Kerala Plus One Question Paper 2024 Economics

Kerala Board

Question Paper
2024

Reg. No. : ......................................
FY-435 Name : ...........................................

FIRST YEAR HIGHER SECONDARY EXAMINATION, MARCH – 2024

Part – III Time : 2½ Hours
ECONOMICS Cool-off time : 15 Minutes
Maximum : 80 Scores

General Instructions to Candidates :
 There is a ‘Cool-off time’ of 15 minutes in addition to the writing time.
 Use the ‘Cool-off time’ to get familiar with questions and to plan your answers.
 Read questions carefully before answering.
 Read the instructions carefully.
 Calculations, figures and graphs should be shown in the answer sheet itself.
 Malayalam version of the questions is also provided.
 Give equations wherever necessary.
 Electronic devices except non-programmable calculators are not allowed in the
Examination Hall.
  :
    15  ‘  ’ .
 ‘  ’    
 .
      .
    .
  , , ,   
.
   .
    .
     
    .

FY-435 1 P.T.O.

Answer any 8 questions from 1 to 10. Each carries 1 score. (8  1 = 8)

1. The Planning Commission was setup in the year :

(a) 1950 (b) 1951

(c) 1952 (d) 1953

2. Privatisation of the public sector enterprises by selling off part of the equity to the
public is :

(a) Investment (b) Outsourcing

(c) Disinvestment (d) Globalisation

3. The poverty eradication wing of the Govt. of Kerala is :

(a) Information Mission (b) Kudumbasree Mission

(c) Literacy Mission (d) None of above

4. Increase in the milk production is related to :

(a) Golden Revolution (b) Operation Flood

(c) Organic Farming (d) Land Ceiling

5. The process of moving from self employment and regular salaried employment to
casual wage work is

(a) Unemployment (b) Wage employment

(c) Casualisation of work force (d) Urbanisation

6. The pretesting of questionnaire is :

(a) Census survey (b) Sample survey

(c) Pilot survey (d) Online survey
FY-435 2

1  10    8  .
1  . (8  1 = 8)
1.    
(a) 1950 (b) 1951
(c) 1952 (d) 1953

2.     

(a)  (b)  
(c)  (d) 

3.     
(a)   (b)  
(c)   (d) 

4.    :
(a)   (b)  
(c)   (d) 

5.      
  .
(a) 
(b)  
(c)   
(d) 

6.    :
(a)   (b)  
(c)   (d)  

FY-435 3 P.T.O.

7. In spatial classification, data are categorized according to :
(a) Time (b) Quantity
(c) Quality (d) Place

8. Which of the following is a partition value ?
(a) Arithmetic Mean (b) Median
(c) Mode (d) Range

9. “When you spend more time in studying, chances of failing decline” – is an example
for
(a) Positive Correlation (b) Zero Correlation
(c) Negative Correlation (d) None of the above

10. Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index with 1978 – 79 as base is :
(a) NIFTY (b) WPI
(c) SENSEX (d) HDI

Answer any 4 questions from 11 to 15. Each carries 2 scores.
(4  2 = 8)
11. What are the goals of Five Year Plans ?

12. What is poverty line ?

13. Write a short note about Organic Farming.

14. What is meant by pie-diagram ?

15. Mention any four steps for making a project.

FY-435 4

7.     
(a)  (b) 
(c)  (d) 

8.      ?
(a)   (b) 
(c)  (d) 

9. “    ,  
”   .
(a)   (b)  
(c)   (d) 

10. 1978 – 79     

(a) NIFTY (b) WPI
(c) SENSEX (d) HDI

11  15    4  .
2  . (4  2 = 8)
11.     ?

12.    ?

13.    .

14.     ?

15.     4  .

FY-435 5 P.T.O.

Answer any 4 questions from 16 to 20. Each carries 3 scores.
(4  3 = 12)
16. “India’s agriculture sector was stagnant during the colonial rule” – Do you agree ?
Substantiate your answer.

17. What do you mean by agricultural marketing ? Enlist some examples for alternative
channels available for agricultural marketing.

18. Distinguish between quantitative data and qualitative data. Give 2 examples to each.

19. Aflaha wants to conduct a study on the energy consumption pattern of rural households.
State the various data collection methods to obtain data from households.

20. Point out the major parts of a Statistical table.

Answer any 4 questions from 21 to 25. Each carries 4 scores.
(4  4 = 16)
21. What is Green Revolution ? Why was it implemented and how did it benefit the farmers ?
Explain in brief.

22. (i) Do we have different types of unemployment in our country ? Give their names.
(ii) Describe some of the employment generation programmes launched by Govt.

23. Discuss the salient demographic indicators of China, Pakistan and India.

24. Represent the following in suitable diagrams :
(a) Positive Correlation
(b) Negative Correlation
(c) Perfect Positive Correlation
(d) Perfect Negative Correlation

FY-435 6

16  20    4  .
3  . (4  3 = 12)
16. “      ”.
 ?  .

17.    ?  
    .

18.       .
 2   .

19.         
 .    
  .

20.      .

21  25    4  .
4  . (4  4 = 16)
21.     ?     ?
     ?  .

22. (i)        ?
  .
(ii)      
.

23. , ,     
  .

24.     .
(a)  
(b)  
(c)   
(d)   

FY-435 7 P.T.O.

25. (i) Calculate simple aggregative price index from the following.

(ii) Interpret the result obtained.

Commodity Base Period Price (`) Current Period Price (`)

A 2 4

B 5 6

C 4 5

D 2 3

Answer any 4 questions from 26 to 30. Each carries 5 scores.

(4  5 = 20)

26. Why does poverty exist in India ?

27. Explain the major sources of human capital formation.

28. Describe census survey and sample survey.

29. (i) The marks of 28 students in economics class test are given below.

Prepare a frequency distribution table by taking class interval 5.

(ii) Find the mid points of each class.

10, 3, 6, 3, 2, 4, 8, 3, 12, 18, 5, 9, 28, 25

5, 12, 8, 6, 5, 15, 8, 22, 1, 24, 7, 4, 5, 1

30. (i) Draw ‘less than’ ogive and ‘more than’ ogive from the data given below.

(ii) Locate Median by using the ogives :

Class 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50

Frequency 6 10 14 8 12

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25. (i)       .
(ii)   .
Commodity Base Period Price (`) Current Period Price (`)
A 2 4
B 5 6
C 4 5
D 2 3

26  30    4  .
5  . (4  5 = 20)

26.    ?

27.     .

28.     .

29. (i)    28    
.
  5      .
(ii)    .
10, 3, 6, 3, 2, 4, 8, 3, 12, 18, 5, 9, 28, 25
5, 12, 8, 6, 5, 15, 8, 22, 1, 24, 7, 4, 5, 1

30. (i)        
.
(ii)    .
Class 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50
Frequency 6 10 14 8 12

FY-435 9 P.T.O.

Answer any 2 questions from 31 to 33. Each carries 8 scores.

(2  8 = 16)

31. (i) What is New Economic Policy ?

(ii) Analyse the liberalization policy measures introduced in India as a part of New
Economic Policy in 1991.

32. (i) What is sustainable development ?

(ii) Explain the various strategies for sustainable development.

33. (i) What is an average ? Write any one interesting property of Arithmetic Mean.

(ii) The scores obtained by students in an examination is given below.

Compute the average score by using Arithmetic Mean and Median.

Score No. of Students

0 – 10 8

10 – 20 12

20 – 30 17

30 – 40 8

40 – 50 5

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31  33    2  .

8  . (2  8 = 16)

31. (i)      ?

(ii) 1991    
  .

32. (i)     ?

(ii)     .

33. (i)   ?     
.

(ii)       .

,      .

Score No. of Students

0 – 10 8

10 – 20 12

20 – 30 17

30 – 40 8

40 – 50 5

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