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(Notification) National Talent Search Examination 2017-2018
CBSE 2017-18 Syllabus Class-11 : Psychology
CBSE 2017-18 Syllabus Class-11 : Political Science
CBSE 2017-18 Syllabus Class-11 : Sociology

(Notification) National Talent Search Examination 2017-2018

Posted: 29 Aug 2017 04:34 AM PDT

(Notification) National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) 2017-18

THE NATIONAL TALENT SEARCH EXAMINATION for the students studying abroad in Class X is meant to identify and nurture talent. The examination is conducted every year at two levels: Stage-I (State Level) and Stage-II (National Level), however, the students studying abroad are exempted for State Level Stage-I of NTS examinations as per NTS Scheme.

Scholarships: About One thousand scholarships are awarded for different stages of education as follows:

(a) Scholarship of Rs.1250/- per month for Class-XI to XII.
(b) Scholarship of Rs.2000/- per month for Undergraduates and Post-graduates.
(c) Amount of Scholarship for Ph.D. be fixed in accordance with the UGC norms.

Eligibility:

All students of Class X studying in recognized schools are eligible to appear for the Stage-I examination, conducted by the States/UTs, in which the schools are located. There will be no domicile restriction.

Students registered under Open Distance Learning (ODL) will also be eligible for scholarship, provided the student is below the age of 18 years (as on 1st July of the particular year), the student is not employed and s/he is appearing in class X examination for the first time.

Reservation: 15% for students belonging to the SC category, 7.5% for students belonging to the ST category and 3% for Physically Challenged Group of Students.

Qualifying Marks: Qualifying marks for candidates from General category is 40% in each paper and for candidates from SC, ST, PH is 32% in each paper.

Language Test Qualifying in nature and marks obtained for Language Test will not be counted for final merit.

Exam Syllabus:

Paper	Test	No. of Questions	No. of Marks	Duration (in minutes)
Paper-I	Mental Ability Test (MAT)	50	50	45
Paper-II	Language Test (LT) English/Hindi	50	50	45
Paper-III	Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) 1	100	100	90

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Important Dates:

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CBSE 2017-18 Syllabus Class-11 : Psychology

Posted: 29 Aug 2017 12:15 AM PDT

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CBSE Class-11 Syllabus 2017-18

Subject: Psychology

Psychology is introduced as an elective subject at the higher secondary stage of school education. As a discipline, psychology specializes in the study of experiences, behaviours, and mental processes of human beings within a socio-cultural historical context. This course purports to introduce the learners to the basic ideas, principles, and methods in Psychology. The emphasis is to create interest and exposure needed by learners to develop their own knowledge base and understanding. The course deals with psychological knowledge and practices which are contextually rooted. It emphasizes the complexity of behavioural processes and discourages simplistic cause-effect thinking. This is pursued by encouraging critical reasoning, allowing students to appreciate the role of cultural factors in behaviour, and illustrating how biology and experiences shape behaviour. It is suggested that the teaching - learning processes should involve students in evolving their own understanding, therefore, teaching of Psychology should be based on the use of case studies, narratives,

experiential exercises, analysis of common everyday experiences, etc.

Objectives:

To develop appreciation about human mind and behaviour in the context of learners’ immediate society and environment.
To develop in learners an appreciation of the nature of psychological knowledge and its application to various aspects of life.
To enable learners to become perceptive, socially aware and self-reflective.
To facilitate students’ quest for personal growth and effectiveness, and to enable them to become responsive and responsible citizens.

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CBSE 2017-18 Syllabus Class-11 : Political Science

Posted: 29 Aug 2017 12:06 AM PDT

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CBSE Class-11 Syllabus 2017-18

Subject: Political Science

Rationale

At the senior secondary level students who opt Political Science are given an opportunity to get introduced to the diverse concerns of a Political Scientist. At this level there is a need to enable students to engage with political processes that surround them and provide them with an understanding of the historical context that has shaped the present. The different courses introduce the students to the various streams of the discipline of Political Science: Political Theory, Indian Politics and International Politics. Concerns of the other two streams - Comparative Politics and Public Administration- are accommodated at different placesin these courses. In introducing these streams, special care has been taken not to burden the students with the current jargon of the discipline. The basic idea here is to lay the foundations for a serious engagement with the discipline at the under graduation stage.

Objectives:

Indian Constitution at Work

Enable students to understand the historical processes and the circumstances in which the Constitution was drafted.
Provide opportunity for students to become familiar with the diverse visions that guided the makers of the Indian Constitution.
Enable students to identify certain key features of the Constitution and compare these to other constitutions in the world.
Analyse the ways in which the provisions of the Constitution have worked in real political life. Political Theory
Develop the skills for logical reasoning and abstraction.
Inculcate attention to and respect for viewpoints other than one's own.
Introduce students to the different political thinkers in relation to a concept and in everyday social life.
Enable students to meaningfully participate in and develop internal concerns of the political life that surrounds them.
Encourage the students to analyse any unexamined prejudices that one may have inherited. Contemporary World Politics
Enable the students to expand their horizons beyond India and make sense of the political map of contemporary world.
Familiarise the students with some of the key political events and processes in the post cold war era.
Equip students to be conscious of the way in which global events and processes shape our everyday lives.
Strengthen their capacity for political analysis by thinking of contemporary developments in a historical perspective. Politics in India after Independence
Enable students to become familiar with some of the key political events and figures in the postindependence period.
Develop skills of political analysis through an understanding of events and processes of recent history.
Develop their capacity to link macro processes with micro situations and their own life.
Encourage the students to take a historical perspective of making sense of contemporary India.

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CBSE 2017-18 Syllabus Class-11 : Sociology

Posted: 28 Aug 2017 11:23 PM PDT

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CBSE Class-11 Syllabus 2017-18

Subject: Sociology

Rationale

Sociology is introduced as an elective subject at the senior secondary stage. The syllabus is designed to help learners to reflect on what they hear and see in the course of everyday life and develop a constructive attitude towards society in change; to equip a learner with concepts and theoretical skills for the purpose. The curriculum of Sociology at this stage should enable the learner to understand dynamics of human behaviour in all its complexities and manifestations. The learners of today need answers and explanations to satisfy the questions that arise in their minds while trying to understand social world. Therefore, there is a need to develop an analytical approach towards the social structure so that they can meaningfully participate in the process of social change. There is scope in the syllabus not only for interactive learning, based on exercises and project work but also for teachers and students to jointly innovate new ways of learning.

Sociology studies society. The child’s familiarity with the society in which she /he lives in makes the study of Sociology a double edged experience. At one level Sociology studies institutions such as family and kinship, class, caste and tribe religion and region- contexts with which children are familiar of, even if differentially. For India is a society which is varied both horizontally and vertically. The effort in the books will be to grapple overtly with this both as a source of strength and as a site for interrogation.
Significantly the intellectual legacy of Sociology equips the discipline with a plural perspective that overtly engages with the need for defamiliarization, to unlearn and question the given. This interrogative and critical character of Sociology also makes it possible to understand both other cultures as well as relearn about one’s own culture.
This plural perspective makes for an inbuilt richness and openness that not too many other disciplines in practice share. From its very inception Sociology has had mutually enriching and contesting traditions of an interpretative method that openly takes into account ‘subjectivity’ and causal explanations that pay due importance to establishing causal correspondences with considerable sophistication. Not surprisingly its field work tradition also entails large scale survey methods as well as a rich ethnographic tradition. Indeed Indian sociology, in particular has bridged this distinction between what has often been seen as distinct approaches of Sociology and social anthropology. The syllabus provides ample opportunity to make the child familiar with the excitement of field work as well as its theoretical significance for the very discipline of Sociology.