NATIONAL PRIMTALENT OLYMPIAD
EXAMINATIONS
SCIENCE
CLASS VI
PHYSICS
Matter
• Composition of matter
• Characteristics of matter
• States of matter
• Properties of solid, liquid and gas
• Molecular model of solid, liquid and gas
• Change in states of matter
Force and energy
• Types of force
• Effects of force
• Force of friction
• Kinds of friction (static, sliding, rolling)
• Ways to reduce friction
• Advantages and disadvantages of friction
• Ways to increase friction
• Renewable and non-renewable energy
• Law of conservation of energy.
Simple machines
• Levers, types of levers
• Pulley, mechanical advantage of pulley
• Wheel and axle
• Inclined plane
• Wedge and screw
• Care of machines
Light
• Luminous and non-luminous
• Properties of light
• Shadows
• Formation of umbra and penumbra
• Eclipse solar and lunar eclipse
Physical quantities and measurement
• Physical quantities
• Measurement of length
• Measurement of mass
• Measurement of time
• Measurement of temperature
• Measurement of area.
CHEMISTRY
Language of chemistry
• Scientists and their contribution to
chemistry
• Application of chemistry
• Harmful effects of chemistry
Common lab equipments and apparatus
• Identification of laboratory equipments
• Application of laboratory equipments
Elements and compounds
• Latin name and common name of
elements with symbols
• Chemical formula of compound
• Valency of elements
Rocks and minerals
• Types of rocks
• Sedimentary
• Igneous
• Metamorphic
• Composition of rocks
BIOLOGY
Growing plants for food
• Seed and its germination
• Dispersal of seeds
Health and hygeine
• Our food and its group
• Communicable and non communicable
diseases and its prevention
Human body
• Our skeletal system
• Parts of the skeleton
• Joints and its types
• Muscles and its types
• Nervous system
• Parts of nervous system
• Reflex action
• Sense organs
• Digestive system
• Its organ and their functions
Plants
• Leaf
• External structure of the leaf
• Functions and modification of leaves
• Types of venation
• Arrangement of leaves
• Vegetative propagation by leaf
• Flower
• The four whorls of a flower
• Pollination
• Fertilization
• Fruits
• Seed structures and types
• Germination
The cell
• Discovery of cells
• Cells and their numbers
• Cells and their shape
• Cell theory
• Basic structure of a cell and its function
