Competition Syllabus
Mathematics
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
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
3. Data and Measurement
• Data representation and interpretation
• Mean, median, and mode of a set of data
4. Counting Techniques
5. Recreational Mathematics
Science
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
