CBSE Class 10 Social Science Board Question Paper Solved Set 1

CBSE Class 10 Social Science Board Question Paper Solved Set 1. Students can download the last year question papers using the link below. Free download of examination question papers with solutions. Last 10 year question papers should be practised to get better marks in examinations. 

1. Why were big European powers met in Berlin in 1885 ?

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Why were merchants from towns in Europe began to move countryside in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ?

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Why did Charles Booth, a Liverpool ship owner conduct the first social survey of low skilled workers in the East End of London in 1887 ?

2. Why did the Roman Catholic Church impose control over publishers and booksellers ?

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Why do novels use vernacular ?

3. Classify resources on the basis of origin.

4. ‘A challenge is not just any problem but an opportunity for progress.’ Analyse the statement.

5. State any two goals of development other than income.

6. When we produce goods by exploiting natural resources, in which category of economic sector such activities come ?

7. Give any two examples of informal sector of credit.

8. Describe the impact of ‘Rinderpest’ on people’s livelihoods and local economy in Africa in the 1890s.

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Describe any three major problems faced by Indian cotton weavers in nineteenth century.

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Describe any three steps taken to clean up London during nineteenth century.

9. “The ‘Print Revolution’ had transformed the lives of people changing their relationship to information and knowledge.” Analyse the statement.

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Distinguish between the themes of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ novels written by Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte respectively.

10. How has the ever increasing number of industries in India made worse position by exerting pressure on existing fresh water resources ? Explain.

11. “Dense and efficient network of transport is a pre-requisite for local and national development.” Analyse the statement.

12. Describe any three provisions of amendment made in ‘Indian Constitution’ in 1992 for making ‘Three-Tier’ government more effective and powerful. 

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