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Std’11 – Psychology

Introduction You were, perhaps, asked by your teacher in the first class why you opted for psychology over other subjects. What do you hope to learn? If you were asked this question, what was your response? Generally, the range of responses which surface in class to this question are truly bewildering. Most students give inane responses, like they want to know what others are thinking. But then one also comes across such responses as knowing oneself, knowing others or more specific responses like knowing why people dream, why people go out of their way to help others or beat each other up. All ancient traditions have engaged themselves with questions about human nature WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY?  Any knowledge discipline is hard to define. Firstly, because it evolves continuously. Secondly, because the range of phenomena it studies cannot be captured by any one definition. This is even more true of psychology. Long time back, students like yourself were told that the term psychol...
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Std’11 – English – Elective Course

The Lament It is twilight . A thick wet snow is slowly twirling around the newly lighted street lamps and lying in soft thin layers on roofs, on horses’ backs, on people’s shoulders and hats. The cabdriver, Iona Potapov, is quite white and looks like a phantom: he is bent double as far as a human body can bend double; he is seated on his box; he never makes a move. If a whole snowdrift fell on him, it seems as if he would not find it necessary to shake it off. His little horse is also quite white, and remains motionless; its immobility, its angularity and its straight wooden-looking legs, even close by, give it the appearance of a gingerbread horse worth a kopek. It is, no doubt, plunged in deep thought. If you were snatched from the plough, from your usual gray surroundings, and were thrown into this slough full of monstrous lights, unceasing noise and hurrying people, you too would find it difficult not to think. Iona and his little horse have not moved from their place for a l...
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Std’11 – Statistics – Statistics for Economics

Introduction 1. WHY ECONOMICS?  You have, perhaps, already had Economics as a subject for your earlier classes at school. You might have been told this subject is mainly around what Alfred Marshall (one of the founders of modern economics) called “the study of man in the ordinary business of life”. Let us understand what that means. When you buy goods (you may want to satisfy your own personal needs or those of your family or those of any other person to whom you want to make a gift) you are called a consumer. When you sell goods to make a profit for yourself (you may be a shopkeeper), you are called a seller. When you produce goods (you may be a farmer or a manufacturer), you are called a producer.  When you are in a job, working for some other person, and you get paid for it (you may be employed by somebody who pays you wages or a salary), you are called a service holder. When you provide some kind of service to others for a payment (you may be a lawyer or a do...
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CBSE-CLASS VII-SA I-ENGLISH SET A Question Paper

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT I     ENGLISH - SET A  SECTION - A (READING)  1. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow: Only a century ago most villages were largely self-sufficing communities. Every trade was represented by its local technicians, the local produce was consumed or exchanged in the neighbourhood; the inhabitants worked on the spot. If they desired instruction or entertainment or religion, they had to mobilize the local talent and produce it themselves. Today, all this is changed. (para 1)  Thanks to new methods of transport, the village is now closely bound with the rest of the economic world. Supplies and technical service are obtained from a distance. Large number of the inhabitants go out and work in factories and offices in far-off cities. Music and drama are provided not by local talents, but over the radio, the television and at the theatres. (para 2)  Once all the members of the community were always on the s...
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ICSE-CLASS X-original_qp_2017_chemistry

CHEMISTRY SCIENCE Paper – 2 SECTION I (40 Marks)    1 (a) Choose the most appropriate answer.          (i) Which of the following is a common characteristic of a covalent compound?                  A High melting point.                  B Conducts electricity when it is in the molten state.                  C Consists of molecules.                  D Always soluble in water.         (ii) Ammonium hydroxide will produce a reddish brown precipitate when added to a solution of                   A CuSO4                  B Zn(NO3)2                  C FeSO4          ...
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ICSE-CLASS X-original_qp_2017_Geography Question Paper

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GEOGRAPHY  H.C.G. – Paper – 2 View More in   ICSE-CLASS X-original_qp_2017_Geography Question Paper
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CBSE-CLASS VII-QP-COMPUTER SCIENCE Question Paper

COMPUTER SCIENCE  CLASS VII 1.Fill in the following blanks:  We can assign multiple cells to Excel formula by creating ____________.  The hexadecimal number system has the base ___________ .  In MS- Excel 2010, the file extension is ______________.  _______ chart displays data in the form of long rectangular rods.  _______ is the founder of Twitter.  _______Excel function multiplies the value in a range of cells.  2. State whether the following statements are True or False:   The numbers used in octal number system are 1to7.  We can change the pattern of data series using fill button.  When we insert chart in Excel, the data is displayed in a special window.  We can sort data only in one field.  Pop-ups are extra browser windows for online storage.  In Excel, range names are not case sensitive.  3. Differentiate between the following terms:  Category Axis and Value Axis...
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