BRILLIANTS CONVENT SR. SEC.

SCHOOL

2014 - 2015
HOLIDAYS HOME WORK
CLASS XI
ENGLISH
1. Read any two English newspapers regularly and collect 10 articles related to the theme
of Education, Environment and Current events / Happenings.
a. Education: Cut and paste related articles and frame 10 questions from each
article and also write their answers.
b. Environment: Cut and paste related articles and make note making of the same
using proper Abbreviations and summary.
c. Current Events / Happenings: Cut and paste related articles and frame 10
sentences from each by selecting 10 difficult vocabulary words (each article)
along with their meanings.
Above mentioned work should be done on A4 sized sheets and to be kept in a separate
folder. Also thoroughly read all the chapters and poems so far done from both Hornbill
and Snapshot and revise the syllabus thoroughly.
PHYSICS
1. Make an investigatory project on any one of the following topics:
a. Thermodynamics
b. Waves and Oscillations
c. Mechanics
CHEMISTRY
1. Suggested Investigatory projects:
a. Analysis of vegetables and fruit juice.
b. Study of adulterants in sugar or adulterant in fat, oil and butter.
c. Study the foaming capacity of soaps.
d. Analysis of hard water.
e. Study the rate of evaporation of water, acetone and dimethyether.
Make a project file on any one of the suggested topic of the investigatory project.
BIOLOGY
1. Make a investigatory project file and CD on any of the project. Take a topic from the
Comprehensive Laboratory manual of Biology of Class XI.
MATHEMATICS
General Instructions:
Submit your work in the class notebook.
Present your work neatly.
Some of the PSA questions have been given for your practice.
Q1. Draw the Venn diagrams to illustrate the following relationship among sets E, M and U, where E is the set
of students studying English in a school, M is the set of students studying Mathematics in the same
school, U is the set of all students in that school.
(i) All the students who study Mathematics study English, but some students who study English do
not study Mathematics.


(ii) There is no student who studies both Mathematics and English.
(iii) Some of the students study Mathematics but do not study English, some study English but do
not study Mathematics, and some study both.
(iv) Not all students study Mathematics, but every student studying English studies Mathematics.

Q2. From 50 students taking examinations in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, each of the student has
passed in at least one of the subject, 37 passed Mathematics, 24 Physics and 43 Chemistry. At most 19
passed Mathematics and Physics, at most 29 Mathematics and Chemistry and at most 20 Physics and
Chemistry. What is the largest possible number that could have passed all three examinations?

Q3. Two finite sets have m and n elements respectively. The total number of subsets of first set is 56 more
than the total number of subsets of the second set. What are the values of m and n.

Q4. The set (A U B U C) (A B C) C is equal to
(A) B C (B) A C (C) B U C (D) A C.

Q5. Fill in the blanks in each of the following:
1. The set {x R : 1 x < 2} can be written as ______________.
2. When A = , then number of elements in P(A) is ______________.
3. If A and B are finite sets such that A B, then n (A U B) = ______________.
4. If A and B are any two sets, then A B is equal to ______________.
5. Power set of the set A = {1, 2} is ______________.
6. Given the sets A = {1, 3, 5}. B = {2, 4, 6} and C = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8}. Then the universal set of all the
three sets A, B and C can be ______________.
7. If U = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}, A = {1, 2, 3, 5}, B = {2, 4, 6, 7} and C = {2, 3, 4, 8}. Then
(i) (B U C) is ______________. (ii)(C A) is ______________.
8. For all sets A and B, A (A B) is equal to ______________.

Q6. Four small boys want to know their weights but the weighing machine only weighs objects more
than 40kg; each of the boys knows that his weight is less than this, they weigh themselves two at a
time. The results of all possible paired weighing are : 48 kg, 49 kg, 52k9,53 kg, 56 kg and 57 kg,
Mahinda, the tallest of the four boys, weighs the most. What does he weigh?
1) 29ks 2) 30kg 3) 31 kg 4) 32 kg

Q7. Manu pays his rent every 4 weeks. He has made his first payment on Friday February 1st 2013.
When is his 3'd payment due?
1) Friday 29th March 2013 2) Friday 1st April2013
3) Friday 27th Apil2073 4) Friday 1st May 2013

Q8. At 8:45 pm Saturday in Bangalore it is L0:15 am Saturday in New York' Ravi wishes to ring his friend in
New York at 7 am Sunday New York time. When should Ravi ring from Bangalore?
1) 5:30 am Sunday 2) 7:L5 am Sunday
3) 5:30 pm Sunday 4) 2:00 am Monday

Q9. Mrs Ali gave a different number of apples to each of her five children. Any three of her children
together received more apples than the remaining two children. What is the least number of apples
that Mrs Ali could have given to one of her children?
1) 1 2 ) 4 3 ) 5 4 ) 6

Q10. Sana likes to wear her watch upside down. She wants to see a movie that starts in half an hour.
What time does the movie start?
1) 13:45 2) 18:15 3)9:45 4) 20:15


Q11. Eight students participated in a knock-out table-tennis competition. In the first round Adi played Bali
and Bali won. Adi was then out of the competition.


Which of these statements is not correct?
1) Faroz and Dasa played in the final. 2) Hari won against Gari and lost to Faroz.
3) Dasa won against Chapel and lost to Faroz 4) Bali, Chapel, Faroz and Hari won the first round.

Q12. On Tuesday, Rasheed rode to school from his home at an average speed of 12 km/h and arrived 5
minutes late. On Wednesday, Rasheed rode to school from his home at an average speed of 18 km/h
and arrived 10 minutes early. How far does Rasheed live from school?
1) 4.2 km 2) 8.5 km 3) 9 km 4) 15 km

Q13. One morning Bina downloaded songs from the internet. This increased her collection by
50%.However, in the afternoon a virus destroyed 50% of her total collection. If Binas collection
then numbered 300 songs, how many did she have at the start of the day?
1) 200 2) 300 3) 400 4) 600

Q14. In the diagram below, only the horizontal lines are parallel.
There are no other pairs of parallel lines. How many trapeziums
are shown altogether?
1) 12 2) 16 3) 18 4) 20


ACCOUNTS
1. Prepare an accountancy dictionary containing all the important terms used for
accounting purposes.
2. Make a project on Accounting & Its Principles. Explain concepts using examples. The
project should include: Meaning, objectives, users, Importance, limitations, Process,
principles, all accounting standards, IFRS used in accounting.
3. To be done in notebook:
Aditya started a business for buying and selling of stationary with `5,00,000 as an initial
investment of which he paid `1,00,000 for furniture, `2,00,000 for buying stationary
items. He employed a sales person and clerk. At the end of the month he paid `5,000 as
their salaries. Out of the stationary bought he sold some stationary for `1,50,000 for
cash and some other stationary for `1,00,000 on credit basis to Mr. Rahul subsequently
he bought stationary items of `1,50,000 from Mr. Peace. In the first week of the next
month these was an accident and he lost `30,000 worth of stationary. A part of the
machinery which cost `40,000 was sold for `45,000.
From the above answer the following:
a. What is the amount of capital with which Mr. Sunrise stared business?
b. What are the fixed assets he bought?
c. What is the value of goods purchased?
d. Who is the creditor and state the amount payable to him?
e. What are the expenses?
f. What is the gain he earned?
g. What is the loss he incurred?
h. Who is the debtor? What is the amount receivable from him?
i. What is the total amount of expenses and losses incurred?
ECONOMICS
1. Conduct a market survey of 10 shopkeepers about any one of the consumer product:
a. Toothpaste b. Shampoo c. Mobile Phones
Prepare a project report on above.
2. As elections have just been concluded new Government will form and so will there be
changes in economy. Paste any 5 cut outs from newspapers on changes in economic scenario
in your notebook. Write an inference from those economics changes along with cut outs
(Refer Hindustan Times Business Page of 17 May 2014)
3. Revise the syllabus done so far in the class.
BUSINESS STUDIES
1. Prepare a PPT on Life Sketch of 5 main industrialist of India (like Ambanis, JRD Tata etc.)
2. Make a project making a comparison between small business and MNCs. Refer to
Chapter 8 and Chapter 3 of your Business studies book. List some MNCs and compare
its growth process with small business houses.
3. Revise the syllabus done so far in the class.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
1. What is the significance of January 26 in Indias struggle for Independence?
2. What are the fundamental duties of citizens of India?
3. Why do we need Rights in a constitution?
4. The Indian constitution is a beautifully balanced document. Comment.
5. Explain Direct and Indirect democracy.
6. Revise all the syllabus done in the class.


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I.P.
1. Prepare a questionnaire & conduct a survey amongst 30 people & ask them the following
questions-
i. Form of media that they a accustomed to TV, Print, Radio, Web,
Movies or Ads
ii. The brand of media that they consume Magazine, Newspaper, Social
Networking sites, Travel sites, News channels, Entertainment channels.
iii. The objective in consuming the media entertainment, education,
information, persuasion.
iv. The time spent in a day in various activities connected to media 2hrs,
4hrs, 6hrs, 8hrs & more.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
1. Make a project report on any of the following:
a. Athletics
b. Badminton
c. Lawn Tennis
d. Table tennis