CBSE Class 10 Social Science Solved Question Paper 2020

About this paper

This is the CBSE Class 10 Social Science question paper from the 2020 board examination, code 32/4/1, Series JBB/4, Set 1, printed in Hindi and English. It carries 80 marks for three hours and has 35 compulsory questions in four sections, with an internal choice in a few questions. Section A has twenty one-mark items, several of them multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank, including a table comparing Haryana, Kerala and Bihar. Section B has eight three-mark questions, one of them a source extract on plantation workers in Assam. Section C has six five-mark questions, including a three-source item on foreign trade, globalisation and the World Trade Organisation. Section D is a six-mark map question, two marks from history and four from geography. This copy has the questions only.

Exam

CBSE Class 10

Subject

Social Science

Year

2020

Paper code

32/4/1

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours

Questions

35

Pages

17

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  20 marks

  Questions 1–20, very short answers, one mark each, including multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank items

• Section B

  24 marks

  Questions 21–28, short answers of up to 80 words, three marks each, including one source-based question; internal choice in some

• Section C

  30 marks

  Questions 29–34, long answers of up to 120 words, five marks each, including a three-source question; internal choice in some

• Section D

  6 marks

  Question 35, map question: two history places (2 marks) and any four of six geography features (4 marks), with a written alternative for visually impaired candidates

Topics covered

• The rise of nationalism in Europe
• Nationalism in India
• Print culture
• Resources and development
• Agriculture
• Lifelines of national economy
• Power sharing
• Democracy, gender and caste
• Political parties
• Development and sectors of the economy
• Money and credit
• Globalisation and the World Trade Organisation

Questions from this paper

1. Who was proclaimed the first German Emperor in 1871?
2. Why were some of the Muslim political organisations in India lukewarm in their response to the Civil Disobedience Movement?
3. Who was the author of Hind Swaraj?
4. Explain the understanding of Swaraj for plantation workers in Assam, as given in the extract from 'Swaraj in the Plantations'.
5. On what basis is the criterion used by the United Nations Development Programme for measuring development different from the one used by the World Bank?
6. How does foreign trade integrate markets in different countries?