DEMOLISHING +2 CHEMISTRY

PART-I
REALITY CHECK
What happens when a pond fish is thrown into sea?
Remember?? Biology?? Osmosis??
O!!!!!! the fish dies.
Sometimes well mostly same is the case of a student who
just passes class X and steps into class XI. A 100 page
book becomes suddenly 1500 pages. Huge
change. I wont say its an easy task. Its hard. Now let alone
books. The size change of books and syllabus coupled with
pressure from parents, ambition for IIT, NITs, PMT etc..
makes it much more difficult.
Relatives come to home. Just after results you know. Well
you have got 90+%, Well done!!(with lot of grim in heart in
most cases).
So beta what are you doing next ? Have you joined any IIT
classes? Are you going for medical? .
A student who was just having a honeymoon smile after X
result is now a confused fellow. He was reminded time and
time again by his parents before X Tui bhalo kore por.
Ei porikkhatar opor sob depend korche (You read well,
everything depends on X). He now feels cheated. He never
knew a much larger monster is waiting for him.
Well to be honest lets face the reality. Life would never
be easier. Its a false assumption. So its better to tighten
your belts because the upcoming life even after +2 or even
if you are an IIT ian or NIT ian or a doctor, life is getting
tougher and tougher for you.

Each and every success comes with added responsibilities.

You get a promotion in office not as a reward

but to give you larger responsibilities.
You get science in +2 so you can take more
pressure now.
So can you be proud after X?
You have something to be proud. If you have got science
after class X, that means you are in top 33%(approx) of all
students in India who passes class X.
So what you have in store next? Previously you were
competing with 100 people consisting of good, average, poor
students.
Now you are competing with the 33 best out of 100 students.
So you need to upgrade yourself.
Its a life you may or may not have chosen, but you got to
live it now.
You can leave the playground. But will that be an honor or
shame? You know the answer.

Character of a person is defined by his ability

to perform under difficult conditions.
So lets show some character and change our body
fluids and jump into the sea and we know we will
survive.

(Remember Sachin would not be Sachin without those two innings in

Sharjah. Dravid never gave up in Durban in 1996, when India was all
out at 66. He was there till the end).

ANALYZING CLASS 11 SYLLABUS

We often think class XI will not come in ISC and we may take
it lightly. You can make mistakes in life but never commit a
sin. And if you were even thinking what I wrote earlier, you
are committing a sin.
This is +2 and you better respect it just as people respect
while Malinga bowls. We will be building pillars of success in
class XI.
Proper planning is required to cover the syllabus in a nice
way so that our concepts in chemistry becomes strong.
Ultimately the concepts will matter rather than bombarding
terms and chemical names.
Lets start demolishing the syllabus of class XI now.
I divide the syllabus into following types of chemistry.
I. PHYSICAL-lets break it up.
1. Mole chemistry.
Mole concept, laws of chemical combinations,Chemical
calculations, Molarity, Normality,Molality, Formality etc.., Gas
laws. Avogadro jis charismatic number.
**This chapter has lot of numerical and believe me they are
easy and scoring. And success in this gives a good start
coupled with a 20% kickstart in confidence level.
2. Atomic chemistry.

Atomic structure, Periodic table, Chemical bonding.

**This would give a strong pillar to understand inorganic and
organic chemistry. Without these you will never be able to
succeed in chemistry. Success in this would give at least a
50% grip over the syllabus

3. Thermo-chemistry.
Just a single chapter Thermodynamics they call it energetics.
I have never came across anyone who said he/she
understand this naughty kid 100%. **Basically you cant
tame thermodynamics. So be respectful and study
meticulously
4. Physico-chemistry
Properties of Gases, solutions, colloids, adsorption, surface
chemistry,Chemical Kinetics.
** This chapters are a combination of physics and chemistry.
Scoring and interesting
Here for concept building I would recommend students to
finish part 1 & 2 first before going to organic and inorganic
chemistry.(This is for the reason that school will have
syllabuses combining physical,inorganic and organic
chemistry)
II. INORGANIC
1. Study of elements, Study of Compounds, Redox
reactions.
Dont say I am not good at memorizing so I dont like
inorganic chemistry. This is just a lame excuse to avoid
inorganic chemistry. Inorganic chemistry follows rules just as
organic chemistry. And you need to find the pattern it
follows. And most of all you already know a lot about this

part from class IX & X. Perhaps Organic chemistry would be a

tougher nut to crack.
This part is scoring and normally what I saw that ISC
students are not good at it. So basically this part gives you
less competition.
To be continued..

PREPARED BY:
SUPRIYO MUKHERJEE
Supnits classes