The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is set to conduct the CBSE Class 12 Geography paper on February 26, 2026, from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The CBSE 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.
Students appearing in the CBSE Geography Class 12 exam must keep all essentials ready for the February 26 exam. Students must be prepared with their admit card, school ID, and a transparent stationery pouch containing blue/black pens, pencils, eraser, sharpener, and a ruler for maps. 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.
CBSE 2026 Geography Class 12 Sample Paper
The board has released the CBSE 12th sample papers for the academic session 2025-26 in online mode at cbse.gov.in. Check the CBSE 2026 Class 12 official sample paper for Geography, as released by the board.
| CBSE Class 12 Geography Sample Question Paper 2026 | 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.
CBSE Geography Class 12 Map Work Questions
Practice 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.
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CBSE Class 12 Geography Question Paper Design 2026
The CBSE 12th Geography exam 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%.
- Remembering and Understanding: Recalling facts, terms, basic concepts, data, and information. Students should be able to demonstrate understanding of facts and ideas by organising, comparing, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating main ideas.
- Application: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of abstraction by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques, and rules.
- Analysing, Evaluating and Creating: Examine and break information into parts and determine how the parts relate to one another. Also, analyse the overall structure or purpose by identifying motives or causes so that the organisational structure may be understood. Distinguish between facts and inferences. Make inferences and find evidence to support generalisations.
Students must carry their CBSE Class 12 hall tickets along with them to the examination centre. Reach the exam centre on time, and follow the exam centre rules for the Geography exam.
