The IMAT syllabus.

• Abstract, uncommon and specialised lexis in real contexts
• Textual cohesion and coherence
• Extracting and inferring specific information from a text

Official wording La capacità di comprendere testi scritti in lingua inglese di diversa natura e con scopi comunicativi diversi

• Orientation in represented space and time; placing historical-cultural phenomena
• Principal national and international institutions
• Phenomena in the legal, economic and citizenship domains
• Topics of contemporary public debate

Official wording competenze acquisite negli studi pregressi e le conoscenze di cultura generale anche di ambito sovranazionale

• Syllogisms and categorical statements
• Conditionals, necessary vs sufficient, contrapositive
• Negation of quantified and compound statements

• Premises stated in symbolic form
• Ordering, matching and constraint puzzles

• Number and figure series
• Reading and interpreting data and graphs

• Biological importance of weak interactions
• Organic molecules in organisms and their functions
• The role of enzymes

Official wording La chimica dei viventi. L'importanza biologica delle interazioni deboli.

• Cell theory and cell dimensions
• Prokaryotic and eukaryotic, animal and plant cells
• Viruses
• Cell membrane: structure, functions, transport
• Cellular structures and their specific functions

Official wording La cellula come base della vita. Teoria cellulare. Dimensioni cellulari. La cellula procariotica ed eucariotica, animale e vegetale. I virus.

• Mitosis and meiosis
• Chromosome complement and chromosome maps
• Life cycles; sexual and asexual reproduction

Official wording Ciclo cellulare e riproduzione cellulare: mitosi e meiosi - corredo cromosomico e mappe cromosomiche.

• Mendel's laws and their applications
• Chromosome theory of inheritance; inheritance patterns
• DNA structure and replication, genetic code, protein synthesis
• Prokaryotic DNA; eukaryotic chromosome structure
• Genes and regulation of gene expression
• Mono- and polyfactorial traits; autosomal and X-linked disorders

Official wording Genetica mendeliana... classica... molecolare... umana

• Mutations
• Natural and artificial selection
• Evolutionary theories and the genetic basis of evolution

Official wording Mutazioni. Selezione naturale e artificiale. Le teorie evolutive. Le basi genetiche dell'evoluzione. Ereditarietà e ambiente.

• Recombinant DNA technology and applications

Official wording Le biotecnologie: la tecnologia del DNA ricombinante e le sue applicazioni.

• Animal tissues
• Homeostasis
• Circulatory system
• Respiratory system
• Digestive system
• Excretory system
• Nervous system
• Endocrine system
• Immune system
• Muscular and skeletal systems
• Reproductive system
• Interactions between systems

Official wording Anatomia e Fisiologia degli animali e dell'uomo. I tessuti animali. Anatomia e fisiologia di sistemi ed apparati nell'uomo e relative interazioni. Omeostasi.

• ATP as the cell's energy currency
• Redox reactions in living organisms
• Photosynthesis
• Glycolysis
• Aerobic respiration
• Fermentation

Official wording La valuta energetica delle cellule: l'ATP. Reazioni di ossidoriduzione nei viventi. I processi energetici: fotosintesi, glicolisi, respirazione aerobica e fermentazione.

• States of aggregation; heterogeneous and homogeneous systems
• Compounds and elements
• Ideal gas laws

• Elementary particles, atomic and mass number, isotopes
• Electronic structure of atoms
• Periodic table: groups, periods, transition elements
• Atomic radius, ionisation potential, electron affinity, metallic character

• Ionic, covalent and metallic bonds; bond energy
• Bond polarity and electronegativity
• Intermolecular forces

• Nomenclature and properties of oxides, hydroxides, acids, salts

• Atomic and molecular mass, Avogadro's number
• The mole concept and its application
• Elementary stoichiometric calculations; balancing simple reactions
• Types of chemical reaction

• Solvent properties of water; solubility
• Ways of expressing concentration

• Equilibria in aqueous solution
• Elements of chemical kinetics and catalysis

• Oxidation number; oxidising and reducing agents
• Balancing simple redox reactions

• Acid and base concepts; acidity, neutrality, basicity
• pH
• Hydrolysis
• Buffer solutions

• Bonds between carbon atoms; empirical and structural formulae
• Isomerism
• Aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic hydrocarbons
• Functional groups: alcohols, ethers, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amides
• Elements of organic nomenclature

• Natural, integer, rational, real numbers; ordering and comparison
• Order of magnitude and scientific notation
• Proportions and percentages
• Integer and rational exponents; radicals
• Logarithms (base 10 and e) and their properties
• Elements of combinatorics
• Algebraic expressions, polynomials, notable products, factorisation
• First and second degree equations and inequalities; systems

• Domain, codomain, sign, continuity, maxima/minima, monotonicity
• Algebraic, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions
• Composite and inverse functions
• Trigonometric equations and inequalities

• Polygons, circle and circumference
• Lengths, areas and volumes
• Isometries, similarity, equivalence in the plane; loci
• Angle measure in degrees and radians; sine, cosine, tangent; solving triangles
• Cartesian plane, distance, midpoint, line equation, parallelism and perpendicularity
• Circle, parabola, hyperbola, ellipse in the Cartesian plane
• Pythagoras; Euclid's first and second theorems

• Frequency distributions and graphical representations
• Random experiment, event, probability and frequency

• Fundamental and derived quantities; SI and technical systems
• Multiples, submultiples, scientific notation, unit conversion
• Scalar and vector quantities; operations on vectors

• Velocity, angular velocity, acceleration, centripetal acceleration
• Uniform, uniformly accelerated, uniform circular and harmonic motion

• Newton's three principles; force as vector interaction
• Weight, elastic force, static and dynamic friction
• Impulse, momentum and its conservation
• Moment of a force and angular momentum
• Work, kinetic and potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy, power

• Density, pressure; Pascal, Stevin and Archimedes
• Flow rate, continuity equation, Bernoulli, viscous forces

• Equilibrium, temperature, thermometers
• Heat, calorimetry, heat propagation, thermal capacity, specific heat
• Changes of state and latent heat
• Ideal gas laws; first and second law of thermodynamics

• Electric charges, Coulomb's law
• Electric field and potential, equipotential surfaces
• Dielectric constant, capacitance, capacitors in series and parallel, electrostatic energy
• Current, resistivity, Ohm's law, resistors in series and parallel, Kirchhoff
• Work, power, Joule effect; direct and alternating current
• Magnetic field of a current, forces on currents, electromagnetic induction