AHSEC 2nd Year Geography Syllabus 2024-25: Download Assam Board Class 12 Geography Syllabus FREE PDF

HS 2nd Year Geography Syllabus 2024 PDF Download: Geography is an elective subject offered by the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) for HS second-year science stream students. This subject is available for Arts stream students as well as an advanced languages subject. Students can opt for this as per their interests and career goals. 

The Assam Board has released the HS 2nd year Geography syllabus 2024–25 on its official website to check for the topics that need to be covered for this academic year. It also elaborates on the number of periods and weightage. Check out the unit-wise syllabus and chapters here and download the free PDF for better understanding.

Assam HS 2nd Year Geography Course Structure 2024-25

To know the units and their respective weightage refer to the table below:

Assam HS 2nd Year Geography Syllabus 2024-25

To know the unit-wise distribution of course contents and topics covered under each units refer to the content below:

A. FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Unit I :  Human Geography

• Nature and scope

Unit II : People

• Population of the world– distribution, density and growth;
• Population change-spatial patterns and structure; determinants of population change;
• Age-sex ratio; rural-urban composition;
• Human development– concept; selected indicators, international comparisons

Unit III :Human Activities

• Primary activities– concept and changing trends; gathering, pastoral, mining, subsistence agriculture, modern agriculture; people engaged in agriculture and allied activities– some examples from selected countries;
• Secondary activities– concept; manufacturing : agro-processing, household, small scale, large scale; people engaged in secondary activities– some examples from selected countries;
• Tertiary activities– concept; trade, transport and communication; services; people engaged in tertiary activities– some examples from selected countries;
• Quaternary activities– concept; knowledge based industries; people engaged in quternary activities– some examples from selected countries.

Unit IV : Transport, Communication and Trade

• Land transport– roads, railways– rail network; trans– continental railways;
• Water transport– inland waterways; major ocean routes;
• Air transport– Intercontinental air routes;
• Oil and gas pipelines;
• Satellite communication and cyber space;
• International trade– Basis and changing patterns; ports as gateways of international trade, role of WTO in international trade.

Unit V : Human Settlements

• Settlement types– rural and urban; morphology of cities (case study); distribution of mega cities; problems of human settlements in developing countries.

B. INDIA : PEOPLE AND ECONOMY

Unit I :  People

• Population–distribution, density and growth; composition of population : linguistic and religious; rural-urban population change through time– regional variations; occupation;
• Migration: international, national– causes and consequences;
• Human development– selected indicators and regional patterns;
• Population, environment and development

Unit II : Human Settlements

• Rural settlements– types and distribution;
• Urban settlements– types, distribution and functional classification

Unit III :Resources and Development

• Land resources– general land use; agricultural land use– major crops; agricultural development and problems, common property resources;
• Water resources– availability and utilization– irrigation, domestic, industrial and other uses; scarcity of water and conservation methods– rain water harvesting and watershed management (one case study related with participatory watershed management to be introduced);
• Mineral and energy resources– metallic and non-metallic minerals and their distribution; conventional and non-conventional energy sources;
• Industries–types and distribution; industrial location and clustering; changing pattern of selected industries– iron and steel, cotton textiles, sugar, petrochemicals and knowledge based industries; impact of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation on industrial location;
• Planning in India– target area planning (case study); idea of sustainable development (case study).

Unit IV : Transport, Communication and International Trade

• Transport and communication– roads, railways, waterways and airways; oil and gas pipelines; national electric grids; communication networkings– radio, television, satellite and internet;
• International trade– changing pattern of India’s foreign trade; sea ports and their hinterland and airports.

Unit V : Geographical Perspective on Selected Issues and Problems (One case study to be introduced for each topic)

• Environmental pollution; urban-waste disposal;
• Urbanisation-rural-urban migration; problem of slums;
• Land Degradation

C. ASSAM– LAND PEOPLE AND ECONOMY

Unit I : Physiography, Drainage Climate.

Unit II : People : Composition, Distribution, Density

Unit III : Economy : Agriculture and Industrial base and Development Unit IV :Transport and Communication

Assam HS 2nd Year Geography Practical Syllabus 2024-25

Unit I :  Processing of Data and Thematic Mapping

• Sources of data;
• Tabulating and processing of data; calculation of averages, measures of central tendency, deviation and rank correlation;
• Representation of data– construction of diagrams : bars, circles and flowchart; thematic maps; construction of dot; choropleth and isopleth maps.
• Use of computers in data processing and 

Unit II : Field Study or Spatial Information Technology

Field visit and study : map orientation, observation and preparation of sketch; survey on any one of the local concerns : population, ground water changes, land use and land-use changes, poverty, energy issues, soil degradation, drought and flood impacts (any one topic of local concern may be taken up for the study; observation and questionnaire survey may be adopted for the data collection; collected data may be tabulated and analysed with diagrams and maps).

OR

Spatial Information Technology

Introduction to GIS; hardware requirements and software modules; data formats : raster and vector data, data input, editing and topology building; data analysis; overlay and buffer.

Note : There will be six text books, two for theory and one for practical work for each class.
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