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Key Facts: PSEB SS Philosophy Exam

80 + 20

PSEB Senior Secondary Philosophy Theory + INA mark split

PSEB Class 12 Scheme of Studies (Philosophy code 041)

3 hours

Typical PSEB Senior Secondary Philosophy theory exam duration

Common Class 12 theory logistics / confirm on pseb.ac.in

33%

Separate pass floor in Theory, INA, and aggregate

PSEB Class 12 Scheme of Studies

Code 041

Philosophy subject code on PSEB Senior Secondary materials

PSEB Scheme of Studies / syllabus

English MCQ adaptation

This free local bank is not the official Senior Secondary paper format

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PSEB Senior Secondary Philosophy is a Class 12 public-exam subject with Theory 80 + INA 20 (about 3 hours theory; code 041) and 33% pass separately in theory, INA, and aggregate — not a pure MCQ board paper. This free 2026 bank is an English MCQ study adaptation for PSEB-aligned idealism/materialism, epistemology, scientific method, propositions, Gita Karma Yoga, and Sikhism.

Sample PSEB SS Philosophy Practice Questions

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1In Western metaphysics, idealism is the view that:
A.Only physical matter exists independently of mind
B.Reality is fundamentally mental or idea-dependent
C.Truth is whatever is useful for survival
D.Knowledge is impossible in principle
Explanation: Idealism holds that mind, ideas, or spirit is primary in accounting for reality; the physical is secondary, dependent, or ultimately mental.
2Which pair correctly matches a classic idealist with the usual textbook label in PSEB Class 12 Philosophy?
A.Plato — mechanical materialism; Berkeley — dialectical materialism
B.Berkeley — subjective idealism; Plato — objective idealism
C.Marx — subjective idealism; Berkeley — objective idealism
D.Aristotle — subjective idealism; Locke — objective idealism
Explanation: PSEB Unit I lists Subjective Idealism with Berkeley and Objective Idealism with Plato.
3Berkeley’s subjective idealism is often summarised by the maxim:
A.Cogito ergo sum only for bodies
B.Existence precedes essence for all objects
C.The unexamined life is not worth living
D.Esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived)
Explanation: Berkeley argues that sensible objects exist as ideas perceived by minds; their being is to be perceived (or to exist in God’s mind).
4A characteristic emphasis of idealism (as opposed to materialism) is that:
A.Mind, spirit, or ideas are ultimate or constitutive of reality
B.All change is only rearrangement of atoms in the void
C.Only sense-data without any mind can exist
D.Value claims are meaningless
Explanation: Idealism characteristically treats mental/spiritual factors as fundamental in explaining what is real.
5Plato’s objective idealism (as presented in standard school accounts) holds that:
A.Only each person’s private sensations exist
B.Matter alone generates ideas as brain secretions
C.Eternal Forms/Ideas exist independently of particular human minds
D.Truth is only majority vote
Explanation: Objective idealism (Plato in this syllabus) posits real, mind-independent ideal structures (Forms), not merely private sensations.
6Which claim best distinguishes subjective idealism from objective idealism in the PSEB framing?
A.Subjective idealism affirms matter only; objective idealism denies all mind
B.Subjective idealism is dialectical; objective idealism is mechanical
C.Subjective idealism centres on perceiving minds/ideas; objective idealism posits ideal reality beyond individual minds
D.They are identical labels for the same theory
Explanation: Subjective idealism (Berkeley) ties existence of sensible things to perception/mind; objective idealism (Plato) affirms ideal realities independent of particular finite minds.
7For Berkeley, a table continues to ‘exist’ when no human is in the room primarily because:
A.It is perceived by God (or sustained as ideas in the divine mind)
B.Atoms keep vibrating independently of any mind
C.The Form of Table exists in a separate realm of pure mathematics only
D.Language users agree to pretend it exists
Explanation: Berkeley avoids collapse into intermittent existence of objects by appealing to God’s continuous perception/support of ideas.
8Which of the following is a typical criticism that materialists raise against idealism?
A.It proves that only atoms exist
B.It shows that perception never occurs
C.It seems to underplay the independent reality of physical nature and science’s success about matter
D.It requires rejecting all mathematics
Explanation: Materialists argue idealism struggles with the apparent mind-independence of the physical world and scientific explanation in material terms.
9Materialism in metaphysics holds that:
A.Reality is fundamentally material/physical
B.Only eternal Forms exist
C.All knowledge is innate
D.Truth is coherence among beliefs alone
Explanation: Materialism takes matter/physical nature as primary; mind and ideas are explained as dependent on material processes.
10Mechanical materialism characteristically explains nature by:
A.Spirit gradually realising itself in history alone
B.Ideas generating matter from pure thought
C.Random miracles without any regularity
D.Matter in motion under fixed, machine-like causal laws
Explanation: Mechanical materialism models the world as matter moving according to mechanical/causal laws, often like a machine.

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