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Analyze the need of… (Class 10 Social Science 2023, Q28)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2023, set 32/4/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2023: question 28

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2023, paper 32/4/1, section C, question 28, for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q28 · 3 marks · Short answerPolitical Parties

Analyze the need of Political Parties in the Democracy.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2023 board paper, set 32/4/1.

Hints

Open one hint at a time and try again before the next.

Hint 1

What do parties do during elections?

Hint 2

Why can't large societies work without some agency to gather opinions?

Step-by-step solution

Each step shows the marks it earns, as an examiner would award them. Checked by an independent re-solve from the question paper.

  1. A political party is a group of people who contest elections and hold power in government. Parties are the most visible institutions of a democracy, and for many citizens democracy means parties.

    1 mark

  2. Parties arose with representative democracy. As societies grew large and complex, they needed an agency to gather views on different issues and present them to the government.

    1 mark

  3. They bring representatives together to form a responsible government and provide a mechanism to support or restrain the government, make policies and justify or oppose them. Hence parties are a necessary condition for democracy.

    1 mark

Answer: Parties are needed to contest elections, aggregate views, form governments and make or oppose policies, so they are essential for democracy.

Where the marks are

  • Meaning and visibility of parties (1 mark)
  • Link with representative democracy and aggregation of views (1 mark)
  • Forming government, supporting or restraining it (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Political Parties, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paper2023 board paper, set 32/4/1: every question, by section.

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