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ASSIGNMENTS FOR CLASS XI

COMMERCE STREAM

ENGLISH

Chapter : The Portrait of a Lady

Q1. Compare the routine of the grandmother in the city with that of it in the village.

Q2. How did Khushwant Singh portray his grandfather in the lesson.

Q3. Describe the happiest half hour of the day for the grandmother.

Q4. What was the turning point in the relationship of the author and the grandmother?

Q5. Describe the grandmother’s behavior towards the animals.

Q6. How did the grandmother spend her time in the city?

Q7. What was the author’s routine in the village?

Q8. How did the sparrows show their love for the grandmother?

Q9. How did the grandmother express her happiness when the author returned from abroad?

Q10. Was the author’s grandmother a religious lady? Discuss.

Chapter: The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

Q1. Which tribe did Aram and Mourad belong to? What was its speciality

Q2. What did the two boys long for since their childhood?

Q3. What did Aram see one morning that surprised him?

Q4. Who was John Byro? What was the cause of his sufferings?

Q5. What were the special character traits of uncle Khosrove?

Q6. Describe the conversation between uncle Khosrove and John Byro.

Q7. How did Aram convince himself to ride the stolen horse?

Q8. What thoughts came to Aram’s mind when he saw Mourad sitting on a beautiful white horse?

Q9. Why did the boys return the horse

Q10. Make a comparison between Khosrove and Mourad.

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Chapter : A Photograph

Q1. Describe the three girls as they pose for the photograph. The snapshot

Q2. Why would the poet’s mother laugh at the snapshot?

Q3. What are the losses of the poet’s mother and the poet?

Q4. What is the meaning of the word ‘circumstance’ in the poem?

Q5. Comment on the tone of the poem.

Q6. What is the significance of the ‘cardboard frame’

Q7. What is silenced and how has it silenced the poet

Q8. ‘Each photograph is a memory.’ Justify the statement.

Q9. What has the camera captured?

Q10. What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?

INFORMATICS PRACTICES

Q1. Expand GUI and IDE.

Q2. Define Data-type.

Q3. Differentiate between jTextField and jLabel.

Q4. Write any two methods & two properties of jRadioButton.

Q5. Write variable naming conventions.

Q6. Difference between ‘=’ and ‘==’ with an appropriate example.

Q7. An electronic shop has announced the following seasonal discount on the purchase of certain items

Purchase Amount(Rs) Discount on TV Discount on Music System

0-25000 5% 10%

25001 - 50000 10% 20%

More than 50000 15% 30%

Develop an application based on the above criteria, to input amount of purchase and the type of purchase (TV or Music

System using jRadioButton) by a customer.

Compute and display the net amount to be paid by a customer along with his name in a text field.

Also write the code for Clear Button and Exit button.

Q8. Develop an application to take an input in text filed for a number. If the number is even then display its sqaure otherwise

cube in a MessageBox.

Q9. Read the following case study and answer the questions that follow:

Mr. vidyarthi works in Blossoms Public School as a programmer. He is required to develop a student record. The school

offers two different streams, medical and non-medical, with different grading criteria. The school also offers incentives to

the NCC cadets in the form of a 3% increment in percentage for all the NCC cadets. The grading criteria for the two streams

are given below:

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(a) Write the code for calculate percentage to

calculate after finding the total marks of first term and second term (assuming that both marks are out of 100). Also ensure

that NCC cadets get an increment of 3% in their percentage.

(b) Write the code for calculate Grade button to calculate the grade depending on the stream selected according to the criteria

given above.

ACCOUNTANCY

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING

Q1. Explain the meaning of Accounting.

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Q2. What are the two accounting systems to record financial transactions in the books of accounts? Explain briefly.

Stream Percentage Grade

Medical >=80

60-80

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B

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Non-Medical >=75

50-75

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B

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Q3. State whether it is true or false with reasons.

(a) Financial statements are not comparable.

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(b) Accounting may be influenced by personal judgement.

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(c) Accounting ignores non-financial transactions.

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(d) Accounting information must be reliable.

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Q4. Explain window-dressing as a limitation of accounting.

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Q5. Explain “Summarizing” as a step of accounting process.

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Q6. Explain the informational needs of following users of accounting:

(a) Management

(b) Investors

(c) Creditors

(d) Researchers

(e) Consumers

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CHAPTER 2: BASIC ACCOUNTING TERMS

Q1. Determine whether the following are Assets, Liabilities, Revenue, Expense or None:

a) Machinery ________________

b) Purchases ________________

c) Stock ________________

d) Furniture ________________

e) Interest Received ________________

f) Rent Paid ________________

g) Loan taken ________________

h) Goodwill ________________

i) Debtors ________________

j) Creditors ________________

k) Accrued Commission ________________

l) Prepaid Insurance ________________

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Q2. Give 2 examples of each of the following:

a) Business transactions

b) Drawings

c) Fixed Assets

d) Current liabilities

e) Current assets

f) Non- current assets

g) Tangible fixed assets

h) Intangible fixed assets

Q3. Differentiate betweenTrade receivables and Trade Payables :

Basis Trade receivables Trade Payables

Q4. Differentiate between Current Assets and Current Liabilities:

Basis Current Assets Current Liabilities

Q5. Differentiate between Revenue Expenditure and Capital Expenditure:

Basis Revenue Expenditure Capital Expenditure

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Meaning

Example

Q6. Differentiate between Revenue Receipt and Capital Receipt:

Basis Revenue Receipt Capital Receipt

CHAPTER 3: THEORY BASE OF ACCOUNTING

Q1. What is the full form of GAAP:

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Q2. Define the following:

1. Accounting Principles

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2. Accounting Standards

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3. IFRS

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Q3. Why should a business follow consistency principle?

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Q4. Why is it necessary for Accountants to assume that business will remain a going concern?

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Q5. Name the Accounting principles applied in the following cases:

a) Classification of assets as current assets and fixed assets

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b) Disclosure of all relevant and reliable information in accordance with the accounting principles.

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c) Following the same method of depreciation on a particular asset year after year.

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d) Personal transactions of the businessman are distinguished from business transactions.

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e) Treating a small calculator as an expense and not an asset.

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f) Economic life of an enterprise is split into periodic intervals.

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g) Only financial transactions are recorded in the books of accounts.

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h) Assets are recorded at their original purchase price.

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i) Recording expenses and revenues in the same period in which they occur.

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Q6. Name the Accounting principles violated in the following cases:

a) Valuing the closing stock at cost irrespective of the fact that its market value is substantially lower than the cost price.

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b) Management concealing important financial information

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c) Switching method of depreciation every year

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d) Cash withdrawn by owner for personal use is shown as business expense.

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e) Machinery purchased by the company is shown at market value in the Balance Sheet

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Q7. State with reason whether the following statements are true or false:

a) The essence of Conservatism Principle is to anticipate no proft and provide for all losses

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b) According to cost concept, an asset is recorded at the current market price.

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c) According to accrual assumption, a transaction is recorded in the books when it is entered into and not when

settlement takes place.

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d) A firm has unsold stock costing Rs.35,000 at the end of the accounting period, while its market value is just

Rs.28,000. At what amount will you show it in the books of accounts and why?

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e) Kajal paid school fees of his son by issuing a cheque from the bank account of his business. According to her. Such

payment should be treated as an expense of the business. Whether Kajal’s approach is correct in treating the school

fees as an expense of the business?

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CHAP 4: BASES OF ACCOUNTING

Q1. What are the two bases of accounting?

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Q2. Differentiate between Cash Bases and Accrual Bases on any 4 basis.

Basis Cash Bases Accrual Bases

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Unit-I & II

ECONOMICS

Q-1. Explain the central problem ‘what to produce’.

Q-2. Unemployment is reduced due to the measures taken by the government. State its

economic value in the context of production possibilities frontier.

Q-3. What will be the impact of recently launched ‘clean India mission’ (swachh bharat

mission) on the production possibilities curve of the economy and why?

Q-4. State the meaning and properties of production possibilities frontier.

Q-5. A consumes only two goods. Explain his equilibrium with the help of utility approach.

Q-6. Distinguish between ‘increase in demand’ and ‘increase in quantity demanded’ of a

commodity.

Q-7. A consumer consumes only two goods X and Y state and explain the conditions of

consumer’s equilibrium with the help of utility analysis.

Q-8. Given price of a good, how does a consumer decide as to how much of that good to

buy?

Q-9. Explain how do the following influence demand for a good: (i) Rise in income of the

consumer. (ii) Fall in prices of the related goods.

Q-10. Explain consumer’s equilibrium with the help of indifference curve analysis.

Q-11. Explain the conditions of consumer’s equilibrium using indifference curve analysis.

Q-12. Explain the relation between marginal cost and average cost.

Q-13. Explain the meaning of ‘increase in supply’ and ‘increase in quantity supplied’ with the

help of a schedule.

Q-14. Draw average revenue and marginal revenue curves in a single diagram of a firm which

can sell more units of a good only by lowering price of that good. Explain.

Q-15. When the price of a good rises from ₹ 20 per unit to ₹ 30 per unit, the revenue of the

firm producing this good rises from ₹ 100 to ₹ 300, calculate the price elasticity of

supply.

Q-16. Explain the law of variable proportions with the help of total product and marginal

product curve.

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Mathematics

Chapter – Sets

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Chapter – Trigonometric Functions

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