Note Making Questions

Sample Question Paper CBSE, 2017-18

1. Colour Therapy is a complementary therapy for which there is evidence dating
back thousands of years to the ancient cultures of Egypt, China and India. If we
define it in simple terms, Colour is a light of varying wavelengths, thus each colour
has its own particular wavelength and energy.

2. Colours contribute to energy. This energy may be motivational and encouraging.

Each of the seven colours of the spectrum are associated with energy. The energy
relating to each of the seven spectrum colours of red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo and violet, resonates with the energy of each of the seven main
chakras/energy centres of the body. Colour therapy can help to re-balance and/or
stimulate these energies by applying the appropriate colour to the body.

3. Red relates to the base chakra, orange the sacral chakra, yellow the solar plexus
chakra, green the heart chakra, blue the throat chakra, indigo the brow chakra
(sometimes referred to as the third eye) and violet relates to the crown chakra.

4. Colour is absorbed by the eyes, skin, skull, our ‘magnetic energy field’ or aura and
the energy of colour affects us on all levels, that is to say, physical, spiritual and
emotional. Every cell in the body needs light energy – thus colour energy has
widespread effects on the whole body. There are many different ways of giving
colour, including; Solarised Water, Light boxes/lamps with colour filters, colour silks
and hands on healing using colour.

5. Colour therapy can be shown to help on a physical level, which is perhaps easier
to quantify, however there are deeper issues around the colours on the psychological
and spiritual levels. Our wellbeing is not, of course, purely a physical issue.
Fortunately, many more practitioners, both orthodox and complementary, are now
treating patients in a holistic manner.

6. Colour Therapy is a totally holistic and non-invasive therapy and, really, colour
should be a part of our everyday life, not just something we experience for an hour or
two with a therapist. Colour is all around us everywhere. This wonderful planet does
not contain all the beautiful colours of the rainbow for no reason. Nothing on this
earth is here just by chance; everything in nature is here for a purpose. Colour is no
exception. All we need to do is to heighten our awareness of the energy of colour,
absorb it and see how it can transform our lives.
Sample Question Paper CBSE, 2018-19
1. There is a clear dichotomy between Jayashankar Prasad’s daily life and the one
that found expression in his literature. In his literary formulations, Prasad advocated
an escape- from personality ideals and categorically stated: “An artist‟s art, and not
his person, is the touchstone to assess his work . . . it is only after losing his
personality that he emerges in his art as an artist”.

2. In Prasad‟s works – his poems, short stories, novels, dramas etc. – what emerges
is life as shaped in the writer’s inner self by his emotions, fancies, dreams, reveries .
. . His writings are a record not of outer reality, but of the artist’s inner world. As such,
of a proper appreciation and understanding of his works more emphasis needs to be
placed on the working of his mind, than the events of his dayto-day life.

3. Prasad was born in a renowned family of Varanasi. His grand-father Shiv

RatanSahu, a dealer in high quality perfumed tobacco (snuff). Besides being an
astute businessman, he was endowed with a marked cultural taste. His home was
the meeting place of the local poets, singers, artists, scholars and men of religion.
Prasad‟s father Devi Prasad Sahu carried forward this high tradition of family.
Prasad, therefore, had a chance to study the various phases of human nature in the
light of the business traditions, artistic taste and religious background of his family.

4. When the business had somewhat recovered, Prasad planned the publication of a
literary journal. Prasad started the “Indu”. The inaugural number appeared in July
1909. By this time Prasad’s notions of literature had crystallized into a credo. In the
first issue of Indu, he proclaimed, “Literature has no fixed aim; it is not a slave to
rules; it is a free and all-embracing genius, gives birth to genuine literature which is
subservient to none. Whatever in the world is true and beautiful is its subject matter.
By dealing with the True and Beautiful it establishes the one and affects the full
flowering of the others. Its force can be measured by the degree of pleasure it gives
to the reader‟s mind as also by the criticism which is free of all prejudice”. The words
sound like the manifesto of romanticism in literature.

5. Even while recognizing the social relevance of literature, Prasad insisted, “The
poet is a creator . . . he is not conditioned by his milieu; rather it is he who moulds it
and gives it a new shape; he conjures up a new world of beauty where the reader for
the time being, becomes oblivious of the outer world and passes his time in an
eternal spring garden where golden lotuses blossom and the air is thick and pollen”.
Thus, the chief aim of literature according to Prasad is to give joy to the reader and
to create a state of bliss in him. Later under the impact of Shiv Advaitism, this faith of
Prasad got further strengthened.
(Extract from ‘Jayashankar Prasad- His mind and Art’ by Dr. Nagendra)
Question Paper CBSE, 2020
1. How does television affect our lives? It can be very helpful to people who carefully
choose the shows that they watch. Television can increase our knowledge of the
outside world; there are high quality programmes that help us understand many
fields of study, science, medicine, the different arts and so on. Moreover, television
benefits very old people, who can’t leave the house, as well as patients in hospitals.
It also offers non-native speakers the advantage of daily informal language practice.
They can increase their vocabulary and practise listening.

2. On the other hand, there are several serious disadvantages of television. Of

course, it provides us with a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time, but in
some countries people watch television for an average of six hours or more a day.
Many children stare at the TV screen for more hours a day than they spend on
anything else, including studying and sleeping. It’s clear that TV has a powerful
influence on their lives and that its influence is often negative.

3. Recent studies show that after only thirty seconds of television viewing, a person’s
brain ‘relaxes’ the same way that it does just before the person falls asleep. Another
effect of television on the human brain is that it seems to cause poor concentration.
Children who view a lot of television can often concentrate on a subject for only
fifteen to twenty minutes. They can pay attention only for the amount of time
between commercials.

4. Another disadvantage is that television often causes people to become

dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life does not seem so exciting to these people.
To many people, television becomes more real than reality and their own lives seem
boring. Also many people get upset or depressed when they can’t solve problems in
real life as quickly as television actors seem to.

5. Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she views eleven thousand murders on
the TV. He or she begins to believe that there is nothing strange about fights, killings
and other kinds of violence. Many studies show that people become more violent
after viewing certain programmes. They may even do the things that they see in a
violent show.

Question Paper, CBSE 2019

1. Well-being is not just the absence of disease or illness. It is a complex
combination of a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social health factors.
Well-being is strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction. In short, it could be
described as how one feels about oneself and one’s life. Every aspect of one’s life
influences the state of one’s well-being. Researchers investigating happiness have
found the following factors which enhance a person’s well-being : network of close
friends, enjoyable and fulfilling career, enough money, regular exercise, nutritious
diet, sufficient sleep, fun hobbies and leisure pursuits, healthy self-esteem, optimistic
outlook and so on.

2. The factors that influence one’s well-being are interrelated. For example, a job
provides not just money but purpose, goals, friendships and a sense of belonging.
Some factors also make up for the lack of others; for example, a good marriage can
compensate for a lack of friendship, while religious beliefs may help a person to
accept physical illness. Money is linked to well-being, because having enough
money improves living conditions and increases social status. But various
international studies have shown that it is the quality of our personal relationships,
not the size of our bank balance, which has the greatest effect on our state of
well-being. Believing that money is the key to happiness can also harm a person’s
well-being.

3. Understanding the well-being of the population is very important. Measuring

well-being, however, in a population is difficult because the interpretation of
well-being is so subjective — how one feels about peoples’ lives largely depends on
the way one sees it. Like the saying goes: ‘one person’s problem is another person’s
challenge.’

4. Keeping track of a population’s well-being helps governments to decide on

particular policies. It also acts as an indicator for various population trends. For
example, knowing the average weekly income of a population helps to set the
‘poverty line’, which may then influence decisions on social welfare reforms.
Well-being can be achieved through a variety of means. Some are as follows :
developing and maintaining strong relationships with family and friends, making
regular time available for social contact, trying to find work that is enjoyable and
rewarding, rather than just working for the best pay, eating healthy, nutritious foods,
doing regular physical activity, involving oneself in activities that interest the people,
joining in local organisations or clubs that appeal, setting achievable goals and
working towards them and trying to be optimistic and enjoying each day.

Question Paper CBSE, 2018

Keeping cities clean is essential for keeping their residents healthy. Our health
depends not just on personal hygiene and nutrition, but critically also on how clean
we keep our cities and their surroundings. The spread of dengue and chikungunya
are intimately linked to the deteriorating state of public health conditions in our cities.

The good news is that waste management to keep cities clean is now getting
attention through the Swachh Bharat Mission. However, much of the attention begins
and stops with the brooms and the dustbins, extending at most to the collection and
transportation of the mixed waste to some distant or not so distant place, preferably
out of sight.

The challenge of processing and treating the different streams of solid waste, and
safe disposal of the residuals in scientific landfills, has received much less attention
in municipal solid waste management than is expected from a health point of view.

One of the problems is that instead of focusing on waste management for health, we
have got sidetracked into ‘‘waste for energy’’. If only we were to begin by not mixing
the biodegradable component of solid waste (close to 60 percent of the total) in our
cities with the dry waste, and instead use this stream of waste for composting and
producing a gas called methane.

City compost from biodegradable waste provides an alternative to farmyard manure

(like cow-dung). It provides an opportunity to simultaneously clean up our cities and
help improve agricultural productivity and quality of the soil. Organic manure or
compost plays a very important role as a supplement to chemical fertilisers in
enriching the nutrient-deficient soils. City compost can be the new player in the field.

Benefits of compost on the farm are well-known. The water holding capacity of the
soil which uses compost helps with drought-proofing, and the requirement of less
water per crop is a welcome feature for a water-stressed future. By making the soil
porous, use of compost also makes roots stronger and resistant to pests and decay.
Farmers using compost, therefore, need less quantity of pesticides. There is also
evidence to suggest that horticulture crops grown with compost have better flavour,
size, colour and shelf-life.

City compost has the additional advantage of being weed-free unlike farmyard
manure which brings with it the seeds of undigested grasses and requires a
substantial additional labour cost for weeding as the crops grow. City compost is also
rich in organic carbon, and our soils are short in this.
Farmers clearly recognize the value of city compost. If city waste was composted
before making it available to the farmers for applying to the soil, cities would be
cleaned up and the fields around them would be much more productive.

Quite apart from cleaning up the cities of biodegradable waste, this would be a major
and sustainable contribution to improving the health of our soil without further
damage by excessive chemical inputs. What a marvellous change from waste to
health!

The good news is that some states are regularly laying plastic roads. Plastic roads
will not only withstand future monsoon damage but will also solve a city’s problem of
disposing of non-recyclable plastic. It is clear that if the mountains of waste from our
cities were to be recycled into road construction material, it would tackle the problem
of managing waste while freeing up scarce land.