CBSE Guess Paper 2009

Social Science

Class X

Time 3hrs. M.M. 80

Instructions

  1. There are 29 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
  2. Marks for each question are indicated against the question .
  3. Questions from serial no. 1 to 10 are 1 mark questions. ( Answers of the question may be from one word to one sentence.).
  4. Questions from serial number 11 to 18 are 3 marks questions. Answers of the questions should not exceed 80 words each.
  5. Questions from serial number 19 to 28 are 4 marks questions. Answers of these questions should not exceed 100 words each.
  6. Question number 29 is map work question. Attach the map inside your answer book.

Q1 Write the names of two

Persian newspapers which were started in 1822. 1

Or

Which novel was first serialized novel ? Who wrote it?

Q2 What is kul or gul ? 1

Q3 Write two uses of manganese. 1

Q4 Which is the only landlocked port of India. Write its one speciality. ½ +1/2

Q5 Name two prominent political parties of Northern Ireland. 1

Q6 Write one merit of pressure groups. 1

Q7 Write one quality of a good law. 1

Q8 What are non monetary goals? 1

Q9 Define infant mortality rate. 1

Q10 What is per capita income? 1

Q11 What efforts were made to improve the conditions of scheduled castes? 3

Q12Read the following extract and answer the questions based on it.

“ I have no hesitation in declaring that if the principle that the Indian Muslim is entitled to full and free development on the lines of his own culture and tradition in his own Indian Rome- land is recognized as the basis of a permanent communal settlement , he will be ready to stake his all for the freedom of India. The principle that each group is entitled to free development on its own lines is not inspired by any feeling of narrow communalism….A community which is inspired by feelings of ill will towards other communities is low and ignoble. I entertain the highest respect for the customs , laws , religions, and social institutions of other communities. Nay it is my duty according to the teachings of the Quran even to defend their places of worship if need be. Yet I love the communal group which is the source of life and behaviour and which has formed me what I am by giving me its religion, its literature , its thought , its culture and thereby its whole past as a living operative factor in my present consciousness……

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Q12 (a) Whose views have been expressed in this extract?1

(b) What conditions he put for the support of his community for the freedom

movement? 2

Note(Below are given three groups------A ,B & C FOR Questions 13 & 14.

Select any one group for answering these two questions.

Group---A

Q13 What were Corn Laws? Why they were passed ? Why they were, later on , revoked? 1+!+1

Q14What was the pace of industrial change in England ? 3

Group---B

Q13 What factors led to the end of Brettonwoods and the beginning of Globilisation. 3

Q14 What were chawls? Desscribe chawl life in Bombay.1+2

Group---C

Q13 Why could steam power not displace hand labour in Victorian Britain ? 3

Q14 How did urabanisation initiate social change? 3

Q15 How far print culture created conditions in which French Revolution occurred ? 3

Or

In what ways was the novel in colonial India useful for both the colonizers as well

as for the nationalists?

Q16 Explain the importance of pipeline transport in India. Give one example of pipeline.

2+1

Q17 Do you agree that democracy provides a more accountable , responsive and

legitimate government?

Q18 How did consumer movement grow in India ? 3

Q19 What were the provisions of the Vienna congress ? 4

Q20. Identify the picture. Which problem is shown in the picture? what are it’s causes?

Q21 What measures have been taken by the government for the improvement of

agriculture?

Q22 How are agriculture and industry inter-dependent? 4

Q23 How has inter-state relation worked in India ? 4

Q24 ”Despite deep influence of caste, elections in India are not entirely a caste affair.”

Explain.

Q25 What are the challenges faced by the political parties ?

Q26 What measures can lead to creation of more employment in primary sector ? 4

Q27 Explain the working of Self-Help group.

Q28 What is an MNC ? How does it organize production ? 1+3

Q29 a) On the map of Europe locate the kingdom of Prussia and Spain. 1+1

b)On the political map of India locate the following. 1X4

1 Rihand

2 Bhadravati steel plant

3 Kandla Port

4 Murrhadabad

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