Semester End Exam – 2022-23

Syllabus for MYP-4

Subject Syllabus of Semester End Exam

Unit 1: Numerical and Abstract reasoning
Topic 1: Playing with Numbers
1. Number system notation.
2. Absolute Values
3. Irrational Numbers and real numbers
4. Surds, roots and radicals. including simplifying.
5. Standard Form (Scientific Notation): Recap
6. Laws of Exponent including integer and negative exponent with Recap
7. Rationalizing the denominator
8. Revision of different forms of numbers and changing of one form to
Standard other
9. Sets and Venn diagram along with application
Mathematics 10. Variation & Power Modelling. (Linear and Nonlinear)
11. Financial Math – including Simple and Compound Interest

Topic 2 – Heading towards Abstract reasoning

1. Arithmetic Sequences.
2. Changing the subject of the equation.
3. Factorizing quadratic expressions
4. Solving quadratic equations: graphically and algebraically
5. Investigating sequences: Linear, Quadratic, Geometric
6. Algebraic fractions –solving equations using algebraic fractions.

Unit 1: Numerical and Abstract reasoning

Topic 1: Playing with Numbers
1. Number system notation.
2. Absolute Values
3. Irrational Numbers and real numbers
4. Surds, roots and radicals. including simplifying.
5. Standard Form (Scientific Notation): Recap
6. Laws of Exponent including integer and negative exponent with Recap
7. Rationalizing the denominator
Extended 8. Revision of different forms of numbers and changing of one form to other
Mathematics 9. Sets and Venn diagram along with application
10. Variation & Power Modelling. (Linear and Nonlinear)
11. Financial Math – including Simple and Compound Interest
12. Laws of exponents, including fractional/rational.

Topic 2 – Heading towards Abstract reasoning

1. Arithmetic Sequences.
2. Changing the subject of the equation.
3. Factorizing quadratic expressions
4. Solving quadratic equations: graphically and algebraically
 5. Investigating sequences: Linear, Quadratic, Geometric
6. Algebraic fractions –solving equations using algebraic fractions.
7. Geometric Sequences
8. Logarithms, including laws of logarithms and the use of technology to find
values.

Unit 1- Resources
Themes:
T10- Resource Management
T12- Sustainable Management of natural environment, characteristics of
human impacts on aquatic, desert, forest, grassland and tundra

• Nature and significance of natural resources

• Forces of Globalization
• Positive and negative impacts of forces of globalisation on the
resources of a region
• Role of technology and communication in sustainability of natural
resources
• Sustainable management: Sustainable management of urban systems
and the environment

Unit 2- Changing Population

Individuals and Themes:
Societies T9- Changing population, natural increase, structure and migration
T 11- Sustainable management of Urban systems and environments
T7- Growth and development Indicators

• Demographic analysis- Global population, population distribution and

density, reading, interpreting, comparing and analyzing data,
predicting population change
• Population change- factors impacting human population
• Population trends Demographic transition model
• Population Pyramid
• Changing Population- Overpopulation and underpopulation- causes
and consequences
• Population Policies (based on population trends)- as ways to address
overpopulation and underpopulation
• Migration and its impact- Push and Pull factor, refugee crisis, migration
policies

Unit 1: Identity and culture

• Self, family, friends

• Free time and leisure
Language • Food and drink and health
Acquisition • Festivals and celebrations

Grammar
-Present tense.
 -Past tenses.
-Impersonal (passive voice)
Connectors

Text type: Letter writing / Diary/ blog/interview/Ted talk

Unit – 2 Education and the world of work
• School life

Grammar:
-Conditional Mood
Text type:
Posters/ Formal letter/ Interview
Unit 1: Projection v/s Perception
1. Real and Fake News
2. Yellow Journalism
3. Opinion/ Fact/ Claim
4. 5Cs of critical consumption
5. Rhetoric techniques 6
Language and 6. Propaganda Techniques
Literature 7. Creating a non-literary persuasive piece.

Unit 2: The Giver

1. Literary techniques
2. Understanding of genre, elements of a narrative
3. Key features of an internal monologue
4. Creation of a literary text based on image stimulus
Unit 1: What is matter? How do we use matter?

states and properties of matter, particle/kinetic theory, Heating and cooling curves,
diffusion, Gases ,Boyles law and Charles’ law, Recap of matter-atoms, molecules,
element, compound and mixtures, homogeneous, heterogeneous mixtures,
suspension, colloid Separation techniques for mixtures: Separating funnel Simple
distillation, fractional distillation, Sublimation and centrifugation, Simple
chromatography, Evaporation, and crystallization.

Unit 2: What determines chemical change?

Chemical and Physical changes
Parts and notations in a chemical reaction
Chemistry Types of chemical reaction: a. Decomposition Reactions: Thermal,
Electrolytic, Photolytic
b. Synthesis Reactions, c. Single Displacement Reactions, Reactivity series, d.
Double Displacement Reactions, e. Combustion Reactions f. Oxidation-
Reduction ReactionsWriting chemical formula,
polyatomic ions)
Balancing chemical reactions
Part B: How do the conditions of the environment affect chemical reactivity?
(Rate of reaction)
Collision Theory and Activation Energy, Factors affecting Rates of Reaction:
Surface area of reactants, concentration, temperature, catalysts,
Equilibria/reversible reactions; Energy changes in reactions - endo-
and exothermicity
 Unit-3 How are environmental systems sustained by their chemistry?
Atmospheric composition, Characteristics of gases, Pollution and
Greenhouse effect, Carbon cycle and carbon footprint, Emission and
environmental implications, Extraction, Testing, and treatment: investigating
atmospheric pollutants, repairing ozone depletion

Unit 1 Mechanics of physics

Recap of Newton's laws of motion, Vectors and Scalars, Distance, displacement,
Speed and velocity, Acceleration, Equations of motion, Equations of motion v = u +
at, s = ut + 1/2 at2, v2 = u2 + 2as, mass and weight, transformations between
different Graphs of motion (distance/displacement−time, speed/velocity−time and
acceleration−time graphs), Impulse, momentum, thinking distance, braking distance
etc. and concept of Automobile safety.
Unit 2: Energy sources and resources
Physics renewable and non-renewable sources of energy, Different types of energy, transfer
and transformation of energy (conversions of one form of energy to another),
Conservation of energy, Law of conservation of energy, Energy Resources fuels (the
production, manufacturing costs and potential results of solar, wind, hydroelectric
and tidal energy and environmental impact.
Unit 3: Waves
Longitudinal and transverse waves, Properties and Characteristics of waves including
reflection, refraction, diffraction, wave equation, EM waves, Application of EM and
sound waves.
Unit 1: INTERDEPENDENCE

• Ecosystem- Components & Types

• Habitat and Niche- Differences and Examples
• Interactions with examples (Competition- Intraspecific and
Interspecific Competition, Predation, Mutualism, Parasitism,
Symbiosis, Commensalism)
• Biogeochemical Cycles- (Nutrient, Carbon, Nitrogen; role of
microorganism)
• Food Web and Food chain– Examples; Identification of trophic
level; food chains in food web; Trophic level- Order & Significance;
Biology Food Chain- Component, Construction; Ecological Pyramids

Unit 2: CONTROL & COORDINATION

• Response to stimulus; Neuron-Structure & function;

• Human Brain: parts and functions of cerebrum, cerebellum, and
medulla oblongata; Spinal cord-basic Structure and function;
• Types of nerves; Synapse, impulse, neurotransmitter
• Sense organs (structure and working of eye and ear);
• PNS, CNS, ANS- an outline, parts, and role;
• Types of responses: Reflex action-natural and conditioned reflexes;
Voluntary and involuntary responses;
• Endocrine glands and hormones; Thyroid, Pancreas, Adrenal,
Pituitary, Ovaries, Testes, - Location, Hormones secreted and their
role; Hypothalamus-location and role;
• Thermoregulation – Vasodilation and vasoconstriction;
• Glucose control – Role of insulin and glucagon;
• Osmoregulation- Role of Kidney