their child’s name has been struck off from the school rolls on non-payment of dues by the due date.

Admission Test

All students must clear the admission test to obtain admission in school. The admission test is prepared in accordance with the level of the student.

Pre-Nursery

We do not conduct an admission test for the Playgroup class. The following Playgroup syllabus is provided for parents’ information, outlining what we teach in Playgroup.

ENGLISH

Recognition of capital letters A – Z
Oral A – Z
Writing A – Z
Phonics A – Z
Picture recognition A – Z
Look and match A – J

MATHEMATICS

Recognition of numbers 0 – 10
Writing 0 – 50
Count and write 0 – 10

Shapes

Circle, square, triangle, rectangle
Recognition
Oral
Writing
Look and match

Nursery

ENGLISH

Capital alphabets A – Z
Small alphabets a – z
Oral A – Z
Phonics A – Z
Picture recognition A – Z
Dictation of letter A a – Z z
Match the letters with picture A a – Z z
Write the first letter A a – Z z

MATHEMATICS

Oral counting 0 – 50
Written 0 – 50
Missing numbers 0 – 50
Dictation 0 – 50

Shapes

Triangle, circle, rectangle, star, heart, oval, half circle, diamond, square

ENGLISH

Capital and small alphabets A a – Z z
Cursive writing small a – z
Dictation words (Three letters e.g. box, bag)
Phonics a – z
say of “a” and “an”
Complete the sentences
Reading + phonics of three letters words (E.g. dog, bun, etc.)

MATHEMATICS

Oral counting 0 – 100.
Writing 0 – 100
Missing number 0 – 100
What comes after, between and before 0 – 100
Backward counting 100 – 0
Concept of Addition 0 – 10
Recognition of shapes (circle, heart, triangle, rectangle, oblong, oval, diamond, star, square, cube, cylinder, crescent, cuboids)
Count and write how many

ENGLISH

Word building (at least 3 words with each letter) a – z
Make simple/meaningful sentences
Cursive writing A a – Z z
Picture comprehension/comprehension
Guided writing e.g. My cat, My chair, Myself
My school, My classroom (at least 10 lines)
Pick up Noun, Verb, Adjective
Vowels and rhyming words
Singular Plural, Masculine Feminine, Words Opposites
Days of the week, Months of the year, birds,
animals, seasons, vegetables, fruits name
Dictation words (6,7 letters word e.g. horse, table etc)
Reading of simple paragraph or sentences

MATHEMATICS

2 – 5 times tables
2 – 3 times dodging tables
Counting in words one – twenty

Shapes

Circle, half circle, star, cube, cuboid, rectangle, triangle, sphere, cylinder, oval, oblong, crescent

Counting 1 –– 200

Beginning addition: Addition with number 1 – 100
Beginning subtraction: Subtraction with number 1 – 10
Adding and Subtracting with 0
Adding with the number line: vertical notation.
Subtracting with the number line: vertical notation
Making 10
Subtracting from 10

MATHEMATICS

2 – times tables
Comparisons
Shapes & their name
Addition & subtraction with “0” zero.
Concept of greater “>” & lesser “<“
Word problem (Numbers to 20) Addition & Subtraction
Number play: Adding 3 numbers
Numbers to 90: Counting in tens
Place value: Numbers 20 – 99
Counting in words: One to hundred
Addition: Adding T U to T U (No changing)
Using multiples of 2,3,4,5,10
Division: Equal shares, repeated, subtraction equal group, using the number
Money: Introducing coins and paper money
simple sums with coins and paper money

ENGLISH

Definition & examples of noun, verb, adjective, pronoun & preposition
3 – forms of verb
Punctuation
Genders / Numbers
Opposites
Creative writing
Use of do/does/has/have/was/were/did
Jumble up words
Guided writing
Letter writing
Comprehension
Dictations words
Reading of passage, stories etc

Mathematics

Whole Numbers

Writing number name up to 100
Recognition of numerals up to 500
Place value: units & tens up to 400 by using concrete material & pictures.
Adding T U to T U + H T U to H T U + word problem
Subtraction T U from T U + H T U from H T U + word problem
Add & Subtract by m & cm , Kg & g , l & ml
Multiplication facts with changing units & tens, & commutative property.
Linking the concepts multiplication & division facts.
Long division, word problem.

Shapes

Edge, vertex, cube, cylinder, cone, plane & curved faces.

Fractions

Introduction of half & quarter & symbol ½ and ¼.
Fractions associated with given shapes.
Coloring the portions of the shapes showing fractions.

Time

Reading & telling time ___x___ O’ clock
Names of the days of the week: 1 week = 7 days
Names of months (Solar Calendar)

Money

Introduction of currency notes ––––
Rs. 10 Rs. 20 Rs. 50 Rs. 100
Rs. 500 Rs. 1000 & coins Rs. 1 & Rs. 2

Shopping

To buy & sell by the right selection of money

English

Reading

Oxford Modern English 2
Short fairy tales

Writing

Basic vocabulary & correct spellings
Writing meaningful sentences with given words.
Writing a short description on a given topic.

Comprehension

To interpret a picture or description
Fill in spaces with suitable words.
Giving answers after analyzing and writing.
To judge if a statement is true or false.

Grammar

Noun, Verb, Adjective, Pronoun, Apostrophe, Preposition, Possessive Pronoun, Punctuation adding full stop, Comma, Question mark, Capital letters, Inverted commas, Present & past simple and continuous (affirmative, negative, interrogative)

MATHEMATICS

Whole Numbers

Reading and writing numbers up to 400.
Writing number names up to 400.
Completing number sequences.
Assigning number (before –between – after)
Greater and less than (use of symbols > , <)
Place value up to 999

Addition

4 – digit numbers.
Adding more than two numbers (without & with exchange by using concrete & pictures)
Horizontal & vertical addition
Word problems

Subtraction

4 – digit number
Changing with zero in the U, T and H.
Horizontal and vertical subtraction
Word problems (without & with exchange by using concrete & pictures)

Multiplication

T U and H T U multiplied by U
Multiplying three numbers
Multiplying by 10
Vertical form multiplying by 100
Word problems (by using concrete, pictures & tables)

Shopping

The four operations (Addition, Subtraction , Multiplication , Division)
Making bills

Fractions

Proper fractions with denominators up to 1/10 by showing coloured parts of pictures
Recognition of terms such as halves, thirds, quarters (fourth) ——-.

Shapes

Concept of points, lines & line segments
Introduction of parallel lines.
Knowledge about plane shapes
Shapes (their properties and perimeter)

Time

Telling and reading the proper time
1-day = 24-hours, 1-week = 7-days, 1-year = 12 months

ENGLISH

Reading

Oxford Modern Eng-3
Reading of simple fairy tales

Writing

Basic vocabulary, story spelling, Dictation
Writing meaningful sentences of given phrases
Writing a description on a given topic
Letter writing, Application writing

Comprehension

To understand and analyse a passage
Given answers about it
Judging if a statement is true or false.
To analyse a picture and solving of given work sheet.

Grammar

Parts of speech, punctuation:
Full stop, commas, question marks, capital letters, inverted commas, singular & plural, word/opposite, synonyms
Jumbled word/sentences, syllables

MATHEMATICS

Decimal Numeration System

Place value up to 9999
How to write a number in words and numerals up to 9999
Completing sequence of numbers
Addition
Subtraction up to 9999
Word problems of addition & subtraction
Multiplication Table 2 – 12
Division with bigger numbers

Fraction

Concept of the terms numerator, denominator, like & unlike fractions, proper & improper & mixed fractions
Concept of equivalent fractions.

Measurement

Concept of length and weight and their conversions from m to cm & kg to g.

Geometry

Introduction of solid and hollow shapes, sphere, cylinder, cone, cube & cuboid, Flat & non flat surface.
Introduction of rays and lines
Measurement of segments
Introduction of the concept of perimeter

Time

Concept of a.m. & p.m.
Leap year, Months & hours
Word problems

ENGLISH

Reading

Oxford Modern Eng. 4
Story books

Writing

Basic vocabulary, Dictation, writing meaningful sentence with given idioms and phrases
Letter writing, Application writing, Invitation writing
Writing a simple story on given topic (imagination, description, writing)

Comprehension Skills

Interpretation of a picture or description, analyzing and reasoning about meaning of tent, perception skills.
Picture composition
Complete the story with a suitable title

Grammar

Parts of speech, Articles, Singular plural, Compound words, Prefixes, Suffixes, Antonyms, Synonyms, Simile, Transitive & Intransitive verb, Direct and indirect
Present, past & Future simple & continuous (affirmative, negative & interrogative)

MATHEMATICS

Decimal Numeration System

Writing and reading numbers in words and figures from 5 digits to 8 digits
To find place value of digits in the numeral representation of a number up to 8 digits.
Comparing and placing in order, (whole number) i.e. ascending and descending order up to millions
Expanded form and standard form of writing natural numbers
Interpretation of 6 and 7 digit numbers

Subtraction

Addition of whole numbers
Subtraction of whole numbers
Multiplication of whole number. In multiplication, the multiplier will be a 2 digit number and multiplicand a 5 digit number.
Distributive property of multiplication over addition & subtraction.
Associative properties of addition and multiplication.
Division, when the divisor is a 2 digit number. Dividend up to 999999
Mixed operations on whole numbers with the use of brackets (one bracket and 2 operations)

Rounding off (Introduction)

Rounding off a whole number to the nearest 10
To the nearest 100
To the nearest 1000

Shapes and Measures

Concept and basic knowledge of a point a line, a segment, a ray
Concept and definition of angle
Measurement of angles
Classification of angles (acute, obtuse, right, straight, reflex)
Sum of measures of the angles of a triangle. To find measure of an unknown angle of a triangle

Scalene, Isosceles, Equilateral
Acute Angled Triangle, Right Angled Triangle and Obtuse Angled Triangle

Fractions (Common and Decimal)
Reduction of common fractions to the simplest form
Further work on equivalent fractions
Comparison of common fractions
Addition and subtraction of:

Like common fractions (harder problems)
Unlike common fractions

Multiplication of fractions (All cases)
Division of fractions (All cases)
Introduction of decimal fractions
Reading numbers involving decimal points
Place values of digits on the right of the decimal point up to 100ths
Comparison of decimal fractions
Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division of decimal fractions

Area and perimeter

Perimeter of triangular and quadrilateral regions
Introduction of the term area
Finding areas of rectangular and square regions with standard unit (cm2)
Word problems on area/perimeter

Volume and Capacity

Introduction of the concept of volume
Finding the volume of cubes and cuboids by using concrete material.
Introduction of m3, cm3, mm3
Concept of capacity and finding capacities of containers by using standard units.
Introduction of the terms litres and millilitres.
Word problems on volume and capacity.

ENGLISH

Reading Oxford Modern Eng 5, Short stories, novel

Writing Skills

Write story/letter report a visit or experience; summarise a text; composition/story writing (narrative, descriptive, imaginative)

Comprehension

Analysing and reasoning about meaning of text, perception skills

Grammar

Parts of speech
Kinds of noun
Subject
Predicate
Contraction
Antonyms
Synonyms
Homonyms
Degrees of adjectives
Changing present tense to past tens
Direct & indirect
Active voice and passive voice

SCIENCE

Ourselves

The brain
Teeth
Digestion
Food

Living things

Life cycle

Material & matter

Elements
Water

Sky & Space

Space travel

The earth & atmosphere

Pollutions

Electricity & magnetism

Electricity

Machines, Force & Energy

Force

Sound and musical / height & colour

Sounds

MATHEMATICS

Whole Number System

Review of Natural Numbers, Whole Numbers, Even Numbers and Odd Numbers
Properties of Numbers (Commutative, Associative and Distributive)
Writing Whole Numbers in words and figures (Up to 10 billions)
Reading Whole Numbers (Up to 10 billions)
Prime Numbers and Composite Numbers
Multiplication: One of the Numbers in a 3-digit number and the other 5-digit number
Division: One of the numbers in a 3-digit and the other a 6-digit number
Emphasis on Word Problems which should be selected from various sources

Rational Numbers (Common and Decimal Fractions)

Addition of 3 common fractions (to be done after L.C.M)
Review, revision and up-gradation of work done up to Class 6
Conversion of Common Fractions to Decimal Fractions and Vice Versa
Place values on the right of the decimal point up to thousandths
Expanded and standard forms of a Rational Number up to thousandths
Multiplication and Division of Decimal Fractions
Comparison of Rational Numbers
Sets of Natural Numbers, Whole Numbers and Positive Rational Numbers concept of predecessor and successor.
Rounding off Decimal Fractions (up to three decimal places)
Use of brackets involving Natural Numbers, Common Fractions and Decimal Fractions (two brackets in a problem)
Word problems
Commutative, Associative and Distributive properties involving rational number with respect to addition and multiplication
Algebra, Addition and Subtraction of Algebraic expressions, Word problems involving equations

Mixed operations

Use of brackets (2 brackets at a time)

G.C.D and L.C.M.

Short division: Dividend up to 99 and 2,3,5,7 as divisors
Divisibility and methods to find Factors and Prime Factors
Factorization and Prime Factorization
To find G.C.D of two numbers y common factors method and prime factorization method
Multiples and link between a factor and a multiple
To find L.C.M of two numbers by common multiples method and prime factorization method
All numbers up to 99

ENGLISH

Essay writing/Short story (about 250 words)

Comprehension Unseen

Story writing/Creative writing (About 125 words)

Grammar

Parts of speech
Kinds of noun
Subject
Predicate
Contraction
Antonyms
Synonyms
Homonyms
Degrees of adjectives
Changing present tense to past tens
Direct & indirect
Active voice and passive voice
Tenses (complete)

SCIENCE

What is Science?

The Scientific Method, Safety Rules in the Laboratory, Laboratory Apparatus

Measuring Length, Area & Volume

Physical quantities and SI units measuring length, instrument for measuring length. Measuring area. Measuring volume, meniscus reading, instruments for measuring the volume of liquids.

Time Rate and Speed

The stop clock and stop watches. Rate of petrol consumption. Rate of volume flow. Using rate to make comparison. Speed units for speed. The speed equation.

Mass, Density and Temperature

What is Mass?

Measuring Mass density. Finding the density of a substance. The density equation. Floating and sinking. Temperature. Thermometer.

Matter and their physical properties

Matter, Physical properties of matter, Comparing physical properties of materials. Everyday use of material.

Living in our changing world

What causes change?

Changes caused by heat. Changes caused by light. Changes by mixing. Changes caused by electricity. Chemical reactions

Element – The simplest kind of Matter

What is an element?

Classifying elements – The periodic table. Group and period. Metals and non-metals. Use of metals and non-metals. Properties and difference between metals and non metals. Alloys

Classifying Plants and Animals

Classification of living things. The animal kingdom. Vertebrates and invertebrates. The plant kingdom. Using keys in classification. Wildlife alert.

Covered Syllabus

The admission test for Pre-Ninth, Ninth, and Tenth grades will cover the syllabus that students have studied up to that point in their classes. All compulsory and elective subjects may be included in the examination. The school office will provide real-time information about the syllabus covered to date.