Class 12 Syllabus

This course is designed for the students to learn about and perform the basics of beauty therapy and maintain hygiene and safety at workplace. The students would gain knowledgeable about various beauty products and will be able to perform basic depilation, manicure, pedicure and basic face care services.

They will be able to assist Beauty Therapist in providing advanced services. The students will be trained in the correct usage and handling to perform the skin treatments safely.

Total Marks: 100 (Theory - 60 and Practical - 40)

Part A: Employability Skills

• Unit 1: Communication Skills
• Unit 2: Self-Management Skills
• Unit 3: Understanding Media
• Unit 4: Entrepreneurial Skills
• Unit 5: Green Skills

Part B: Vocational Skills

Section I: Advanced Crop Production and Organic Farming

• Unit 1 - Advanced Crop Production
• Unit 2 - Organic Farming

Section II: Post-Harvest Management, Food Processing and Value Addition

Part B: Vocational Skills

• Unit 1: Indian regional cookery

• Unit 2: Indian Snacks

• Unit 3: Indian gravies

• Unit 4: Indian sweets

• Unit 5: Presentation of Indian meals

• Unit 6: Fast Food

• Unit 7: Introduction to baking

• Unit 8: Menu Planning

• Unit 9: Food Costing

• Unit 10: Food Safety

Part B: Vocational Skills

• Unit 1: Evolution of Hotels in India

• Unit 2: Etiquettes and manners for Hospitality professionals

• Unit 3: Hotel Organisation

• Unit 4: Organisation of Front office Department

• Unit 5: Introduction to Basic Front office operation

• Unit 6: Safety and Security in Hotels

• Unit 7: Problem Solving & Situation Handling

• Unit 8: Responsible Hotels

A. INDIAN SOCIETY

Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society 

• Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community

Unit 2: Demographic Structure and Indian Society

• Theories and concepts in demography
• Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions

Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change

• Family and Kinship
• The Caste System

Unit 4: Market as a Social Institution

Unit-I: Variations in Psychological Attributes

1. Introduction
2. Individual Differences in Human Functioning
3. Assessment of Psychological Attributes
4. Intelligence
5. Theories of Intelligence
   1. Theory of Multiple Intelligences
   2. Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
   3. Planning, Attention-arousal, and Simultaneous successive Model of Intelligence
6. Individual Differences in Intelligence
   1. Variations of Intelligence
7. Culture and Intelligence
8. Emotional Intelligence

Part A: Contemporary World Politics

1. Cold War Era

Emergence of two power blocs after the second world war. Arenas of the cold war. Challenges to Bipolarity: Non Aligned Movement, quest for new international economic order. India and the cold war.

2. The End of Bipolarity

New entities in world politics: Russia, Balkan states and Central Asian states, Introduction of democratic politics and capitalism in post-communist regimes. India's relations with Russia and other post-communist countries.

Unit I: Electrostatics

Chapter-1: Electric Charges and Fields

Electric Charges; Conservation of charge, Coulomb's law-force between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution. 

Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines, electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole, torque on a dipole in uniform electric field.

Unit I: Relations and Functions

1. Relations and Functions

Types of relations: reflexive, symmetric, transitive and equivalence relations. One to one and onto functions, composite functions, inverse of a function. Binary operations.

2. Inverse Trigonometric Functions

Definition, range, domain, principal value branch. Graphs of inverse trigonometric functions. Elementary properties of inverse trigonometric functions.

Unit II: Algebra

1. Matrices

Unit 1: Judiciary

• Constitution, Roles and Impartiality
• Structure, Hierarchy of Courts, and Legal Offices in India
• Appointments, Trainings, Retirement and Removal of Judges
• Judicial Review

Unit 2: Topics in Law

• Property
• Contracts
• Torts
• Crimes
• Administrative Law

Unit 3: Arbitration, Tribunal Adjudication and Alternate Dispute Resolution

• Adversarial and Inquisitorial System
• Arbitration
• Administrative Tribunals
• Ombudsman

The theory paper is of 70 marks. There are five questions divided into three sections.

Section A: Reading Skills

Q.1 Two passages from the modules with a variety of questions on different levels of comprehension, i.e., to test literal, interpretative and inferential skills. The total range of two passages would be about 700 to 800 words. (20 marks)

Unit 1: Data Handling using Pandas and Data Visualization

Data Handling using Pandas - I

Introduction to Python libraries - Pandas, Matplotlib.

Data structures in Pandas - Series and Data Frames.

Series: Creation of Series from - ndarray, dictionary, scalar value; mathematical operations; Head and Tail functions; Selection, Indexing and Slicing.

Unit I: Human Development: Life Span Approach (Part II)

A. Adolescence (12 - 18 years)

(i) Growth & Development - Domains and principles.

(ii) Meaning, characteristics and needs.

(iii) Influences on identity formation

• (a) Biological and Physical changes-early and late matures. (Role of heredity and environment)
• (b) Social, culture and media.
• (c) Emotional changes.
• (d) Cognitive changes.

(iv) Specific issues and concerns

Themes in Indian History Part-I

1. The Story of the First Cities: Harappan Archaeology

Early urban centres.

2. Political and Economic History: How Inscriptions tell a story

Political and economic history from the Mauryan to the Gupta period.

3. Social Histories: Using the Mahabharata

Issues in social history, including caste, class, kinship and gender.

4. A History of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa

A. Fundamentals of Human Geography

Unit 1: Human Geography: Nature and Scope

Unit 2: People 

Population-distribution,density and growth

Population change-spatial patterns and structure; determinants of population change;

Age-sex ratio; rural-urban composition; 

Human development - concept; selected indicators, international comparisons

Unit 3: Human Activities 

Unit 1: Entrepreneurial Opportunity

• Sensing Entrepreneurial Opportunities
• Environment Scanning
• Problem Identification
• Idea fields
• Spotting Trends
• Creativity and Innovation
• Selecting the Right Opportunity

Unit 2: Entrepreneurial Planning

• Forms of business organization - Sole proprietorship, Partnership, Company
• Business Plan: concept, format.
• Components: Organisational plan; Operational plan; Production plan; Financial plan; Marketing plan; Human Resource planning
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Section A: Reading Skills

Very short answer / Short answer and MCQ type questions:

Two unseen passages (including poems) with a variety of questions including 04 marks for vocabulary such as word formation and inferring meaning. The total range of the two passages including a poem or a stanza, should be around 1000-1100 words to assess comprehension, analysis, inference, evaluation and literary appreciation.

Section A: Reading Comprehension

Passage 1

One unseen passages with a variety of very short answer / short answer or MCQ type questions to test comprehension, interpretation and inference. Vocabulary such as word formation and inference of meaning will also be tested. 

The total length of the passage will be between 800 - 900 words. The passage will include following questions:

Unit I: Isometric Projection of Solids

(i) Construction of isometric scale showing main divisions of 10 mm and smaller divisions of 1 mm, also showing the leading angles. Drawing helping view/s such as triangles, pentagon, hexagon, etc., using isometric scale.

Part A: Introductory Microeconomics

Unit 1: Introduction

Meaning of microeconomics and macroeconomics

What is an economy? Central problems of an economy : what, how and for whom to produce; concepts of production possibility frontier and opportunity cost.

Unit 2: Consumer Equilibrium and Demand

Consumer's equilibrium - meaning of utility, marginal utility, law of diminishing marginal utility, conditions of consumer's equilibrium using marginal utility analysis.