CBSE Class 10 Social Science Blueprint 2024: Marking scheme, paper pattern
The complete details regarding CBSE Class 10 Social Science Blueprint 2024 are given below. Find the section-wise and question-wise paper pattern along with the marking scheme here.
CBSE Class 10 Social Science Blueprint 2024: The theory paper of CBSE social science is conducted for 80 marks. The paper has six sections, A to F, and 37 questions. All these questions are compulsory but internal choices are provided. The question paper is set such that 50% of the weightage or 40 marks will be for competency-based questions and the rest will be for textbook-based questions.
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CBSE Class 10 Social Science Blueprint 2024
Tabulated here are the detailed paper pattern and marking scheme of CBSE 10th social science 2024 question paper:
| Section | Question Type | Total Number of Questions | Marks per Question | Total Marks |
| Section A | Multiple-choice questions | 20 questions | 1 mark | 20 marks |
| Section B | Very short answer type questions | 4 questions | 2 marks | 8 marks |
| Section C | Short answer type questions | 5 questions | 3 marks | 15 marks |
| Section D | Long answer type questions | 4 questions | 5 marks | 20 marks |
| Section E | Case-based questions | 3 questions | 4 marks | 12 marks |
| Section F | Map-based questions | 1 question | 37a – 2 marks 37b – 3 marks | 5 marks |
| Overall | --- | 37 questions | --- | 80 marks |
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CBSE Class 10 Social Science Blueprint 2024 Important Instructions
Section-wise instructions regarding the marking scheme, answering pattern, and others are outlined here:
- Section A has no internal choice and hence, all questions from Q.1 to Q.20 are compulsory.
- Section B has questions from Q.21 to Q.24 in which a choice is provided in Q.22. The answers to each question in Section B should not exceed 40 words.
- Section C has five questions from Q.25 to Q.29 in which a choice is provided in Q.26. The answers to each question in Section C should not exceed 60 words.
- Each question from Q.30 to Q.33 has one extra choice option i.e., the candidate must only answer any one of the two sub-questions per question. Also, each question is not to be answered in more than 120 words.
- In Section E, there will be two 1-mark questions and one 2-mark question. No internal choice is provided in this section. Hence, all questions are compulsory. The answer to each question must not exceed 100 words.
- There are two sub-questions in Section F. Q.37a is from History and Q.37b is from Geography. Internal choice in sub-questions is provided.
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