UK Board Class 12 Political Science Syllabus

Objectives:

Indian Constitution at Work

• Enable students to understand the historical processes and the circumstances in which the Constitution was drafted.
• Provide an opportunity for students to become familiar with the diverse visions that guided the makers of the Indian Constitution.
• Enable students to identify certain key features of the Constitution and compare these to other constitutions in the world.
• Analyse the ways in which the provisions of the Constitution have worked in real political life.

Political Theory

• Develop the skills for logical reasoning and abstraction.
• Inculcate attention to and respect for viewpoints other than one’s own.
• Introduce students to the different political thinkers in relation to a concept and in everyday social life.
• Enable students to meaningfully participate in and develop internal concerns of the political life that surrounds them.
• Encourage the students to analyse any unexamined prejudices that one may have inherited.

Contemporary World Politics

• Enable the students to expand their horizons beyond India and make sense of the political map of the contemporary world.
• Familiarise the students with some of the key political events and processes in the post cold war era.
• Equip students to be conscious of the way in which global events and processes shape our everyday lives.
• Strengthen their capacity for political analysis by thinking of contemporary developments in a historical
• perspective.

Politics in India after Independence

• Enable students to become familiar with some of the key political events and figures in the postindependence period.
• Develop skills of political analysis through an understanding of events and processes of recent history.
• Develop their capacity to link macro processes with micro situations and their own life.
• Encourage the students to take a historical perspective of making sense of contemporary India.

UK Board Class 12 Political Science Syllabus

One Paper Max. Marks: 100
Time: 3 hrs.

COURSE CONTENTS
Part A: Contemporary World Politics

Prescribed Books For UK Board Class 12 Political Science Syllabus

1. Contemporary World Politics, Class XII, Published by NCERT
2. Politics in India since Independence, Class XII, Published by NCERT

Note: The above textbooks are also available in Hindi and Urdu versions.

Weightage of ContentNote: Care to be taken to cover all chapters.
The weightage or the distribution of marks over the different dimensions paper shall be as follows:-

Part A: Contemporary World Politics

Weightage of Difficulty Level

Scheme of Options:

1. There is an internal choice for long answer questions.
   Map question has the choice only with another map.
   There are three passage-based or picture-based questions.
2. In order to assess different mental abilities of learners, question paper is likely to include questions based on passages, visuals such as maps, cartoons, etc. No factual question will be asked on the information given in the plus(+) boxes in the textbooks.