Class 8 Social Science Chapter 6: The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive — Important Questions & Mock Tests
Practice The Parliamentary System: Legislature and Executive topic-wise important questions, MCQs and 1, 2, 3 and 5 mark questions for CBSE revision.
300 Questions 47 Topics MCQs: 100 1 Mark: 50 2 Mark: 50 3 Mark: 50 5 Mark: 50
Topic-wise important and practice questions
Review question distribution across chapter topics for MCQs, 1 Mark questions, 2 Mark questions, 3 Mark questions, 5 Mark questions.
| Topic | MCQ | 1 Mark | 2 Mark | 3 Mark | 5 Mark | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money Bills | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 22 |
| Question Hour | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
| Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha | 5 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
| Presidential Assent | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 18 |
| Standing Committees | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 18 |
| Collective Responsibility to the Lok Sabha | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| Appointment of the Prime Minister | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
| Bicameral Legislature | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| Bills | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| Speaker of the Lok Sabha | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| Composition of the Parliament of India | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| Union Executive | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Prime Minister as the De Facto Executive | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| Clause-by-Clause Consideration of a Bill | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| Rajya Sabha and Representation of States | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Parliamentary Control over Public Expenditure | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Direct Election to the Lok Sabha | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Parliamentary Accountability | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Role of a Second House | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Citizen engagement with Parliament | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Civil servants in the Executive | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Collective responsibility | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Constitutional functions of Parliament | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| India’s parliamentary system | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Judiciary and constitutional review | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Language accessibility in Parliament | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Legislative and executive organisation at the state level | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Major functions of Parliament | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Ministerial moral responsibility | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Parliament as the voice of the people | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Presiding officers of Parliament | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Role of the President | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Unicameral and bicameral state legislatures | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Challenges to effective legislative functioning | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Composition of Parliament | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Continuity and change in India’s Parliament buildings | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Federalism in Parliament | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Need for bicameralism | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Process by which a bill becomes law | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sessions and sittings of Parliament | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Union, State and Concurrent Lists | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Checks and balances | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Difference between a bill and an act | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Financial accountability of the Executive | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Legislature and the Executive | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sengol as a democratic symbol | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |