After sailing smoothly through the CBSE Term 1 Board Exams 2022, which were based on MCQ pattern, the students of Class 12 have buckled up for the last leg of CBSE Board Exams 2021-22. The CBSE Term 2 Board Exams have been proposed to be conducted in the pen-paper mode and the pattern of the exam will be subjective. This implies that the students will have to write descriptive answers whose length would vary in accordance with the marks carried by the questions.
Although Science is one of the most scoring and interesting subjects in the CBSE Class 10th curriculum, subject experts reveal that a majority of students struggle while preparing for the Science paper. This is because the subject is highly conceptual and needs more practical-bases teaching methods to help children get a hang of the subject. Moreover, with the bifurcation of exams by CBSE into Term 1 and Term 2 in 2021, students are finding it difficult to cover those important topics that carry maximum weightage in all three Science subjects; Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Thus, to facilitate the convenience of CBSE Class 10 students in preparing for the Science exam, the syllabus and marks distribution for Term 2 Exams has been mentioned herewith. Candidates are advised to cover the syllabus at least a month before the Term 2 exams, so that they could revise the entire syllabus thoroughly and secure good marks too.

CBSE Class 10 Science Syllabus for Term 2 Exam 2022:
 
Chemistry syllabus:

Unit I: Chemical Substances - Nature and Behaviour
Chapter – 4 Carbon and its compounds: Carbon compounds: Covalent bonding in carbon compounds. Versatile nature of carbon.Homologous series.

Chapter – 5 Periodic classification of elements Periodic classification of elements: Need for classification, early attempts at classification of elements (Dobereiner’s Triads, Newland’s Law of Octaves, Mendeleev’s Periodic Table), Modern periodic table, gradation in properties, valency, atomic number, metallic and non-metallic properties.
 
Biology syllabus
 
Theme: The World of the Living Unit II: World of Living
Chapter – 8 How do organisms reproduce? Reproduction: Reproduction in animals and plants (asexual and sexual) reproductive health-need and methods of family planning. Safe sex vs HIV/AIDS. Child bearing and women’s health.

Chapter – 9 Heredity and Evolution Heredity: Heredity; Mendel’s contribution- Laws for inheritance of traits: Sex determination:

Physics Syllabus:
Theme: Natural Phenomena
Unit IV: Effects of Current
Chapter – 12 Electricity Ohm’s law; Resistance, Resistivity, Factors on which the resistance of a conductor depends. Series combination of resistors, parallel combination of resistors and its applications in daily life. Heating effect of electric current and its applications in daily life. Electric power, Interrelation between P, V, I and R.
 
Chapter – 13 Magnetic effects of current
Magnetic effects of current: Magnetic field, field lines, field due to a current carrying conductor, field due to current carrying coil or solenoid; Force on current carrying conductor, Fleming’s Left Hand Rule, Electric Motor, Electromagnetic induction. Induced potential difference, Induced current. Fleming’s Right Hand Rule.
 
Unit V: Natural Resources
Chapter – 15 Our Environment
Our environment: Eco-system, Environmental problems, Ozone depletion, waste production and their solutions. Biodegradable and non-biodegradable substances.

CBSE Class 10 Science Practical Syllabus for Term 2 Exam 2022:
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS
  1. Studying the dependence of potential difference (V) across a resistor on the current (I) passing through it and determining its resistance. Also plotting a graph between V and I.
  2.  Studying (a) binary fission in Amoeba, and (b) budding in yeast and Hydra with the help of prepared slides.