BPSC 107 Guess Paper at a Glance
| Course code | BPSC-107 |
|---|---|
| Course title | Perspectives on International Relations and World History |
| Programme | B.A. (Honours) Political Science, programme code BAPSH |
| Solved questions in the PDF | 14 |
| Sample answers shown on this page | 5 |
| Blocks covered | All 4 blocks |
| Question papers analysed | 6 sessions, June 2023 to December 2025 |
| Term-end exam pattern | 100 marks, 3 hours, two sections |
| Prepared for | June 2026 and December 2026 term-end examinations |
| Format and length | PDF, 17 pages, English medium |
| Delivery | WhatsApp 9899436384 |
BPSC 107 Solved Guess Paper for the June 2026 and December 2026 term-end examinations is a 17-page PDF containing 14 questions with complete written answers, mapped block by block across the whole of Perspectives on International Relations and World History. It was not assembled by copying an old assignment. Each question on the list earned its place by appearing repeatedly in the last six question papers, or by being overdue for a return.
Five of those 14 answers are reproduced in full further down this page so you can judge the writing before you ask for anything. That is deliberate. Most students in B.A. (Honours) Political Science have already downloaded a dozen unmarked PDFs from random Telegram groups and have no way of telling which ones are worth their revision time.
Every answer is written from the IGNOU study material for this course, which is hosted on the university's own repository at eGyanKosh. The vocabulary, the thinkers and the dates match what the examiner expects to see, so nothing you write will look like it came from an outside textbook.
If you are sitting more than one Political Science paper this session, the same approach has been applied course code by course code across our IGNOU Solved Guess Paper collection, so you can line up your revision for the whole semester rather than one subject at a time.
What the BPSC 107 Solved Guess Paper 2026 Contains
The PDF holds 14 solved questions across 17 pages, covering all four blocks of BPSC-107, with 11 answers written to 20-mark length and 3 written as paired short notes worth 10 marks each. Nothing is left as a heading with a promise attached.
Each of the 14 entries in the file carries the same set of labels: the exam-style wording of the question, the marks it carries, the block and section it belongs to, the sessions in which it last appeared, and a priority tag of HIGH or MEDIUM. The priority tag is what most students actually use, because it tells you which six topics to protect if your revision window collapses to a weekend.
The answers themselves follow a fixed internal shape. A short definition opens the answer and names the scholar behind it, the body runs as numbered points under sub-headings, and a two-line evaluative conclusion closes it. Examiners marking hundreds of scripts read structure before they read content, and this format is built for that reality.
Word lengths are matched to the marks rather than padded. A 20-mark answer runs to roughly 450 words, a 10-mark short note to roughly 250, which is what you can realistically produce in the 30 minutes a 20-mark question deserves in a three-hour paper. If you would like to see how the wider BAPSH Guess Paper series is organised across the other Political Science course codes, that listing is being expanded alongside this one.
Five Sample Questions with Answers from BPSC 107 Perspectives on International Relations and World History
The five answers below are reproduced exactly as they appear in the BPSC 107 guess paper PDF, drawn from Blocks 1, 2, 3 and 4, so the sample is not stacked with the easiest topics. Four are 20-mark answers and one is a 10-mark short note, which lets you see both formats.
Read one of them properly before deciding. If the level of detail suits how you like to write in an exam hall, the remaining 9 questions in the file will suit you too.
Sample 1 · Block 1 · 20 marks · Priority HIGH · Last seen June 2024, June 2023, December 2023
Explain the nature and scope of International Relations and trace its evolution as a separate discipline.
Nature. International Relations studies the system of interactions among sovereign nation-states at bilateral, regional and global levels, covering both conflict and cooperation. Growing complexity and a highly dynamic character have always been its two defining features, and after the Cold War its scope widened well beyond inter-state diplomacy.
Scope, the contemporary concerns of IR.
- Structural changes: the changing role of the nation-state and the shift of global politics from bipolarity through unipolarity towards multipolarity.
- Economic transformation: consolidation of the Bretton Woods and WTO order, with integration through the EU, BRICS, ASEAN and APEC.
- Transforming the United Nations: pressure to democratise the organisation, above all the Security Council.
- Nuclear proliferation: managing weapons of mass destruction against which even powerful states have little protection.
- Non-traditional security threats: terrorism, health security and environmental challenges that cross national borders.
- Humanitarian concerns: sustainable development, protection of the environment and protection of human rights.
Stages in the evolution of the discipline. Diplomatic History (1648 to 1919), dominated by historians writing descriptively; Current Events (1919 to 1945), analysing contemporary happenings after the First World War; Law and Organisation (1919 to 1945), centred on international law and the League of Nations; Scientific Studies (1945 to 1991), marked by behaviouralism and theory-building; and Critical Theories and Globalisation (1991 onwards).
Conclusion. IR is a dynamic discipline that grew out of diplomatic history into a theory-rich field whose scope now spans the political, economic, human-security and environmental concerns of the whole world.
Sample 2 · Block 3 · 20 marks · Priority HIGH · Last seen June 2025, December 2024, June 2024
What is Realism? Explain its main arguments and bring out the basic differences between Realism and Neo-Realism.
Meaning. Realism explains state behaviour through power and survival in an anarchic world. The classical strand is carried mainly in the writings of E. H. Carr, Reinhold Niebuhr and Hans Morgenthau, and its oldest expression is the Thucydidean line that the strong do what they can while the weak suffer what they must.
Main assumptions.
- States as primary actors: the sovereign state is the central actor in international relations.
- Power and security: IR is essentially a study of power, because survival of the state is paramount.
- Anarchy: the absence of a world government produces anarchy among states.
- Balance of power: states balance so that no single state can dominate.
- Security dilemma: steps one state takes to raise its own security reduce the security of others.
Classical realism traces conflict to human nature, and its tenets appear in Thucydides, Kautilya's Arthashastra, Machiavelli and Hobbes. Neo-realism came from Kenneth Waltz, whose Theory of International Politics (1979) argued that similar state behaviour flows from the anarchic structure of the system rather than from human nature, with concern for relative gains impeding cooperation.
| Basis | Classical Realism | Neo-Realism |
|---|---|---|
| Source of conflict | Human nature | Anarchic structure of the system |
| Method | Normative and historical | Scientific and model-based |
| Key thinker | Hans Morgenthau | Kenneth Waltz |
Conclusion. Both schools centre on power and anarchy, but classical realism roots conflict in human nature while neo-realism locates it in the structure of the international system.
Sample 3 · Block 2 · 20 marks · Priority HIGH · Last seen December 2025, June 2024, December 2023, June 2023
Discuss the reasons for the rise of Fascism and Nazism and examine their main features.
Meaning. Fascism arose in Italy under Benito Mussolini, who formed his Fascist Party in 1919, and Nazism in Germany under Adolf Hitler at the head of the National Socialists. The two were ideologically close but grew from separate national grievances.
Reasons for their rise.
- Treaty of Versailles: the harsh 1919 settlement humiliated and disappointed both Italy and Germany.
- Economic distress: post-war ruin, the crisis of 1921 to 1923 and mass unemployment pushed people towards extremists.
- Weak governments: the failure of the Weimar Republic and feeble parliamentary rule created a power vacuum.
- Fear of communism: the rise of the first communist state in Russia frightened the middle class and the aristocracy.
- Aggressive nationalism: leaders promised to restore lost prestige and national glory.
Main features. Ultra-nationalism placing the state above the individual; one-party dictatorship concentrated in a single charismatic leader; violent anti-communism; racial supremacy, preached in Hitler's Mein Kampf as purity of race and blood; and militarism with a demand for living space.
Conclusion. Born of defeat, economic ruin and weak democracy, Fascism and Nazism combined dictatorship, ultra-nationalism, racism and militarism, and between them paved the way to the Second World War.
Sample 4 · Block 4 · 20 marks · Priority HIGH · Last seen June 2025, December 2024, June 2023, December 2023
How did the Cold War start? Explain its different phases and analyse the factors that led to its end.
Meaning. The Cold War was an intense ideological and strategic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union after 1945, marked by an arms race and proxy interference but never by direct war between the two. The term itself was first used by George Orwell in 1945.
Phases. The beginning, with post-1945 hostility, bloc formation and crises such as the Korean War; a second phase of deepening rivalry including the Suez Crisis; detente in the 1970s, bringing relaxed tensions and arms-control talks; the collapse of detente after the late 1970s; and the winding down of the rivalry from the mid-1980s.
Factors that ended it.
- Soviet economic troubles: falling oil revenues and the costly Afghan war drained the USSR.
- East and West gap: widening prosperity differences bred discontent inside the Eastern bloc.
- Gorbachev's reforms: perestroika, meaning restructuring, and glasnost, meaning openness, opened up the system.
- Disintegration of the USSR: by 1991 the Soviet Union had collapsed, leaving the United States the sole superpower.
Conclusion. Beginning in the ashes of the Second World War and passing through confrontation and detente, the Cold War ended as Soviet economic weakness and Gorbachev's reforms led to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
Sample 5 · Block 3 · 10 marks, short note · Priority MEDIUM · Last seen December 2025, December 2024, June 2023
Write a short note on the Security Dilemma.
Definition. The security dilemma describes the situation in which steps taken by one country to enhance its own security decrease the security of other states. It is a core idea of realist thought and follows directly from the anarchic nature of international relations.
- Roots in anarchy: with no world government above them, each state must provide for its own survival.
- Zero-sum spiral: one state's effort to feel safer makes its neighbours feel less safe.
- Arms race: threatened states respond in kind, producing a perpetual competitive cycle.
- Hard power: states keep building military capability to guarantee survival, which restarts the cycle.
Conclusion. The security dilemma explains why, under anarchy, no state can improve its own survival without threatening others, which is why arms competition rarely settles.
Those five are the whole of what is published here. The other 9 solved questions, including the United Nations answer, both World War answers, neo-liberal institutionalism, feminism, humanitarian concerns and the remaining short-note pairs, sit in the full PDF.
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Complete Question Index of the BPSC 107 Guess Paper PDF
All 14 questions in the BPSC 107 file are listed below with their marks, block placement and priority, so you know exactly what you are receiving before you ask for it. Rows 1 to 5 are the samples published above.
| # | Question topic | Marks | Block | Priority | On this page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nature, scope and evolution of International Relations as a discipline | 20 | Block 1 | HIGH | Sample shown |
| 2 | Realism, its main arguments, and its differences from Neo-Realism | 20 | Block 3 | HIGH | Sample shown |
| 3 | Principles of Liberalism and the liberal path to a peaceful international society | 20 | Block 3 | HIGH | In full PDF |
| 4 | Neo-liberalism as a theory of IR and the aspects of neo-liberal institutionalism | 20 | Block 3 | HIGH | In full PDF |
| 5 | Rise of Fascism and Nazism and their main features | 20 | Block 2 | HIGH | Sample shown |
| 6 | United Nations, its objectives, six principal organs and the demand for reform | 20 | Block 4 | HIGH | In full PDF |
| 7 | Cold War, its beginning, phases and the factors behind its end | 20 | Block 4 | HIGH | Sample shown |
| 8 | First World War causes and a critical reading of the Treaty of Versailles | 20 | Block 2 | MEDIUM | In full PDF |
| 9 | Causes and consequences of the Second World War | 20 | Block 2 | MEDIUM | In full PDF |
| 10 | Feminist understanding of war, security and the global economy | 20 | Block 3 | MEDIUM | In full PDF |
| 11 | Humanitarian concerns in contemporary International Relations | 20 | Block 1 | MEDIUM | In full PDF |
| 12 | Short notes: Clash of Civilizations and End of History | 10 + 10 | Block 4 | MEDIUM | In full PDF |
| 13 | Short notes: Security Dilemma and Dependency School | 10 + 10 | Block 3 | MEDIUM | Part shown |
| 14 | Short notes: Non-Aligned Movement and significance of the Bolshevik Revolution | 10 + 10 | Block 4 | MEDIUM | In full PDF |
Alongside the 14 answers the file carries three short guidance pages: the exam pattern rules, a list of topics that are not worth over-preparing, and the frequency table reproduced in section five below. Students who also want the original papers behind this analysis can pick them up from our IGNOU Previous Year Question Paper archive and check the mapping for themselves.
How the BPSC 107 Guess Paper Was Built from Previous Year Question Papers
Six BPSC-107 term-end papers, from June 2023 through to December 2025, were read question by question, tagged by block and section, and then counted, before a single answer was written. The December 2025 paper, the most recent one available, was the last input.
Counting is only half of it. A topic that has appeared in four of six papers is obviously safe to include, but the more useful signal is the gap. Nature and scope of IR ran three sessions in a row and then vanished for three, which in a course with a fixed unit pool usually means it is due back. That is why it sits at number one rather than buried in the middle.
The reverse rule matters as much. Topics that surfaced once in six sessions, such as Eurocentrism or the SDGs, are named in the file as light backup rather than dressed up as likely questions. Padding a guess paper with everything is the easiest way to make it useless, because a list of 40 topics is just the syllabus again.
Answers were then written against the IGNOU units themselves rather than from general IR reading, so the examples, thinkers and dates are the ones the book uses. If you want to read the units first and use the guess paper as a revision layer on top, the course page carries the full BPSC 107 Study Material for that purpose.
Six Session Frequency Analysis of BPSC 107 Topics
Across the six papers analysed, six topics reached HIGH priority by appearing four or more times or by being overdue, and these six are where the first weekend of revision should go. The full table below is the same one that appears on the final page of the PDF.
| Topic | Jun 2023 | Dec 2023 | Jun 2024 | Dec 2024 | Jun 2025 | Dec 2025 | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature, scope and evolution of IR | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | HIGH |
| Realism and Neo-Realism | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | HIGH |
| Liberalism and Neo-liberalism | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | HIGH |
| Fascism and Nazism | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | HIGH |
| United Nations, UNSC and reforms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | HIGH |
| Cold War, start, phases and end | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | HIGH |
| First World War | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | MEDIUM |
| Second World War | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | MEDIUM |
| Treaty of Versailles | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | MEDIUM |
| Globalisation and the global village | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | MEDIUM |
| Humanitarian concerns | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | MEDIUM |
| Feminism, sex and gender in IR | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | MEDIUM |
| Critical and systems theory | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | MEDIUM |
| Marxist approaches and dependency school | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | MEDIUM |
| Clash of Civilizations | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | MEDIUM |
| End of History | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | MEDIUM |
| Non-Aligned Movement | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | MEDIUM |
| Security dilemma | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | MEDIUM |
| Current world order and polarity | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | LOW |
| Bolshevik Revolution | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | LOW |
| Totalitarian and military regimes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | LOW |
| SDGs 2030 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | LOW |
| Eurocentrism | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | LOW |
Read the table row by row rather than as a total. Realism has now appeared in four consecutive sessions, which makes it close to compulsory preparation. Nature and scope has a three-session gap behind it, which is a different kind of signal but no less useful when you are choosing what to write on the night before the exam.
Block Wise Syllabus Coverage of BPSC 107 Perspectives on International Relations and World History
BPSC-107 is organised into four blocks, and the guess paper draws questions from every one of them, with the heaviest weight on Blocks 3 and 4 because that is where the recent papers have concentrated. The table below sets out what each block deals with and which of the 14 questions belong to it.
| Block | Block title | Main themes covered | Guess paper questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block 1 | Studying International Relations | Meaning and scope of IR, evolution of international systems, the discipline's growth from diplomatic history, contemporary structural change and humanitarian concerns | Q1 and Q11 |
| Block 2 | Historical Perspectives | First World War and the Treaty of Versailles, the inter-war order, rise of Fascism and Nazism, causes and consequences of the Second World War | Q5, Q8 and Q9 |
| Block 3 | Theoretical Perspectives | Classical realism and neo-realism, liberalism and neo-liberalism, Marxist and dependency approaches, feminist perspectives, critical theory | Q2, Q3, Q4, Q10 and Q13 |
| Block 4 | Contemporary International Relations | Cold War and its end, the United Nations system, anti-colonial movements and decolonisation, non-alignment, post-Cold War debates on world order | Q6, Q7, Q12 and Q14 |
The distribution is not accidental. Blocks 3 and 4 supply nine of the 14 questions because theory and the contemporary period are what the two sections of the paper lean on most heavily. Block 2 stays smaller but is never safe to drop, since the war questions rotate rather than disappear.
BPSC 107 Exam Pattern and Answer Writing Strategy for 2026
The BPSC-107 term-end paper carries 100 marks over 3 hours, is split into two sections, and asks you to attempt five questions in all with at least two taken from each section. Every question carries 20 marks, and short-note questions split that as 10 plus 10.
The compulsory spread across both sections is the detail students most often ignore. Preparing eight topics from one half of the syllabus and none from the other leaves you unable to complete the paper, however well you have written. That is the single reason the 14 questions in this file are spread across all four blocks.
On length, the instruction printed on the paper asks for roughly 400 words per answer. Treat 450 words as the working target for a 20-mark answer, 250 for a 10-mark short note, and about 30 minutes of writing time each, which uses 150 of your 180 minutes and leaves half an hour for reading and revision.
Four habits raise marks reliably in this course. Open with a definition and name the scholar behind it. Anchor claims with years, such as Waltz in 1979 or Fukuyama in 1989. Pair every theory with the example the IGNOU book itself uses rather than one from the news. Then close with a short evaluative line instead of repeating your introduction.
Who Should Use This BPSC 107 Solved Guess Paper
This file suits BAPSH students who have limited time before the term-end exam and need a defensible shortlist rather than a full reading of four blocks. It is a revision instrument, not a replacement for the study material.
It helps most in three situations. Students appearing in June or December 2026 who have four to six weeks left and want their reading concentrated on repeating topics. Students re-appearing after a back paper who already know the units but wrote poorly structured answers. And working students who can only revise in short evening blocks and need answers that are already the right length.
It suits you less if your exam is months away and you have time to read the units properly. In that case start with the blocks and treat this as the layer you add in the final month. A guess paper read cold, without any contact with the study material, tends to produce answers that are correct but thin.
How to Get the Complete BPSC 107 Guess Paper with Answers
Send a WhatsApp message to 9899436384 with your course code, BPSC-107, and the session you are appearing in, and the complete 17-page PDF with all 14 solved answers is shared on the same chat.
Mentioning your session matters because the file is prepared specifically against the June 2026 and December 2026 sittings. If you are enrolled in more than one Political Science paper, say so in the first message and the available course codes can be checked together rather than one at a time.
Questions before you decide are fine. Students routinely ask whether a particular topic is included, how long the answers run, or whether the medium is English. All of that gets answered on chat before anything is shared, and the five samples above are there precisely so that the quality question is settled in advance.
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FAQs on the BPSC 107 Guess Paper and Its Solutions
The ten questions below are the ones students actually send on WhatsApp before asking for the BPSC 107 file, covering coverage, medium, sessions and how it differs from a solved assignment.
How many questions are there in the BPSC 107 guess paper?
The BPSC 107 guess paper contains 14 solved questions spread across 17 pages. Eleven of them are written to 20-mark length at roughly 450 words each, and three are paired short notes carrying 10 plus 10 marks, written to roughly 250 words per part. Five of the 14 are published as samples on this page, which leaves 9 available only in the complete PDF.
Are the BPSC 107 answers written from the IGNOU study material?
Yes. Every answer for BPSC 107 Perspectives on International Relations and World History is written from the IGNOU units for this course rather than from outside international relations textbooks. The thinkers, definitions, dates and examples are the ones the university's own material uses, which keeps your script consistent with what the examiner is trained to look for while marking.
Which sessions is the BPSC 107 solved guess paper prepared for?
It is prepared for the June 2026 and December 2026 term-end examinations. IGNOU conducts term-end exams in June and December each year, so those are the two sittings this file targets. The analysis behind it draws on the six most recent papers available, running from June 2023 through to December 2025, with the December 2025 paper included as the latest input.
Does the BPSC 107 guess paper cover all four blocks of the syllabus?
Yes, all four blocks are represented. Block 1 supplies two questions, Block 2 supplies three, Block 3 supplies five and Block 4 supplies four. That distribution follows where the recent papers have concentrated rather than an even split, and it matters because the paper requires you to answer at least two questions from each of its two sections.
Is a guess paper enough to pass BPSC 107 without reading the units?
Reading the units is still the safer route. A guess paper narrows what you revise and gives you exam-ready structure, but answers written with no contact with the study material tend to be correct and thin. Use the BPSC 107 file as a final-month revision layer on top of the blocks, particularly if your exam is still several weeks away.
What is the exam pattern for the BPSC 107 term-end paper?
The BPSC 107 paper carries 100 marks and runs for three hours. It is divided into two sections, and you must attempt five questions in total with at least two taken from each section. Each question carries 20 marks, while short-note questions divide those marks as 10 plus 10. Answers are expected to run to roughly 400 words each.
Is the BPSC 107 guess paper available in Hindi medium?
The current file for BPSC 107 is prepared in English medium. Hindi medium students appearing for Perspectives on International Relations and World History should message the WhatsApp number before requesting the file, so that availability for the session can be confirmed rather than assumed. Availability is checked and answered on chat before anything is shared.
How is the BPSC 107 guess paper different from a solved assignment?
They serve two different purposes. A solved assignment answers the specific TMA questions IGNOU sets for internal marks in a given academic session. The BPSC 107 guess paper predicts what the term-end examination is likely to ask, based on six sessions of past papers, and gives answers in the length and structure the three-hour written exam requires.
Which programme is BPSC 107 part of?
BPSC 107 Perspectives on International Relations and World History is taught in the B.A. (Honours) Political Science programme, whose IGNOU programme code is BAPSH. It is a theory course with no practical or laboratory component, so there is no practical file to submit for it. The assessment consists of the tutor marked assignment and the term-end written examination.
How do I receive the complete BPSC 107 file after asking for it?
Send a WhatsApp message to 9899436384 stating the course code BPSC-107 and the session you are appearing in. The complete PDF is shared on the same chat once your requirement is confirmed. Any questions about coverage, answer length or medium can be settled in that conversation first, and the five sample answers above are there to settle the quality question in advance.