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14 GUIDES · ENGLISH & HINDI
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History, literature & society
BeginnerHistory explains change in human lives through evidence from the past.
Learning outcome: Read material and written evidence, distinguish an official intention from actual practice, and construct a qualified explanation of change.
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BeginnerLiterature creates experience through language, form and perspective.
Learning outcome: Distinguish author, narrator and character; explain the effects of imagery and structure; and compare interpretations using textual evidence.
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BeginnerPeople make choices within relationships, expectations and unequal opportunities.
Learning outcome: Explain how a rule, a social expectation and access to resources interact, and distinguish individual choice from the conditions shaping it.
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IntermediateShared decisions require more than counting preferences.
Learning outcome: Distinguish majority choice from constitutional authority, explain why rights and remedies matter, and evaluate a shared proposal using public reasons.
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IntermediateWhy can a sad performance be absorbing rather than simply unpleasant? Rasa theory examines the transformation of represented emotions into aesthetic experience.
Learning outcome: Analyse how a scene is composed, support a rasa interpretation with details, and explain why aesthetic experience differs from an ordinary emotional reaction.
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IntermediateA rule can treat everyone identically while leaving some people unable to use the opportunity it offers.
Learning outcome: Compare competing principles, separate equal resources from real opportunities, and defend a proposal while acknowledging what evidence or moral reasoning could challenge it.
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IntermediateA bus route, a workshop or a changing neighbourhood can have a history missing from formal reports.
Learning outcome: Design an ethical interview, distinguish different kinds of remembered claims, and edit a short extract without changing its meaning or permission conditions.
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IntermediateA poem can make an ordinary kettle or a timetable newly noticeable.
Learning outcome: Explain imagery, repetition, rhythm and line breaks through two original poems, and defend a reading using specific textual details.
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IntermediateA story can tell us what happened while quietly revealing that its teller misunderstands what happened.
Learning outcome: Analyse who tells, who knows and who judges; identify different forms of speech representation; and defend a precise claim about unreliability.
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IntermediateTranslating a notice, a story or a science explanation requires decisions about more than vocabulary.
Learning outcome: Distinguish translation from transliteration, analyse register and context, compare two solutions to a translation problem, and check a practical bilingual notice.
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IntermediateAn ordinary receipt or repaired container can reveal work, exchange and care that a political timeline leaves out.
Learning outcome: Trace archival context, separate an object’s observable features from possible uses, compare ledger entries fairly and write a bounded account of everyday life.
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IntermediateSocial reform changes more than individual opinions.
Learning outcome: Distinguish varna from jati, analyse how exclusion is reproduced, explain the specific object of Vaikom’s campaign, and assess institutional change without erasing either achievement or continuing barriers.
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IntermediateA growing city contains more than a story of people arriving from villages.
Learning outcome: Distinguish migration measures, calculate net movement and an urban share, explain multiple sources of urban growth, and identify what a survey can and cannot establish.
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IntermediateA shared water source can be useful to every user and vulnerable to each user taking too much.
Learning outcome: Classify resource problems, calculate two collective-action models, and explain how a proposed rule changes incentives while checking fairness and ecological limits.
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