ISC 2025 History Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 History paper (code 851) from the 2025 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 Partition, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Section B has eight four-mark questions, with an internal choice in two, including a cartoon on appeasement and a choice between The Feminine Mystique and the 1967 Middle East war. Section C has four eight-mark questions, with an internal choice in two, on the 1935 Act or the Cabinet Mission, Hyderabad, the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact, and the Oslo Accords or Nelson Mandela. This copy has the questions only.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

History

Year

2025

Paper code

851

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

13

Pages

8

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  16 marks

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

• Section B

  32 marks

  Questions 2–9, four marks each; two are based on a cartoon, a book cover or a map; internal choice in Questions 5 and 9

• Section C

  32 marks

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

Topics covered

• Mountbatten Plan and Partition
• Non-Aligned Movement
• Naga movement
• Civil Rights Movement in the United States
• Naxal Movement
• Assam Crisis
• Indo-Pak wars
• Decolonisation in Kenya
• Appeasement and Hitler
• Government of India Act 1935
• Integration of Hyderabad
• Arab–Israeli conflict and Nelson Mandela

Questions from this paper

1. The provinces of Punjab and Bengal were to be divided between India and Pakistan. Which plan proposed this division?
2. State any four significant reasons for the Congress's acceptance of the terms of the Mountbatten Plan.
3. Explain any four causes for the rise of the Naxal Movement in India in the 1960s.
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of the Centre's policies in handling the Assam Crisis from 1979 to 1985.
5. State any four major proposals of the Cabinet Mission Plan.
6. Give an account of any eight contributions of Nelson Mandela towards the goal that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.