Assam ASSEB Higher Secondary Political Science study plan

Build a dated timeline from 1945 to 1991 covering the origins of the Cold War, bloc formation, major crises and detente

Define and distinguish containment, brinkmanship, peaceful coexistence and non-alignment with one concrete example each

Explain the causes and consequences of at least three Cold War crises such as Berlin, Cuba and Afghanistan in your own words

Identify the economic and political factors that produced the Soviet collapse and the end of bipolarity

Describe the post-Cold War shift to unipolarity and the debates around multipolarity with named examples

Outline the structure, membership and decision-making of the UN and evaluate its peacekeeping record

Compare the roles of the IMF, World Bank and WTO in the global political economy

Explain how globalisation, terrorism and regional organisations reshape state sovereignty

Trace the making of the Indian Constitution from Cabinet Mission to adoption and list the key borrowed features

Explain the fundamental rights, directive principles and fundamental duties and how they interact

Describe the powers and procedures of Parliament, the President, the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers

Distinguish the jurisdictions of the Supreme Court and High Courts and explain judicial review and basic structure

Analyse the challenges of integration of princely states, linguistic reorganisation and the Kashmir question

Explain the factors behind one-party dominance and the role of the Congress system

Evaluate the planning model and the mixed economy as instruments of nation building

Assess the social bases of Indian politics including caste, class and religion in the early decades

Chart the decline of Congress dominance and the rise of coalition politics from the 1970s onward

Explain the National Front, United Front and National Democratic Alliance experiments and their stability problems

Outline the core objectives and instruments of India's foreign policy including non-alignment and strategic autonomy

Evaluate India's relations with Pakistan, China, Bangladesh and smaller neighbours using specific disputes and agreements

Describe the democratic upsurge of the backward classes and the Mandal Commission debate

Explain the rise of regional parties and movements for statehood and autonomy with named cases

Assess movements around language, water sharing and environmental protection as regional aspirations

Connect neighbourhood policy to regional aspirations in the North-East, including Assam's experience

Define liberty in negative and positive senses and evaluate Mill's harm principle

Distinguish equality of opportunity from equality of outcome and link both to justice

Compare Rawlsian justice as fairness with Nozick's entitlement theory and one communitarian critique

Explain the nature of rights, the meaning of citizenship and the claims of nationalism and secularism

Revise all nine domains using condensed notes and spaced recall rather than rereading

Attempt two full-length timed practice papers and mark them against the syllabus

Correct the five weakest topics identified from practice-paper errors

Recite key definitions, dates and constitutional articles from memory without notes