Class 12 · Political Science · CBSE Board
Class 12 Political Science — Previous Year Questions
1,098 questions from 9 years of Class 12 exams (2016–2025) — organised into 15 chapters for focused practice.
Chapter-wise PYQs
The End of Bipolarity
59 questions
Contemporary Centres of Power
54 questions
Contemporary South Asia
47 questions
International Organizations
40 questions
Security in the Contemporary World
43 questions
Environment and Natural Resources
33 questions
Globalisation
35 questions
Challenges of Nation-Building
47 questions
Era of One-Party Dominance
26 questions
Politics of Planned Development
24 questions
India's External Relations
49 questions
Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System
40 questions
The Crisis of Democratic Order
34 questions
Regional Aspirations
56 questions
Recent Developments in Indian Politics
88 questions
Year-wise Papers
2025
115 questions
2024
104 questions
2023
104 questions
2022
99 questions
2021
Board exams cancelled due to the COVID‑19 pandemic
2020
93 questions
2019
144 questions
2018
101 questions
2017
171 questions
2016
167 questions
About Class 12 Political Science PYQs
These are the official questions asked in CBSE Class 12 Political Science board examinations from 2016–2025. CBSE conducts each board exam in multiple question paper sets — students in different regions receive different sets of the same exam. Padhify’s question bank combines every set of every year and removes repeated questions, which is why recent years show 100+ unique questions while a single set contains roughly 30–35.
Practising chapter-wise PYQs is the highest-return preparation strategy for boards: examiners reuse concepts, question patterns and even exact phrasing year after year. Every question here appears with its year and marks, so you always know its weight in the real exam.