CBSE Class 12 History Exam 2025-26: 30 Most Important Questions for Last Minute Revision

The CBSE Class 12 History Board Examination is scheduled for March 30, 2026! With only a few hours remaining, you should now focus exclusively on those questions that are most likely to appear in the exam.

Based on the CBSE 2025-26 syllabus, previous years' question papers, and expert analysis, we have compiled a list of the 30 most important questions. This compilation covers all key themes, such as 'Bricks, Beads, and Bones,' 'Mughal Courts,' 'Kings and Chronicles,' 'Colonial Cities,' 'Mahatma Gandhi,' 'Partition,' and 'The Indian Constitution.

Special emphasis has been placed on source-based, map-based, and long-answer questions. Be sure to review the important questions listed below and achieve excellent marks tomorrow!

CBSE Class 12 History Exam 2025-26 Most Important Questions

These expected questions are compiled from multiple sources like PYQs, expert analysis, and exam trends to help you focus on high-probability topics. Practicing these questions will strengthen your concepts, improve answer writing, and boost your preparation for the CBSE Class 12 History Board Exam 2026.

1. Explain the main features of the Harappan urban planning.

2. What are the major differences between Harappan and modern cities?

3. Describe the drainage system of the Harappan Civilization.

4. What do seals tell us about Harappan society?

5. Explain the significance of craft production in Harappan culture.

6. What are the possible reasons for the decline of the Harappan Civilization?

7. Describe the town planning of Mohenjo-Daro.

8. What evidence suggests trade in Harappan Civilization?

9. Explain burial practices in Harappan sites.

10. Discuss the role of agriculture in Harappan life.

11. Discuss the evidence of craft production in Early Historic cities.

12. Describe the salient features of the Mahajanapadas.

13. How do historians reconstruct the lives of ordinary people?

14. Compare and contrast the list of items given to the Pandyan chief (Source 3) with those produced in the village of Danguna.

15. List some of the problems faced by epigraphists.

16. Discuss the main features of Mauryan administration.

17. “There is no aspect of life, culture and activities of the Indians that is not reflected in inscriptions.” – D.C. Sircar

18. Explain why patriliny may have been particularly important among elite families.

19. Discuss whether kings in early states were invariably Kshatriyas.

20. Compare and contrast the concept of dharma or norms as mentioned in the stories of Drona, Hidimba, and Matanga.

21. In what ways was the Buddhist theory of a social contract different from the Brahmanical view of society derived from the Purusha Sukta?

22. Discuss whether the Mahabharata could have been the work of a single author.

23. How important were gender differences in early societies? Give reasons for your answer.

24. Discuss the evidence that suggests that Brahmanical prescriptions about kinship and marriage were not universally followed.

25. Were the ideas of the Upanishadic thinkers different from those of the fatalists and materialists? Give reasons for your answer.

26. Summarise the central teachings of Jainism.

27. Discuss the role of the Begums of Bhopal in preserving the stupa at Sanchi.

28. To what extent does knowledge of Buddhist literature help in understanding the sculptures at Sanchi?

29. Discuss the developments in sculpture and architecture associated with the rise of Vaishnavism and Shaivism.

30. On an outline world map, mark the areas to which Buddhism spread. Also, trace the important land and sea routes associated with its spread.

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