CBSE Class 10 Social Science Sample Paper and Marking Scheme 2024-25: FREE PDF Download

Class 10 Social Science Sample Paper 2024-25: CBSE board exams are around the corner, and if you are looking for sample papers to practice, don't worry—we have you covered. This article will help the students to get the Social Science sample paper for class 10. We are also providing the marking scheme here so that is becomes easy for the students to evaluate their performance. 

CBSE Class 10 Social Science Sample Paper 2024-25

1. Why did nationalists in late-nineteenth-century India focus on recording and preserving folklore?

(A)To create new forms of artistic expression that reflected modern India.

(B)To restore a sense of pride in traditional culture and national identity

(C)To use folklore as a tool for economic development and modernization.

To promote a uniform culture that could be adopted across all Indian regions.

2. Interpret the following pie diagram and choose the correct option for the following question.

What is the significance of 43 per cent of land under plains?

(A)It provides facilities for agriculture and industry.

(B)It provides facilities for tourism.

(C)It ensures the perennial flow of some rivers.

(D)It possesses rich reserves of minerals, fossil fuels and forests.

Note: The following question is for Visually Impaired Candidates only instead of Q. No. 2.

Transformation of things available in our environment involves an interactive relationship between …………………………………………. Choose the correct option from below.

(A)Nature and technology

(B)Nature, technology, and institutions

(C)Nature and institutions

(D)Environment and human beings

3. Read the data given below and answer the question.

As per the data given above, why state B has a low infant mortality rate?

(A)It has a high per capita income.

(B)It has better infrastructure than state A

(C)It has good teachers and schools.

(D)It has health care and education for all.

4. Match lists I and II and select the correct answer using the codes below in the lists:

(A) 1 (a), 2 (b), 3 (c)

(B) 1 (c), 2 (b), 3 (a)

(C) 1 (a), 2 (c), 3 (b)

(D) 1 (b), 2 (c), 3 (a)

5. Conservation of forest is a key to the survival of human mankind. One of the practices undertaken in India in this direction is Joint Forest Management. Identify the correct information related to Joint Forest Management.

1. It involves local communities in the management and restoration of degraded forests.

2. The programme has been in formal existence since 1980.

3. Jharkhand passed the first resolution for Joint Forest Management.

4. The members of local village communities are entitled to intermediary benefits like non-timber forest producers.

Options:

(A)1 and 2 only

(B)2 and 3 only

(C)1 and 4 only

(D)3 and 4 only

6. The people of Belgium have successfully solved their country’s power-sharing problem and are leading happy and peaceful lives. Which route to the federation did they choose?

(A)Coming together.

(B)Cooperative Federation

(C)Holding Together

(D)Competitive Federation

7. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes below in the list: 

(A) 1.d), 2. a), 3. c), 4. b)

(B) 1. b), 2.d), 3. a), 4. c)

(C) 1. c), 2. a), 3. b), 4. d)

(D) 1.d), 2. c), 3. b), 4. a)

8. Mr. X has taken credit for making candles during the festive season. Choose the correct options that define the importance of credit from the given options:

i.it plays a vital and positive role in meeting his target and accelerating his income

ii. the credit helps him to meet the ongoing expenses of production

iii. the credit helps him complete the production on time

iv. it helps him in exercising restraint and get into the habit of taking more credit

(A)Only 4

(B)3 and 4

(C)1, 2 and 3

(D)Only 2

9. The North-eastern States of India like Nagaland, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh enjoy special status in the Constitution of India because:

(A)The area has lush green forests.

(B)Literacy rates are very high.

(C)Due to their social and historical circumstances.

(D)As people speak a lot of different languages

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CBSE Class 10 Social Science Sample Paper Marking Scheme 2024-25

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