Academic Session: 2025-2026
Grade: 8
Term End Examination
Mark Scheme for Practice Paper - November 2025
Subject: Humanities Paper/Component: History
NAME: ……………………………………………………………………………………
DATE: ……………………………………………………………………………………
DURATION: 60 Minutes MAXIMUM MARKS: 40
INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all the questions.
• Use a blue or black ball point pen to write your answers.
• The number of marks for each question are shown in brackets against the question itself.
• Answers are to be written in the answer booklet only.
SCORE
REMARKS
EXAMINER
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1. Study Source A.
[5]
What does Source A suggest about the Dandi March?
One mark for each relevant point.
Responses may include the following:
• To violate the salt law peacefully
• Protest against the British monopoly on salt production and taxation under the Salt
Laws
• which made it illegal for Indians to make or sell salt independently.
• The salt tax symbolised the economic and moral injustice of colonial rule.
• On 6 April 1930, Gandhi reached Dandi and picked up a lump of natural salt from
the seashore, symbolically breaking the unjust British law.
• This simple act became one of the most powerful symbols of India’s struggle for
freedom.
• It marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930–1934).
2 Study Source B. [5]
What does Source B suggest about the Simon Commission?
One mark for each relevant point.
Responses may include the following:
● The Simon Commission was appointed by the British Government in 1927 to suggest
constitutional reforms in India
● It was chaired by Sir John Simon and consisted of seven British members; no Indian
was included.
● It was called an all White Commission
● The Commission arrived in India in February 1928, sparking nationwide protests.
● People greeted the members with black flags and the slogan “Simon Go Back!”
The above material is an indication of what students may elect to write about in their
responses. It is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive and no set answer is required.
3 Study Source C
[6]
What does Source C claim about the start of the Rowlatt Act?
One mark for each relevant point.
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Responses may include the following:
● Introduced post WW I to curb the growing upsurge in the country
● Arrest of person without warrant
● In camera trial
● Restrictions on the movement of individual
● Suspension of the Right of Habeas Corpus
● Introduced after the World War I
● Gandhi started the Rowlatt Satyagraha as a form of retaliation against this Act
● This was one of the key causes for the start of the Non-Cooperation Movement
The above material is an indication of what students may elect to write about in their
responses. It is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive and no set answer is required.
4 Study Source D
[12]
What is the cartoonist’s message? Explain your answer using details of the Source and your
knowledge.
One mark for each relevant point.
Responses may include the following:
a) Swadeshi
- Encouraged Indians to produce their own cloth (khadi)
- stood for economic independence and self-sufficiency
- rejecting foreign exploitation.
b) Ahimsa
- Boycotting British goods peacefully
- Charkha became a non-violent weapon of resistance
- attacked the colonial economy without harming anyone.
c) Shramadan
- dignity to labour and removes the false division between intellectual and
physical work.
- Economic Independence
- Respect manual work and simplicity
d) Swaraj
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- “self-rule” — both political independence from British rule and inner self-discipline of
individuals.
- Swaraj meant freedom from social evils — caste discrimination, untouchability, and gender
inequality.
- attainment of Swaraj was to be through non-violent resistance, not armed struggle.
e) Satyagraha
- meaning “holding firmly to truth.”
- The Satyagrahi fights against injustice, not against individuals.
The above material is an indication of what students may elect to write about in their
responses. It is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive and no set answer is required.
5 Study Source E [12]
What is the author’s message? Explain your answer using details of the Source and your
knowledge.
One mark for each relevant point.
Responses may include the following:
a) The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was violent.
b) The shooting was of unarmed people.
c) The police were heavily armed.
d) People were trying to run away.
e) It was a large gathering of people.
f) Happened on the eve of Baisakhi on 13th April 1919
g) Protest for the unlawful arrest of Saifuddin Kichlew and Dr. Satyapal
The above material is an indication of what students may elect to write about in their
responses. It is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive and no set answer is required.
Note:
5 Mark questions should have any two observations from the source
and their inferences.
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6 Mark Question should have any three observations from the source
and their inferences, supporting the claim that you are making. In the
above question, you should be claiming through evidence that
Rowlatt Act was an oppressive Act
12 Mark Questions:
- Do not make any table showing observations and
inferences (for TEE)
- Start with what is the author’s/ writer’s/ cartoonist’s/
artist’s message
- Provide 5 observations and inferences for the same.
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