INTERNATIONAL HOPE SCHOOL BANGLADESH

SENIOR SECTIONS
SCHOLARSHIP EXAMNIANTIONS SYLLABUS
Class – 7
1. Bangladesh & Global Studies
Chapter 1: History of Bangladesh
Chapter: 2: Bangladesh & World Civilization
Chapter 12: Bangladesh & Regional Cooperation
Chapter 7: Economy of Bangladesh
Chapter 8: Bangladesh and Her Citizen
Chapter 10: Rights of Children in Bangladesh
2. Biology
BOOK-8
UNIT 3-THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
❖ THE HUMAN CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
❖ THE HEART
❖ BLOOD & BLOOD VESSELS

UNIT 4-RESPIRATION
❖ THE HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
❖ GAS EXCHANGE
❖ AEROBIC RESPIRATION
❖ KEEPING FIT
❖ CIGARETTES & HEALTH

UNIT 5-REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

❖ GAMETES
❖ THE HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
❖ WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EGG CELL
❖ THE JOURNETY FROM EMBRYO TO BABY
❖ GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
❖ LIFESTYLE & HEALTH
BOOK-9
UNIT 1-PLANTS
❖ PHOTOSYNTHESIS
❖ MINERAL SALTS FOR PLANTS
❖ IMPORTANCE OF WATER FOR PLANTS
❖ FLOWERS AS REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN
❖ POLLINATION
❖ FERTILIZATION
❖ HOW FRUITS & SEEDS FORM

UNIT 2- LIVING THINGS IN THEIR ENVIRONMEMT

 ❖ PLANT & ANIMAL ADAPTATION
❖ ECOLOGY
❖ FOOD WEB & ENERGY FLOW
❖ DECOMPOSERS
❖ POPULATIONS & POLLUTION
❖ HABITAT DESTRUCTION
❖ PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

UNIT 3-VARIATION & INHERITANCE

❖ VARIATION
❖ INHERITENCE
❖ SELECTIVE BREEDING
❖ NATURAL SELECTION
❖ CHARLES DARWIN

3. English

Grammar:
English Punctuation (full stop, question mark, semi colon, comma), Present
LANGUAGE Participles, Connectives, Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses,
Sentence Structure (Complex), Time Adverbials, Adverb Phrase,
Cambridge Preposition, Paraphrasing, Active and Passive expression.
Lower secondary Punctuation, Prepositions, Present and Past participles, Sentence
Structure, Complex sentence, Connectives, Adjectives and
Cambridge Intensifiers, Connotations, Emphatic adverbials, Etc.
Check point 8 Composition:
Informal letter writing, semi-formal letter writing, short story writing,
Course book & News Article, News Report, Short Story, Account Writing, Summary,
Workbook Genre Transformation, Descriptive writing, etc.

Unit 1 to 11

4. Chemistry

1: Mixtures Topics
1. Compounds and mixtures
2. Separating mixtures
3. Chromatography
4. Solutions
5. Solubility & its investigation
2: Material Changes Topics
6. Physical & Chemical changes
7. Burring
8. Reaction with acids
9. Rearranging atoms
10. Mass conservation
11. Detecting chemical reactions
12. Rusting

3: Material Topics
Properties 13. The structure of the atom
14. More about the structure of atoms
15. Trends in group 1
16. Trends in some other group

4: Energy changes Topics

17. Energy Changes
18. More exothermic reactions
19. Endothermic processes
20. Exothermic or endothermic?

5: Reactivity Topics
21. Metals and their reactions with oxygen
22. Reaction of metals in water
23. Reaction of metals with dilute acid
24. Reactivity Series
25. Displacement reaction
26. Using displacement reactions

6: Salts Topics
27. What is salt?
28. Preparing a salt using a metal and acid
29. Metal carbonates and acids
30. Forming salts by crystallization

7: Rates of reaction Topics

1. Measuring the rate of reaction
2. Changes in the rate of reaction
3. Surface area and the rate of reaction.
4. Temperature and the rate of reaction
5. Physics

1: General Physics Density

1. Recall and use the equation density = mass/volume

2. Describe an experiment to measure the density of a regularly
shaped solid
3. Describe an experiment to measure the density of an irregularly
shaped solid
4. Describe an experiment to measure the density of a solid
5. Describe an experiment to measure the density of gases
6. Predict whether an object will float based on density data

Pressure
7. Recall and use the equation pressure = force/area
8. Explain how pressure can be increased or decreased using
examples
9. Relate the understanding of kinetic theory of particles in solids,
liquids and gases to the pressure exerted by them
10. Describe the relationship between pressure and depth of a liquid
11. Explain the pressure in gases in different contexts (e.g.,
atmospheric pressure, aerosol sprays, crushing a can, etc.)

Moments
12. Describe the moment of a force as a measure of its turning
effect and give everyday examples
13. Understand that increasing force or distance from the pivot
increases the moment of a force
14. Calculate moment using the product force x perpendicular
distance from the pivot
15.Apply the principle of moments to the balancing of a beam
about a pivot

2: Thermal Physics Heat and energy transfers

16. State the distinguishing properties of solids, liquids and gases

17. Describe qualitatively the molecular structure of solids, liquids
and gases in terms of the arrangement, separation and motion
of the molecules
 18. Relate a rise in the temperature of a body to an increase in its
internal energy
19. Describe evaporation in terms of the escape of more-energetic
molecules from the surface of a liquid
20. Relate evaporation to the consequent cooling of the liquid
21. Give a simple molecular account of conduction in solids including
lattice vibration and transfer by electrons
22. Describe experiments to demonstrate the properties of good
and bad thermal conductors
23. Describe how convection transfers thermal energy in liquids and
gases
24. Identify infrared radiation as part of the electromagnetic
spectrum
25. Recognise that thermal energy transfer by radiation does not
require a medium
26. Describe the effect of surface colour (black or white) and texture
(dull or shiny) on the emission, absorption and reflection of
radiation
27. Identify and explain some of the everyday applications and
consequences of conduction, convection and radiation

3: Electricity and Magnetism

Magnetism
28. Describe the forces between magnets and magnetic materials
29. Describe the process of magnetic induction
30. Explain that magnetic forces are due to interactions between
magnetic fields
31. Draw magnetic fields around a bar magnet
32. Describe an experiment to identify the pattern of magnetic field
lines, including the direction
33. Plot magnetic fields around a current-carrying wire and a
current-carrying coil
34. Describe how an electromagnet is created and used

Electricity
35. State that there are positive and negative charges
36. State that unlike charges attract and that like charges repel
37. Describe simple experiments to show the production and
detection of electrostatic charges
38. State that charging a body involves the addition or removal of
electrons
 39. Explain how various induced charges work: preventing an
explosion, lightning, van de Graaff generator
40. Distinguish between electrical conductors and insulators and
give typical examples
41. State that current in metals due to a flow of electrons
42. Draw and interpret simple circuits
43. Describe the relationship between the resistance and the flow of
current in a wire
44. Describe circuit components such as resistors and fuses
45. Describe an experiment to measure the current flowing through
a wire, using an ammeter

46. State that the combined resistance of two resistors in parallel is

less than that of either resistor by itself
47. Define and describe voltage of a circuit
48. Describe an experiment to measure the volage supplied to a
circuit using a voltmeter.

6. Mathematics

TOPIC SUB-TOPIC
 Algebraic Expressions and Linear Equations:

✓ Define a function
✓ Express simple functions algebraically and represent
them in mappings
✓ Define a formula
✓ State that letters and numbers play different roles in
equations, formulae and functions
✓ Use letters to represent variables in linear expressions
✓ Construct linear expressions
Algebra ✓ Add and subtract linear expressions, including
distinguish between unlike terms and group like terms
✓ Expand linear expressions using distributive property
✓ Multiply a single term over a bracket
✓ Derive and use simple formulae to solve mathematical
problems
✓ Change the subject of a formula
✓ Substitute positive and negative integers into formulae,
linear expressions and expressions involving small
powers
✓ Use index notation for powers
✓ Construct and solve linear equations with integer
coefficients
o Decimal coefficients and fraction coefficients
also taught
 Coordinate Geometry and Graphs:

✓ Identify the axes and quadrants of a coordinate plane

✓ Construct tables of values and use all four quadrants to
plot the graphs of linear functions, where y is explicitly
given in terms of x
✓ Use y = mx + c to express the formula of a straight-line
graph, and be able to state the meaning of the letters m
and c
✓ Calculate the gradient of a straight line by using the
drawn graph or from a set of coordinates provided using
m=
✓ Find the y-intercept of a straight line by using the drawn
graph or from a set of coordinates provided using algebra
✓ Find the midpoint of a line segment AB, given the
coordinates of A and B
✓ Draw and interpret graphs in real-life contexts involving
more than one component

Data Handling

✓ Types of data; primary and secondary data

✓ Methods of collecting data; observe, survey, focus group,
interview.
✓ Define population, census, sample, random sample.
✓ Biased and unbiased sample
✓ Discrete and continuous data
✓ Frequency tally tables
✓ Two-way tables of mutually exclusive events
✓ Grouped and ungrouped data in frequency tables
✓ Draw and interpret frequency diagrams with discrete and
continuous data
✓ Find the mean of discrete and grouped data
✓ Find the median of discrete and grouped data
✓ Find the mode of discrete and continuous data
✓ Comparison of two sets of data with their mean, median,
Data mode and range
✓ Drawing and interpreting line graphs
Handling ✓ Drawing and interpreting pie charts
✓ Drawing and interpreting stem- leaf diagram
 ✓ Difference between bar graphs and histogram for discrete
and continuous data

Probability

✓ Probability of an event occurring and not occurring.

✓ Probability of equally likely outcomes and non- equally
likely outcomes
✓ Listing of all possible outcomes with two- way tables and
tree- diagrams
✓ Difference between theoretical and experimental probability

Angles and angle properties

✓ Solve problems involving angles on a straight line, angles at

a point and vertically opposite angles
✓ Identify alternate angles and corresponding angle
✓ Properties of angles on parallel and intersecting lines
✓ Prove that the angle sum of a triangle is 180° and that of a
quadrilateral is 360°
✓ Prove that the exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum
of the two interior opposite angles
✓ Classify a triangle based on its angles
Geometry ✓ Properties of angles in a triangle
✓ Properties of angles in a quadrilateral

Geometrical Constructions

✓ Recognize simple congruent figures; Know that if two 2D

shapes are congruent, corresponding sides and angles are
equal
✓ Similar triangles; know that similar triangles have equal
corresponding angles and all the ratios of corresponding
sides are equal
✓ Know the difference between congruent and similar triangles
✓ Use a straight edge and compasses to construct the bisector
of an angle
✓ Use a straight edge and compasses to construct a
perpendicular bisector of a line segment and the midpoint
✓ Use a ruler and compasses to construct a triangle, given three
sides (SSS)
✓ Use a ruler and compasses to construct a triangle, given a
right angle, hypotenuse and one side (RHS)
✓ Use a ruler and compasses to draw circles and arcs
✓ Find the actual or scale dimensions when scale ratios are
given
✓ Find scale ratios when given dimensions
✓ Interpret and make simple scale drawings
Transformations

✓ Translation, reflection, rotation and enlargement.

✓ Geometrical approach to reflection.
✓ Geometrical approach to rotation.
 ✓ Geometrical approach to enlargement.
✓ Geometrical technique to find line of reflection from object
and image.
✓ Geometrical technique to find centre of enlargement and
scale factor from object and image.

Area and Volume

✓ Derive and use formulae for the area of a triangle
✓ Identify the height as the length that is perpendicular to the
length considered the base on the triangle
✓ Derive and use formulae for the area of a parallelogram
(including squares, rectangles and rhombuses
✓ Calculate areas of compound 2D shapes
✓ Solve word problems involving real-life contexts by finding
the areas of compound 2D shapes
o Extended to compound shapes involving circles,
semicircles and quarter circles
✓ Derive and use formulae for the area and circumference of a
Mensuration circle
✓ Calculate lengths, surface areas and volumes of cuboids
✓ Use nets to find the area of rectangular prisms (cuboids) and
triangular prisms
✓ Solve word problems involving real-life contexts using the
surface areas and volumes of regular 3D shapes

Measurements and unit conversations

✓ Some common imperial units and metric units

✓ Using unitary method to convert km to miles
 ✓ Different units of the same physical quantity e.g.: mm, cm, m
&km; relationship between these units
✓ Review on arriving and departure time at different time
zones
Shapes and Symmetry

✓ Recall the concept of quadrilaterals according to their

properties, including diagonal properties.
✓ Recall the concepts of angle properties: parallel lines, angles
on a straight line, angles around a point.
✓ Introduce students to isosceles trapezium and kite. Use
angle properties to derive quadrilateral angle properties
✓ Identify all the symmetries of 2D shapes; line symmetry and
rotational symmetry
✓ Draw simple nets of solids.
(Students will prepare 3D shapes and nets of different
shapes as a project)

Integers:

✓ Add and subtract positive and negative integers with each

other
✓ Multiply and divide positive and negative integers with each
other
✓ Identify and use multiples and factors, find HCF and LCM of
up to three numbers, and write a number in terms of its prime
factors
Numbers ✓ Write a number in terms of its prime numbers in index
notation
✓ Calculate squares and find positive and negative square roots
of given numbers
✓ Calculate cubes of positive and negative numbers

Decimals:

✓ Identify the place value of decimals up to thousandths place

✓ Round off decimal numbers to the nearest integer, tenths,
hundredths and thousandths
✓ Add and subtract decimals
✓ Multiply and divide decimals by whole numbers
✓ Multiply and divide decimals by other decimals
✓ Multiply and divide decimals by powers of 10
o [e.g., 0.01, 0.1, 10, 100]
 ✓ Estimate and approximate decimals in word problems
Fractions:

✓ Find equivalent fractions, and simplify fractions by finding

equivalent fractions
✓ Convert fractions into decimals and vice versa
✓ Convert decimals into fractions and vice versa
✓ Differentiate between like and unlike fractions
✓ Find common denominators using LCM to compare unlike
fractions
✓ Compare and order fractions by converting them into like
fractions or by converting them into decimals
✓ Convert improper fractions into mixed fractions and vice
versa
✓ Add and subtract like, unlike, and mixed fractions with each
other
✓ Multiply proper and mixed fractions with an integer
✓ Calculate the fraction of a quantity
✓ Calculate the percentage of a quantity
✓ Divide integers by proper and mixed fractions, by recalling
that multiplication and division are inverse operations
✓ Multiply proper fractions and mixed fractions with each
other
✓ Divide proper fractions by finding the reciprocal of the
divisor and multiplying
✓ Divide mixed fractions with each other
✓ Identify fractions that are recurring decimals
Arithmetic Sequence:

✓ Define and identify linear sequences

✓ Generate terms of a linear sequence using term-to-term
rules of sequence
✓ Generate terms of a linear sequence for spatial patterns
✓ Create position-to-term formulae for linear sequences
✓ Find the nth term in a linear sequence
✓ Solve word problems using arithmetic sequences
(including connecting ideas of coordinate geometry and
proportion)
✓ Be familiar with real-world problems involving the use
of arithmetic sequence (e.g. financial calculations,
kinematics, etc.)

Ratio and Proportions:

✓ Use the unitary method to solve simple problems

involving ratio and direct proportion
✓ Simplify ratios, including those expressed in different
units
✓ Calculate the proportion of a quantity from a given ratio
✓ Divide a quantity into more than two parts in a given
ratio
✓ Identify and find equivalent ratios
✓ Find the ratio of A:B:C given any two of the
combination of ratios [e.g. find A:B:C, A:B, B:C, A:C,
etc.]
✓ Use the knowledge of the unitary method, equivalent
ratios and proportion to solve word problems

Percentage:

✓ Find the percentage of a quantity

✓ Express one quantity as a percentage of another
✓ Use equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages to
compare different quantities