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Describe three main… (Class 10 Social Science 2025, Q28a)

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Social ScienceCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2025, set 32/2/1 · 3 marks · Short answer

CBSE Class 10 Social Science 2025: question 28(a)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2025, paper 32/2/1, section C, question 28(a), for 3 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q28(a) · 3 marks · Short answerPolitical Parties

Describe three main functions of political parties.

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2025 board paper, set 32/2/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think about what parties do at election time.

Hint 2

What happens after a party wins or loses?

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. Parties contest elections by selecting candidates, and they put forward policies and programmes from which voters choose.

    1 mark

  2. Parties play a decisive role in making laws, and they form and run governments by training leaders and making them ministers.

    1 mark

  3. Parties that lose act as the opposition, criticising government failures. They also shape public opinion and give people access to welfare schemes.

    1 mark

Answer: Contest elections, make policies and laws, form government, act as opposition and shape opinion.

Where the marks are

  • Contest elections and offer policies (1 mark)
  • Make laws and form and run government (1 mark)
  • Opposition role, shaping public opinion or access to schemes (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 paper2025 board paper, set 32/2/1: every question, by section.

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