Class 12 Humanities Syllabus PDF Download (CBSE & ICSE) 2021

As per the recent announcement, CBSE and ICSE boards have reduced 30% of the syllabus due to the non-functioning of the schools. Note that the reduced syllabus is only for the academic year 2021. This post takes you through a detailed Class 12 Humanities Syllabus for CBSE and ICSE. 

CBSE Class 12 Humanities Syllabus 2021

If you are studying in class 12th Humanities or preparing for class 12 board exams, then it is important to go through the revised syllabus of Class 12 Humanities.

Enhance your preparation by solving CBSE Class 12 Humanities Question Papers. Also, this will help improve your time management skills, problem-solving skills, and speed.

To help you understand the revised syllabus and the deleted portions, we have provided the subject-wise syllabus PDF in the post below. You can view/download the PDF and start preparing for the exam.

CBSE Class 12 History Syllabus

The History theory exam holds a weightage of 80 marks and 20 marks for internal assessment.

The unit wise weightage as per the updated Class 12th History syllabus is listed below:

Units	Marks
Themes in Indian History Part - I (Units 1 – 4)	24
Unit 1: The Story of the First Cities: Harappan Archaeology
Unit 2: Political and Economic History: How Inscriptions tell a story
Unit 3: Social Histories: using the Mahabharata
Unit 4: A History of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa
Themes in Indian History Part-II (Units 5 – 9)	25
Unit 5: Medieval Society through Travellers’ Accounts
Unit 6: Religious Histories: The Bhakti-Sufi Tradition
Unit7: New Architecture: Hampi
Unit 8: Agrarian Relations: The Ain-i-Akbari
Unit 9: The Mughal Court: Reconstructing Histories through Chronicles
Themes in Indian History Part-III (Units 10 – 15)	25
Unit 10: Colonialism and Rural Society: Evidence from Official Reports
Unit 11: Representations of 1857
Unit 12: Colonialism and Indian Towns: Town Plans and Municipal Reports
Unit 13: Mahatma Gandhi through Contemporary Eyes
Unit 14: Partition through Oral Sources
Unit 15: The Making of the Constitution
Map Work	06
Total	80
Project work (Internal Assessment)	20
Total	100

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CBSE Class 12 Geography Syllabus

In Geography, 80 marks out of 100 assigned to the theoretical test, while 20 marks are allotted to practical work.

The revised weightage as per the updated Class 12 Syllabus for Geography is listed below:

Part / Unit	Chapter	Marks
A	Fundamentals of Human Geography	35
Unit 1	Human Geography	30 Marks
Unit 2	People
Unit 3	Human Activities
Unit 4	Human settlements
Map Work		5
B	India: People and Economy	35
Unit 1	People	30 Marks
Unit 2	Human Settlements
Unit 3	Resources and Development
Unit 5	Geographical Perspective on selected issues and problems
Map Work		5
C	Practical Work	30
Unit 1	Processing of Data and Thematic Mapping	25
Unit 3	Practical Record Book and Viva Voce	5

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CBSE Class 12 Political Science Syllabus

Like other subjects, Political Science also has 80 marks out of 100 dedicated to the theory exam while 20 marks are allocated to the project submissions.

The revised weightage as per the updated Syllabus Class 12 for Political Science is listed below:

Units	Contents	Marks
Part A: Contemporary World Politics
1	Cold War Era and Non–aligned Movement	6
2	The End of Bipolarity	8
3	New Centres of Power	8
4	South Asia and the Contemporary World	6
5	United Nations and its Organizations	6
6	Globalization	4
Total	-	40 Marks
Part B: Politics in India Since Independence
7	Challenges of Nation-Building	8
8	Planned Development	4
9	India's Foreign Policy	4
10	Parties and the Party Systems in India	8
11	Democratic Resurgence	8
12	Indian Politics: Trends and Developments	8
Total	-	40 Marks

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Revised CBSE Class 12 Sociology Syllabus

The Sociology theory exam holds a weightage of 80 marks and 20 marks are allotted to internal assessment. These two sums up the final calculations for the Board exam.

The unit wise weightage as per the updated CBSE Humanities syllabus for class 12 is listed below:

Units	Marks
Part A - Indian Society
Unit 1: Introducing Indian Society	Non - Evaluative
Unit 2: The Demographic Structure of Indian Society	10
Unit 3: Social Institutions: Continuity and Change	10
Unit 5: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion	10
Unit 6: The Challenges of Cultural Diversity	10
Unit 7:Suggestions for Project Work	Non- Evaluative
Total	40 Marks
Part B - Social Change and Development in India
Unit 8: Structural Change	5
Unit 9: Cultural Change	5
Unit11: Change and Development in Rural Society	10
Unit 12: Change and Development in Industrial Society	10
Unit 15: Social Movements	10
Total	40 Marks

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CBSE Class 12 English Syllabus

The English Syllabus has been divided into two parts: part A and part B. Go through the detailed syllabus of the English language and start your preparation accordingly for the exam.

PART A - 40 Marks

In Part A, 40 marks are allotted for Reading Comprehension and 20 marks for Literature

Reading Comprehension (20 Marks)

• Multiple Choice questions based on one unseen passage to assess comprehension, interpretation, and inference. Vocabulary and inference of meaning will also be assessed. The passage may be factual, descriptive, or literary. Ten out of eleven questions to be done.
• Multiple Choice questions based on one unseen case-based factual passage with verbal/visual inputs like statistical data, charts, newspaper reports, etc. Ten out of eleven questions to be done.

Note: The combined word limit for both the passages will be 700-750 words.

Literature (20 Marks)

• Multiple Choice Questions based on two prose extracts, one each from the book, Flamingo and Vistas, to assess comprehension and appreciation. Refer to the lines to answer questions based on the given extract. Any 2 out of 3 extracts to be done. (8x1=8)
• Multiple Choice Questions based on poetry extract from the book Flamingo to assess comprehension, analysis, and inference. Refer to the lines to answer questions based on the given extract. Any 1 out of 2 extracts to be done. (4x1=4)
• Text-based questions to assess comprehension, analysis, inference, and interpretation from the books Flamingo and Vistas. Eight out of ten questions to be done. (8x1=8)

PART B: Subjective Questions (40 Marks)

Part B holds a weightage of 40 marks out of which 16 marks for the writing section and 24 marks for the literature section.

Writing Section: 16 Marks

• Q1. Short writing task –Notice/Advertisement up to 50 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered. (3 Marks: Format:1 /Content:1/Expression:1).
• Q2. Short writing task- Formal/Informal Invitation and Reply up to 50 words.One out of the two given questions to be answered. (3 Marks: Format:1 /Content:1 Expression:1)
• Q3. Letters based on verbal/visual input, to be answered in approximately 120-150 words. Letter types include application for a job, Letters to the editor (giving suggestions or opinion on issues of public interest) . One out of the two given questions to be answered (5 Marks: Format:1/Content:2/Expression:2)
• Q4. Article/ Report Writing, descriptive and analytical in nature, based on verbal inputs, to be answered in 120-150 words. One out of the two given questions to be answered (5 Marks: Format:1/Content:2/Expression:2)

Literature Section: 24 Marks

• Q6. Five Short answer type questions, out of six, from Prose and Poetry from the book Flamingo, to be answered in 30-40 words. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. (5x2=10)
• Q7. Two Short answer type questions, out of three, from Prose (Vistas), to be answered in 30-40 words. Questions should elicit inferential responses through critical thinking. (2x2=4)
• Q 8. One Long answer type question, from Prose/poetry (Flamingo), to be answered in 120-150 words to assess global comprehension and extrapolation beyond the text. Questions to provide evaluative and analytical responses using incidents, events, themes as reference points. Any 1 out of 2 questions to be done. (1x5=5)
• Q.9 One Long answer type question, based on the chapters from the book Vistas, to be answered in 120-150 words to assess global comprehension and extrapolation beyond the text. Questions to provide evaluative and analytical responses using incidents, events, themes as reference points. Any 1 out of 2 questions to be done. (1x5=5)

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CBSE 12th Humanities Syllabus for Optional Subjects 2020-21

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CBSE 12th Psychology Syllabus

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CBSE 12th Economics Syllabus

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CBSE Class 12 Mathematics Syllabus

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CBSE 12th Physical Education Syllabus

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CBSE 12th Legal Studies Syllabus

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CBSE 12th Entrepreneurship Syllabus

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CBSE Class 12 Home Science Syllabus

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CBSE 12th Fine Arts Syllabus

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CBSE 12th Hindi Core Syllabus

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ICSE Class 12 Humanities Syllabus 2021

To compensate for the loss of instructional hours during the current 2021 session, the CISCE has worked with its subject matter experts to lessen the syllabus at ICSE and ISC levels for all the core subjects. Go through the detailed syllabus of ICSE Humanities Subjects from the post below and enhance your preparation for the upcoming exam.

ICSE Class 12 History Syllabus

There will be two papers in this Subject: Paper-I will be a theoretical paper of 80 marks and three hours duration, while 20 marks are allotted to Paper-II (Project submissions) in History Examination. 

Go through the table below to know the topic-wise weightage

Units	Marks
SECTION A INDIAN HISTORY	36
Unit 1	Towards Independence and Partition: the Last Phase (1935-1947)
Unit 2	Establishment and development of Indian democracy (1947 – 1966)
Unit 3	Challenges to Indian democracy (1964 – 1977)
Unit 4	Changing face of the Indian democracy (1977 – 1986).
Unit 5	India’s Foreign Policy
SECTION B WORLD HISTORY	24
Unit 6	World War II
Unit 7	De-colonisation – in Africa (Ghana & Kenya)
Unit 8	Cold War 1945-91– origin, course, end and impact
Unit 9	Protest Movements
Unit 10	Middle East: Israeli-Palestine conflict (1916- 1993)
Paper II - Project work	20
Total	100

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ICSE Geography Revised Class 12 Humanities Syllabus

There will be two papers in this Subject: Paper-I will be a theoretical paper of 70 marks and three hours duration, while 30 marks are allotted to Paper-II (Practical and Project submissions).

The revised weightage as per the updated Class 12 ICSE Humanities Syllabus of Geography is listed below:

Units		Marks
Paper -I		70
India in World’s Context
Unit 1	Physical Environment
Unit 2	Population and Human settlements
Unit 3	Resources of India and their Utilisation
Unit 4	Infrastructural Resources
Unit 5	Industries
Unit 6	Regional Economic Development
Map Work
Paper - II		30
1	Practical File	10
2	Project report	10
3	Viva Voce	10
Total		100

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Revised Class 12 English Syllabus

The English subject has two components, English Language and Literature in English. There will be two papers in this Subject: Paper-I will be a theoretical paper of 80 marks and three hours duration, while 20 marks are allotted to Paper-II (Project submissions) in ICSE English Language Examination.

Paper I: Theory (3 hours): 80 Marks 

• Question One: A composition on one of a number of subjects. … 20 Marks
• Question Two: 

Directed writing (article writing, book review, film review, review of the cultural program, speech writing, report writing, personal profile, and statement of purpose) based on suggested points. …15 Marks 

Proposal Writing based on a given situation. The proposal should include 

An Introduction 

Objectives 

List of measures to be taken. A concluding statement is desirable. …10 Marks 

• Question Three: Short-answer questions to test grammar, structure, and usage. ...15 Marks 
• Question Four: Comprehension. …20 Marks 

Paper-II: Project Work: 20 Marks

Project Work in Class XII consists of an assessment of your performance in three projects, one each on Listening, Speaking, and Writing skills. 

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ICSE Class 12 Humanities Syllabus for Optional Subjects 2021

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ICSE Class 12 Sociology Syllabus

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ICSE 12th Psychology Syllabus

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ICSE Class 12 Political Science Syllabus

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ICSE Class 12 Economics Syllabus

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ICSE 12th Mathematics Syllabus PDF 

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ICSE 12th Physical Education Syllabus PDF

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ICSE 12th Home Science Syllabus PDF 2020-21

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ICSE 12th Mass Media & Communication Syllabus 2020-21

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