ISC Syllabus 2026: Subject-Wise Topics, Chapter Weightage and PDF Download

Composition (Essay and Letter Writing), Directed Writing, Comprehension passages, Summary Writing, Grammar and Usage (Tenses, Voice, Narration, Error Correction, Sentence Transformation)

Poetry (from RHAPSODY — Evergreen Publications): Telephone Conversation (Wole Soyinka), Tithonus (Alfred Lord Tennyson), Beethoven (Shane Koyczan), Small Towns and the River (Mamang Dai), Death be not Proud (John Donne).

Drama: Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Acts I–V).

Short Stories (from PRISM — Evergreen Publications): A Living God (Lafcadio Hearn), Advice to Youth (Mark Twain), The Paper Menagerie (Ken Liu), The Great Automatic Grammatizator (Roald Dahl), Thank You Ma’am (Langston Hughes).

Electric charges and Coulomb’s Law, Electric field and field lines, Electric flux, Gauss’s Law and its applications, Electric potential and potential energy, Equipotential surfaces, Conductors and insulators, Capacitors and capacitance, Parallel plate capacitor, Energy stored in a capacitor, Dielectrics and polarisation

Electric current and drift velocity, Ohm’s Law, Resistance and resistivity, Temperature dependence of resistance, EMF of a cell and internal resistance, Kirchhoff’s Laws (current and voltage), Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge, Potentiometer

Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s Circuital Law, Force on a current-carrying conductor, Force between parallel current-carrying conductors, Torque on a current loop, Moving Coil Galvanometer, Conversion to ammeter and voltmeter

Bar magnet as equivalent solenoid, Magnetic field lines, Earth’s magnetism and magnetic elements, Magnetisation, Magnetic susceptibility, Dia-, para-, and ferromagnetic materials, Hysteresis

Faraday’s Laws of Electromagnetic Induction, Lenz’s Law, Induced EMF and current, Self-inductance and mutual inductance, Energy stored in an inductor, AC generator

AC voltage, RMS and peak values, AC circuits with resistor, inductor, and capacitor, LCR series circuit, Impedance and resonance, Power in AC circuits, LC oscillations, Transformer (step-up and step-down)

Displacement current, Electromagnetic waves and their properties, Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, UV, X-rays, gamma rays)

Reflection of light, Mirror formula, Refraction at spherical surfaces, Lenses and lens formula, Power of a lens, Combination of lenses, Prism (refraction and dispersion), Total internal reflection, Scattering of light, Optical instruments (microscope, telescope)

Huygens’ Principle, Refraction and reflection using Huygens’ principle, Coherent and incoherent sources, Young’s double slit experiment, Diffraction, Resolving power, Polarisation

Photoelectric effect, Einstein’s photoelectric equation, de Broglie’s hypothesis, Davisson-Germer experiment

Rutherford’s nuclear model, Bohr’s model of hydrogen atom, Hydrogen spectrum, Composition of nucleus, Mass defect and binding energy, Nuclear fission and fusion, Radioactivity, Alpha, beta, and gamma decay

Semiconductors and p-n junction diode, Half-wave and full-wave rectifier, Zener diode and voltage regulation, Transistors (n-p-n and p-n-p), Transistor as amplifier and switch, Logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR)

Classification of solids, unit cell, crystal lattice, close packing, voids, imperfections in solids, electrical and magnetic properties

Types of solutions, concentration terms (molarity, molality, mole fraction), Raoult’s Law, Henry’s Law, colligative properties, Van’t Hoff factor

Electrochemical cells (Galvanic and electrolytic), EMF, Nernst equation, Gibbs energy and equilibrium, conductance of electrolytic solutions, Kohlrausch’s Law, electrolysis, Faraday’s Laws

Rate of reaction, factors affecting rate, rate law, order and molecularity, integrated rate equations (zero, first, second order), half-life, Arrhenius equation, activation energy, collision theory

Adsorption (physisorption vs chemisorption), Freundlich adsorption isotherm, catalysis, colloids (classification, preparation, properties), Tyndall effect, Brownian motion, emulsions

Group 15 elements (nitrogen family), Group 16 elements (oxygen family), Group 17 elements (halogens), Group 18 elements (noble gases) — properties, oxides, hydrides, reactions

General characteristics of transition elements, electronic configuration, oxidation states, magnetic properties, alloy formation, catalytic properties, interstitial compounds, lanthanoids and actinoids

Werner’s theory, IUPAC nomenclature, coordination number, isomerism (geometric, optical, ionisation, coordination), valence bond theory, crystal field theory, stability constants, importance of coordination compounds in biology and medicine

Classification and nomenclature, physical and chemical properties, nucleophilic substitution (SN1 and SN2), elimination reactions, environmental effects of polyhalogen compounds

Classification, preparation, physical and chemical properties; acidity of phenols; important reactions: Lucas test, esterification, oxidation reactions; diethyl ether — preparation and uses

Preparation of aldehydes and ketones, nucleophilic addition reactions, Cannizzaro reaction, Aldol condensation, properties of carboxylic acids, acidity, reactions

Amines (classification, preparation, physical and chemical properties, basicity), diazonium salts, cyanides and isocyanides

Carbohydrates (monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides), proteins (amino acids, peptide bond, protein structure), enzymes, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), vitamins

Classification of polymers, types of polymerisation (addition, condensation), natural and synthetic rubber, plastics, drugs and medicines, food preservatives, cleansing agents

Reproduction in organisms, sexual reproduction in flowering plants (flower structure, pollination, fertilisation, seed development), human reproduction (male and female reproductive systems, gametogenesis, menstrual cycle, fertilisation, pregnancy), reproductive health, STDs, contraception, infertility

Mendel’s Laws, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, multiple alleles, chromosomal theory of inheritance, sex determination, sex-linked inheritance, mutation, genetic disorders (Down syndrome, sickle cell anaemia, colour blindness, haemophilia), origin of life, Darwin’s theory, Hardy-Weinberg principle

Human health and diseases (pathogens — viral, bacterial, protozoan, parasitic, fungal), immunity (innate and acquired), vaccines, antibiotics, cancer, drugs and alcohol abuse, Food production (animal husbandry, plant breeding, biofortification, single cell protein), microbes in human welfare

Recombinant DNA technology, tools of genetic engineering (restriction enzymes, vectors), PCR, gel electrophoresis, transgenic organisms, applications in medicine (insulin, gene therapy), agriculture (Bt crops), bioethics

Organism and environment, population interactions (predation, competition, mutualism, parasitism), ecosystems (energy flow, food chains, food webs, trophic levels, 10% Law, ecological pyramids), biodiversity (types, importance, loss, hotspots), conservation (in-situ and ex-situ), environmental issues (pollution — air, water, soil, noise; global warming, ozone depletion)

Types of relations (reflexive, symmetric, transitive, equivalence), types of functions (one-one, onto, bijective), inverse of a function, composition of functions, binary operations, inverse trigonometric functions (domain, range, principal values, properties)

Matrices (types, operations, transpose, inverse), Determinants (expansion, properties, adjoint, inverse, Cramer’s Rule, solving linear equations using Cramer’s Rule and matrix method)

Differential Calculus: Limits (indeterminate forms), continuity and differentiability, derivatives (product rule, quotient rule, chain rule), derivatives of implicit and parametric functions, second-order derivatives, Rolle’s Theorem, Mean Value Theorem, applications of derivatives (tangent/normal, increasing/decreasing functions, maxima and minima, L’Hopital’s Rule).

Integral Calculus: Integration by substitution, partial fractions, parts; definite integrals (properties, limit of sum); area under curves; differential equations (order, degree, variable separation, homogeneous, linear first-order)

Conditional probability, multiplication theorem, independent events, Bayes’ theorem, random variables, probability distribution (mean and variance), Bernoulli trials, Binomial distribution

Vectors as directed line segments, magnitude and direction, position vector, types of vectors, addition and subtraction, scalar (dot) product, vector (cross) product, scalar triple product, applications

Direction cosines and ratios, equation of a line in 3D, angle between lines, shortest distance between skew lines, equation of a plane (various forms), angle between plane and line, coplanarity of lines, distance from a point to a plane

Application of Calculus (marginal cost, revenue in economics), Linear Regression (regression lines, Pearson correlation coefficient), Linear Programming (graphical method, optimal solution, maximisation and minimisation)

Partnership fundamentals (deed, capital accounts, P&L appropriation), goodwill (nature, valuation methods), admission of a partner, retirement and death of a partner, dissolution of partnership

Issue and forfeiture of shares, redemption of preference shares, issue and redemption of debentures, Final Accounts of companies (Trading and P&L account, Balance Sheet), provisions, reserves

Cash Flow Statement (operating, investing, financing activities), Ratio Analysis (liquidity, solvency, profitability, activity ratios), common-size statements

Spreadsheet applications for accounting, database management systems (DBMS) in accounting, accounting software concepts

Utility analysis (TU, MU, law of DMU), indifference curve analysis, budget line, consumer equilibrium, demand, elasticity of demand (price, income, cross)

Production function, Law of Variable Proportions, returns to scale, costs (TC, TVC, TFC, MC, AC), revenue (TR, AR, MR)

Perfect competition (features, equilibrium of firm and industry), monopoly (features, price-output determination, price discrimination), monopolistic competition (features, short-run and long-run equilibrium)

Concepts of GDP, GNP, NNP, National Income (methods of measurement), Keynesian consumption function, multiplier, investment function

Functions of money, commercial banking (credit creation, demand deposits), Central Bank (RBI) functions, tools of monetary policy

Government budget (revenue and capital accounts, fiscal deficit), Balance of Payments (current and capital account), exchange rate determination (fixed vs floating)

Boolean laws and theorems, De Morgan’s Law, simplification of Boolean expressions, Karnaugh maps (up to 4 variables), logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR), half adder and full adder

Classes and objects, constructors, method overloading, inheritance (single and multilevel), polymorphism, interfaces, abstract classes, exception handling, wrapper classes, String handling (String, StringBuffer)

Arrays (1D and 2D), sorting algorithms (bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort), searching (linear and binary search), stacks (array and linked list implementation), queues (circular queue, dequeue), single linked list (insertion, deletion, traversal), binary trees (traversal: preorder, inorder, postorder), Big-O notation and algorithm complexity