Admission Test Syllabus

There is no written test. A teacher spends a few minutes with the child and the parents to understand the child's readiness.

• Interaction & Readiness

  • Saying own name, parents' names and age
  • Identifying common colours and shapes
  • Recognising fruits, animals and vehicles from pictures
  • Reciting a short rhyme or poem
  • Counting objects up to ten

• English

• Mathematics

• General Awareness

• Science

• English

  • Naming words, action words and describing words
  • Singular and plural
  • Opposites and rhyming words
  • Simple sentence making
  • Short comprehension passage

• Mathematics

  • Numbers up to 200
  • Place value of tens and ones
  • Addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing
  • Introduction to multiplication
  • Shapes, patterns and simple measurement

• Environmental Studies

  • Our body and sense organs
  • Plants and animals around us
  • Food, clothing and shelter
  • Safety rules at home and school
  • Festivals we celebrate

• English

  • Nouns, pronouns and verbs
  • Articles and prepositions
  • Present and past tense
  • Comprehension passage with questions
  • Short paragraph writing

• Mathematics

  • Numbers up to 9999 and place value
  • Addition, subtraction and multiplication
  • Division by single digit
  • Multiplication tables 2 to 12
  • Measurement of length, weight and time

• Environmental Studies

  • Plants and their parts
  • Animals and their habitats
  • Our neighbourhood and community helpers
  • Air, water and weather
  • Means of transport and communication

• English

  • Kinds of nouns and adjectives
  • Tenses and subject-verb agreement
  • Conjunctions and punctuation
  • Unseen comprehension
  • Letter and paragraph writing

• Mathematics

  • Large numbers and place value
  • Multiplication and division by two digits
  • Factors and multiples
  • Introduction to fractions
  • Perimeter, area and time

• Science

  • Food and nutrition
  • Plants: photosynthesis and adaptation
  • Animals and their life cycles
  • Matter and its states
  • Safety and first aid

• Social Science

  • Our state and country
  • Maps and directions
  • Natural resources
  • Our national symbols
  • Community and occupations

• English

  • Parts of speech
  • Active and passive voice basics
  • Direct and indirect speech basics
  • Comprehension and vocabulary
  • Essay and application writing

• Mathematics

  • Operations on large numbers
  • Fractions and decimals
  • HCF and LCM
  • Percentage and simple word problems
  • Geometry: angles, perimeter and area

• Science

  • Human body systems
  • Plant reproduction
  • Force, work and energy
  • Our environment and pollution
  • Solar system

• Social Science

  • Physical features of India
  • Climate and natural vegetation
  • Our Constitution and government
  • Freedom struggle: an introduction
  • Globe, latitudes and longitudes

• English

  • Grammar: tenses, modals and clauses
  • Vocabulary, idioms and phrases
  • Unseen comprehension
  • Notice, letter and story writing
  • Editing and omission

• Mathematics

  • Knowing our numbers and whole numbers
  • Playing with numbers: factors and multiples
  • Integers
  • Fractions and decimals
  • Basic geometrical ideas and mensuration

• Science

  • Food: components and sources
  • Separation of substances
  • Living organisms and their surroundings
  • Motion and measurement of distances
  • Light, shadows and reflections

• Social Science

  • The Earth in the solar system
  • Maps and major landforms
  • Early humans and early civilisations
  • Rural and urban administration
  • Diversity and discrimination

• English

  • Tenses, voice and narration
  • Determiners and connectors
  • Comprehension and inference
  • Formal and informal letters
  • Paragraph and report writing

• Mathematics

  • Integers and rational numbers
  • Simple equations
  • Lines and angles, triangles
  • Ratio, proportion and percentage
  • Perimeter, area and data handling

• Science

  • Nutrition in plants and animals
  • Heat, acids, bases and salts
  • Physical and chemical changes
  • Weather, climate and adaptation
  • Respiration and transportation in organisms

• Social Science

  • Environment and interior of the Earth
  • Medieval India: kings and kingdoms
  • Our Constitution and state government
  • Markets and advertising
  • Life in deserts and grasslands

• English

  • Advanced grammar and error correction
  • Voice, narration and transformation
  • Unseen passages and poetry appreciation
  • Formal letters, notices and reports
  • Vocabulary building

• Mathematics

  • Rational numbers and exponents
  • Linear equations in one variable
  • Squares, square roots, cubes and cube roots
  • Quadrilaterals and practical geometry
  • Mensuration, comparing quantities and graphs

• Science

  • Crop production and microorganisms
  • Synthetic fibres, metals and non-metals
  • Force, pressure, friction and sound
  • Cell structure and reproduction
  • Light, stars and the solar system

• Social Science

  • Resources and agriculture
  • Modern India and the national movement
  • The Indian Constitution and secularism
  • Judiciary and social justice
  • Industries and human resources

• English

  • Tenses, modals and determiners
  • Reported speech and subject-verb concord
  • Unseen passages and case-based comprehension
  • Formal letters and analytical paragraph writing
  • Error correction and gap filling

• Mathematics

  • Real numbers and polynomials
  • Linear equations in two variables and quadratic equations
  • Arithmetic progressions and coordinate geometry
  • Triangles, circles and trigonometry
  • Surface areas, volumes, statistics and probability

• Science

  • Chemical reactions, acids, bases and salts
  • Metals, non-metals and carbon compounds
  • Life processes, control and coordination
  • Reproduction and heredity
  • Light, electricity and magnetic effects of current

• Social Science

  • Nationalism in Europe and in India
  • Resources, agriculture and industries
  • Power sharing and federalism
  • Political parties and outcomes of democracy
  • Development, sectors of the economy, money and credit