Model Paper 5 Social Studies - Model Paper 5

The advantage of opening of the Suez canal to India

Which scheme has been implemented to encourage attendance and retention of children and improve their nutritional status?

What was the other name of the October Revolution?

A narrow valley with steep, rocky walls located between hills or mountains is known as:

On the political map, A is marked as a metropolitan city characterized by River Yamuna and is located at the terminal part of the Aravali hill range. Identify it from the given options. 

Briefly define MSP?

How does democracy allow us to correct its own mistakes?

Define human capital and human capital formation. Name any two sources of human capital formation.

Discuss on Structural Employment.

Name the highest peaks of the Himalayas with their heights.

Indian judiciary considered one of the most powerful in the world. Give any three reasons.

Chinappa was convicted for torturing his wife for dowry. Satbir was held guilty of practising untouchability. The court did not allow either of them to contest elections. Does this decision go against the principles of democratic elections?

What are the advantages of having a healthy population?

Write a short note on women workers between 1900 and 1930.

Why did people in Central Asia respond to the Russian Revolution in different ways?

How did South Africa get independence?

Read the following statements about a constitution. Give reasons why each of these is true or not true.
a. The authority of the rules of the constitution is the same as that of any other law.
b. Constitution lays down how different organs of the government will be formed.
c. Rights of citizens and limits on the power of the government are laid down in the constitution.
d. A constitution is about institutions, not about values.

Explain the initiatives taken by the government to improve elementary education in India.

Explain the term unemployment. Which type of unemployment is more prevalent in rural and urban areas? How can unemployment in a rural area be minimised?

What are Western Cyclonic Disturbances?

Assertion (A): The Bastille was hated by all and demolished.
Reason (R): It was a fortress prison where people hoped to find hoarded ammunition.

i. Two places A and B have been marked on the given outline map of the world. Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them
A. Central power
B. Louis XVI ascended the throne in 1774

ii. On the outline map of India locate and label ANY THREE of the following with suitable Symbols.
a. Largest state according to area
b. Sariska - Wildlife Sanctuaries
c. Western Ghats
d. Wular - Lake

The proportion of people below the poverty line is also not the same for all social groups and economic categories in India. Social groups, which are most vulnerable to poverty are Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households. Similarly, among the economic groups, the most vulnerable groups are the rural agricultural labour households and urban casual labour households. The average for people below the poverty line for all groups in India is 22 . The double disadvantage of being a landless casual wage labour household in the socially disadvantaged social groups of the scheduled caste or the scheduled tribe population highlights the seriousness of the problem. Some recent studies have shown that except for the scheduled tribe households, all the other three groups (i.e. scheduled castes, rural agricultural labourers and the urban casual labour households) have seen a decline in poverty in the 1990s. Apart from these social groups, there is also inequality of incomes within a family. In poor families all suffer, but some suffer more than others. In some cases, women, elderly people and female infants are denied equal access to resources available to the family.
i. How are women, children, and the elderly the poorest of the poor? 
ii. Which social and economic groups are the most vulnerable to poverty?
iii. How do inequities in income occur within a family?

Media was carefully used to win support for the regime and popularise its worldview. Nazi ideas were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogans and leaflets. In posters, groups identified as the 'enemies' of Germans were stereotyped, mocked, abused and described as evil. Socialists and liberals were represented as weak and degenerate. They were attacked as malicious foreign agents. Propaganda films were made to create hatred for Jews. The most infamous film was The Eternal Jew. Orthodox Jews were stereotyped and marked.
i. Jews were portrayed as killers of Christ and usurers. Who were 'usurers'?
ii. What did the Nuremberg Laws mean to the undesirables in Nazi Germany? 
iii. Hitler could have resolved the Jewish problem by the method of conversion but he didn't. What could be the possible reason behind it?