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QUESTION PAPER

2025 BOARD EXAM

CBSE CLASS 12-HUMANITIES POLITICAL SCIENCE Board Paper 2025 — Set 2

2025

POLITICAL SCIENCE

CLASS 12-HUMANITIES

CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2025 POLITICAL SCIENCE

CBSE EXAMINATION PAPER-2025

POLITICAL SCIENCE

(Solved)

Time allowed : 3 hours

Maximum Marks : 12

General Instructions :

Read the following instructions carefully and follow them :

This question paper contains 11 questions. All questions are compulsory.
This question paper is divided into 4 sections.
Section A – questions number 1 to 1 are case based questions
Section B – questions number 2 to 9 are multiple choice questions
Section C – questions number 10 to 10 are short answer
Section D – questions number 11 to 11 are long answer type i
There is no overall choice given in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been provided in few questions.
Use of calculator is NOT allowed.

Section A

Question 1. Study the given cartoon about USA's invasion on a Gulf country.

(1)

Which one of the following is the most important resource in global strategy?

A-Water

B-Oil

C-Land

D-Automobile

[1 Marks]

(2)

What was the objective of the United States of America to attack the Gulf country?

A-To get control on the oil resources

B-to get the territory of a country

C-To establish its army headquarters

D-To stop USSR from entering this region

[1 Marks]

(3)

Which Gulf country was invaded by US America?

A-Iraq

B-Saudi Arabia

C-Kuwait

D-Iran

[1 Marks]

(4)

Which of the following regions accounts for about 30% of global oil production?

A-Europe

B-China

C-Gulf Region

D-Japan

[1 Marks]

Section B

Question 2. 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.

[1 Marks]

(A) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are true.
(B) Both Statement-I and Statement-II are false.
(C) Statement-I is true, but Statement-II is false.
(D) Statement-I is false, but Statement-II is true.

Question 3. Which leader played an important role in the disintegration and coup against the Soviet Union?

[1 Marks]

(A) Nikita Khrushchev
(B) Boris Yeltsin
(C) Joseph Stalin
(D) John F. Kennedy

Question 4.

On which one of the following basis was emergency declared in 1975

[1 Marks]

(A) External Aggression
(B) Internal disturbances
(C) External threat
(D) Armed rebellion

Question 5. Choose the correct statement about India's nuclear policy from the statements given below:

[1 Marks]

(A) India was in support of the NPT.
(B) India's nuclear programme was started in 1952 under the guidance of Homi J. Bhabha.
(C) Now India has made it clear that the policy of 'no first use' can be reviewed.
(D) India was not against nuclear weapons.

Question 6.

Which Political party won 16 Lok Sabha seats and was at second place in the first general elections of India?

[1 Marks]

(A) Swatantra Party
(B) Socialist Party
(C) Communist Party of India
(D) Bharatiya Janata Party

Question 7.

Arrange the following in chronological order of their happening . (i) India-China War (ii) India's first test of a nuclear device (iii)Terrorists attack on world Trade Centre in America (iv) The Anti - Ballistic Missile Treaty

(A) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)
(B) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
(C) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
(D) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Question 8.

Which one among the following agreements was to cut the green house gas emission?

[1 Marks]

(A) Antarctic Treaty
(B) Kyoto Protocol
(C) Montreal Protocol
(D) Antarcti Environmental Protocol

Question 9. Agenda-21 contains a list of _____________.

(A) development practices
(B) global commons
(C) developed countries
(D) polluting Practices

Section C

Question 10.

State any two methods of Traditional Security

[2 Marks]

Section D

Question 11.

Analyse any four reasons for the split in the Congress Party in 1969.

[4 Marks]

Paper Details

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Class

CLASS 12-HUMANITIES

Subject

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Year

2025

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