ISC 2024 Geography Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Geography paper (code 853) set by CISCE for the 2024 board examination. It carries 70 marks, runs for three hours plus fifteen minutes of reading time, and has 13 compulsory questions in three sections, with internal choices in some. Section A begins with map work: candidates mark, label and identify features on an outline map of India, which is printed as the last page, followed by objective items including an assertion–reason question. Section B has short answers, some based on photographs of energy sources and a sketch map of the Golden Quadrilateral. Section C has long answers using temperature and rainfall graphs, sketch maps of flood-prone regions and relief divisions, and a news passage about solar panels installed at a police station in Alipore, Kolkata.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Geography

Year

2024

Paper code

853

Maximum marks

70

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

13

Pages

8

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  14 marks

  Question 1 map work on an outline map of India (10 marks) and Question 2 objective and very short answers (4 marks)

• Section B

  28 marks

  Questions 3–9, short answers of four marks each; internal choice in two questions

• Section C

  28 marks

  Questions 10–13, long answers of seven marks each, using climate graphs, sketch maps and a news passage; internal choice in one

Topics covered

• Map work on India
• Physiography and the Himalayas
• Drainage systems
• Climate and rainfall
• Natural hazards and floods
• Forestry and agro-forestry
• Agriculture and irrigation
• Fisheries and land use
• Minerals and energy resources
• Transport and the Golden Quadrilateral
• Urbanisation and migration

Questions from this paper

1. Intensive fishing is practised along the coast of Andhra Pradesh. Give any two reasons to justify this statement.
2. State any two reasons why fragmentation of land holdings leads to low agricultural productivity in India.
3. Which two modern methods of irrigation are well suited for regions with low groundwater resources? State any two advantages of these methods of irrigation.
4. How is the Himalayan river system different from the Peninsular river system?
5. Give any three differences between the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats.
6. Discuss any four problems triggered by the increasing flow of migrants to urban cities.