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Class 10 SST map work 2026-27: the full CBSE map list, how it is marked, and drills
In short: the CBSE Class 10 Social Science paper for 2026-27 has 5 marks of map work: 2 in History and 3 in Geography. They come only from a fixed list in CBSE's 2026-27 curriculum (PDF pages 7 and 8): 8 places from Nationalism in India for History, and for Geography the major soil types, rice and wheat areas, six crops, 15 mines and oil fields, 7 power plants, 19 industrial centres, 10 sea ports and 6 international airports. Below is every item on that list with where it is in words (state, river, coast), how the sample paper asks and marks map questions, 10 practice drills with answers, a printable checklist and the mistakes that cost marks.
The drills and the location notes are our own, drafted with AI help. Every place was checked against the NCERT map or page named beside it, and the lists were re-counted by a test script, but no practising teacher has reviewed them yet. We do not reproduce any NCERT or CBSE map. Practise on a blank outline map of India (a printed one from a stationery shop, or the outline maps on the Government of India's map websites, which CBSE says may be used).
How the 5 map marks work
The curriculum gives each subject 20 marks in the 80-mark paper, and the map marks sit inside History and Geography: History is 18 marks of written questions plus 2 for map pointing, and Geography is 17 plus 3 (curriculum, page 1). The question-type table on page 10 lists "Map Pointing" as 5 marks, 6.25 per cent of the paper, and the competency table on the same page gives "Map Skill" the same 5 marks.
The 2026-27 sample paper shows what the two map questions look like (sample paper, page 1, instruction 7):
| Question | Section | Marks | What it asks | How it is marked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q9 | A, History | 2 | Two places, A and B, are already marked on the outline map. You identify them and write each name on the line beside it. | 1 + 1 (marking scheme, page 2) |
| Q19 | B, Geography | 3 | You locate and label places yourself, with suitable symbols: part I is one item with an internal choice (one of two), and part II is any two of three items. | 1 + 2 (marking scheme, page 4) |
The outline map is printed at the end of the question paper (sample paper, page 12), and the same map is used for both questions. Candidates with a visual impairment get a separate written question in place of each map question and only have to name the places (sample paper, pages 4 and 7; marking scheme, pages 2 and 4).
Three things to know before you start.
- Only the list counts. Every map item in the sample paper is on the curriculum list. In the 2025 and 2026 board papers, as our Class 10 SST PYQ guide shows, the Geography map question offered four places and asked for any three.
- "Locate and label" items can also come as "identify". The note under the list says so (curriculum, page 8). So learn every place well enough to put it on a blank map yourself, and also to recognise it from a dot.
- Lifelines of National Economy is map-only. The curriculum says only its map work is examined in the board paper (pages 1 and 9), so its 16 ports and airports are the whole of that chapter for the exam.
One oddity: the map table in the 2026-27 curriculum is still headed "CLASS X (2025-26)" (page 7). It sits inside the 2026-27 document, and the 2026-27 sample paper and marking scheme both say the paper design and assessment scheme have not changed from 2025-26, so this is the current list.
Identify, locate, label: what each word asks
- Identify: a place is already marked on the map with a letter or a symbol; you write its name. Q9 in the sample paper is this kind.
- Locate: you put a clear symbol (a dot, a small triangle or a star) at the right spot on the blank map.
- Label: you write the name next to your symbol. A locate-and-label item needs both: a correct spot with no name, or a name with no symbol, is half an answer.
The curriculum uses different verbs for different items: soils, crops, mines and oil fields are to be identified; dams, power plants, industries, ports and airports are to be located and labelled (pages 7 and 8). The History items have no verb of their own, and the sample paper asked them as identify.
The full 2026-27 map list, with where each place is
The page numbers in brackets are the printed pages of the NCERT books: India and the Contemporary World II for History and Contemporary India II for Geography (Reprint 2026-27). The maps named are in the book itself, so you can check every place against them.
History: Nationalism in India (2 marks)
| Item | Where it is | What happened there |
|---|---|---|
| Calcutta (Kolkata), Congress session, September 1920 | West Bengal, on the Hugli river near the Bay of Bengal | Gandhiji persuaded the other leaders to start non-cooperation for Khilafat and swaraj (page 32) |
| Nagpur, Congress session, December 1920 | Maharashtra, near the middle of India | A compromise was reached and the Non-Cooperation programme was adopted (page 33) |
| Madras (Chennai), Congress session, 1927 | Tamil Nadu, on the east coast | On the list, but not described in the chapter: learn the place and the year |
| Champaran satyagraha, 1917 | North-western Bihar, along the Nepal border | Gandhiji went to help peasants resist the harsh plantation system (page 31) |
| Kheda satyagraha, 1918 | A district of central Gujarat, south-east of Ahmedabad | Peasants hit by crop failure and plague could not pay the revenue (page 31) |
| Ahmedabad mill workers' satyagraha, 1918 | Gujarat, on the Sabarmati river | A satyagraha among cotton mill workers (page 31) |
| Jallianwala Bagh, 13 April 1919 | Amritsar, Punjab, close to the Pakistan border | General Dyer's troops fired on a crowd in an enclosed ground (page 32; the book spells it Jallianwalla) |
| Dandi March, 1930 | Dandi, a coastal town of south Gujarat on the Arabian Sea | The salt march from Sabarmati ended here on 6 April, beginning the Civil Disobedience Movement (page 39) |
Three of the eight are in Gujarat (Kheda, Ahmedabad and Dandi), so put them in the right order on the map: Ahmedabad in the north, Kheda a little to its south-east, and Dandi far south on the coast.
Geography, Resources and Development: major soil types (identify)
The book's map India: Major Soil Types (page 8) shows six kinds. In words:
- Alluvial: the whole northern plains of the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra, a narrow strip into Rajasthan and Gujarat, and the eastern coast, especially the deltas of the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri (page 7).
- Black (regur): the north-western Deccan plateau, which is old lava (basalt), across the plateaus of Malwa, Saurashtra, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, and down the Godavari and Krishna valleys (page 7).
- Red and yellow: the drier eastern and southern Deccan, and parts of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and the foot of the Western Ghats (page 9; map, page 8).
- Laterite: mainly the southern states and the Western Ghats, with smaller patches elsewhere, including the north-east (page 9; map, page 8).
- Arid: the dry west, mostly western Rajasthan (page 9; map, page 8).
- Forest and mountain soils: the hills and mountains with enough forest, mainly the Himalayan north and parts of the far north-east (page 9; map, page 8).
Water Resources: 8 dams (locate and label)
Learn each dam with its river; the book's map India: Major Rivers and Dams (page 24) shows each one on its river.
| Dam | River | State and position |
|---|---|---|
| Salal | Chenab | Jammu and Kashmir, the farthest north of the eight |
| Bhakra Nangal | Satluj | Himachal Pradesh and Punjab; the book places it in the Satluj-Beas basin, used for both hydel power and irrigation (page 22) |
| Tehri | Bhagirathi, a head-stream of the Ganga | Uttarakhand, in the Himalayan foothills |
| Rana Pratap Sagar | Chambal | South-eastern Rajasthan |
| Sardar Sarovar | Narmada | Gujarat (page 23) |
| Hirakud | Mahanadi | Western Odisha; the book says the project joins water conservation with flood control (page 22) |
| Nagarjuna Sagar | Krishna | On the border of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh |
| Tungabhadra | Tungabhadra | Karnataka, the farthest south of the eight |
Agriculture: crop areas (identify)
| Crop | Major areas or states in the NCERT chapter |
|---|---|
| Rice | The plains of the north and north-east, the coastal areas and the deltas; with canals and tube wells also Haryana, Punjab, western Uttar Pradesh and parts of Rajasthan (page 34; map, page 33) |
| Wheat | Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh: the Ganga-Satluj plains and the black-soil Deccan (page 34; map, page 35) |
| Sugarcane | Uttar Pradesh is named first; the others are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Telangana (page 36) |
| Tea | Assam, the Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri hills of West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (page 37) |
| Coffee | The Nilgiri hills in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (page 37) |
| Rubber | Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Garo hills of Meghalaya (page 38) |
| Cotton | The black-soil Deccan: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and in the north Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, with Tamil Nadu in the south (page 38) |
| Jute | Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Odisha and West Bengal (page 38) |
The curriculum asks for the "largest/major producer states". The book lists major states but does not rank them, so learn the lists; your teacher will tell you if your school wants a single top state for any crop.
Minerals and Energy Resources: mines and oil fields (identify)
| Item | Where it is |
|---|---|
| Mayurbhanj (iron ore) | Northern Odisha, near the Jharkhand border (page 45; map, page 46) |
| Durg (iron ore) | Chhattisgarh, part of the Durg-Bastar-Chandrapur belt (page 45) |
| Bailadila (iron ore) | The Bastar district of southern Chhattisgarh (page 45) |
| Bellary (iron ore) | Eastern Karnataka; the book spells it Ballari (page 45) |
| Kudremukh (iron ore) | The Western Ghats of Karnataka, near the coast (page 45) |
| Raniganj (coal) | West Bengal, in the Damodar valley (page 52; map, page 51) |
| Bokaro (coal) | Jharkhand, in the Damodar valley, just west of Raniganj (page 52; map, page 51) |
| Talcher (coal) | Central Odisha (map, page 51) |
| Neyveli (lignite) | Tamil Nadu, near the east coast; the book calls it India's main lignite area (page 50) |
| Digboi and Naharkatia (oil) | Upper Assam, in the far north-east; the book spells it Naharkatiya (page 52) |
| Mumbai High (oil) | In the Arabian Sea, off the coast of Mumbai (map, page 51) |
| Bassien (oil) | Also offshore, in the Arabian Sea, just north of Mumbai High (map, page 51) |
| Kalol (oil) | Gujarat, north of Vadodara, near Ahmedabad (map, page 51) |
| Ankaleshwar (oil) | South Gujarat, south of Vadodara; the book names it as Gujarat's most important field (page 52) |
Minerals and Energy Resources: power plants (locate and label)
The book's map of nuclear and thermal power plants is on page 53.
| Plant | Type | Where it is |
|---|---|---|
| Namrup | Thermal | Upper Assam, the farthest east of the seven |
| Singrauli | Thermal | Where Uttar Pradesh meets Madhya Pradesh, beside the Rihand plant |
| Ramagundam | Thermal | Telangana, in the Godavari valley |
| Narora | Nuclear | Western Uttar Pradesh, on the Ganga; the book's maps spell it Naraura |
| Kakrapara | Nuclear | South Gujarat, near Surat |
| Tarapur | Nuclear | The Maharashtra coast, north of Mumbai |
| Kalpakkam | Nuclear | The Tamil Nadu coast, south of Chennai |
Manufacturing Industries (locate and label)
| List | Places and where they are |
|---|---|
| Cotton textiles (map, page 61) | Mumbai (Maharashtra coast); Surat (south Gujarat coast); Indore (western Madhya Pradesh); Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh, on the Ganga); Coimbatore (western Tamil Nadu) |
| Iron and steel plants (map, page 63) | Durgapur (West Bengal); Bokaro and Jamshedpur (Jharkhand); Bhilai (Chhattisgarh); Vijayanagar (Karnataka; the map spells it Vijaynagar); Salem (Tamil Nadu) |
| Software technology parks (map, page 67) | Noida (Uttar Pradesh, next to Delhi); Gandhinagar (Gujarat's capital); Mumbai and Pune (Maharashtra); Hyderabad (Telangana); Bengaluru (Karnataka); Chennai (Tamil Nadu); Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala, near the southern tip) |
Lifelines of National Economy (locate and label, map only)
The book's map India: Major Ports and Some International Airports is on page 79.
| List | Places, in order along the coast |
|---|---|
| Sea ports, west coast, north to south | Kandla (Kachchh, Gujarat); Mumbai (Maharashtra); Marmagao (Goa); New Mangalore (Karnataka); Kochi (Kerala) |
| Sea ports, east coast, south to north | Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu); Chennai (Tamil Nadu); Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh); Paradip (Odisha); Haldia (West Bengal) |
| International airports | Indira Gandhi at Delhi; Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Kolkata (West Bengal); Chhatrapati Shivaji at Mumbai; Meenambakkam at Chennai; Rajiv Gandhi at Hyderabad (Telangana); Raja Sansi (Sri Guru Ram Das Ji) at Amritsar (Punjab), the farthest north-west of the six |
Names that differ between the list and the book
The curriculum and the NCERT book sometimes use different names for the same place. They are the same spot on the map; the safest choice in the exam is the spelling on the curriculum list.
| On the CBSE list | In the NCERT book or its maps |
|---|---|
| Kandla | Deendayal Port (page 77; map, page 79) |
| Marmagao | Mormugao (page 77; map, page 79) |
| Kochi | Cochin (page 77; map, page 79) |
| Tuticorin | V.O. Chidambaranar (page 77; map, page 79) |
| Hirakund | Hirakud (pages 22 and 24) |
| Nagarjun Sagar | Nagarjuna Sagar (map, page 24) |
| Narora | Naraura (maps, pages 24 and 53) |
| Bellary | Ballari (page 45; map, page 46) |
| Naharkatia | Naharkatiya (page 52) |
| Vijayanagar | Vijaynagar (map, page 63) |
10 map drills, with answers
Do these on a blank outline map of India, then check your map against the answer in words and against the book's map on the page named.
Drill 1 (History, 2 marks, locate and label). On an outline map of India, mark and name: (a) the city where the Congress met in September 1920 and Gandhiji won the other leaders over to non-cooperation; (b) the Gujarat district where, in 1918, Gandhiji supported peasants who could not pay the land revenue after their crops failed.
Answer: (a) Calcutta (Kolkata); (b) Kheda. (a) Calcutta is in West Bengal, on the Hugli, close to where the river meets the Bay of Bengal, in the east of the country (page 32). (b) Kheda is in central Gujarat, a short way south-east of Ahmedabad (page 31). One mark for each place correctly marked and named.
Drill 2 (History, order on the map). Three of the 8 History places are in today's Gujarat. Name them in order from north to south, and say which one stands on the coast and which sea it looks out on.
Answer: Ahmedabad, then Kheda, then Dandi; Dandi is on the coast, on the Arabian Sea. Ahmedabad, on the Sabarmati, is the northernmost of the three; Kheda district lies a little to its south-east (page 31); Dandi is far to the south, a coastal town of south Gujarat where the salt march from Sabarmati ended on 6 April 1930 (page 39). The other five History places are outside Gujarat.
Drill 3 (History, identify). On a practice map, place P is a dot almost in the middle of India, in eastern Maharashtra, and place Q is on the coast of Tamil Nadu. Which items on the History list are they, and what is each one on the list for?
Answer: P is Nagpur, Q is Madras (Chennai). Nagpur is on the list for the Congress session of December 1920, which adopted the Non-Cooperation programme (page 33). Madras is on the list for the Congress session of 1927; the chapter does not describe that session, so the place and the year are what you need.
Drill 4 (dams and rivers). (a) Which of the 8 listed dams stand on rivers whose water finally reaches the Arabian Sea, and which on rivers that reach the Bay of Bengal? (b) Which listed dam is the farthest north, and which the farthest south?
Answer: (a) Arabian Sea: Salal, Bhakra Nangal and Sardar Sarovar. Bay of Bengal: Tehri, Rana Pratap Sagar, Hirakud, Nagarjuna Sagar and Tungabhadra. (b) Salal is the farthest north and Tungabhadra the farthest south. (a) The Chenab and the Satluj are part of the Indus system, which flows through Pakistan into the Arabian Sea, and the Narmada flows west into it. The Chambal joins the Yamuna and then the Ganga; the Mahanadi and the Krishna flow east into the Bay of Bengal, and the Tungabhadra joins the Krishna (map, page 24). (b) Salal is in Jammu and Kashmir; Tungabhadra is in Karnataka, further south than Nagarjuna Sagar on the Krishna.
Drill 5 (minerals). (a) Which one state has both an iron ore mine and a coal mine on the 2026-27 list? Name both. (b) Name the listed oil fields in Assam and the two listed land oil fields in Gujarat. (c) Which listed coal mine produces lignite, and in which state is it?
Answer: (a) Odisha: Mayurbhanj (iron ore) and Talcher (coal). (b) Assam: Digboi and Naharkatia; Gujarat: Kalol and Ankaleshwar. (c) Neyveli, in Tamil Nadu. (a) The other iron ore mines are in Chhattisgarh (Durg, Bailadila) and Karnataka (Bellary, Kudremukh), and the other coal mines in West Bengal (Raniganj), Jharkhand (Bokaro) and Tamil Nadu (Neyveli) (pages 45 and 50 to 52; maps, pages 46 and 51). (c) Lignite is the low-grade brown coal the book places mainly at Neyveli (page 50).
Drill 6 (power plants). (a) Sort the 7 listed power plants into thermal and nuclear. (b) Three of the four nuclear plants are in coastal states of western or southern India. Which nuclear plant is far inland, and beside which river? (c) Which listed plant is the farthest east?
Answer: (a) Thermal: Namrup, Singrauli, Ramagundam. Nuclear: Narora, Kakrapara, Tarapur, Kalpakkam. (b) Narora, beside the Ganga in western Uttar Pradesh. (c) Namrup, in Assam. (b) Kakrapara is in south Gujarat, Tarapur on the Maharashtra coast and Kalpakkam on the Tamil Nadu coast (map, page 53).
Drill 7 (one dot, many lists). (a) Two cities each appear on four different lists (History and Geography together). Name them and the four entries for each. (b) Name one place that is on both the coal mine list and the steel plant list. (c) Which city is on both the software park list and the airport list, but nowhere else?
Answer: (a) Mumbai and Chennai. (b) Bokaro. (c) Hyderabad. (a) Mumbai: a cotton textile centre, a software technology park, a sea port and an international airport. Chennai: a software technology park, a sea port, an international airport, and (as Madras) the 1927 Congress session. (b) Bokaro in Jharkhand has a coal mine and a steel plant on the list (maps, pages 51 and 63). (c) Hyderabad is a software technology park and the Rajiv Gandhi airport. Kolkata is also on two lists (the 1920 Calcutta session and the airport). In an exam, label whichever entry the question asks for.
Drill 8 (crops). (a) Using the NCERT chapter's lists, which two states are named as major producers of all three of tea, coffee and rubber? (b) For an "identify the major jute states" item, which five states would you shade?
Answer: (a) Kerala and Tamil Nadu. (b) Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Odisha and West Bengal. (a) Tea: Assam, West Bengal (Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri), Tamil Nadu and Kerala (page 37). Coffee: Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (page 37). Rubber: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Meghalaya (page 38). Karnataka is in the coffee and rubber lists but not among the main tea states. (b) Page 38.
Drill 9 (soils, identify). On a practice soil map, shade X covers most of western Rajasthan, shade Y covers the plateaus of Maharashtra and western Madhya Pradesh, and shade Z covers the Ganga plains of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Name the soil each shade stands for.
Answer: X arid, Y black (regur), Z alluvial. Arid soil is in the dry west (page 9; map, page 8). Black soil covers the old lava plateau of the north-western Deccan, including Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh (page 7). The northern plains are made of alluvium laid down by the Himalayan rivers (page 7).
Drill 10 (Geography, 3 marks, our own paper-style question). On an outline map of India, locate and label with suitable symbols: I. the listed dam in Uttarakhand; II. any two of: (i) a listed nuclear power plant on the Tamil Nadu coast; (ii) the listed software technology park in the capital of Gujarat; (iii) the listed cotton textile centre in Tamil Nadu.
Answer: I. Tehri; II. any two of (i) Kalpakkam, (ii) Gandhinagar, (iii) Coimbatore. Tehri is in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand, on the upper Ganga system (map, page 24). Kalpakkam is on the east coast a little south of Chennai (map, page 53). Gandhinagar is just north of Ahmedabad in Gujarat (map, page 67). Coimbatore is in western Tamil Nadu, near the Kerala border (map, page 61). Marks: 1 for part I and 1 for each of the two items in part II, as in the sample paper's marking scheme (page 4).
Printable checklist
Print this table, or copy it into your notebook, and tick a box each time you mark all the places in a row correctly on a blank map without looking.
| Chapter | Places | Task | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationalism in India | Calcutta 1920, Nagpur 1920, Madras 1927 | identify / locate | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Nationalism in India | Champaran, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Jallianwala Bagh, Dandi | identify / locate | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Resources and Development | Six major soil types | identify | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Water Resources | Salal, Bhakra Nangal, Tehri, Rana Pratap Sagar | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Water Resources | Sardar Sarovar, Hirakud, Nagarjuna Sagar, Tungabhadra | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Agriculture | Rice and wheat areas | identify | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Agriculture | Sugarcane, tea, coffee, rubber, cotton, jute states | identify | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Minerals and Energy | Iron ore: Mayurbhanj, Durg, Bailadila, Bellary, Kudremukh | identify | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Minerals and Energy | Coal: Raniganj, Bokaro, Talcher, Neyveli | identify | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Minerals and Energy | Oil: Digboi, Naharkatia, Mumbai High, Bassien, Kalol, Ankaleshwar | identify | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Minerals and Energy | Thermal: Namrup, Singrauli, Ramagundam | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Minerals and Energy | Nuclear: Narora, Kakrapara, Tarapur, Kalpakkam | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Manufacturing Industries | Cotton textiles: Mumbai, Indore, Surat, Kanpur, Coimbatore | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Manufacturing Industries | Steel: Durgapur, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Bhilai, Vijayanagar, Salem | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Manufacturing Industries | Software parks: Noida, Gandhinagar, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Lifelines of National Economy | West coast ports: Kandla, Mumbai, Marmagao, New Mangalore, Kochi | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Lifelines of National Economy | East coast ports: Tuticorin, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, Haldia | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Lifelines of National Economy | Airports: Amritsar, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad | locate and label | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
That is 8 History places and 65 named Geography places, plus the soil types and the crop areas.
Common mistakes that cost map marks
- A label with no symbol, or a symbol with no label. For locate and label, draw the symbol at the spot and write the name next to it, so the examiner can see which name goes with which mark.
- A name written far from its dot. Keep the label beside the symbol; on an identify question, write on the line given for A or B.
- Learning only the locate-and-label items. Any of them can come as identify, and the identify items (soils, crops, mines, oil fields) are on the list too.
- Putting a dam on the wrong river. Bhakra Nangal is on the Satluj, not the Beas, and Tehri is in Uttarakhand, not Himachal Pradesh. Learn the river with the dam.
- Swapping the coasts. Tuticorin and Paradip are on the east coast; Kochi and Marmagao are on the west. Learn each coast as a list in order.
- Kalpakkam on the wrong side of Chennai. It is south of Chennai, on the coast.
- Bokaro twice, the wrong way. It is a coal mine and a steel plant; if the question asks for a steel plant in Jharkhand, Bokaro or Jamshedpur is right, but labelling it "coal field" is not.
- Mumbai High drawn on land. It is in the sea, off the Mumbai coast, and so is Bassien.
- Leaving the map to the last minute. Do the map questions when you reach Q9 and Q19, or set aside a few minutes for them; 5 marks for a few minutes of marking is the best rate in the paper.
Practise more
- Chapter guides that go through each chapter's map items: for History, Nationalism in India; for Geography, Water Resources, Resources and Development, Agriculture, Manufacturing Industries and Lifelines of National Economy.
- Past papers: Class 10 SST PYQ chapter wise, the marks each chapter carried in the 2025 and 2026 board papers.
- The official model: CBSE Class 10 Social Science sample paper 2026-27, section by section, and the full CBSE Class 10 Social Science syllabus 2026-27.
- Mixed revision: Class 10 Social Science important questions 2026-27.
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Sources
All opened and read on 5 November 2026. CBSE page numbers are PDF pages; NCERT page numbers are the printed page numbers of the books.
- CBSE, Class X Social Science (087) curriculum for 2026-27: course structure and map-pointing marks (page 1), the map work list and its notes (pages 7 and 8), subject weightage (page 9), question types and competencies (page 10): cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/CurriculumMain27/SecPart1/SocialScience_SecP1X_2026-27.pdf
- CBSE, Class X Social Science (087) sample question paper for 2026-27: general instructions (page 1), Q9 and its alternative for visually impaired candidates (page 4), Q19 (page 6) and its alternative (page 7), the outline map (page 12): cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/SQP/ClassX_2026_27/SocialScience-SQP.pdf
- CBSE, Class X Social Science (087) marking scheme for 2026-27: Q9 (page 2) and Q19 (page 4): cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/SQP/ClassX_2026_27/SocialScience-MS.pdf
- NCERT, India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter II, Nationalism in India (Reprint 2026-27), pages 31 to 33 and 39: ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/jess302.pdf
- NCERT, Contemporary India II (Reprint 2026-27): Chapter 1, pages 7 to 9 (ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/jess101.pdf); Chapter 3, pages 22 to 24 (jess103.pdf); Chapter 4, pages 33 to 38 (jess104.pdf); Chapter 5, pages 45 to 53 (jess105.pdf); Chapter 6, pages 61, 63 and 67 (jess106.pdf); Chapter 7, pages 77 and 79 (jess107.pdf).
The map list and the marks are from CBSE's own documents, and each place was checked against the NCERT map or page named. The location notes, drills and checklist are our own. This guide is general information; follow your teacher, the textbook and CBSE's own notices.
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