ISC 2025 Psychology Improvement Examination Question Paper for Class 12

About this paper

This is the ISC Class 12 Psychology paper (code 855) from CISCE's 2025 Improvement 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: short answers, an image-based item, assertion–reason, a true-or-false statement, analogies and multiple-choice scenarios. Section B has seven four-mark short answers and Section C four seven-mark long answers, with internal choices in Questions 2, 6 and 10. Most questions are built on short cases, and Section C uses a diagram of the 'g' and 's' factors of intelligence, an excerpt on a personality inventory, a hospital graph of psychological disorders and a passage on recruiting a college counsellor. 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 assertion–reason, analogies and multiple-choice scenarios

• Section B

  28 marks

  Questions 2–8, four marks each, mostly case-based; internal choice in Questions 2 and 6

• Section C

  28 marks

  Questions 9–12, seven marks each, based on a diagram, an excerpt, a graph and a passage; internal choice in Question 10

Topics covered

• Theories of intelligence
• Intelligence quotient and emotional intelligence
• Intellectual disability
• Erikson's and Rogers' theories of personality
• Personality assessment and inventories
• Stress management and yoga
• Obsessive-compulsive and neurodevelopmental disorders
• Eating disorders
• Depression, anxiety and bipolar mood disorder
• Piaget's cognitive development
• Therapies and rehabilitation
• Counselling skills

Questions from this paper

1. State the formula used to assess the Intelligence Quotient, and enumerate any two characteristics of an emotionally intelligent person.
2. Explain any four stages of yoga that help to reduce stress.
3. Apart from the ability to do quick mathematical calculations, explain any two other factors put forward by Thurstone in his Multifactor theory of intelligence.
4. Identify and explain the factors 'g' and 's' of intelligence, and give one suitable example of each.
5. Name and describe any five types of communication skills that a college would require in its prospective counsellor.