NCERT Class 8 Books: Chapter List for Curiosity, Ganita Prakash and Exploring Society

Class 8 now studies from the new NCERT books written under NCF-SE 2023. If you are using a guide or a question bank from a few years ago, many of its chapters (Crop Production, Rational Numbers, the old Our Pasts III) are not in your book any more.

The new books are Curiosity for Science, Ganita Prakash for Maths (in two parts) and Exploring Society: India and Beyond for Social Science. Here is every chapter on Kedovo, book by book.

Curiosity (Class 8 Science)

• Exploring the Investigative World of Science
• The Invisible Living World: Beyond Our Naked Eye
• Health: The Ultimate Treasure
• Electricity: Magnetic and Heating Effects
• Exploring Forces
• Pressure, Winds, Storms, and Cyclones
• Particulate Nature of Matter
• Nature of Matter: Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
• The Amazing World of Solutes, Solvents, and Solutions
• Light: Mirrors and Lenses
• Keeping Time with the Skies
• How Nature Works in Harmony
• Our Home: Earth, a Unique Life Sustaining Planet

Ganita Prakash (Class 8 Maths)

• A Square and A Cube
• Power Play
• A Story of Numbers
• Quadrilaterals
• Number Play
• We Distribute, Yet Things Multiply
• Proportional Reasoning-1
• Fractions in Disguise
• The Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem
• Proportional Reasoning-2
• Exploring Some Geometric Themes
• Tales by Dots and Lines
• Algebra Play
• Area

Ganita Prakash asks "why" far more often than the old book did. When you check an answer, check the reasoning, not only the number.

Exploring Society: India and Beyond (Class 8 Social Science)

• Natural Resources and Their Use
• Reshaping India's Political Map
• The Rise of the Marathas
• The Colonial Era in India
• Universal Franchise and India's Electoral System
• The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive
• Factors of Production
• World Geography: Some Glimpses
• Dynamics of Population
• Cultural Currents: 13th to 17th Centuries
• India's Long Road to Independence
• A Journey Through Indian Architecture
• The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society
• Citizenship: Rights and Duties
• India's Urban Landscape

How to study these chapters

Do the activities. The new books teach through activities and "let us explore" boxes, and school tests increasingly ask about them. Doing them, not just reading them, is how the chapter is meant to be learned.

Answer in your own words. The new books avoid long definitions to memorise. Questions ask you to explain or apply an idea, so practise explaining each topic aloud or in writing.

Revise little and often. Flashcards for a chapter take five minutes and keep it fresh until the exam, which beats rereading the whole book the night before.

Everything in one place

Each chapter linked above has its own page on Kedovo with the resources published for it: chapter notes (every subject except Maths), step-by-step NCERT solutions, flashcards, extra questions with model answers, MCQs, assertion and reason questions and case study questions, plus an AI tutor that already knows which chapter you are on. Chapter notes are free to read without an account.

You can also browse by subject: Class 8 Science, Class 8 Maths and Class 8 Social Science.