ISC 2025 Geography Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Geography paper (code 853) set by CISCE for the 2025 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 three Section B questions and one Section C question. Section A starts with map work on an outline map of India, printed as the last page, then assertion–reason and analogy items. Section B uses a news report on Cyclone Dana in Odisha, a climate graph, a demographic-transition graph for 1901–2011 and a migration sketch map. Section C covers port-based regional planning, tourism or the Bokaro-region steel plant sketch map, an environmental movement shown in a picture, the National Forest Policy 1988 and a satellite-based toll collection system.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Geography

Year

2025

Paper code

853

Maximum marks

70

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

13

Pages

12

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 assertion–reason, multiple-choice and analogy items (4 marks); one mark per subpart

• Section B

  28 marks

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

• Section C

  28 marks

  Questions 10–13, long answers of seven marks each; internal choice in one

Topics covered

• Map work on India
• Physiography and the Himalayas
• Drainage systems
• Climate and tropical cyclones
• Population and demographic transition
• Migration and settlements
• Irrigation
• Minerals and energy
• Iron and steel industry
• Regional planning and ports
• Environment and forest policy
• Transport, communication and tourism

Questions from this paper

1. India is known as the 'Mistress of the Eastern Seas'. Justify the statement by giving two reasons.
2. Distinguish between the rivers Ganga and Godavari on the basis of their source of water supply and nature of flow.
3. Why is the year 1921 called a year of demographic divide? Give any two reasons for your answer.
4. Environment should not be viewed as a resource but as a capital that needs to be managed carefully. Justify the statement by giving four arguments.
5. Contrast canal irrigation and drip irrigation on any four bases.
6. State any four objectives of the National Forest Policy, 1988.