Competition Syllabus
Mathematics
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1. Arithmetic
Whole numbers, Rational numbers and their representations (fraction, decimals, and
percentages), pattern recognition, Factors and Multiples, Greatest Common Divisor,
Least Common Multiples, Ordering of numbers, and Ratio and Proportion
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2. Geometry
Properties of polygons (Triangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezium) and circles
• Angle and its measure
• Area and Perimeter of different polygons
• Symmetry, reflection and rotation, similarity and proportion Properties solid
figures
• Nets of a cube, and parallelepiped
• Symmetry, reflection and rotation, similarity, and proportion
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3. Data and Measurement
• Data representation and interpretation
• Mean, median, and mode of a set of data
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4. Counting Techniques
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5. Recreational Mathematics
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Science
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1. Science skills and methodology: general health (nutrition, common disease, and
prevention)
2. General environmental issues: deforestation, managing natural resource pollution, water and carbon cycle, etc
3. Basic ecology: habitat, interaction, food chain and food web, population, ecosystem, life cycle, etc
4. Physiology: photosynthesis and respiration.
5. Current technological developments: GMOs, biotech, biofuel, satellites, etc.
6. Human anatomy and functions: skeleton and movement, olfactory system, auditory system, mouth, eyes, circulatory, digestive system, skin, respiratory system) and its
disease and problems.
7. Classifying organisms: based on their food, anatomy, systematics, reproduction system and its habitat.
8. Mechanics: motion of objects, static fluid and gas
9. Solar system: members of the solar system, rotation of earth and moon, earth and moon eclipses
10. Planet Earth: structure, surface, the process of earth formation, water cycle, renewable resources, climate, seasons, gravitation, wind
11. Electricity and magnetism: applications, models
12. Matter: properties, phase transformation (solid, liquid, gas) physical, chemical, and biological transformation)
13. Thermal properties: temperature, thermometer, energy, conduction, convection, radiation
14. Light: property, vision, color
15. Forces: change in shape, magnetic, gravitation, frictional forces
16. Energy and energy changes: kinetic, potential, heat, sound, renewable, energy conversion
