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Key Facts: CHSE Odisha Elective Political Science Exam

200 marks

Elective Political Science total across Year 1 (100) + Year 2 (100)

CHSE Odisha Arts Courses of Studies

Year-2 Council

AHSE paper that counts toward the final pass certificate

CHSE Odisha scheme of studies

5 units each

Paper I and Paper II each organised into five syllabus units

CHSE Elective Political Science (Arts 2018 Courses of Studies)

CBSE-modelled

Syllabus modelled on CBSE Political Science Class XI–XII structure

CHSE Arts Courses of Studies Political Science preamble

In AHSE fee

No separate elective marketplace fee; included in session exam fee

CHSE Odisha AHSE fee structure via colleges

CHSE Odisha Elective Political Science is a +2 Arts elective (200 marks: Year-1 Political Theory & Constitution + Year-2 Democracy & World Politics). Council Year-2 AHSE counts for the pass certificate. This free 2026 bank is an English MCQ study adaptation aligned to official units—not a pure official-format simulation.

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1In political theory, what does the study of politics primarily focus on?
A.Power, authority, and collective decision-making in public life
B.Only private household budgeting
C.Only laboratory experiments on plants
D.Only stock-market day trading techniques
Explanation: Politics concerns how power and authority are organised and how communities make binding collective decisions—the core of political theory introductions in the CHSE syllabus.
2Which statement best captures a major use of political theory for students?
A.It replaces all need for historical facts
B.It only trains people to memorise party slogans
C.It is limited to predicting cricket match scores
D.It clarifies concepts and helps evaluate institutions and public arguments
Explanation: Political theory introduces concepts (state, liberty, justice) and tools for analysing institutions and claims—exactly the syllabus purpose of stimulating application and analysis, not mere rote facts.
3A widely taught definition of the state emphasises which combination of elements?
A.Population, territory, government, and sovereignty
B.Only a national flag and anthem
C.Only private clubs without territory
D.Only temporary festivals without permanent institutions
Explanation: Standard political theory (and the CHSE unit on the state) treats population, defined territory, government, and sovereignty as the four classic elements of the state.
4Sovereignty as an element of the state mainly refers to:
A.Only municipal garbage collection rules
B.Only the power of private companies over workers
C.Supreme legal authority within the territory, free from external control in the classical sense
D.Only the right to print tourism brochures
Explanation: Sovereignty denotes the state’s supreme authority to make and enforce laws over its territory and population—a defining element in state theory.
5Individualism as a view of state activity typically argues that:
A.The state’s role should be limited so that individual freedom and private initiative can flourish
B.The state must own every farm and factory by definition
C.Individuals have no moral worth at all
D.Only foreign empires should govern every village
Explanation: Individualism (classical laissez-faire orientation) minimises state interference beyond security and basic order so individuals can pursue their own ends.
6A welfare state is best described as a state that:
A.Exists only on paper without any government
B.Takes responsibility for citizens’ basic social and economic well-being through public policies
C.Abolishes all taxes permanently
D.Refuses to provide any education or health services
Explanation: The welfare-state model expands public responsibility for education, health, social security, and related welfare goals beyond a night-watchman state.
7In discussions of nature of state activity, globalisation most clearly refers to:
A.Intensifying cross-border economic, cultural, and political interconnectedness that reshapes state choices
B.Only building higher border walls with no trade
C.Only the isolation of every village from markets
D.Only ancient city-states with no external contact
Explanation: Globalisation describes growing interdependence across borders—trade, finance, media, migration, and transnational institutions—that constrains and reshapes what states do.
8Which contrast best distinguishes negative liberty from positive liberty?
A.Freedom to pollute versus freedom to vote only once
B.Freedom of speech only for foreigners versus none for citizens
C.Freedom from external interference versus freedom as the capacity to act and develop oneself
D.Freedom only for kings versus freedom only for courts
Explanation: Negative liberty stresses non-interference; positive liberty stresses enabling conditions and self-mastery—core CHSE/NCERT framing of liberty types.
9Political liberty commonly includes rights such as:
A.The right to vote, form associations, and express political opinions within constitutional limits
B.The right to never pay any tax under any law
C.The right to abolish all courts by private decree
D.The right to secede a private house as a sovereign state
Explanation: Political liberty concerns participation in public power—franchise, association, expression—subject to constitutional order.
10Equality as a political ideal typically includes which dimensions?
A.Only identical heights for all adults
B.Only equal scores in every school exam without teaching
C.Only equal ownership of every luxury brand item
D.Political, social, and economic dimensions of equal moral worth and opportunity
Explanation: Political equality (franchise/citizenship), social equality (status and dignity), and economic equality (resources/opportunity) are the dimensions stressed in the basic-concepts unit.

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