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Read the following… (Class 12 Economics SQP 2025-26, Q23)

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EconomicsCBSE Class 12 · Sample paper, session 2025-26 · 1 mark · MCQ

CBSE Class 12 Economics sample paper 2025-26: question 23

From the official CBSE sample question paper for 2025-26, section B, question 23, for 1 mark. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q23 · 1 mark · MCQCompetency-basedEmployment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues

Read the following text carefully:
All economic activities can be categorized into eight different industrial divisions as:
For simplicity, all the working persons engaged in these divisions can be clubbed into three major sectors primary, secondary and tertiary sector.
In the light of the given text, primary sector includes ________. (Choose the correct option to fill up the blank)

  1. (A)Only (i)
  2. (B)(i) and (ii)
  3. (C)(iii), (iv) and (v)
  4. (D)(vi), (vii) and (viii)

Figure in the paper: Tree chart titled 'Classification of economic activities into eight industrial divisions' with eight boxes: (i) Agriculture, (ii) Mining and Quarrying, (iii) Manufacturing, (iv) Electricity, Gas and Water Supply, (v) Construction, (vi) Trade, (vii) Transport and Storage, (viii) Services. See it in the official paper.

Source: official sample paper from cbseacademic.nic.in (PDF). See it in the full Sample paper 2025-26.

Hints

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

Hint 1

Which activities take resources straight from nature?

Hint 2

Manufacturing, construction and electricity are secondary.

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. The primary sector covers activities that directly use natural resources: agriculture (with forestry and fishing) and mining and quarrying.

  2. So it includes divisions (i) Agriculture and (ii) Mining and Quarrying. Option (B).

    1 mark

Answer: (B) (i) and (ii)

Where the marks are

  • Primary sector: agriculture and mining (1 mark)

Revise the chapter

Practise this chapterBoard-style questions from Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues, one at a time, marked against the answer key and marking points.Back to the full paperSample paper 2025-26: every question, by section.

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