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Key Facts: Maharashtra HSC Philosophy Exam

3 hours

Typical Maharashtra HSC Philosophy theory paper duration

MSBSHSE HSC exam pattern reporting for Arts subjects including Philosophy

35%

Common minimum passing floor per HSC subject under MSBSHSE

Maharashtra HSC pass-mark practice (~35% each subject)

80 + 20

Common theory + internal/project mark split for HSC Philosophy (code 46)

Maharashtra HSC subject-wise mark distribution reporting

Subject code 46

Official MSBSHSE HSC subject code for Philosophy

MSBSHSE HSC general subject codes (mahahsscboard.org/hscsub.htm)

Mixed written paper

Official Philosophy papers mix objective, short, and long items — not pure MCQ

MSBSHSE HSC Philosophy paper-pattern summaries

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Maharashtra MSBSHSE HSC Philosophy (code 46) is a Class 12 public-exam theory subject of about 3 hours (commonly 80+20) with ~35% pass floor, covering Balbharati metaphysics, causation, self, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and science–technology themes — not a pure MCQ board paper. This free 2026 bank is an English MCQ study adaptation for concept fluency.

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1In Balbharati Class 12 Philosophy, metaphysics primarily investigates questions such as:
A.The nature of ultimate reality and what truly exists
B.Only the best market prices for goods
C.Only the grammar of Sanskrit verbs
D.Only laboratory measurement error tables
Explanation: Metaphysics is the branch concerned with ultimate reality — what exists, how many fundamental realities there are, and their nature — central to Chapter 1 ‘There is something, but what it is?’.
2Classifying metaphysical systems by how many ultimate realities they accept yields the labels:
A.Only algebra, geometry, and calculus
B.Monism, dualism, and pluralism
C.Only monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy
D.Only comedy, tragedy, and satire
Explanation: Balbharati groups systems by number of ultimate realities: monism (one), dualism (two), and pluralism (many).
3Among the main Indian darshanas, which one is presented as the only thoroughgoing materialist school?
A.Advaita Vedanta
B.Sankhya
C.Charvaka
D.Nyaya only as pure idealism
Explanation: Charvaka is the materialist darshana: only material substance is ultimately real; consciousness depends on the body.
4According to Charvaka materialism, consciousness is best described as:
A.An immortal soul independent of the body in all cases
B.Identical with attributeless Brahman alone
C.A pure form of God as Unmoved Mover
D.Emerging from a particular combination of material elements (as in the betel-leaf analogy)
Explanation: Charvaka holds that consciousness arises from matter’s combination (e.g., betel leaf, nut, and lime yielding red colour none had alone); the conscious living body is the self.
5Sankhya dualism posits two independent eternal principles known as:
A.Purusha and Prakriti
B.Only form and Unmoved Mover without matter
C.Only mind and society with no material principle
D.Heaven and hell as the only substances
Explanation: Sankhya dualism: Purusha (pure consciousness, inactive) and Prakriti (material principle of three gunas) exist independently and eternally.
6In Sankhya evolution, when the three gunas of Prakriti are in equilibrium:
A.The entire visible world is fully evolved and fixed forever
B.Prakriti remains in its original unevolved state
C.Purusha is destroyed completely
D.Only Charvaka atoms remain
Explanation: In equilibrium of sattva, rajas, and tamas, Prakriti is in its original state; contact with Purusha disturbs equilibrium and evolution proceeds.
7Advaita Vedanta as taught by Adi Shankaracharya holds that ultimately:
A.Many independent atoms are the only reality
B.There is no reality at all, even as illusion
C.Only the permanent, eternal, unchanging Brahman truly exists
D.Body alone is eternal while consciousness is impossible
Explanation: Advaita monism: plurality and change are maya/illusion; only Brahman is paramarthika reality.
8Shankaracharya’s three levels of reality include Pratibhasika, Vyavaharika, and:
A.Only bureaucratic Sat
B.Only mechanical Sat
C.Only electoral Sat
D.Paramarthika Sat
Explanation: Dream reality (Pratibhasika), empirical waking reality (Vyavaharika), and ultimate Brahman-knowledge reality (Paramarthika) structure Advaita’s hierarchy of sat.
9Parmenides is associated with the view that true reality is characterised by:
A.Permanence — that which truly ‘is’ does not change or come from non-being
B.Constant flux as the only truth with no permanence
C.Only political power as substance
D.Only aesthetic pleasure as existence
Explanation: Parmenides emphasises permanence: change, motion, and time linked to non-being are not truly real; ‘that which is’ always is.
10Plato’s ‘world of Forms’ is described as a realm of entities that are:
A.Only temporary sense-images with no stability
B.Eternal, neither created nor destroyed, on which sensibles depend
C.Identical with Charvaka’s conscious body alone
D.Only majority votes of the city
Explanation: For Plato, Forms are permanent, uncreated, undestroyed realities; the sensible world participates in or depends on them.

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