TS SSC Science Syllabus 2025-26: Check Telangana Board Class 10 Physical and Biology Science Syllabus

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Updated On: November 19, 2025 12:53 PM

TS SSC Science Syllabus 2025-26 consists of two parts. The first part is Physical Science, and the second part is Biological Science. The paper will be conducted for 100 marks. 
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TS SSC Science Syllabus 2025-26 is divided into two parts: Physical Science and Biology. The first part of the syllabus, that is, Physical Science, consists of a total of 12 chapters followed by the Biology part, which comprises a total of 10 chapters. The theory paper will be conducted for 100 marks. You can download the PDF of the syllabus by visiting the official website of the Board of Secondary Education, Telangana. No changes are expected to be made to the curriculum, so you can use old books and syllabi to prepare for the exam. It will take around 6 to 8 months to complete the syllabus to make sure so start studying from the very beginning of the academic year.

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From the table given below, you can find the detailed unit-wise and topic-wise TS SSC Science syllabus 2025-26:

Physical Science

Unit

Sub Topics

1. Reflection of light at a curved surface
  • Normal to the curved surface
  • Spherical mirrors, convex and concave mirrors
  • Pole, Focus, Centre of curvature, principal axis, Radius of curvature, Focal length
  • Formula for spherical mirrors – sign convention
  • Application of reflection – Solar Cooker, etc.
2. Chemical Equations
  • Some daily life examples of chemical reactions.
  • Chemical equations – writing chemical equations, skeletal chemical equations, balancing chemical equations
  • Writing symbols of physical states, Heat changes, gas evolved and a precipitate formed
  • Interpreting a balanced chemical equation
3. Acids, Bases and Salts
  • Chemical properties of acids & bases
  • What do acids have in common? What do bases have in common?
  • Do Acids produce Ions only in Aqueous Solution?
  • Reaction of Acid, Base with water
  • Strength of Acid or Base – pH scale
  • Importance of pH in everyday life
  • Salts
  • Chemicals from common salt
4. Refraction of light at curved surface
  • Refraction of light at curved surface
  • Lenses
  • Rules for Ray diagram
  • Images formed by the lenses
  • Formula derived for thin lenses
  • Focal length of lens depends on the surrounding medium
  • Lens maker formula

5. Human eye and colourful world

  • Least distance of distinct vision, Angle of vision
  • Structure of Human Eye – Focal length of Human Eye lens, accommodation
  • Common accommodation defects of vision: Myopia, Hypermetropia, Presbyopia
  • Prism
  • Scattering of light

6. Structure of atom

  • Spectrum
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Bohr’s model of a Hydrogen atom and its limitations
  • Quantum mechanical model of an Atom
  • Electronic Configuration of elements in their atoms
  • nl rule, Energies of electronic energy levels (n+l) rule; Aufbau Principle, Pauli’s principle, Hund’s Rule of maximum multiplicity, Stable configurations

7. Classification of Elements – The Periodic Table

  • Need for the arrangement of elements in an organized manner
  • Doberieners Triads – Limitations
  • Newland’s law of Octaves
  • Mendeleev’s Periodic Table (Periodic law, Achievements & Limitations)
  • Modern Periodic Table.

8. Chemical Bonding

  • Chemical bond definition (brief explanation)
  • Electronic theory of Valence by Lewis and Kossel
  • Ionic and Covalent bonds: examples with Lewis Dot formulae
  • The arrangement of Ions in Ionic compounds
  • Factors affecting the formation of cation and anion
  • Shapes, bond lengths and bond energies in molecules
  • Valence shell electron pair repulsion theory
  • Valence bond theory
  • Properties of Ionic and Covalent Compounds

9. Electric Current

  • Electric current
  • Potential difference
  • How a battery or a cell works
  • Ohms law and its limitations, resistance, specific resistance, factors influencing resistance, electric shock
  • Electric Circuits
  • Electric power
  • Safety fuses

10. Electromagnetism

  • Oersted Experiment
  • Magnetic field – field lines
  • Magnetic field due to currents
  • Magnetic force on moving charge and current carrying wire
  • Electric motor
  • Electromagnetic induction – Faraday’s law (including magnetic flux) – Lenz law
  • Generators and Alternating – Direct Currents

11. Principles of Metallurgy

  • Occurrence of Metals in nature
  • Extraction of metals from the Ores – activity series and related metallurgy, flow chart of steps involved in the extraction of metals from ore.
  • Corrosion – Prevention of Corrosion
  • Important Processes used in metallurgy
  • Flux
  • Furnace

12. Carbon and its compounds

  • Introduction of Carbon compounds
  • Promotion of an Electron – Bonding in Carbon including Hybridization
  • Allotropes of Carbon
  • Versatile nature of carbon
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Bonding of carbon with other elements
  • Isomerism
  • Homologous series
  • Nomenclature of carbon compounds
  • Chemical properties of carbon compounds
  • Important carbon compounds
  • Esterification reactions
  • Soaps – Saponification, Micelles

Biology

Nutrition

  • Life process- Introduction
  • Photosynthesis
  • Nutrition in organisms
  • Digestion in human beings
  • Healthy points about oesophagus
  • Malnutrition

Respiration

  • Respiration – discovery of gases involved in respiration
  • Respiratory system in human being
  • Cellular respiration
  • Respiration – Combustion
  • Evolution of gaseous exchange
  • Plant respiration

Transportation

  • Internal structure of Heart
  • Cardiac cycle
  • Lymphatic system
  • Evolution of transport system
  • Blood pressure
  • Blood clotting
  • Transportation in plants

Excretion

  • Excretion in Human beings
  • Excretory system
  • Structure of Nephron
  • Formation of urine
  • Dialysis – Artificial kidney
  • Accessory Excretory organs in human being (Lungs, skin, liver large intestine)
  • Excretion in other organisms
  • Excretion in plants
  • Excretion, Secretion

Coordination

  • Stimulus and response
  • Integrated system – Nerves coordination
  • Nerve cell structure
  • Pathways from stimulus to response
  • Reflex arc
  • Central nervous system
  • Peripheral nervous system
  • Coordination without nerves
  • Autonomous nervous system
  • Coordination in plants – Phytohormones

Reproduction

  • Growth of bacteria in milk.
  • Asexual reproduction
  • Sexual reproduction
  • Sexual reproduction in plants
  • Cell division – Cell cycle
  • Reproductive health – HIV/ AIDS

Coordination in Life Processes

  • Hunger
  • Relation between taste and smell
  • Mouth – a mastication machine
  • Passage of food through oesophagus
  • Stomach is mixer

Heredity and Evolution

  • New Characters – variation
  • Experiments conducted by Mendal (F1 generation,F2 generation), Mendel’s Laws
  • Parents to offsprings
  • Evolution
  • Origin of species
  • Evolution – Evidences
  • Human Evolution

Our Environment

  • Ecosystem – Food chain
  • Human activities – Their effect on ecosystem
  • Biological pest control measures

Natural resources

  • Case study – Agricultural land (past and present)
  • Case study – Water management
  • Water resources in the Telugu States
  • Natural resources around us
  • Forest Renewable resources
  • Fossil fuels
  • Conservation, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover

Also Read: TS SSC Science Question Paper 2026

You must download the latest syllabus from the official website as soon as possible to understand the chapters included in the curriculum and study them in detail. Make sure to also solve the model test papers regularly to understand the curriculum.

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