ISC 2025 History Improvement Examination Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 History paper (code 851) from the 2025 Improvement Examination. 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 Cripps Mission, the Indian National Army, the 1952 election and the JP Movement, with one item on Dunkirk. Section B has eight four-mark questions, with an internal choice in two, among them the Yalta Conference and a choice between the Balfour Declaration and the Camp David Accord. Section C has four eight-mark questions, with an internal choice in two, on the Congress ministries or the states of Maharashtra and Punjab, the Sino-Indian War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Molotov Plan or glasnost and perestroika.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

History

Year

2025

Paper code

851

Maximum marks

80

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

13

Pages

7

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; one part uses a photograph of the Munich Agreement

• Section B

  32 marks

  Questions 2–9, four marks each; one is based on a photograph of a leader; internal choice in Questions 5 and 9

• Section C

  32 marks

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

Topics covered

• Cripps Mission
• Indian National Army
• First general elections of 1952
• JP Movement
• Nagaland and A. Z. Phizo
• Indo-Pak war of 1971
• Hitler's foreign policy
• Yalta Conference
• Arab–Israeli conflict
• Congress ministries
• Linguistic reorganisation of states
• Sino-Indian War and the Spanish Civil War

Questions from this paper

1. Explain any four reasons for the change in the British attitude towards India after the Second World War.
2. State any four developments to show that the 1967 elections drastically changed the balance of power within the Congress.
3. Analyse the role of A. Z. Phizo during Nagaland's struggle for autonomy.
4. Evaluate any four reasons for Hitler's signing of the Non-Aggression Pact with Poland in 1934.
5. Highlight any four common decisions taken by the major Allies at the Yalta Conference in 1945.
6. With reference to any eight major political developments, explain how the Spanish Civil War eventually led to the Second World War.