Latest changes to CBSE syllabus Political Science class 12 for 2009

Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi has made some changes to the syllabus of class 12 Political Science. These changes will be applicable from session 2008-2009. The Questions will be asked under Very Short Answer Type Questions carrying 1 marks and 2 marks, Short Answer Type Questions carrying 4 marks and long answer type questions carrying 6 marks. There will be total 35 questions. Out of that 5 questions will be Long Answer Type Questions. Students are advised to have a look over these latest changes.

POLITICAL SCIENCE, Class XII

Time : 3 hours

Max. Marks : 100

I Weightage of marks to Forms of Questions

S.NO.	Forms of Questions	Marks for each question	No. of questions	Total Marks
1.	Very short answer type I	1	10	10
2.	Very short answer type II	2	10	20
3.	Short answer type I	4	10	40
4.	Long answer type	6	5	30
5.	Total		35	100

II. Scheme of Options: There will be no overall choice. However, there is an internal choice in every question of 6 marks.

Part I : Contemporary World Politics

Part I : Contemporary World Politics Marks
Unit 1	Cold war era in World Politics	14
Unit 2	Distribution of the second world and the collapse of bipolarity	14
Unit 3	US dominance in World Politics	16
Unit 4	Alternative centres of Economic and Political power
Unit 5	South Asia in the Post-cold War Era
Unit 6	International organizations in a unipolar world	10
Unit 7	Security in Contemporary World	10
Unit 8	Environment and natural resources in global politics	10
Unit 9	Globalization and its critics	10
	Total I	50

Part II : Politics in India since independence
Unit 10	Era of one-party dominance	16
Unit 11	Nation-building and its problems
Unit 12	Politics of planned development
Unit 13	India’s external relations	6
Unit 14	Challenges to and restoration of Congress system	14
Unit 15	Crisis of the constitutional order	14
Unit 16	Regional aspirations and conflicts	14
Unit 17	Rise of new social movements
Unit 18	Democratic upsurge and coalition parties
Unit 19	Recent issues and challenges
	Total II	50
	Grand total (I + II)	100

The detailed content of unit 8 which has been added in the syllabus are as follows-

Unit 8: Environment and Natural resources in Global politics: Environment Movement and evolution of global environment norms, Conflicts over traditional and common property resources, right of indigenous people, India’s stand on global environmental debates.