CBSE 12th Political Science Exam 2025 : Most Important Question Answers For Last Minute Revision

The CBSE Class 12 Political Science exam is scheduled for 22th March 2025, and with only a few hours left, it’s crucial to focus on high-scoring topics and important questions.

To help students with last-minute preparation, we provide Important Final Revision Notes with Answers in a free.

Covers important topics and Includes basic subjective questions. Contains quick revision notes, and short & long answer questions.

CBSE Class 12 Political Science Exam 2025: Most Important Questions PDF

1 Marks Questions :-

Q1. Which two objectives Jawaharlal Nehru wished to achieve through the strategy of Non-Alignment? (Delhi 2016)

Answer: The two objectives Jawaharlal Nehru wished to achieve through the strategy of Non-Alignment were :

(i) To equip India to take a firm stand on international issues.

(ii) To enable India to balance one superpower against the other through Nans

Q2. Which one of the following statements about the Berlin war is false? (Delhi 2016)

(i) It symbolised the division between the capitalist and the communist world.

(ii) It was built immediately after the Second World War.

(iii) It was broken by the people on 9 November 1989.

(iv) It marked the unification of the two parts of Germany.

Answer: (iv) It marked the unification of the two parts of Germany.

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Q3. What was ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’? (Delhi 2015)

Answer: As a part of it’s Global War or Terror’, the US launched ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ against all those suspected to be behind 9/11 attack, mainly Al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime in Afganistan.

Q4. Trace the evolution process of the European Union, (All indin 2014)

Answer: The EU has gradually evolved from an economic union to a political union. It became more a nation-state. It does not have its Constitution.

Q5. Who controls the North-Eastern parts of Sri Lanka? (All India 2014)

Answer: The LTTE controlled the North-Eastern parts of Sri Lanka. After its defeat the area is now under the control of the Government of Sri Lanka.

Q6. Mention the main function of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). (All India 2013)

Answer: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is an international organisation which sets the rules for global trade.

Q7. What is meant by disarmament? (All India 2014)

Answer: Disarmament requires all states to give up certain types of weapons. For instance, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) banned the production and possession of these weapons.

Q8. Why were India and China exempted from the Kyoto Protocol? (All India 2008)

Answer: India, China and other developing countries were exempted from the requirements of Kyoto Protocol because their per capita emission was comparatively lower than it was in developed countries.

Q9. What is globalisation? (All India 2008)

Answer: Globalisation means the flows of ideas, capital, commodities and people across different parts of the world. It is a multidimensional concept. It has political, economic and cultural manifestations and these must be adequately distinguished.

Q10. Name the leader who played a historic role in negotiating with the rulers of princely states to join the Indian Union. (Delhi 2014)

Answer: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Q11. Which political party laid emphasis on the idea of one country, one culture and one nation? (Delhi 2014)

Answer: Bhartiya Jana Sangh

Q12. What was ‘Bombay Plan’? (All India 2013)

Answer: A section of the big industrialists got together in 1944 and drafted a joint proposal for setting up a planned economy in the country. It was called the Bombay Plan. They wanted the state to take major initiatives in industrial and other economic investments.

Q13. What is meant by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)? (Delhi 2010)

Answer: It is an international organisation to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to prevent its use for military purposes.

Q14. Which two political parties were the major partners in the ruling alliance after the 1971 General Elections to the Lok Sabha. (All India 2014)

Answer: Congress (R) and Communist Party of India (CPI) were major ruling alliance partners after the 1971 General Election.

Q15. Why did the magazines like ‘Seminar’ and ‘Mainstream’ choose to close down after the declaration of emergency in 1975? (Delhi 2012)

Answer: They choose to close down after the declaration of emergency of 1975 due to censorship of press.

Q16. What was the Anti-arrack movement? (Delhi 2012, All India 2010)

Answer: Anti’-Arrack movement was a social movement in Andhra Pradesh. It was a movement by rural women against alcoholism, and liquor mafia.

Q17. Why do some people feel that Article 370 should be revoked? (All India 2015)

Answer: Such people believes that the special status of the state conferred by Article 370 does not allow full integration of the state with India.

Q18. Why was Babri Masjid demolished? (Delhi 2011)

Answer: Some organisation were supporting the construction of temple at the place of Babri Masjid and the voluntary service for building the Ram temple was known as Karseva. Thousands of people gathered at Ayodhya and finally they demolished the Babri Masjid to clear land for construction of Lord Ram Temple.

2 Marks Questions :-

Q1. In which way did the policy of Non-Alignment serve India’s interests? (All India 2017)

Answer: Non-Alignment helped India is furthering his\national interest. It served India’s interests in two ways :

(i) It equipped India to take a firm stand on international issues. This way India found its place in the international political system.

(ii) India through NAM also managed to balance one superpower against the other. It did not invite any threat from either bloc; neither alliances system could take India for granted or bully it.

Q2. State any two reasons for the instability of democracy in Pakistan. (Delhi 2014)

Answer: The two factors for Pakistan’s failure of stable democracy are:

(i) The social dominance of military.

(ii) Stiff confrontation for coming to power among political parties.

Q3. What is meant by decentralised planning? (All India 2014, 2012)

Answer: Decentralised planning is a strategy to involve people directly in development activities through voluntary citizens’ organisations. The state also takes initiatives to involve people in making plants at the panchayat, block and district level.

Q4. What was ‘Shah Commission of Inquiry’? How did the government react to it? (Delhi 2010)

Answer: Shah Commission was a commission appointed by the Janata Party government in 1977 to inquire into several aspects of allegations of abuse of authority, excesses and malpractices committed in the wake of the emergency.

Q5. What does a coalition government mean? Mention any one example of such a government. (All India 2013)

Answer: When two or more parties join hands together to form a government is known as coalition government. eg-UPA, NDA etc. In 1977, the first coalition government was formed.