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SAMPLE PAPER SYLLABUS 2022-23 CLASS Total Questions : 50 9 Time : 1 hr. PATTERN & MARKING SCHEME (3) Political (5) Achievers Section (1) History (2) Geography (4) Economics Science Section SOF INTERNATIONAL No. of Questions 15 10 10 10 5 SOCIAL STUDIES OLYMPIAD Marks per Ques. 1 1 1 1 3 SYLLABUS Section – 1 : History – The French Revolution, Socialism In Europe and the Russian Revolution, Nazism and the Rise of Hitler, Forest Society and Pastoralism in the Modern World Section – 2 : Geography – India – Physical Features and Climate, Drainage, Natural Vegetation and Wildlife, Population Section – 3 : Political Science – What Is Democracy? Why Democracy?, Constitutional Design and Democratic Rights, Elections and Working of Institutions Section – 4 : Economics – The Story of Village Palampur, People as Resource, Poverty and Food Security in India Section – 5 : Higher Order Thinking Questions - Syllabus as per Section – 1, 2, 3 & 4. 1. Robert Owen was a _______________. (A) Leading English textile manufacturer (B) Revolutionary of Germany (C) Socialist who believed in the idea of cooperatives (D) Both (A) and (C) 2. Bloody Sunday was also known as the ____________ Revolution. (A) 1905 (B) 1901 (C) 1900 (D) 1910 3. The concept of Green Revolution is associated mainly with the production of ___________. (A) Wheat (B) Rice (C) Oat (D) Both (A) and (B) 4. When an area is being drained by a single river system, it is called __________. (A) Drainage system (B) Drainage basin (C) River flow (D) Delta 5. General Pervez Musharraf overthrew a democratically elected government and declared himself the _________ of Pakistan in 1999. (A) Prime Minister (B) Chief Executive (C) President (D) Military dictator 6. The ‘Lower Chamber’ of parliament is called as ___________. (A) Rajya Sabha (B) Lok Sabha (C) Supreme Court (D) President’s Office 7. The Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) was launched in ___________. (A) 1993 (B) 1990 (C) 2000 (D) 1997 8. Goebbels was the ____________ minister in Hitler’s regime. (A) Law (B) War (C) Defence (D) Propaganda Sample Paper | Class-9 | 1
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ACHIEVERS SECTION 9. Match the columns and choose the correct option. Column I Column II (a) India’s literacy in (i) 68.29 percentage in 2011 (b) Crude birth rate in (ii) 34 India in 2016 (c) Life expectancy (iii) 74.04 rate in India in 2014 (d) Infant mortality (iv) 18.33 rate in India in 2016 (A) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv) (B) (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii) (C) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii) (D) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii) 10. Match the columns and select the correct option. Column I Column II (a) Year 1994 (i) INC session held at Karachi (b) Year 1928 (ii) Indian Constitution was adopted by the Assembly (c) Year 1931 (iii) Motilal Nehru and eight other Congress leaders drafted a Constitution for India (d) Year 1949 (iv) South Africa became a democracy (A) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii) (B) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii) (C) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii) (D) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii) SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK ANSWERS 1. (D) 2. (A) 3. (D) 4. (B) 5. (B) 6. (B) 7. (A) 8. (D) 9. (C) 10. (B) 2 | Sample Paper | Class-9