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AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.

Q1. [2] medium thorough-understanding
When studying the service sector's growth in India, why is it misleading to treat it as a single, uniformly growing sector?
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-26 13:22 · grounding rag
Model Answer

The service sector cannot be treated as uniformly growing because it contains two very different groups. At one end are highly skilled, educated workers in fast-growing services like IT. At the other end are small shopkeepers, repair persons, and transport workers who barely earn a living and work in these jobs only because no alternative employment is available to them.

Source: Chapter 2, "Rising Importance of the Tertiary Sector in Production"

Explanation

The examiner wants students to highlight the internal inequality within the tertiary sector — not just that it's large, but that growth is uneven. The key contrast is between high-skill/high-growth services and low-income survival-based services. Quote or paraphrase the textbook line: "not all of the service sector is growing equally well" — this signals you've read the chapter carefully. Avoid vague statements like "the sector is diverse"; be specific about the two ends described in the text.

Previous-year CBSE Grade 10 board exam questions, organised by subject and chapter, each with a model answer — free to read and print.