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Sequence the phases of the cell cycle and state the key event in each phase.

Identify stages of mitosis from diagrams and explain their significance.

Identify stages of meiosis from diagrams and explain how meiosis creates variation.

Compare mitosis and meiosis in terms of divisions, products, chromosome number, and biological role.

Explain how photosynthetic pigments and photosystems capture light in the thylakoid membrane.

Trace electron flow, photolysis, ATP formation, and NADPH formation during the light reactions.

Sequence carbon fixation, reduction, and regeneration in the Calvin cycle.

Compare C3 and C4 pathways and predict how environmental factors affect photosynthesis.

Trace the conversion of glucose to pyruvate during glycolysis, including the net ATP and NADH yield.

Trace acetyl-CoA oxidation through the citric acid cycle and account for its major products.

Explain electron transport, chemiosmosis, and oxidative phosphorylation in mitochondria.

Compare aerobic respiration, fermentation, and respiratory quotient for different substrates.

Interpret arithmetic and geometric plant growth curves and calculate basic growth rates.

Differentiate differentiation, dedifferentiation, and redifferentiation using plant examples.

Predict major plant responses to auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene, and abscisic acid.

Explain how photoperiodism and vernalisation regulate flowering.

Explain how pressure and volume changes produce inspiration and expiration.

Calculate respiratory volumes and capacities from spirometry-style data.

Predict gas exchange across alveolar and tissue membranes from partial-pressure gradients.

Explain the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide and interpret the oxygen dissociation curve.

Relate the components of blood to transport, defence, and coagulation functions.

Sequence the events of the cardiac cycle and connect them to heart sounds.

Interpret the main features of a normal electrocardiogram and calculate cardiac output.

Trace double circulation and distinguish the roles of arteries, veins, capillaries, and lymph.

Identify nephron structures and relate each region to its role in urine formation.

Explain glomerular filtration, selective reabsorption, and tubular secretion.

Explain how the counter-current mechanism concentrates urine.

Predict how ADH, the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, and atrial natriuretic factor alter kidney function.

Compare ammonotelism, ureotelism, and uricotelism using suitable animal examples.

Explain the basis of uremia, renal failure, dialysis, kidney stones, and glomerulonephritis.

Draw and label exam-relevant diagrams from the prescribed human physiology chapters.

Construct point-wise CBSE Biology answers using NCERT terminology, diagrams, and appropriate mark allocation.

Classify systems, surroundings, boundaries, and thermodynamic state variables in chemical examples.

Apply the chemistry sign convention to heat, work, internal-energy change, and expansion or compression.

Use the first law of thermodynamics to solve numerical problems involving heat, work, and internal energy.

Relate enthalpy change to internal-energy change for reactions involving gases.

Calculate heat and enthalpy changes from calorimetry data.

Apply Hess’s law to determine an unknown reaction enthalpy.

Calculate reaction enthalpy using standard enthalpies of formation or bond enthalpies.

Use entropy and Gibbs-energy changes to predict spontaneity under specified conditions.

Apply IUPAC rules to name and draw the structures of common organic compounds.

Identify chain, position, functional, metameric, and geometrical isomerism in given structures.

Classify bond fission as homolytic or heterolytic and identify electrophiles, nucleophiles, and free radicals.

Use inductive effect, resonance, electromeric effect, and hyperconjugation to predict electron distribution.

Rank carbocations, carbanions, and free radicals by stability.

Classify organic reactions as substitution, addition, elimination, or rearrangement from given equations.

Select an appropriate purification method for an organic compound from its physical properties.

Interpret basic qualitative and quantitative analysis data to determine an organic compound’s composition or formula.

Predict products and conditions for the preparation and reactions of alkanes.

Compare staggered and eclipsed conformations of ethane using Newman projections.

Explain the free-radical substitution mechanism of alkane halogenation.

Predict alkene products using Markovnikov’s rule, the peroxide effect, oxidation, and ozonolysis.

Predict alkyne acidity, preparation methods, and major addition-reaction products.

Explain benzene stability using resonance and aromaticity.

Predict products of electrophilic substitution and apply directing effects in substituted benzene.

Plan short hydrocarbon conversions and justify each reagent and reaction condition.

Calculate work done by a constant force using the scalar product.

Determine work done by a variable force from a force–displacement graph.

Apply the work–energy theorem to translational-motion problems.

Relate conservative forces to potential energy and distinguish them from non-conservative forces.

Calculate gravitational and elastic potential energy in standard situations.

Apply conservation of mechanical energy to motion under gravity or a spring force.

Calculate average and instantaneous power and use the power–velocity relation.

Solve one-dimensional collision problems using momentum conservation and the coefficient of restitution.

Convert temperatures between Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin scales.

Calculate linear, area, and volume expansion and account for constrained expansion.

Apply calorimetry and heat-balance equations to mixtures.

Calculate heat involved in phase changes using latent heat.

Solve steady-state heat-conduction problems for simple slabs or rods.

Distinguish conduction, convection, and radiation in physical situations.

Apply Stefan–Boltzmann and Wien displacement laws to thermal-radiation problems.

Interpret cooling data using Newton’s law of cooling.

Use the zeroth law to explain thermal equilibrium and temperature measurement.

Calculate work from pressure–volume diagrams for basic thermodynamic processes.

Apply the first law using the physics sign convention to isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, and isochoric processes.

Use the second law to distinguish reversible and irreversible processes and analyse heat engines or refrigerators.

State the assumptions of the kinetic theory model of an ideal gas.

Relate gas pressure and temperature to molecular motion using kinetic-theory results.

Apply degrees of freedom and the equipartition theorem to calculate molar heat capacities.

Calculate rms molecular speed and compare it across temperatures and gases.

Retrieve key definitions, formulas, cycles, and pathways from memory using a timed closed-book recall check.

Answer Biology diagram-based and case-based questions within a fixed mark and time limit.

Construct three-mark and five-mark Biology answers that match CBSE command words and marking points.

Solve a timed set of Chemistry thermodynamics numericals with correct signs, units, and working.

Solve a timed set of organic nomenclature, product-prediction, and conversion questions.

Solve a timed set of Physics numericals using diagrams, formulas, substitutions, units, and significant figures.

Diagnose conceptual, calculation, and presentation errors from a mixed mock test and create a correction log.

Build and execute a spaced final-revision plan using NCERT review, formula practice, active recall, and mock papers.