CYCLIC ASSESSMENT 1 SCHEDULE – 2025-26
Cyclic Assessment 1- Grade 9
(Session 2025-2026)
Assessments for Grade 9
Day
Date
Grade 9
Cyclic Assessment 1
Wednesday
May-7
Hindi /Tamil/ French,
Computer Science
Cyclic Assessment 1
Wednesday
May-14
Biology, Chemistry
Cyclic Assessment 1
Wednesday
May-21
Mathematics, English
Cyclic Assessment 1
Wednesday
May-28
Physics, Economics
(2025-2026)
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26
SYLLABUS
Cyclic Assessment 1
English- Grade 9
English
Reading
Unit 1: Travel and Sport
Unit 4: Reading
 A: Reading for information.
 A: Identifying Paragraphs
 Inferring writer’s attitudes
 B: select summary points, content,
 Sequencing Ideas.
style and structure of passages.
 Explicit and implicit understanding
 Informational text.
 Selecting key points
 C: Summary Technique.
 Explaining writer’s effects.
 3.4 Create a Haiku
 Informative Article
 3.5 Personification in poems
 Poem
 3.6 Practice and perform.
Unit 2 : Directed Writing
 A: writing style choices. (Book review)
 Style of piece of writing choices: Aim,
Magazine Article
Unit 5: Directed reading
 Respond to texts using a range of
genres.
voice, audience, vocabulary, tone, and
 Transform genres.
sentence structure.
 Genre Analysis
 Comparing Text: magazine article and
bog post.
 Formal Report
 A news report
 Compare structure of 2 texts.
 Appeal letter
 Stylistic Features of written
 Interview Transcript
advertisement.
Unit 3: Composition
 A: The language of Description
 B: Use imagery, planning and
structuring.
 Informational text.
 Novel, Haiku, Autobiography.
 C: Summary Technique.
 3.4 Create a Haiku
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 3.5 Personification in poems
 3.6 Practice and perform.
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Reference to context
Word meaning
Note: Q & A, make sentences, vocabulary
Grammar:
 Paraphrase
 Literary devices
 Personification
 Phrases/verbs
 Adjectives
 Imperative verbs.
 Alliterative phrases.
Writing:
 Descriptive Writing
 Narrative Writing
 Write a letter.
 Magazine Article
 Informal and formal letter
NOTE: Please refer to the Textbook, Workbook, Notebook & worksheets.
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Mathematics - Grade 9
 Chapter 12: Indices
 Chapter 21: Straight-line graphs
 Chapter 14: Graphing inequalities and regions
 Chapter 15: Sequences
 Chapter 16: Proportions
 Chapter 22: Geometrical vocabulary and construction
 Chapter 23: Similarity and congruence
 Chapter 25: Angle properties
 Chapter 35: Mean, median, mode and range
 Chapter 36: Collect, analyse and interpret data.
 Chapter 37: Cumulative frequency
NOTE: Please refer to the Textbook, Workbook, Notebook & worksheets.
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Cyclic Assessment 1
Physics - Grade 9
1. Making measurements
 Measuring length and volume
 Density
 Measuring time
2. Describing motion
 Understanding speed
 Distance–time graphs
 Understanding acceleration
 Calculating speed and acceleration
3. Forces and motion
 We have lift-off
 Mass, weight and gravity
 Falling and turning
 Force, mass and acceleration
 Momentum
 More about scalars and vectors
4. Turning effects
 The moment of a force
 Calculating moments
 Stability and centre of gravity
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5. Forces and matter
 Forces acting on solids
 Stretching springs
 The limit of proportionality and the spring constant
 Pressure
 Calculating pressure
NOTE: Please refer to the Coursebook, Workbook, Notebook, Notes & worksheets.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26
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Cyclic Assessment 1
Chemistry- Grade 9
LEARNER’S BOOK:
Chapter 1 - States of Matter
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States of Matter
Changes in States of Matter
Kinetic particle theory
Heating curve and Cooling Curve
Mixtures of substances
Diffusion
Chapter 2-Atomic structure
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Atoms
Elements, Compounds and mixture
Isotopes
Calculate relative atomic mass of isotopes
Electronic configuration of elements
Chapter 3-Chemical Bonding
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Non-metallic substances
Covalent bonding
Ions and Ionic bonding
Giant structures
Metallic Bonding
Ch.4- Chemical formulae and equations
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Chemical names
Formulae
Word Equations
Chemical equations for reactions
Ionic equations
Relative atomic mass
Relative molecular mass
NOTE: Please refer to the learner’s book, notebook, workbook, worksheets, past papers.
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Cyclic Assessment 1
Biology- Grade 9
Chapter 1- Characteristics and classification of living organisms
 Characteristics of organisms
 The biological classification system
 Keys
 Kingdoms
 Groups within the animal and plant kingdom
 Viruses
Chapter 2- Cells
 Animal and plant cells
 Bacterial cells
 Specialised cells
 Sizes of specimens
Chapter 3- Movement into and out of cells
 Diffusion
 Osmosis
 Active transport
Chapter 4- Biological Molecules
 Carbohydrates, fats and proteins
 The structure of DNA
Chapter 5- Enzymes
 Biological catalysts
 Factors that affect enzymes
Chapter 18- Organisms and their environment
 Energy flow and food webs
 Nutrient cycles
 Populations
NOTE: Please refer to the Textbook, Workbook, Notebook & worksheets.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26
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Cyclic Assessment 1
Economics- Grade 9
Economics
PART 1 The basic economic problem
Unit 1: The basic economics problem
1.1.1 Finite resources and unlimited wants.
1.1.2 Economic and free goods
UNIT 2: The allocation of resources
2.1 Microeconomics and
macroeconomics
2.1.1 Microeconomics
2.1.2 Macroeconomics
2.2 The role of markets in allocating
1.2: The factors of production
1.2.1 Definitions of the factors of production
resources
2.2.1 Resource allocation decisions
2.2.2 The market system
and their rewards.
1.2.2 Mobility of the factors of production.
1.2.3 Quantity and quality of the factors of
production.
1.3 Opportunity Cost
1.3.1 Definition of opportunity cost
1.3.2 The influence of opportunity cost on decision
making.
1.4 Production Possibility Curve
1.4.1 Definition of a PPC
1.4.1 Points under, on, and beyond a PPC
1.4.3 Movements along a PPC
1.4.4 Shifts in a PPC
2.2.3 Introduction to the price mechanism
2.3 Demand
2.3.1 Definition of demand
2.3.2 Price and demand
2.3.3 Individual and market demand
2.3.4 Conditions of demand
2.4 Supply
2.4.1 Definition of supply
2.4.2 Price and supply
2.4.3 Individual and market supply
2.4.4 Conditions of supply
2.5 Price determination
2.5.1 Market equilibrium
2.5.2 Market disequilibrium
NOTE: Please refer to the Textbook, Workbook, Notebook & worksheets.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26
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Cyclic Assessment 1
Computer Science - Grade 9
Learner’s book:
Chapter 1: Data Representation
 Text, sound and images (ASCII codes and Unicode)
 Data storage and file compression
Chapter 2: Data Transmission
 Types and methods of data transmission
 Methods of error detection
 Symmetric and asymmetric encryption
Chapter 10: Boolean Logic
 Problem Statements
NOTE: Please refer to the textbook, workbook, notebook & worksheets.
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Cyclic Assessment 1
Hindi- Grade 9
Learner’s book: पतवार 10
इकाई 7: भाषा
इकाई 8: सामाजिक समस्या
इकाई 1: संचार माध्यम व तंत्रज्ञान
इकाई 2: संस्कृतत एवं समाि
Grammar:
➢ पयाायवाची / समानार्थी शब्द
➢ लोकोजततयााँ
➢ मह
ु ावरे
Writing:
➢ अपठित गदयांश
➢ पत्र लेखन
➢ सारांश लेखन
➢ पुस्तक समीक्षा
➢ फिल्म समीक्षा
➢ ईमेल लेखन
➢ ठिप्पणी लेखन
➢ तनबंध लेखन
NOTE: Please refer to the पतवार-10, Notebook & worksheets.
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Cyclic Assessment 1
Tamil - Grade 9
எழுதுதல்:
➢ சுயவிடைக்கருத்தறிதல் (Reading Comprehension)
➢ ம ொழியொக்கம் - ஆங்கிலம் (Translation) – English
➢ ம ொழியொக்கம் - த ிழ் (Translation) – Tamil
➢ கட்டுடை (Composition)
கடிதம் / அறிக்டக / உடையொைல் /அனுபவம் / விவொதம் /
கடதடய முடித்மதழுதல்
இலக்கணம்:
➢ பிடழகடைத் திருத்தி எழுதவும் (Editing)
➢ நேர்க்கூற்று
ற்றும் அயற்கூற்று (Grammar)
NOTE: Please refer to the Textbook, Workbook, Notebook & worksheets.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26
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Cyclic Assessment 1
French - Grade 9
Learner’s book: Collins Cambridge French as Foreign Language Student’s book
Bienvenue dans le monde francophone
Unité -1 - Ma région et moi
Unité - 2 – Mes études et ma vie d’adulte
Unité – 3 – Comment prendre bien soin de soi
Unité – 4 - On se retrouve où ?
Unité – 5 – Les loisirs
Unité – 6 – Voyager autour du monde. (6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 Only)
Grammar:
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Les verbes au présent, passé composé, futur et imparfait
Les Articles et les adjectives
Les Expressions de négation, L’Interrogation
Les prépositions et les pronoms
Le conditionnel
Le Vocabulaire :
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La famille et la maison
L’école, les activités à l’école et le petit boulot
La sante – les maladies, les symptômes, le mode de vie et la nourriture.
La sortie, les fêtes et des festivales
Les loisirs, les sports, les passe-temps, la technologie et le shopping
Les vacances idéales et les moyens de transport.
L’Ecriture :
 Compréhension écrite
 Production écrite
 E-mail/Une lettre
Tous les sujets de grammaire et vocabulaire - unités 0 à 6 (All the grammar and
vocabulary topics taught from Unit 0 to Unit 6)
NOTE: Please refer to the Textbook, Workbook, Notebook & worksheets.
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