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PREPARATORY SCHOOL
FOR ADMISSION TO CLASS: Grade 7 or E-2 (Guide only)
ENGLISH
Time: 1 Hour 15 min.
1. Essay Writing/Short Story Imaginative Piece (Max 400 Words)
2. Comprehension (unseen passage)
MATHEMATICS
Time: 1 Hour 30 min.
Note: Use of calculator is allowed.
Questions will be based on some or all of the following topics:
REAL NUMBER SYSTEM (INTEGERS)
● Sets of natural numbers, whole numbers and integers
● Even, odd, prime and composite integers
FACTORS AND MULTIPLES
● H.C.F. and L.C.M. of three numbers by prime factorisation method
● H.C.F. of two and three numbers by division method
● Link between H.C.F. and L.C.M.
● Word Problems
● Finding square roots of perfect square numbers by prime factorisation method or by
division method
BODMAS/THE FOUR OPERATIONS
● Simplifying expressions involving two brackets
● Simplifying expressions involving three brackets (emphasis on problems involving
common fractions)
BASICS OF ALGEBRA
● Introduction to Algebraic Expression
● Concept of Coefficient, variable and constant
● Concept of Exponent and Base
● Writing a natural number in exponential form
● Arranging a polynomial in ascending and descending order. First and second degree
polynomials in one variable (Monomial, Binomial and Trinomial)
● Addition and Subtraction of monomials, binomials, and trinomials of first and second
degree
● Multiplying and dividing one and two degree polynomials by a monomial
ALGEBRAIC SENTENCES
● Definition of expression, algebraic sentence, open sentences, equations and in
equations