CBSE Class 12 Geography Sample Paper 2027: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is set to conduct the CBSE Class 12 board examinations in the month of February/March/April 2027. According to the official exam syllabus, the Class 12 Geography paper focuses on question types based on remembering and understanding, application, analysing, evaluating, and creating. Students should also focus on map work in terms of the identification of features based on the units taught.
Last year, the Geography exam was held on February 26, from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. Since Geography explores the relationship between people and their environment, it includes the study of physical and human environments and their interactions at different scales, such as local, state, regional, national, and global, the official syllabus noted.
Class 12 Geography Sample Paper 2027
The board has released the CBSE 12th sample papers for the academic session 2026-27 on its official portal, cbseacademic.nic.in. Class 12 candidates can download this year's sample questions from the link given below.
CBSE Class 12 Geography Sample Question Paper 2027 | Download PDF
Students are advised to solve as many CBSE 12th previous year papers as possible. Along with solving the previous year's questions, students must also develop a clear understanding of the CBSE 12th exam pattern 2026 and syllabus.
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CBSE Geography Class 12 Map Work Questions
Practise these map work questions based on the CBSE Class 12 Geography syllabus:
Book: Fundamentals of Human Geography
Chapter 4: Primary Activities
- Areas of subsistence gathering
- Major areas of nomadic herding of the world
- Major areas of commercial livestock rearing
- Major areas of extensive commercial grain farming
- Major areas of mixed farming of the World
Chapter 7: Transport, Communication, and Trade
- Terminal Stations of Transcontinental Railways: Trans-Siberian, Trans Canadian, Trans-Australian Railways
- Major Sea Ports
- Europe: North Cape, London, Hamburg
- North America: Vancouver, San Francisco, New Orleans
- South America: Rio De Janeiro, Colon, Valparaiso
- Africa: Suez and Cape Town
- Asia: Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Aden, Karachi, Kolkata
- Australia: Perth, Sydney, Melbourne
- Major Airports
- Asia: Tokyo, Beijing, Mumbai, Jeddah, Aden
- Africa: Johannesburg & Nairobi
- Europe: Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome
- North America: Chicago, New Orleans, Mexico City
- South America: Buenos Aires, Santiago
- Australia: Darwin and Wellington
- Inland Waterways: Suez Canal, Panama Canal, Rhine waterways and St. Lawrence Seaways
Book: India People and Economy
Chapter 1: Population Distribution, Density, Growth, and Composition
- State with the highest population density and state with the lowest population density (2011)
Chapter 3: Land Resources and Agriculture
- Leading producing states of the following crops: (a) Rice (b) Wheat (c) Cotton (d) Jute (e) Sugarcane (f) Tea and (g) Coffee
Chapter 5: Mineral And Energy Resources
- Mines
- Iron-ore mines: Mayurbhanj, Bailadila, Ratnagiri, Bellary
- Manganese mines: Balaghat, Shimoga
- Copper mines: Hazaribagh, Singhbhum, Khetari
- Bauxite mines: Katni, Bilaspur and Koraput
- Coal mines: Jharia, Bokaro, Raniganj, Neyveli
- Oil Refineries: Mathura, Jamnager, Barauni
Chapter 8: International Trade
- Major Sea Ports: Kandla, Mumbai, Marmagao, Kochi, Mangalore, Tuticorin, Chennai, Vishakhapatnam, Paradwip, Haldia
- International Airports: Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Delhi, Amritsar, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad
According to official exam structure, the CBSE 12th Geography question paper is designed in such a way that questions based on remembering and understanding comprise 41% of the overall question types, application-based questions comprise 37%, and questions that aim to analyse, evaluate, and create comprise 22%.
