ISC 2025 Geography Improvement Examination Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Geography paper (code 853) from CISCE's 2025 Improvement Examination, the re-examination held after the main board exam. 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, reasoning and analogy items. Later questions are built around the 2024 monsoon's uneven rainfall, nuclear power plans, post-Green Revolution problems in Punjab, Bengaluru's software industry, a sketch map of the Rourkela-region steel plant, foreign tourist arrivals, and a student's family migrating from landslide-hit Wayanad.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Geography

Year

2025

Paper code

853

Maximum marks

70

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

13

Pages

11

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
• Location and standard time
• Physiography and drainage
• Monsoon and climate
• Population distribution
• Land use and agriculture
• Energy resources and minerals
• Iron and steel industry
• Regional planning
• Tourism
• Forests and wildlife
• Migration

Questions from this paper

1. The sun rises quite early in Arunachal Pradesh while it rises late over Gujarat, yet both states follow the same standard time. Explain this phenomenon by giving two reasons.
2. The spatial distribution of population in India is uneven. Justify the statement by giving four arguments.
3. Discuss any four agricultural problems faced by the farmers of Punjab after the Green Revolution.
4. With the help of four reasons, explain why iron ore is considered the base of industrialisation in India.
5. Analyse four locational factors that have favoured the growth of Bengaluru as the Electronic Capital of India.
6. Suggest any three ways by which India can increase the inflow of international tourists.