Odisha 10th Class Syllabus 2022 – Download 10th Class Subject Wise Syllabus

Unit-I: Number Systems

Real Numbers

Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic – statements after reviewing work done earlier and after
illustrating and motivating through examples, Proofs of results – irrationality of √2, √3, √5,
decimal expansions of rational numbers in terms of terminating/non-terminating recurring
decimals.

Unit-II: Algebra

Polynomials

Zeros of a polynomial. Relationship between zeros and coefficients of a polynomial with particular reference to quadratic polynomials.

Pair of Linear Equations in two variables

Pair of linear equations in two variables. Geometric representation of different possibilities of
solutions/inconsistency. Algebraic conditions for a number of solutions. Solution of pair of linear equations in two variables algebraically- by substitution, by elimination. Simple situational problems must be included. Simple problems on equations reducible to linear equations may be included.

Quadratic Equations

Standard form of a quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0, (a ≠ 0) Solution of the quadratic
equations(only real roots) by factorization and by completing the square, i.e. by using the quadratic formula. Relationship between discriminant and nature of roots. Problems related to day-to-day activities to be incorporated.

Arithmetic Progression

Motivation for studying AP. Derivation of standard results of finding the nth term and sum of the first n terms.

Unit-IV: Geometry

 Triangles

• Definitions, examples, and counter-examples of similar triangles.
•  If a line is drawn parallel to one side of a triangle to intersect the other two sides in distinct points, the other two sides are divided in the same ratio.
• If a line divides two sides of a triangle in the same ratio, the line is parallel to the third side.
• If in two triangles, the corresponding angles are equal, their corresponding sides are proportional and the triangles are similar.
• If the corresponding sides of two triangles are proportional, their corresponding angles are equal and the two triangles are similar.
• If one angle of a triangle is equal to one angle of another triangle and the sides including these angles are proportional, the two triangles are similar.
•  If a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle of a right triangle to the hypotenuse, the triangles on each side of the perpendicular are similar to the whole triangle and to each other.
• The ratio of the areas of two similar triangles is equal to the ratio of the squares of their corresponding sides.
• In a right triangle, the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.
• In a triangle, if the square on one side is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides, the angle opposite to the first side is a right angle.

Circles:

• Tangent to a circle at, the point of contact
• The tangent at any point of a circle is perpendicular to the radius through the point of contact.
• The lengths of tangents drawn from an external point to a circle are equal.
• Alternative Segment theorem: If a chord is drawn through the point of contact of a tangent to a circle, then the angles made by the chord with the tangent are respectively equal to the angles subtended by the chord in the alternate segments.

Constructions

• Division of a line segment in a given ratio (internally).
• Tangents to a circle from a point outside it.
• Construction of a triangle similar to a given triangle.

Unit-VII: Menstruation

Areas Related to Circles

Motivate the area of a circle; area of sectors and segments of a circle. Problems based on areas and perimeter / circumference of the above-said plane figures. (In calculating the area of a segment of a circle, problems should be restricted to the central angle of 60°, 90°, and 120° only. Plane figures involving triangles, simple quadrilaterals, and circles should be taken.)

Surface Areas and Volumes

Surface areas and volumes of combinations of any two of the following: cubes, cuboids, spheres, hemispheres, and right circular cylinders/cones. Frustum of a cone.

Problems involving converting one type of metallic solid into another and other mixed problems. (Problems with a combination of not more than two different solids be taken).

Unit-VII: Statistics and Probability

Statistics

Mean, median, and mode of grouped data (bimodal situation to be avoided). Cumulative frequency graph.

Probability

The classical definition of probability. Simple problems on finding the probability of an event.

Social Science

Unit-I: India and Contemporary World-I

French Revolution

(a)The Ancient Regime and its crises.
(b) The social forces that led to the revolution.
(c) The different revolutionary groups and ideas of the time. (d) The legacy. (Chapter-1)

Socialism in Europe and Russian Revolution

(a)The crises of Tzarism.
(b) The nature of social movements between 1905 and 1917.
(c) The First World War and the foundation of the Soviet state.
(d) The legacy. (Chapter 2)

Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

(a)The growth of social democracy
(b) The crises in Germany.
(c) The basis of Hitler’s rise to power.
(d) The ideology of Nazism.
(e) The impact of Nazism. (Chapter 3)

Livelihood Economies and Societies

The themes in this section will focus on how different social groups grapple with the changes in the contemporary world and how these changes affect their lives.

Forest Society and Colonialism:

(a) Relationship between forests and livelihoods.

(b) Changes in forest societies under colonialism. Case studies: Focus on two forest movements one in colonial India (Bastar) and one in Indonesia. (Chapter 4)

Pastoralists in Modern World

(a) Pastoralism as a way of life.

(b) Different forms of pastoralism.

(c) What happens to pastoralism under colonialism and modern states? Case studies: Focus on two pastoral= groups, one from Africa and one from India. (Chapter 5)

Peasants and Farmers

(a) Histories of the emergence of different forms of farming and peasant societies.
(b) Changes within rural economies in the modern world.
Case studies: Focus on contrasting forms of rural change and different forms of rural societies (expansion of large-scale wheat and cotton farming in USA, rural economy and the Agricultural Revolution in England, and small peasant production in colonial India) (Chapter 6)

Unit-II: Contemporary India-I

India – Size and Location

Physical Features of India: Relief, structure, major physiographic unit.

Drainage: Major rivers and tributaries, lakes and seas, the role of rivers in the economy, pollution of rivers, measures to control river pollution. (Chapter 3)

Climate: Factors influencing the climate; monsoon- its characteristics, rainfall, and temperature distribution; seasons; climate and human life. (Chapter 4)

 Natural Vegetation and Wild Life: Vegetation types, distribution as well as altitudinal variation, need for conservation, and various measures. Major species, their distribution, need for conservation and various measures.

Population: Size, distribution, age- sex composition, population change- migration as a determinant of population change, literacy, health, occupational structure, and national population policy: adolescents as under-served population group with special needs. (Chapter 6)

Unit-III: Democratic Politics I

What is Democracy? Why Democracy?

What are the different ways of defining democracy? Why has democracy become the most prevalent form of government in our times? What are the alternatives to democracy? Is democracy superior to its available alternatives? Must every democracy have the same institutions and values? (Chapter 2)

Constitutional Design:

How and why did India become a democracy?
How was the Indian Constitution framed?
What are the salient features of the Constitution?
How is democracy being constantly designed and redesigned in India? (Chapter 3)

Electoral Politics:

Why and how do we elect representatives?
Why do we have a system of competition among political parties?
How has the citizens’ participation in electoral politics changed?
What are the ways to ensure free and fair elections? (Chapter 4)

Working of Institutions:
How is the country governed? What does Parliament do in our democracy? What is the role of the President of India, the Prime Minister, and the Council of Ministers? How do these relate to one another? (Chapter 5)

Democratic Rights :
Why do we need rights in a constitution? What are the Fundamental Rights enjoyed by the citizen under the Indian constitution? How does the judiciary protect the Fundamental Rights of the citizen? How is the independence of the judiciary ensured? (Chapter 6)

Unit-IV: Economics

The Story of Village Palampur:
Economic transactions of Palampore and its interaction with the rest of the world through which the concept of production (including three factors of production (land, labor, and capital) can be introduced. (Chapter 1)

People as Resource: Introduction of how people become resource/asset; economic activities done by men and women; unpaid work done by women; quality of human resources; the role of health and education; unemployment as a form of non utilisation of human resource; sociopolitical implication in a simple form. (Chapter 2)

Poverty as a Challenge: Who is poor (through two case studies: one rural, one urban); indicators; absolute poverty (not as a concept but through a few simple examples)-why people are poor; unequal distribution of resources; comparison between countries; steps taken by government for poverty alleviation. (Chapter 3)

Food Security in India: Source of foodgrains, variety across the nation, famines in the past, the need for self-sufficiency, the role of government in food security, procurement of foodgrains, overflowing of granaries and people without food, public distribution system, the role of cooperatives in food security (foodgrains, milk, and vegetable ration shops, cooperative shops, two-three examples as case studies) (Chapter 4)

Science

Unit I: Chemical Substances – Nature and Behaviour Chemical Reactions

Chemical equation, Balanced chemical equation, implications of a balanced chemical equation, types of chemical reactions: combination, decomposition, displacement, double displacement, precipitation, neutralization, oxidation, and reduction.

Acids, Bases, and Salts 

Their definitions in terms of furnishing of H+ and OH– ions, General properties, examples, and uses, the concept of pH scale (Definition relating to logarithm not required), importance of pH in everyday life; preparation and uses of Sodium Hydroxide, Bleaching powder, Baking soda, Washing soda and Plaster of Paris.

Metals and Nonmetals

Properties of metals and non-metals; Reactivity series; Formation and properties of ionic compounds; Basic metallurgical processes; Corrosion and its prevention.

Carbon Compounds

Covalent bonding in carbon compounds. Versatile nature of carbon. Homologous series. Nomenclature of carbon compounds containing functional groups (halogens, alcohol, ketones, aldehydes, alkanes, and alkynes), the difference between saturated hydrocarbons and unsaturated hydrocarbons. Chemical properties of carbon compounds (combustion, oxidation, addition, and substitution reaction). Ethanol and Ethanoic acid (only properties and uses), soaps, and detergents.

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.

Unit II: World of Living

Life Processes

‘Living Being’. The basic concept of nutrition, respiration, transport, and excretion in plants and animals.

Control and co-ordination in Animals and Plants

Tropic movements in plants; Introduction of plant hormones; Control and coordination in animals: Nervous system; Voluntary, involuntary, and reflex action; Chemical coordination: animal hormones.

Reproduction

Reproduction in animals and plants (asexual and sexual) reproductive health-need and methods of family planning. Safe sex vs HIV/AIDS. Childbearing and women’s health.

Heredity and Evolution

Heredity; Mendel’s contribution- Laws for inheritance of traits: Sex determination: brief introduction; Basic concepts of evolution.

Unit III: Natural Phenomena

• Reflection of light by curved surfaces; Images formed by spherical mirrors, center of curvature, principal axis, principal focus, focal length, mirror formula (Derivation not required), magnification.
• Refraction; Laws of refraction, refractive index.
• Refraction of light by the spherical lens; Image formed by spherical lenses; Lens formula (Derivation not required); Magnification. Power of a lens.
• Functioning of a lens in the human eye, defects of vision and their corrections, applications of spherical mirrors and lenses.
• Refraction of light through a prism, dispersion of light, scattering of light, and applications in daily life.

Unit IV: Effects of Current

Electric current, potential difference, and electric current. 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.

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 the current-carrying conductor, Fleming’s Left Hand Rule, Electric Motor, Electromagnetic induction. The induced potential difference, Induced current. Fleming’s Right-Hand Rule, Electric Generator, Direct current. Alternating current: frequency of AC. Advantage of AC over DC. Domestic electric circuits.

Unit V: Natural Resources

Sources of Energy

Different forms of energy, conventional and non-conventional sources of energy: Fossil fuels, solar energy; biogas; wind, water, and tidal energy; Nuclear energy. Renewable versus non-renewable sources of Energy.

Our Environment 

Eco-system, Environmental problems, Ozone depletion, waste production and their solutions. Biodegradable and non-biodegradable substances.

Management of Natural Resources 

Conservation and judicious use of natural resources. Forest and Wildlife; Coal and Petroleum conservation. Examples of people’s participation in the conservation of natural resources. Big dams: advantages and limitations; alternatives, if any. Water harvesting. Sustainability of natural resources.

I hope this article is useful to the students who are preparing for the 10th class examinations.

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