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Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi has made some changes to the syllabus of class 12 Political Science. These changes will be applicable from session 2008-2009. The Questions will be asked under Very Short Answer Type Questions carrying 1 marks and 2 marks, Short Answer Type Questions carrying 4 marks and long answer type questions carrying 6 marks. There will be total 35 questions. Out of that 5 questions will be Long Answer Type Questions. Students are advised to have a look over these latest changes.
POLITICAL SCIENCE, Class XII
Time : 3 hours
Max. Marks : 100
I Weightage of marks to Forms of Questions
| S.NO. | Forms of Questions | Marks for each question | No. of questions | Total Marks |
| 1. | Very short answer type I | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| 2. | Very short answer type II | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 3. | Short answer type I | 4 | 10 | 40 |
| 4. | Long answer type | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| 5. | Total | 35 | 100 |
II. Scheme of Options: There will be no overall choice. However, there is an internal choice in every question of 6 marks.
Part I : Contemporary World Politics
| Part I : Contemporary World Politics Marks | ||
| Unit 1 | Cold war era in World Politics | 14 |
| Unit 2 | Distribution of the second world and the collapse of bipolarity | |
| Unit 3 | US dominance in World Politics | 16 |
| Unit 4 | Alternative centres of Economic and Political power | |
| Unit 5 | South Asia in the Post-cold War Era | |
| Unit 6 | International organizations in a unipolar world | 10 |
| Unit 7 | Security in Contemporary World | |
| Unit 8 | Environment and natural resources in global politics | 10 |
| Unit 9 | Globalization and its critics | |
| Total I | 50 | |
| Part II : Politics in India since independence | ||
| Unit 10 | Era of one-party dominance | 16 |
| Unit 11 | Nation-building and its problems | |
| Unit 12 | Politics of planned development | |
| Unit 13 | India’s external relations | 6 |
| Unit 14 | Challenges to and restoration of Congress system | 14 |
| Unit 15 | Crisis of the constitutional order | |
| Unit 16 | Regional aspirations and conflicts | 14 |
| Unit 17 | Rise of new social movements | |
| Unit 18 | Democratic upsurge and coalition parties | |
| Unit 19 | Recent issues and challenges | |
| Total II | 50 | |
| Grand total (I + II) | 100 | |
The detailed content of unit 8 which has been added in the syllabus are as follows-
Unit 8: Environment and Natural resources in Global politics: Environment Movement and evolution of global environment norms, Conflicts over traditional and common property resources, right of indigenous people, India’s stand on global environmental debates.
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