(1st PUC)
Subject: Economics (1st PUC – Karnataka Board)
Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Max Marks: 40
PART – A (1 × 8 = 8 marks)
Answer any eight of the following in one sentence each.
1. 1. What is per capita income?
2. 2. What do you mean by the term ‘colonialism’?
3. 3. Give one example of economic infrastructure.
4. 4. Who is the father of Green Revolution in India?
5. 5. Define birth rate.
6. 6. What is the meaning of ‘statistical data’?
7. 7. Mention one goal of the First Five-Year Plan.
8. 8. What is ‘occupational structure’?
9. 9. What is trade surplus?
10. 10. Define planning.
PART – B (2 × 6 = 12 marks)
Answer any six of the following in four to five sentences each.
11. 11. State any two causes of India’s agricultural stagnation during British rule.
12. 12. Write any two features of the Indian economy on the eve of independence.
13. 13. Mention two objectives of economic planning in India.
14. 14. What are the benefits of Green Revolution?
15. 15. What is the role of public sector in post-independent India?
16. 16. What is the meaning of statistics in the plural sense?
17. 17. Mention two limitations of statistics.
18. 18. State any two differences between economic and non-economic activities.
PART – C (4 × 2 = 8 marks)
Answer any two of the following in 12–15 sentences each.