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Mathematics

Intermediate

Quadratic equations and models

Products of changing lengths and models of accelerating motion lead to squared terms.

Learning outcome: Choose a solution method, explain the discriminant, find an extreme value, and reject a root only for a stated mathematical or contextual reason.

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Indian biographies

Intermediate

Ramanuja: life, devotion and qualified nonduality

Explore Ramanuja’s places, major writings and account of how real selves and the world belong to Brahman, then examine devotion and surrender through practical examples.

Learning outcome: Explain qualified nonduality, identify the limits of the body–Self analogy, and distinguish responsible surrender from abandoning duties.

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Career & workplace skills

Beginner

Read a job description and assess your fit

A job description is a set of claims about work and selection, not merely a list of attractive words.

Learning outcome: Build a requirement-evidence table and decide whether to apply, clarify a condition or first address a genuine gap.

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Institutions & public life

Intermediate

Read a public budget and ask evidence-based questions

A large allocation is a useful starting point, but it does not tell you what was spent or what changed for people.

Learning outcome: Calculate a budget change, distinguish BE, RE and Actuals, and turn a spending claim into a fair, specific question.

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History, literature & society

Beginner

Reading literature and interpretation

Literature 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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History, literature & society

Intermediate

Reading poetry: sound, image and form

A 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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Earth, weather & environment

Intermediate

Rock cycles and reading geological time

A stone records processes, but its appearance alone does not reveal a complete history.

Learning outcome: Classify formation processes, reconstruct a sequence, calculate an idealised half-life age and recognise what a geological date actually measures.

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Mathematics

Advanced

Sampling variation and confidence intervals

Different random samples produce different estimates even when the population is unchanged.

Learning outcome: Distinguish standard deviation from standard error, calculate mean and proportion intervals, interpret confidence correctly, and identify uncertainty that the formulas omit.

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Indian biographies

Beginner

Sarojini Naidu: poetry, persuasion and public life

A poet can shape how people imagine a place; an organiser can help people act together.

Learning outcome: Explain how poetic voice works, assess a public claim, and connect literary and political milestones without assuming that one automatically caused the other.

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Indian biographies

Beginner

Savitribai Phule: education and equality

Savitribai Phule helped make education a practical challenge to social exclusion.

Learning outcome: Explain how exclusion can survive an open-door policy, distinguish educational access from learning, and use evidence to assess a reformer’s contribution without reducing a movement to one person.

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Science & evidence

Beginner

Scientific thinking: experiments, measurements and evidence

Why does a fair test matter? Learn how variables, repeated measurements and alternative explanations turn a sensible guess into a conclusion you can defend.

Learning outcome: You will turn a broad curiosity into a testable question, plan a fair comparison, and distinguish a result from the explanation offered for it.

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Mathematics

Intermediate

Sequences and compound growth

Adding a fixed amount and multiplying by a fixed factor produce very different patterns.

Learning outcome: Build recursive and explicit rules, sum finite sequences, compare linear and compound change, and check the assumptions behind a projection.

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Research & achievements

Beginner

SHAKTI MOUSHIK: how a processor becomes a working system

A chip announcement becomes more meaningful when we understand the chain behind it: instructions, logic, fabrication, a circuit board and a successful start.

Learning outcome: Distinguish an instruction set from a chip, trace a simple control program, calculate execution time and energy, and propose tests beyond a successful boot.

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History, literature & society

Beginner

Society, culture and institutions

People 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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Earth, weather & environment

Beginner

Soil formation, structure and erosion

Soil is a developing system of minerals, organic matter, organisms, air and water.

Learning outcome: Read a soil profile, separate texture from structure, calculate equivalent soil loss and design a fair comparison of protective cover.

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