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Key Facts: PSEB SS Religion Exam

80 + 20

PSEB Senior Secondary Religion Theory + INA mark split

PSEB Class 12 Scheme of Studies / Religion subject logistics

3 hours

Typical PSEB Senior Secondary Religion theory exam duration

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

33%

Common separate pass floor in Theory, INA, and aggregate

PSEB Senior Secondary pass rules (confirm current circular)

Code 035

Religion subject code on PSEB Senior Secondary materials

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PSEB Senior Secondary Religion is a Class 12 public-exam subject with Theory 80 + INA 20 (about 3 hours theory; code 035) covering comparative Indian religion with strong Sikhism emphasis (history, Adi Granth, way of life) plus Vedic, Buddhist, and Jain units. Pass about 33% in Theory, INA, and aggregate. This free 2026 bank is an English MCQ study adaptation only.

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1In scholarly descriptions of Indus Valley (Harappan) religion, terracotta female figurines are most often interpreted as related to:
A.Worship of a single book-based monotheism identical to later Sikhism
B.Fertility and mother-goddess cults inferred from material remains
C.Mandatory pilgrimage only to Mecca
D.Rejection of all ritual bathing
Explanation: Archaeologists and historians commonly read many Harappan female figurines as evidence of fertility or mother-goddess veneration, though interpretations remain provisional because the script is undeciphered.
2The Great Bath at Mohenjo-daro is most often linked by historians of religion to:
A.A purely military dry dock with no ritual meaning
B.Ritual purity, ceremonial bathing, or public sacred water use
C.A modern swimming pool for Olympic training
D.A grain silo for storing wheat only
Explanation: The carefully built Great Bath is widely discussed as a centre for ritual bathing or purity practices, a theme that later Indian religious traditions also value in different forms.
3Which statement best reflects scholarly caution about Indus Valley religion?
A.The Indus script is fully translated, so every belief is certain
B.Because the script is undeciphered, reconstructions rest on material culture and remain partly hypothetical
C.Harappan religion is identical in every detail to medieval Bhakti alone
D.No sacred symbols appear on Indus seals
Explanation: Without a deciphered corpus of religious texts, scholars infer Indus religion from seals, architecture, figurines, and burials, and they treat detailed doctrinal claims as provisional.
4The so-called 'Pashupati' seal from Mohenjo-daro is often discussed in comparative Indian religion because it may depict:
A.A horned seated figure surrounded by animals, later compared with proto-Śiva or yogic lord-of-beasts imagery
B.A printed Gurū Granth Sāhib folio
C.A portrait of Emperor Aśoka only
D.A Greek temple of Zeus
Explanation: The famous seal shows a possibly three-faced or horned figure in a seated posture with animals around it; some scholars compare it with later Pashupati/Śiva symbolism, though the identification is debated.
5Early Vedic (Rigvedic) religion is best characterised as:
A.A temple-centred idol cult with no hymns
B.A sacrificial, hymn-based tradition honouring many deities such as Indra, Agni, and Soma
C.Strict atheism with no ritual
D.Identical to Jain anekāntavāda alone
Explanation: Early Vedic religion centres on yajña (sacrifice), spoken hymns, and a polytheistic pantheon in which Agni, Indra, Varuna, Soma and others are invoked.
6In early Aryan/Vedic religious practice, Agni is especially important as:
A.The fire deity who carries offerings to the gods and is central to sacrifice
B.Only a river goddess of the Ganga
C.The exclusive founder of the Khalsa in 1699
D.A Buddhist emperor of Magadha
Explanation: Agni (fire) is both a deity and the ritual medium; hymns and offerings travel to the gods through the sacrificial fire.
7Compared with later classical Hindu temple religion, early Vedic worship emphasised:
A.Congregational singing of the Gurū Granth only
B.Outdoor or domestic fire-altars (vedi) and recited mantras rather than large permanent temple complexes
C.Complete rejection of Sanskrit hymns
D.Mandatory monastic celibacy for all householders
Explanation: Early Vedic ritual is centred on the sacrificial altar and correctly recited hymns; monumental temple worship becomes more characteristic of later periods.
8Which concept is central to later Vedic speculative thought as it moves beyond purely ritual concerns?
A.Only mechanical performance of sacrifice with no interest in meaning
B.Growing reflection on ātman, brahman, karma, and the goal of liberation (mokṣa) in Upaniṣadic layers
C.Exclusive focus on building the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1500 BCE
D.Rejection of all ethical duty (dharma)
Explanation: Later Vedic and Upaniṣadic texts deepen philosophical inquiry into the self (ātman), ultimate reality (brahman), rebirth, and liberation, expanding beyond ritual manuals alone.
9Archaeological evidence often cited for tree and animal reverence in Indus religion includes:
A.Seals and motifs showing sacred trees, bulls, and other animals in symbolic settings
B.Printed copies of the Four Noble Truths in Prakrit on every brick
C.Only Islamic calligraphy of the shahāda
D.European Gothic cathedrals
Explanation: Indus seals and pottery repeatedly show animals (including bulls) and plant/tree motifs that scholars treat as possible sacred or totemic symbols.
10A careful comparative statement about Indus and early Aryan religion is that:
A.They are proven to be one continuous identical system with no change
B.They are distinct historical complexes: Indus is mainly archaeological, early Aryan/Vedic is mainly textual-hymnic, and later Indian religion draws on multiple streams
C.Early Aryans left no hymns at all
D.Indus cities had no water-related structures of religious interest
Explanation: Scholarly introductions treat Indus religion (archaeology) and early Vedic religion (Vedic literature) as separate evidence bases whose relationships remain debated; Indian religious history is multi-stream.

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