First, one question
When is the exam?
Put the date in and this page will work backwards from it — what to do today, and how much is left. Nothing is sent anywhere; it stays on this device.
Today’s session
Mistakes book
Every question you get wrong lands here and keeps coming back. It only leaves once you have answered it correctly twice, on two different days — so you cannot clear it by clicking through.
Where you stand
Covered is how much of the chapter you have actually met. Recent is your last twenty answers, so it moves when you do — unlike an all-time average, which stops budging once the numbers get big.
Read the idea, then practise it
Maths practice sets aren’t written yet.
All fourteen Ganita Prakash chapters have notes and a mind map under Learn. The question bank behind practice sets is science-only so far.
Pick the chapters to practise
Questions are drawn fresh each time and mixed across multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, assertion–reason, matching, numericals and written answers.
Mistakes book
How it has been going
Maths worksheets aren’t written yet.
All fourteen Ganita Prakash chapters have notes and a mind map under Learn. The question bank behind worksheets is science-only so far.
Maths mock papers aren’t written yet.
All fourteen Ganita Prakash chapters have notes and a mind map under Learn. The question bank behind mock papers is science-only so far.
What the Semester 1 exam covers
Six chapters from the NCERT Curiosity Class 8 textbook. Chapter 6 is limited to section 6.1 only — everything on winds, storms and cyclones is out of the exam.
A workable revision run for September
- Two chapters a sitting. Read the chapter once, then run a 15-question practice on it here. Anything below 70% goes back for a second read.
- Learn the named things. Most marks lost in Chapters 2 and 3 are names — Rhizobium, Lactobacillus, Anopheles, the vitamin deficiencies. Write them out; don't just re-read them.
- Numericals daily. Chapters 5 and 6.1 are the ones with working. Five pressure sums a day for a week is enough to make them automatic. Always write the formula, then substitute, then the unit.
- Print one worksheet a week and do it on paper, timed. Screen practice checks recall; paper practice checks whether he can actually write the answer out.
- Two full mock papers in the last ten days, under 90 minutes, marked strictly.
Formulae and constants worth memorising
Weight W = m × g · g = 10 m/s² (use 9.8 only if asked)
Area 1 cm² = 0.0001 m² · 1 m² = 10 000 cm²
Temperature K = °C + 273 · ice melts 0 °C = 273 K, water boils 100 °C = 373 K
Net force same direction: add · opposite directions: subtract