Summative Assessment-II March, 2010
Design and blue print of the
Question Paper
(Issued by CBSE board)
Time allowed: 3 hours Max. Marks: 80
1. Weightage:
Form of questions Marks allotted No. of questions Total marks
MCQ 1 16 16
Short answer 3 16 48
Long answer 4 3 12
Map questions 4 1 4
Total 36 80
2. Chapter wise division of questions:
Unit no. and Marks No. of 1 mark No. of 3 mark No. of 4 mark No. of map Total
Title questions questions questions questions
1. History 18 2 4 1 - 18(7)
2. Geography 20 4 4 - 1 20(9)
3. Civics 18 5 3 1 - 18(9)
4. Economics 16 3 3 1 - 16(7)
5. DisMan 8 2 2 - - 8(4)
Total 80 16 16 3 1 80(36)
Note: Figures in the bracket indicate no. of questions and those outside indicate marks.
Internal choice is provided only in map.
MCQ: Time allotted – 30mins
3 mark ques. should not exceed 80 words
4 mark ques. should not exceed 100 words
Map only from Geography
Syllabus is known or check out yourself
Map Items
On political map
1. Chapter 3:
a) Rivers Ganga, Satluj, Brahmaputra, Narmada, Tapi, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri
b) Lakes Chilka, Pulicat, Vembanad, Sambhar
c) Mt. Ranges karakoram, zaskar, shivalik, aravali, vindhya, satpura, western ghats, eastern ghats
d) Coast coromandel, konkan
2. Chapter 4:
a) Cities Thiruvananthapuram, chennai, Jodhpur, jaipur, bengalooru, mumbai, kolkatta, leh, shillong
delhi, nagpur
b) Areas receiving more than 400 cm rain fall
c) Areas receiving less than 20 cm rain fall
3. Chapter 5:
a) Areas all types of forest regions in India
b) National Parks corbett, kaziranga, ranthambore, shivpuri, kanha, kisli, simlipal, manas
c) Bird sanctuaries bharatpur, ranganthitto
d) Wildlife sanctuaries sariaka, mudumalai, rajaji, dachigam
4. Chapter 6:
a) State having the highest density of population
b) State having the lowest density of population
c) State having the highest sex ratio
d) State having the lowest sex ratio
e) Most populous state of India
f) Most populous state of India