Commerce (English Medium)
Science (English Medium)
Arts (English Medium)
Academic Year: 2024-2025
Date & Time: 22nd March 2025, 10:30 am
Duration: 3h
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General Instructions:
Read the following instructions very carefully and follow them:
- This question paper contains 30 questions. All questions are compulsory.
- Question paper is divided into five Sections - Section A, B, C, D and E.
- Section A - Question Number 1 to 12 are Multiple Choice (MCQ) type questions. Each question carries 1 mark.
- Section B - Question Number 13 and 18 are Short answer type questions. Each question carries 2 marks. Write answer to each question in 50 to 60 words.
- Section C - Question Number 19 to 23 are Long Answer type-I questions. Each question carries 4 marks. Write answer to each question in 100 to 120 words.
- Section D - Question Number 24 to 26 are Passage, Cartoon and Map-based questions. Answer each question accordingly.
- Section E - Question Number 27 to 30 are Long Answer type-II questions. Each question carries 6 marks. Write answer to each question in 170 to 180 words.
- There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been provided in few questions. Only one of the choices in such questions has to be attempted.
- In addition to this, note that a separate question has been provided for Visually Impaired candidates in lieu of questions having visual inputs, Map etc. Such questions are to be attempted by Visually Impaired candidates only.
Given below are two statements:
Statement-I: There were sections of Soviet society which felt that Gorbachev should have moved much faster and were disappointed and impatient with his methods.
Statement-II: Communist Party and those who were served by the system felt that their power and privileges were eroding and Gorbachev was moving too quickly.
Both Statement-I and Statement-II are true.
Both Statement-I and Statement-II are false.
Statement-I is true, but Statement-II is false.
Statement-I is false, but Statement-II is false.
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Which leader played an important role in the disintegration and coup against Soviet Union?
Boris Yeltsin
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Joseph Stalin
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Assertion (A): The government suspended the freedom of press and implemented press censorship during emergency in 1975.
Reason (R): Newspapers protested against censorship by showing the cartoons only.
Both the Assertion (A) and the Reason (R) are correct, and the Reason (R) is the correct explanation of the Assertion (A).
Both the Assertion (A) and the Reason (R) are correct, but the Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of the Assertion (A).
The Assertion (A) is incorrect, but the Reason (R) is correct.
The Assertion (A) is correct, but the Reason (R) is incorrect.
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On which one of the following basis was emergency declared in 1975?
Internal disturbances
External threat
Armed rebellion
External Aggression
Chapter:
Choose the correct statement about India’s nuclear policy from the statements given below:
India’s nuclear programme was started in 1952 under the guidance of Homi J. Bhabha.
India was in support of the NPT.
Now India has made it clear that the policy of ‘no first use’ can be reviewed.
Nehru was not against nuclear weapons.
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Which political party won 16 Lok Sabha seats and was at second place in the first General Election of India?
Communist Party of India
Bharatiya Jan Sangh
Socialist Party
Swatantra Party
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Choose the correct full form of the EVM.
Electric Voting Machine
Easy Voting Machine
Electronic Voting Machine
Election Voting Machine
Chapter:
Indira Gandhi and Z.A. Bhutto signed ______ agreement in the year ______.
War, 1971
Shimla, 1971
Peace, 1971
Shimla, 1972
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Match the terms given in Column-A correctly with Column-B and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
| Column-A | Column-B | ||
| (a) | Balance of Power | (i) | Giving up certain types of weapons |
| (b) | Disarmament | (ii) | Security |
| (c) | Migration | (iii) | Traditional security |
| (d) | Freedom of threats | (iv) | New source of threat |
(a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (ii)
(a) - (iv), (b) - (i), (c) - (iii), (d) - (ii)
(a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i)
(a) - (ii), (b) - (iv), (c) - (iii), (d) - (i)
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Arrange the following in chronological order of their happening:
- India-China War
- India’s first-test of a nuclear device
- Terrorists attack on World Trade Centre in America
- The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Choose the correct option:
(i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(ii), (iv), (iii), (i)
(iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
(i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
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Which one among the following agreements was to cut the green house gas emissions?
Antarctic Treaty
Kyoto Protocol
Montreal Protocol
Antarctic Environmental Protocol
Chapter:
Agenda-21 contains a list of ______.
global commons
development practices
polluting practices
developed countries
Chapter:
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State any two major policy decisions taken by the Chinese leadership in the 1970s.
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Analyse the Congress Party as an ideological coalition.
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Explain any two reasons for the split in the Janata Party in 1979.
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Suggest any two ways to reduce economic disparity between the poor and the rich countries at the global level.
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Explain any two differences between the First Five Year Plan and Second Five Year Plan.
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Explain any two reasons for the beginning of a long phase of coalition politics in India since 1989.
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Highlight any two reasons for the split in the Congress Party in 1969.
Chapter: [2.5] Challenges to the Congress System
Analyse the basis of projecting China to overtake the US America to become the world’s largest economy.
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“While the Chinese economy has improved, not everyone in China received the benefits of the reforms.” Analyse any two reasons for this.
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Describe the impact of globalisation on the Indian culture.
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Highlight any four Directive Principles of State Policy that have been included in the Constitution of India for International peace and security.
Chapter:
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Study the given picture and answer the questions that follow:
(The given cartoon is about USA’s invasion on a Gulf Country.)

- Which one of the following is the most important resource in global strategy?
- Water
- Oil
- Land
- Automobile
- Which of the following regions accounts for about 30% of global oil production?
- Europe
- China
- Gulf Region
- Japan
- Which Gulf country was invaded by US America?
- Iraq
- Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait
- Iran
- What was the objective of the United States of America to attack the Gulf country?
- To get control on the oil resources
- To get the territory of country
- To establish its army headquarters
- To stop USSR from entering this region
Chapter:
Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:
| The Central Asian republics did not ask for independence and wanted to remain with the Soviet Federation. In December 1991, under the leadership of Yeltsin, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus declared that the Soviet Union was disbanded. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was banned. Capitalism and democracy were adopted as the bases for the post-Soviet republics. The declaration on the disintegration of the USSR and the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) came as a surprise to the other republics, especially to the Central Asian ones. |
- Which ideology was adopted by the post-Soviet countries?
- Socialist
- Capitalist and Democratic
- Communist
- Democratic
- Which republic among the following became the successor of the Soviet Union?
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Russia
- Which one of the following is a Central Asian country?
- Chechnya
- Dagestan
- Tajikistan
- Czechoslovakia
- Which part of Soviet Union had vast hydrocarbon resources?
- Eastern Europe
- Central Asian Republics
- Yugoslavia
- Czechoslovakia
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In the given political outline map of India, four states have been marked as (A), (B), (C) and (D). Identify the States on the basis of the information given below and write their correct names in the answer-book along with the respective serial numbers of the information used and the concerned alphabet as per the format that follows:
| Serial number for the information used | Alphabet concerned | Name of the States |
| (i) | ||
| (ii) | ||
| (iii) | ||
| (iv) |
- The state, where the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi took place.
- The state where Karpoori Thakur was a Chief Minister.
- The state where UPA won the majority of seats in Lok Sabha elections in 2004.
- The state where Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) achieved a breakthrough in 1989 & 1991 elections.

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Describe any three circumstances under which the State Reorganisation Commission was constituted.
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Describe the circumstances and events that led to Manipur’s accession to India in 1949.
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Explain any two commonalities between Bangladesh and Pakistan in their democratic experiences.
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Explain any two differences between Bangladesh and Pakistan in their democratic experiences.
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Explain any two issues of cooperation between India and Bangladesh.
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Explain any two issues of confrontation between India and Bangladesh.
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Analyse any three reasons for the disturbance and unrest in Kashmir.
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Suggest any three measures to maintain peace in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Explain the importance of International organisations like the United Nations in the contemporary world.
Chapter:
Explain any four changes that have occurred after the Cold War and have affected the realities of the world politics.
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