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PREPARATORY SCHOOL (continued)
FOR ADMISSION TO CLASS: Grade 8 or M-1 (Guide only)
ENGLISH
Time: 1 Hour 15 min.
Essay Writing/Short Story (Max. 400 Words)
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 (RELATIONAL NUMBERS)
● Multiplication and division of integers
● Introduction of rational and the set of rational numbers
● Addition and subtraction of rational numbers
● Multiplication and division of rational numbers. (emphasis on problems
involving negative common and decimal fractions)
BODMAS
● Simplifying expressions involving three brackets (problems involving
negative, common and decimal fractions)
CUBE ROOT AND SQUARE ROOT
● Finding cube root of perfect cube numbers by prime factorisation method
● Finding square root of a rational number by prime factorisation method and
by division method
ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS
● Introduction of expressions of third and fourth degree in one variable
● Introduction of expressions of first and second degree in two variables
● Addition and subtraction of polynomials in one and two variables of first and
second degrees (involving one pair of brackets)
● Multiplication of linear and quadratic polynomials in one variable
● Division of trinomials by binomial and monomial
● Simplification of linear and quadratic polynomials in one variable involving one
or two brackets
● Evaluation of monomials and binomials in one variable up to second degree
● Evaluation of monomials and binomials in two variables up to second degree
● Evaluation of polynomials in one variable up to third degree
FACTORISATION OF ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS
● Factorisation of algebraic expressions (involving common factors only)
SOLUTION OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
● Solution of linear equations in one variable
● Word problems