ISC 2025 Psychology Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Psychology paper (code 855), set by CISCE for the 2025 board examination. It carries 70 marks, runs for three hours plus fifteen minutes of reading time, and has 12 compulsory questions in three sections. Section A has fourteen one-mark subparts: multiple-choice scenarios, assertion–reason items, analogies and a true-or-false statement. Section B has seven four-mark short answers and Section C four seven-mark long answers, with internal choices in Questions 2, 4 and 10. Nearly every question is built on a short case or a stimulus: an excerpt on stress, Milgram's obedience experiment, images of a projective test, noise and urban poverty, and a graph comparing two NGOs' fund-raising strategies. This copy has the questions only.

Exam

ISC Class 12

Subject

Psychology

Year

2025

Paper code

855

Maximum marks

70

Time allowed

3 hours + 15 min reading

Questions

12

Pages

8

Answers included

No, questions only

Paper pattern

• Section A

  14 marks

  Question 1 with fourteen one-mark very short answer subparts, including multiple choice, assertion–reason and analogies

• Section B

  28 marks

  Questions 2–8, four marks each, mostly case-based; internal choice in Questions 2 and 4

• Section C

  28 marks

  Questions 9–12, seven marks each, based on images, a graph and a case; internal choice in Question 10

Topics covered

• Theories of personality
• Intelligence tests
• Psychological disorders
• Stress and the General Adaptation Syndrome
• Obedience and Milgram's experiment
• Groups and in-group bias
• Counselling
• Projective techniques
• Environmental stressors and pollution
• Poverty
• Persuasion and attitude change
• Piaget's stages of cognitive development

Questions from this paper

1. With reference to Friedman's theory of personality, explain the personality types of a sociable, optimistic and competitive manager and a calm, relaxed one.
2. Briefly explain any four physiological changes that take place in the Resistance stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome model.
3. Based on Milgram's experiment, explore any two reasons for obedience to a legitimate figure of authority.
4. Explain any four elements of counselling that a counsellor must follow.
5. Discuss any three characteristics of noise as an environmental stressor.
6. Explain any five ways of persuasion.