Dawood Public School

Secondary Section
Syllabus for Final Term Examination 2023-24
Grade IX

English Language:
Paper, I Reading- Text A(Comprehension) and Text B (Summary & Short Response Question)
Paper, II Writing – Composition (narrative & descriptive essay) and Directed Writing (informal letter &
magazine article)

Math:
Topics:
• Arithmetic (Numbers, Decimals, Ratio, Rate, Speed, Time, Percentages, Scale and Map, Money,
Estimation and Approximation, Significant Figures, Recurring Decimals, Surds, Simple and
Compound Interest)
• Algebra (Expansion, Factorisation, Equations, Indices, Change of subject of a formula, Quadratic
Equations, Simultaneous Equations, Direct and Inverse Proportion)
• Mensuration (Area and Volume of Similar Figures and Solids, Volume and Surface Area of 3D)
• Coordinate Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Statistics (Scatter diagram, Mean, Median Mode, Frequency polygons, Histogram, Bar Graph, Pie
chart)
• Graphs and Sketching of Linear and Quadratic Functions.
• Probability
• Similarity Tests
• Functions, Further Functions, and Composite Functions)

Geography:
• The Land of Pakistan + Topography
• Climate
• Water-as a natural resource
• Forests in Pakistan
• Mineral Resources
• Fishing
• Agricultural Development
• Trade
History:
Relations of Pakistan with other countries:
• India
• USA
• China
• USSR
• Afghanistan
• Iran
• Bangladesh
• Britain and Commonwealth
• Muslim Countries
• United Nations

Leaders of Pakistan (Allama Iqbal, Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, Quaid e Azam)

East India Company (1600-1850)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Urdu A:

‫اسباق و منظومات‬
‫ی‬
‫ خطوط ِ غالب‬- ‫آرام و سکون‬: ‫ ڈرامہ‬- ‫امید یک خوش‬:‫مضمون‬
‫مسدس حال‬
ِ - ‫لیات پروین شاکر‬
ِ ‫غز‬- ‫غزلیات اقبال‬
‫انشاء پردازی‬
‫ر‬
‫مضمون نوییس ۔تفہیم‬-)‫ان دیکھا اقتباس (نثی یا شعری‬

Urdu B:
P1
• Short answer questions
• Multiple matching
• Note making
• Summary
• Writing Exercise (Email etc)
P2
• Sentence transformation
• Multiple choice cloze passage
• Extended Writing Exercise
• Translation
Islamiyat:
PI
Quranic Passages under the themes of:
1. Allah’s Messengers
• Surah Maida (5:110)
• Surah Duha (93)
• Surah Kauser (108)
• Surah Al-Baqra (2:30-37)
• Surah Al Anam (6:75-79)
2. Allah’s relationship with the created world
• Surah Zilzal (99)
• Surah Nas (114)

3. History and importance of the Holy Quran

4. The life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in Makkah:
• Birth of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
• Infancy and Childhood
• Journey to Syria
• The War of Fujjaar
• Half-al-Fadul
• Al-Sadiq and Al-Amin
• Marriage with Hazrat Khadija (RA)
• Fixing of Black Stone
• First Revelation
• Conversation with Waraqah bin Naufal
• The Early Converts
• A Call to the Nation
• Opposition and Persecution by the Quraish
• Causes of the Hostility by the Quraish
• The reaction of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to the persecution of Quraish.
• Migration to Abyssinia and its significance
• Boycott of Hashemites by Quraish
• The Year of Sorrow
• Visit to Taif
• Mairaj

5. Ten Blessed Companions

6. Scribes of the Divine Revelation
• Hazrat Abdullah bin Masud (RA)
• Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit (RA)
7. The Behaviour of Holy Prophet (PBUH) towards:
• Companions and Strangers
• Children and Women
• Poor and Orphan
• Slaves and Animals
• Enemies and non-believers
8. Wives of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). (Mothers of the Faithful)

PII
9. Hadith of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
• Hadith no. 5,9,10, 12,13 &18
10. The history and importance of the Hadith
11. Rightly guided Caliphs
• Caliphate of Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA)
• Caliphate of Hazrat Umer (RA)

12. Pillars of Islam-

• Shahadah
• Fasting
• Hajj
• Prayer: (topics as follows)
• Meaning & importance of Prayer
• Preparation for the Prayer
• Wudu – Obligatory Acts & Voiding Acts of Wudu
• Ghusl (Bath)
• Tayammum
• Azaan and its significance
• Iqamat
• The essential requisites for offering prayer
• Times of Prayers
• Number of Rak’aat
• Performance of Prayer
• Witr Prayer

The significance of the actions involved in the performance of Prayer

Biology:

• Cells
• Classification
• Movement into and out of cells
• Biological molecules
• Enzymes
• Plant nutrition
• Transport in flowering plants
• Human nutrition
• Human gas exchange
• Respiration
• Transport in humans

Chemistry:
• States of Matter
• Experimental Techniques
• Atoms, Elements and compounds
• The Periodic Table
• Stoichiometry
• Acids and Bases
• Identification of ions and gases (Qualitative Analysis)

Physics:
• Measurements
• Kinematics
• Dynamic
• Circular Motion
• Mass weight density
• Deformation
• Moment
• Momentum
• Work Energy Power...
• Pressure
• KMT
• Temperatures/gases laws
• Thermal Expansion
Business Studies
Section 1: Understanding Business Activity
• Chapter 1: Business Activity
• Chapter 2: Classification of business
• Chapter 3: Enterprise, Business Growth and Size
• chapter 4: Types of business Organization
• Chapter 5: Business Objectives and Stakeholders objective
Section 2: People in business
• Chapter 6: motivating employees
• Chapter 7: Organisation Management
• Chapter 8: Recruitment, selection and training of employees
• Chapter 9: Internal and External communication
Section 4: Operations Management
• Chapter 20: Achieving quality
• Chapter 21 Location

Economics:
Section 1: The basic economic problem
• Chapter 1: The nature of the economic problem
• Chapter 2: Factors of production
• Chapter 3: Opportunity cost
• Chapter 4: Production possibility curves

Section 2: The allocation of resources

• Chapter 6: The role of markets in allocating resources
• Chapter 7: Demand
• Chapter 8: Supply
• Chapter 9: Price determination
• Chapter 10: Price changes
• Chapter 11: Price elasticity of demand
• Chapter 12: Price elasticity of supply
• Chapter 13: Market economic system
• Chapter 14: Market failure
• Chapter 15: Mixed economy
Section 3: Microeconomic decision makers
• Chapter 20: Firms
• Chapter 21: Firms and production
• Chapter 22: Firms, costs, revenue and objectives

Section 5: Economic Development

• Chapter 34: Population

Accounting:
• Chapter 1: Introduction to accounting
• Chapter 2: Double entry book-keeping – Part A
• Chapter 3: The trial balances
• Chapter 4: Double entry book-keeping – Part B
• Chapter 5: Petty cash books
• Chapter 6: Business documents
• Chapter 7: Books of prime entry
• Chapter 8: Financial statements – Part A
• Chapter 9: Financial statements – Part B
• Chapter 10: capital and revenue expenditure and receipts (page 126-127)
• Chapter 14: Bank reconciliation statements
• Chapter 15: Journal entries and correction of errors
• Chapter 16: Control accounts

Computer Science:
• Chapter 1: Data Representation
• Chapter 2: Data Transmission
• Chapter 7: Problem Solving and Algorithms (PDLC stages, computer systems, sub-systems,
decomposition, structure diagrams, flowcharts, all operators, conditional/selection statements,
validation & verification checks, for loop, concepts of counting, totaling, average, highest and
lowest.
• Chapter 8: Programming (for the same concepts of chapter 7)

Sociology:
• Research Methods
• Identity, self and society
• The Family
Environmental Management:
• Rocks and Minerals and their exploitation
• Energy and the environment
• Agriculture and the environment

World History:
• European Expansion; (Africa, India, US Imperialism)
• Causes of the First World War
• Depth Study: First World War

English Literature:
Paper 1
Section A: Poetry
• Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
• Report to Wordsworth by Boey Kim Cheng
• Lament by Gillian Clarke
• The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
Study criteria for the poems:
• Annotation of text
• Background: Relation to a particular era and its impact on the construction
• Language & Structure: Diction, Form, Tone, Rhyme, Rhythm, Meter
• Poetic Devices
• Themes: As prevailing in the poems
• Figures of Speech (Implied meanings): As found in the poems
• Comparative study of the poems.

Section B: Prose
1.Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
• Extract based and essay-based questions
• Annotation of Text
• Characterization
• Themes
• Imagery, Symbolism, Irony
Paper 2
Drama
1. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (Act 1, Scenes 1-4)
• Annotation of the text
• Plot Analysis
• Critical Analysis of Text
• Supernatural, allusions and references
• Imagery and its types
• Hamartia/ Tragic Flaw
• Progression in the characters of the protagonists.
• Themes: As prevailing in the scenes
• Poetic Devices: As prevailing in the scenes
• Exploration of Kingship in Rome and Egypt and its impact on the Jacobean audience.
• Shakespeare’s Style Language & Structure

Add Math:
• Simultaneous Equations
• Logarithms
• Quadratic Expressions and Equations
• Remainder and factor Theorem
• Linear Law
• Arithmetic and Geometric progressions
• Coordinate Geometry (straight Line and Circle)

Food & Nutrition:

• Chapter 1: Nutrients
• Chapter 2: Providing Nutrition to Different Needs

Art & Design

Focus on Observation
• Drawing of a tool in graphite from life.
• Drawing of Old architecture of Karachi from a photograph taken by the student.
(Medium graphite, colour pencils or black pen)

G.P:
• Q's 1, 2 and 3 as per CAIE written exam pattern.