ISC 2024 History Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 History paper (code 851) from the 2024 board examination set by CISCE. It carries 80 marks, runs for three hours plus fifteen minutes of reading time, and has 13 compulsory questions in three sections. Section A is sixteen one-mark items on the Mountbatten Plan, regional movements, the Second World War and decolonisation. Section B has eight four-mark questions, some built around a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr., a 1947 news extract or a cartoon, with an internal choice in two of them. Section C has four eight-mark questions, with an internal choice in two, on the Quit India Movement and the Indian National Army, the 1977 election, the Great Leap Forward, and the Yom Kippur War or the Suez Crisis.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

History

Year

2024

Paper code

851

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

13

Pages

6

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  16 marks

  Question 1 with 16 one-mark parts, mixing very short answers, multiple-choice items and one assertion–reason item

• Section B

  32 marks

  Questions 2–9, four marks each; several are based on a photograph, a news extract or a cartoon; internal choice in Questions 5 and 6

• Section C

  32 marks

  Questions 10–13, eight marks each; Questions 10 and 11 are in two parts of four marks; internal choice in Questions 10 and 13

Topics covered

• Mountbatten Plan and Partition
• Regional movements in India
• JP Movement and the Emergency
• First general elections of 1952
• Non-Aligned Movement
• Second World War
• Decolonisation in Africa
• End of Apartheid
• Civil Rights Movement in the United States
• Quit India Movement and the INA
• Great Leap Forward
• Arab–Israeli conflict

Questions from this paper

1. What was the most significant change made by the Mountbatten Plan in the Cabinet Mission Plan proposals?
2. State any four developments during the JP Movement which led to the declaration of the Emergency in June 1975.
3. Enumerate any four of the five principles that laid the foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement at the Bandung Conference.
4. Give any four reasons to explain why Britain and France adopted the policy of Appeasement before the Second World War.
5. President F.W. Klerk decided to end Apartheid and gradually move South Africa towards black majority rule. Discuss any four steps he took to achieve this peacefully.
6. Name the resolution that the All India Congress Committee passed on 8 August 1942. Why did Gandhi demand complete freedom immediately?