NBSE Class 8 Question Paper 2024-25 Phase 2

Total number of printed pages : 3 NB-E/SS/1
2024
CLASS – VIII (Phase-II)
SOCIAL SCIENCES

Total marks : 40 Time : 1½ hours

General instructions :
i) Approximately 10 minutes is allotted to read the question paper and revise the answers.
ii) The question paper consists of five (5) categories of questions. All questions are
compulsory.
iii) General choice has been provided in 3 marks and 4 marks questions.
iv) Marks allocated to every question are indicated against it.
N.B: Check to ensure that all pages of the question paper are complete as indicated on the
top left side.
1. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:
(a) Goa, Daman and Diu were integrated with India in 1
(i) 1960 (ii) 1961
(iii) 1962 (iv) 1963

(b) The organization which succeeded the Naga Club was the 1
(i) Naga National Council (NNC)
(ii) Nagaland Peace Council (NPC)
(iii) Nagaland Baptist Church Council
(iv) None of these

(c) The largest country of the world in terms of population is 1
(i) India (ii) USA
(iii) China (iv) Bangladesh

(d) The number of live births for every 1000 persons in a year is known as 1
(i) birth rate (ii) death rate
(iii) census (iv) literacy rate

(e) Saramati, the highest peak in Nagaland is 1
(i) 12,522 ft. (ii) 12,532 ft.
(iii) 12,542 ft. (iv) 12,552 ft.

(f) Consider the statements given below and choose the correct answer. 1
Statement I : An earthquake of moderate intensity can create fissures
and cracks in the ground.
Statement II : Buildings, roads, bridges and other structures often suffer
severe damage during earthquakes.
(i) Statement (I) is correct and (II) is incorrect
(ii) Statement (I) is incorrect and (II) is correct

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(iii) Both (I) and (II) are correct
(iv) Both (I) and (II) are incorrect

(g) About ________ percent of the people in India depend on agriculture 1
(i) sixty (ii) seventy
(iii) eighty (iv) ninety

2.a. State whether the following statements are true or false : 1x3=3

(i) The East India Company laid emphasis on the teaching of English
language and literature. (1)

(ii) Vande Mataram was written by Rabindranath Tagore. (1)

(iii) Minorities have no right to run any educational institute of their choice. (1)
b. Answer the following questions in one word or one sentence not
exceeding 15 words: 1x3=3
(i) What is untouchability? (1)

(ii) Write the full form of OBC. (1)

(iii) When was the Planning Commission set up in India? (1)
3. Answer the questions in about 20-30 words: 2x5=10
(i) Who is the father of modern Hindi? What did he ask in his writings? (1+1=2)

(ii) When and where was the first Naga People Convention held? (1+1=2)

(iii) What is census? (2)

(iv) Who are minorities? (2)

(v) Define the term ‘unemployment’. (2)
4. Answer any three questions in about 35-45 words. 3x3=9
(i) How did women take part in the struggle for freedom? (3)

. (ii) Why did the Hydari Agreement fail? (3)

(iii) Why is it important to develop the human resource for the progress
of the world? (3)

(iv) Distinguish between an active and a dormant volcano. (3)

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5.a. Answer any one question in about 50-70 words. 4x1=4
(i) List the various reasons for introducing New Education System in
India by the British East India Company. (4)

(ii) Briefly explain about Shimla Agreement 1972. (4)
5.b. On the given political map of Nagaland, four features A, B, C, D have
been indicated. Identify these features with the help of the information
mentioned below and write their correct names against their letters. 4
i) Mt. Kapamedzu ii) Mt. Tiyi
iii) Noklak iv) Mon

Note : This question is in lieu of Q5.b. for visually impaired candidates only.
5.b. Match the columns : (1x4=4)
Column A Column B
i) It has a mini-cement plant a) Lanye river
ii) It divides the watershed of the Brahmaputra b) Dhansiri river
and the Chindwin
iii) The river which forms boundary between Nagaland c) Patkai Mountain range
and Assam
iv) The river that starts from the North Henopong d) Middle Mountain range
forest in Tuensang
e) Low Mountain Range

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Total number of printed pages: 2 NB-E/SC/1
2024
CLASS – VIII (Phase-II)
SCIENCE
Total marks : 40 Time : 1½ hours

General instructions:
i) Approximately 10 minutes is allotted to read the question paper and revise the
answers.
ii) The question paper consists of 23 questions.
iii) Internal choice has been provided in some questions. A student has to attempt only
one of the alternatives in such questions.
iv) Alternate question for the visually impaired students are provided in some
questions. Only the visually impaired students have to attempt such alternate questions.
v) Marks allocated to every question are indicated against it.
N.B: Check to ensure that all pages of the question paper are complete as indicated on the top left
side.

A. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives:

1. The process of conversion of sugar into alcohol is called 1
(i) nitrogen fixation (ii) moulding
(iii) fermentation (iv) infection
2. Which one of the following fuel has the highest calorific value? 1
(i) Biogas (ii) Hydrogen
(iii) LPG (iv) Petrol
3. Which one of the following is not an endangered species? 1
(i) Rhinoceros (ii) Tiger
(iii) Leopard (iv) Dodo
4. The reduction in rainfall can cause 1
(i) drought (ii) flood
(iii) landslide (iv) desertification
5. What should one do during a thunderstorm? 1
(i) Protect oneself with an umbrella
(ii) Hide near metal objects
(iii) Take a quick bath
(iv) Squat low on the ground under a shelter

B. Fill in the blanks:
6. Areas meant for conservation of biodiversity are called . 1
7. The frictional force exerted by fluids is called . 1
8. Rolling friction is than sliding friction. 1
9. The process of transferring of charge from a charged object to the earth
is called . 1

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C. Answer the following questions in one word or one sentence:

10. Name the carrier of the dengue-causing virus. 1
11. Does friction act only on one surface or between two surfaces in contact? 1
12. What is a seismograph? 1
13. What is dispersion of light? 1

D. Answer the following questions in about 10-20 words:

14. Write a note on preservation of meat and fish using common salt. 2
15. It is difficult to burn a heap of green leaves but dry leaves catch fire easily.
Give reason. 2
16. Why are the sole of shoes and tires of vehicle treaded? 2

17. Give two instances where friction produces heat. 2

18. What is – (i) Incident ray?
(ii) Reflected ray? 2

E. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words:

19. Draw the Nitrogen cycle. 3

Alternate question for the visually impaired students:
(i) What is nitrogen fixation?
(ii) Write the two ways through which nitrogen is fixed in nature. (1+2=3)

20. a. List three harmful effects of increasing fuel consumption on the environment.
Or 3
b. You are given three types of fuels- cow dung, coal and LPG for boiling water.
Which fuel would boil water faster and why? (1+2=3)

21. a. Describe the construction of a kaleidoscope.
Or 3
b. Describe any three parts of the human eye.

F. Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words:

22. a. Write a note on reforestation. 4
Or
b. Explain the three types of protected areas. State the significance of protected areas.
(3+1=4)

23. Write any four points to protect yourself from an earthquake. 4

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Total number of printed pages: 2 NB-E/E/1
2024
CLASS VIII (Phase II)
ENGLISH
Total marks : 40 Time : 1½ hours
General instructions:
i) Approximately 20 minutes is allotted to read the question paper and revise the answers.
ii) All questions are compulsory. Internal option is given in some questions.
iii) The question paper consists of 13 questions, divided into Sections A & B.
iv) Marks allocated to every question are indicated against it.
N.B : Check to ensure that all pages of the question paper are complete as indicated on the
top left side.

SECTION –A (Prose)
1. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given: 1x3=3

i) The emotion that gripped the author was one of ____________.(The Summit
Within)
a. victory over hurdles b. joy of discovery
c. greatness and self importance d. humility and a sense of smallness

ii) How was Bijju’s cow saved?
a. by gunshot b. by the arrival of rain
c. by Bijju’s grandmother d. by Bijju’s mother
iii) Jody’s father was bitten by a ___________.
a. snake b. doe
c. scorpion d. spider
Answer the following questions in about 15-20 words: 2x3=6
2. What are the three qualities that played a major role in the author’s climb? (The Summit
Within)
3. I could feel his anguish. What could be the anguish? (A Visit to Cambridge)
4. Why is the author not able to see Bijju? (A Short Monsoon Diary)
Answer any one of the following questions in about 30-40 words: 3x1=3
5. a. Where do the snakes and rodents take shelter? Why? (A Short Monsoon Diary)
Or
b. Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home? (This is Jody’s Fawn)
Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words: 4x2=8
6. What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, ‘Nothing in the world comes quite free’?
Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn? (This is Jody’s Fawn)
7. Mention few things that can happen when there is endless rain for days together? (A Short
Monsoon Diary)
Answer any one of the following questions in about 70-80 words: 5x1=5
8. a. The writer expresses his great gratitude to Stephen Hawking. What is the gratitude
for?(A Visit to Cambridge)
Or

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b. “One does not do it (climb a high peak) for fame alone.” What does one do it
for, really? What, according to the writer, did his experience as an Everester
teach him? (The Summit Within)

SECTION –B (Poetry)
9. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given: 1x2=2

i) The fair maid offered to hire the poet with _________.
a. gold b. power
c. a smile d. nothing

ii) The birds are faint with the __________.
a. winter b. rain
c. hot sun d. frost

Answer the following questions in about 15-20 words: 2x2=4

10. Find three or four words /phrases in the stanza 1 of the poem that reflects the child’s
happiness and joy. (The School Boy)
11. Find lines in the poem that match the following:
a. The grasshopper’s happiness never comes to an end.
b. The cricket’s song had a warmth that never decreases. (On the Grasshopper and Cricket)

Answer the following question in about 50 - 60 words: 4x1=4

12. What is the school boy’s stay in the school compared to? Why? (The School Boy)

Answer any one of the following questions in about 70-80 words: 5x1=5

13. a. Write the summary of the poem, ‘The Last Bargain’.
Or
b. The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills
The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost;
The grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

i. What is ceasing never? (1)
ii. Who takes up the job of providing rhythm during winters? (1)
iii. What is the impact of the grasshopper and cricket’s music? (3)

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Total number of printed pages : 3 NB-E/M/1
2024
CLASS-VIII (Phase-II)
MATHEMATICS
Total marks : 40 Time : 1½ hours

General Instructions:
i) Approximately 8 minutes is allotted to read the question paper and revise the answers.
ii) The question paper consists of 13 questions.
iii) All questions are compulsory.
iv) Internal choice has been provided in some questions.
v) Marks allocated to each question are indicated against it.
N.B: Check to ensure that all pages of the question paper are complete as indicated on the
top left side.

Section - A

1. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives.

(a) How may outcomes can be obtained by tossing 2 coins? 1
(i) 1 (ii) 2 (iii) 3 (iv) 4

(b) The value of a0 is 1
(i) 0 (ii) a (iii) 1 (iv)

(c) An electric pole, 14 m high, casts a shadow of 10 m. The height of a tree
whose shadow is 15 m high is 1
(i) 3 m (ii) 15 m (iii) 21 m (iv) 140 m

(d) The common factors of 2y, 22xy are 1
(i) 2x (ii) 2y (iii) xy (iv) 11y

(e) The coordinates of the origin are 1
(i) (0, 0) (ii) (1, 0) (iii) (0, 1) (iv) (1, 1)

Section – B

2. Find the cube root of 64 by prime factorisation method. 2

3. Find the side of a cube whose surface area is 600 cm2 2

4. Two circular cylinders of equal volumes have their heights in the ratio 9 : 16.
Find the ratio of their radii. 2

5. Factorize 4p2 – 9q2 2

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Section – C
6. Numbers 1 to 10 are written on ten separate slips (one number on one slip), kept
in a box and mixed well. One slip is chosen from the box without looking into it.
What is the probability of: (i) getting a number 6? (ii) getting a number greater
than 6? (iii) getting a 1-digit number? 3

7. a. Mohan wants to buy a trapezium shaped field. Road
Its side along the river is parallel to and twice
the side along the road. If the area of this field is 100m
2
10500 m and the perpendicular distance
between the two parallel sides is 100 m, find the River
length of the side along the river.
Or 3
b. A cuboid is of dimensions 60 cm × 54 cm × 30 cm. How many small cubes
with side 6 cm can be placed in the given cuboid?

8. Evaluate − 3

9. a. Aren has a road map with a scale of 1 cm representing 18 km. She drives on a
road for 72 km. What would be her distance covered in the map?
Or 3
b. A factory requires 42 machines to produce a given number of articles in 63 days.
How many machines would be required to produce the same number of articles
in 54 days?

10. Factorise the expression (m 2 – 14m – 32) and divide it by (m + 2) 3

Section – D
11. a. The number of students in a hostel, speaking different languages is given below.
Display the data in a pie-chart.
Language Hindi English Marathi Tamil Bengali Total
Numbers of students 12 9 7 4 40 72
Or 4
b. There are 100 workers who travel from home to factory.
The pie-chart shows the proportions of workers using On foot Cycle
54 72
various mode for travelling to work. Study the pie-chart
and answer the following: How many workers travel to Bus
factory: (a) by bus, (ii) by train, (iii) by cycle, 90 Train
(iv) on foot? 144

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12. A road roller takes 750 complete revolutions to move once over to level a road.
Find the area of the road if the diameter of a road roller is 84 cm and length is 1 m. 4

13. a. Draw a graph for the following data using suitable scales on the axes. Is it linear?
Side of square (in cm) 2 3 4 5 6
Area (in cm2) 4 9 16 25 36
Or 4
b. The line graph shows the yearly sales figures for a manufacturing company:
(a) What were the sales in (i) 2002, (ii) 2006?
(b) What were the sales in (i) 2003, (ii) 2005 ?
(c) Compute the difference between the sales in 2002 and 2006.
(d) In which year was there the greatest difference between the sales as compared
to its previous year?

12
10
Sales(in Rs crores)

8
6
4
2

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Years

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Total number of printed pages: 2 NB-/E/GC/1
2024
CLASS VIII (Phase-II)
GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION
Total marks: 40 Time: 1½ hours
General instructions:
i) Approximately 10 minutes is allotted to read the question paper and revise the answers
ii) The question paper consists of 10 questions. All questions are compulsory.
iii) Internal choice has been provided in some questions.
iv) Marks allocated to every question are indicated against it.
N.B: Check to ensure that all pages of the question paper are complete as indicated on the
top left side.
SECTION-A (GRAMMAR)
1. Choose the correct answer from the alternatives given: 1x5=5
a. They ________ (be) to Agra three times.
i. go ii. being
iii. been iv. have been
b. Columbus________ (discover) America about 400 years ago.
i. discovers ii. discovered
iii. have discover iv. is discovering
c. I ________ (come) even if it rains.
i. has come ii. had come
iii. will come iv. have come
d. The place where one wants to reach.
i. Desert ii. Destination
iii. Descent iv. Dessert
e. ________ usually flock together.
i. Birds of a feather ii. Birds eye view
iii. Beasts of Burden iv. Beat around the bush
2. Rewrite the sentences as directed: 1x5=5
a. The _______ (Colon/ Semicolon) marks a greater pause than that indicated by a
Comma.(Insert the correct word in the space provided)
b. If he _________ (work) hard, he will succeed. (Write the correct tense of the verb
given in the bracket by using Simple Present Tense)
c. I _______ (do) nothing important yesterday afternoon. (Write the correct tense of the
verb given in the bracket by using Simple Past Tense or Past Continuous Tense)
d. ______ (Pour/Pore) some water into the basin. (Choose the correct word)
e. You should _______ (keep up/put up) your hobby for writing poems. (Choose the
correct idiomatic expression)
3. Punctuate the sentence given below: ½x4=2
a. the himalayan range is probably the highest mountain range on the indian border

4. Complete these sentences with Simple Present Tense or Present Continuous Tense of
the verbs given in the brackets: 1x2=2
a. It is still ______ (rain) outside.
b. Look! someone _______ (knock) at the door.

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5. Fill in the blanks with Future Perfect Tense of the verbs given in the brackets: 1x2=2
a. He _______ (pass) his M.A Examination.
b. We _______ (complete) our course by the end of February.

6. In these sentences, one word is spelt incorrectly, underline the word and write the
correct word in the space provided: 1x2=2
a. Lack of rain causes draught._______.
b. We have painted the sealing of our room._______.

7. Choose the correct phrasal verb in the following sentences: 1x2=2
a. To visit casually ________. (drop in/ get off)
b. To comprehend ________ .(wear out/ see through)

SECTION- B (COMPOSITION)

8. Your School, Government Middle School, Kohima is planning a one day trekking trip for
the students of Class VIII on 20th December, 2024. Compose a Notice informing the
students about the trip. Also mention that those willing to go for this trip should produce a
signed consent form from the parents which they can collect from the school office before
18th December 2024. 5

9. You are Jamie. Your brother is not at home. You received a call from his friend
regarding the cancellation of piano class. Since you have to go out, leave a message for
him. Draft the message about the same in about 50-60 words.
Or 5
You have recently joined Football coaching classes and are enjoying them thoroughly.
Write an email to your cousin at [email protected] telling him about your
experience of learning to play football.

10. Write a letter to your younger brother advising him to work hard and take interest in his
studies. 10

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