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The updated Punjab open school syllabus 2024 for classes 10th and 12th will be provided on the official website. The Punjab open school syllabus contains the latest exam pattern and overview of the board examination, and the syllabus also gives an idea about the new course structure.
Furthermore, the syllabus will help candidates appearing for classes 10th & 12th open school exams understand the Punjab open board examinations objectives. The Punjab open school syllabus can be easily downloaded by visiting the official website and performing the steps mentioned in the following sections. The syllabus will be available in PDF format; hence, the candidates can save the files to refer to while preparing for the exams.
Punjab Open School Date Sheet 2024 | Punjab Open School Admit Card 2024 |
Find below the step-by-step procedure to download the Punjab Open School 10th 2024 syllabus from the official website.
Below mentioned are the steps to download the Punjab Open School syllabus 2024 for class 10th which students must refer to.
Find below the step-by-step procedure to download the Punjab Open School 12th syllabus 2024 from the official website.
Given below are the steps to download the Punjab Open School syllabus 2024 for class 12th.
The following are the list of class 10th subjects which includes compulsory, elective, and vocational subjects.
Compulsory Subjects | Elective Subjects | Pre-Vocational Subjects | NSQF |
Punjabi and Punjabi history | Urdu | Computer Science (Prevocational) | Retail |
English | Sanskrit | Electronic & Technology | Automobile |
Science | Arabic | Farm Machinery | Health Care |
Social Science | French | Knitting (Hand and Machine) | Information Technology |
Mathematics | German | Engineering drawing and Duplicating | Security |
Computer Science (Grading subject) | Agriculture | Food Preservation | Beauty and Wellness |
- | Home Science | Commercial Art | Travel and Tourism |
- | Cutting and Tailoring | Manufacturing of Sports Goods | Physical Education and Sports |
- | Health Science | Manufacturing of Leather Goods | Agriculture |
- | Mechanical drawing and painting | - | - |
- | Music | - | - |
There are a few mandatory subjects and a few elective subjects at the 12th level. Find below the detailed Punjab open school syllabus 2024.
Find below the section-wise topics according to the Punjab open school syllabus 2024 for class 12th for General English.
Section | Topics |
Section A (Lessons for Intensive Study) | The March King Katherine Little Bakeless |
Robots and People Isaac Asimov | |
On Giving Advice Joseph Addison | |
On Saying 'Please' A. G. Gardiner | |
The Story of My Life Helen Keller | |
Two Gentlemen of Verona A. J. Cronin | |
In Celebration of Being Alive, Dr. Christian Barnard | |
Thinking Out of the Box: Lateral Thinking (Adapted from the article from the Internet) | |
Gadari Babas in Kalapani JailDr.Harish Puri | |
Section B (Poetry) | Prayer of the Woods Anonymous |
On Friendship Khalil Gibran | |
Echoing Green William Blake | |
Once upon a Time Gabriel Okara | |
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Father Returning Home Dilip Chitre | |
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost | |
On His Blindness John Milton | |
Section C (Lessons for Extensive Study) | The School for Sympathy E. V. Lucas |
Chameleon Anton Chekhov | |
Bholi K. A. Abbas | |
Gold Frame R. K. Luxman | |
The Barber's Trade Union Mulk Raj Anand | |
The Bull beneath the Earth K. S. Virk | |
Section D (Grammar and Composition) | Grammar |
Determiners | |
Use of Non-finite(Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles) | |
Transformation of Sentences | |
Voice | |
Narration | |
Composition | |
Précis writing | |
Letter writing (Official/Business/To Editors) | |
Application | |
Explaining Newspaper Headline | |
Email writing |
Find below the part-wise topics according to the Punjab open school 2024 syllabus for General Punjabi for class 12th.
Part | Topics |
Part A | Great Mughals and their legacy in Punjab. |
Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. | |
Successors of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. | |
Banda Singh Bahadur and his Martyrdom. | |
Sikhs became the Masters of Punjab. | |
Part B | Punjab under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. |
The British occupation of Punjab.Some Famous Legends of the Punjab:- | |
a. Puran Bhagat b. Heer Ranjha c. Sohni Mahiwal | |
Classical Literature of the Medieval period. | |
Part C | Banda Singh Bahadur |
Shri Guru Gobind Singh | |
Maharaja Ranjit Singh | |
First Anglo-Sikh War | |
Second Anglo Sikh war |
Find below the unit-wise topics according to the Punjab open school syllabus for Environmental Education.
Unit Number | Unit Name | Content |
Unit- I | Biodiversity | • Levels of biodiversity species, eco and genetics.• Balance in nature.• Biodiversity for the sustenance of mankind.• Resource limitation.• Ecological role of biodiversity.• Interdependence among different species.• India is a mega diverse nation.• The economic potential of biodiversity.• Loss of biodiversity- threatened, endangered, and extinct.• Strategies for conservation of biodiversity in situ and ex-situ.• Mitigating the people-wildlife conflict |
Unit II | Environmental Management | • Need for environment management vis-a-vis development.• Aspects of environmental management-ethical, economic, technological, and social.• Legal provisions for environmental management.• Approaches for environmental management- economic, policies, environmental indicators, the setting of standards, information exchange, and surveillance.• The problem of stubble and its management ( study material uploaded on the website) |
Unit-III | Sustainable Development | • The concept of sustainable development.• The concept of sustainable consumption.• Need for sustainable development for improving the quality of life for the present and future.• Challenges for sustainable development-political and administrative will, dynamic and flexible policy, appropriate technologies, comprehensive review and revision mechanisms, and human approach.• Development of skilled manpower.• Role of individual and community.• Role of national and international agencies (both governmental and non-governmental) |
Unit IV | Sustainable Agriculture | • Need for sustainable agriculture.• Green revolution-impact on the environment.• Importance of soil for crops, Irrigation systems, use of manure and fertilizers.• Crop protection-major plant pests and diseases (wheat, rice, cotton, sugarcane, potato), measures for their control of agrochemicals. Impact of agrochemicals on the environment.• Elements of sustainable agriculture-mixed farming, mixed cropping, crop rotation, biological and economic consideration, use of biofertilizers and biopesticides, biological pest control, integrated pest management.• Application of biotechnology in crop improvement.• Management of agricultural produce- storage, preservation, transportation, and processing |
Unit-V | Environmental Actions | • Meeting basic human needs, food, water, shelter, and fuel for all.• Population control• Changing consumption patterns.• Prevention and control of environmental pollution.• Waste management- reduce, reuse, and recycle;• Community movement for ecological restoration and conservation of environment like joint forest Management (JFM), student's participation in tree rearing, social and agroforestry.• Drugs-ill effects(Part-II) Consequences of use of different drugs, narcotic drugs, and psychotropic substances Act-1985 offenses as penalties. (study material uploaded on the website) |
Find below the unit-wise topics according to the Punjab open school syllabus 2024 for Mathematics for class 12th.
Unit Name | Topics |
Relations and Functions | Types of relations: Reflexive, symmetric, transitive, and equivalence relations. One to one and onto functions, composite functions, the inverse of a function. Binary operations. |
Inverse Trigonometric Functions | Definition, Range, Domain, Principal value branches. Graphs of inverse trigonometric functions. elementary properties of inverse trigonometric functions. |
Matrices |
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Determinants |
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Continuity and Differentiability |
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Applications of Derivatives |
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Integrals |
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Applications of Integrals | Applications in finding the area under simple curves, especially lines, areas of circles/parabolas/ellipses (in standard form only), area between the two above said curves (the region should be clearly identifiable). |
Differential Equations | Definition, order, and degree, general and particular solutions of a differential equation. Formation of the differential equation whose general solution is given.A solution of differential equations by the method of separation of variables, homogeneous differential equations of the first order and first degree. |
Vectors | Vectors, scalars, magnitude and direction of a vector. Direct cosines/ratios of vectors.Types of vectors (equal, unit, zero, parallel and collinear vectors), position vector of a point, negative of a vector, components of a vector, the addition of vectors, multiplication of a vector by a scalar, position vector of a point dividing a line segment in a given ratio. Scalar (dot) product of vectors, a projection of a vector on a line. Vector (cross) product of vectors, scalar triple product. |
Three-dimensional Geometry | Direction cosines/ ratios of a line joining two points. Cartesian and vector equation of a line, coplanar and skew lines, the shortest distance between two lines. Cartesian and vector equation of a plane. The angle between(i) two lines,(ii) two planes,(iii) a line and a plane.The distance of a point from a plane |
Linear Programming | Introduction, the definition of related terminology such as constraints, objectives function, optimization, different types of linear programming (L.P.) problems, the mathematical formulation of L.P problems, graphical method of solution for problems in two variables, feasible and infeasible regions, feasible and infeasible solutions, optimal feasible solutions (up to three non-trivial constraints) |
Probability | Multiplication theorem on probability. Conditional probability, independent events, total probability, Bayes theorem, Random variable, and its probability distribution, mean, and variance of a haphazard variable.Repeated independent (Bernoulli) trials and Binomial distribution. |
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