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Central Teacher Eligibility Test Question Paper 1
Directions : Answer the following questions by selecting the most aroriate otion.
1. A creative learner refers to one who is
(1) very talented in drawing and ainting
(2) highly intelligent
(3) caable of scoring consistently good marks in tests
(4) good at lateral thinking and roblem solving
2. Individual learners differ from each other in
(1) rinciles of growth and develoment
(2) rate of develoment
(3) sequence of develoment
(4) general caacity for develoment
3. Every learner is unique means that
(1) No two learners are alike in their abilities, interests and talents
(2) Learners do not have any common qualities, nor do they share common goals
(3) A common curriculum for all learners is not ossible
(4) It is imossible to develo the otential of learners in a heterogeneous class
4. Constructivism as a theory
(1) focuses on the role of imitation
(2) emhasises the role of the learner in constructing his own view of the world
(3) emhasises on memorising information and testing through recall
(4) emhasises on the dominant role of the teacher
5. Develoment of concets is rimarily a art of
(1) emotional develoment
(2) intellectual develoment
(3) hysical develoment
(4) social develoment
6. Heredity is considered as a _________ social structure.
(1) rimary
(2) secondary
(3) dynamic
(4) static
7. The most intense and crucial socialization takes lace
(1) throughout the life of a erson
(2) during adolescence

(3) during early childhood
(4) during adulthood
8. Heling learners recaitulate or recall what they have already learnt is imortant because
(1) it is a convenient beginning for any classroom instruction
(2) relating new information to rior knowledge enhances learning
(3) it is an effective way of revising old lessons
(4) it enhances the memory of learners thereby strengthening learning
9. According to iaget, during the first stage of develoment (birth to about 2 years age), a child learns
best
(1) by using the senses
(2) by comrehending neutral words
(3) by thinking in an abstract fashion
(4) by alying newly acquired knowledge of language
10. Theory of learning which totally and only deends on ‘observable behaviour’ is associated with
_________ theory of learning.
(1) Cognitivist
(2) Develomental
(3) Behaviourist
(4) Constructivist
11. Multilingual character of Indian society should be seen as
(1) a hindrance in teaching-learning rocess
(2) a resource for enrichment of school life
(3) a challenge to teacher’s caacity to motivate students to learn
(4) a factor that makes school life a comlex exerience for the learners
12. Creative answers require
(1) direct teaching and direct questions
(2) content-based questions
(3) oen-ended questions
(4) a highly discilined classroom
13. Diagnosis of the gas in the learning of students should be followed by
(1) aroriate remedial measures
(2) intensive drill and ractice
(3) systematic revision of all lessons
(4) reorting the findings to learners and arents
14. Which of the following statements cannot be considered as a feature of ‘learning’ ?
(1) Learning is a rocess that mediates behaviour

(2) Learning is something that occurs as a result of certain exeriences
(3) Study of behaviour is learning
(4) Unlearning is also a art of learning
15. ‘Self-regulation’ of learners refers to
(1) their ability to monitor their own learning
(2) creating regulations for student behaviour
(3) rules and regulations made by the student body
(4) self-disciline and control
16. Which of the following does not reflect ‘teaching for understanding’ ?
(1) Ask students to exlain a henomenon or a concet in their own words
(2) Teach students to rovide examles to illustrate how a law works
(3) Hel students see similarities and differences and generate analogies
(4) Enable students to memorize isolated facts and rocedures
17. Which of the following statements is true about ‘learning’ ?
(1) Errors made by children indicate that no learning has taken lace.
(2) Learning is effective in an environment that is emotionally ositive and satisfying for the
learners.
(3) Learning is not affected by emotional factors at any stage of learning.
(4) Learning is fundamentally a mental activity.
18. Human develoment is based on certain rinciles. Which of the following is not a rincile of
human develoment ?
(1) Continuity
(2) Sequentiality
(3) General to Secific
(4) Reversible
19. The main urose of assessment should be
(1) to oint out the errors of the learners
(2) to measure the achievement of learners
(3) to decide if a student should be romoted to the next class
(4) to diagnose and remedy gas in learning
20. Centrally sonsored scheme of Integrated Education for disabled children aims at roviding
educational oortunities to children with disabilities in
(1) regular schools
(2) secial schools
(3) oen schools
(4) Blind Relief Association schools
21. Which of the following is not a sign of reading difficulty among young learners ?
Difficulty in
(1) letter and word recognition

(2) reading seed and fluency
(3) understanding words and ideas
(4) selling consistency
22. A teacher wants the gifted children of her class to achieve their otential. Which of the following
should she not do to achieve her objective ?
(1) Teach them to enjoy non-academic activities
(2) Teach them to manage stress
(3) Segregate them from their eers for secial attention
(4) Challenge them to enhance their creativity
23. Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of intrinsically motivated children ?
(1) They always succeed
(2) They enjoy doing their work
(3) They dislay a high level of energy while working
(4) They like challenging tasks
24. Which of the following is not an aroriate tool for Formative Assessment ?
(1) Assignment
(2) Oral questions
(3) Term test
(4) Quiz and games
25. Learners should not be encouraged to
(1) ask as many questions as ossible both inside and outside the class
(2) actively interact with other learners in grou work
(3) articiate in as many co-curricular activities as ossible
(4) memorize all the answers to questions which the teacher may ask
26. Irfan breaks toys and dismantles them to exlore their comonents. What
would you do ?
(1) Never let Irfan lay with toys
(2) Always kee a close watch
(3) Encourage his inquisitive nature and channelise his energy
(4) Make him understand that toys should not be broken
27. The statement ‘Men are generally more intelligent than women’
(1) is true
(2) may be true
(3) shows gender bias
(4) is true for different domains of intelligence
28. Understanding the rinciles of develoment of a child hels a teacher in
(1) identifying the social status of the learner
(2) identifying the economic background of the learner
(3) rationalizing why the learner ought to be taught
(4) effectively catering to the different learning styles of learners
29. Christina took her class for a field tri and after coming back, she discussed the tri with her
students. It may be connotated as

(1) Assessment of Learning
(2) Assessment for Learning
(3) Learning for Assessment
(4) Learning of Assessment
30. The statement : ‘An imortant recondition for the roer develoment of a child is ensuring
her/his healthy hysical develoment’
(1) is untrue as hysical develoment does not affect other domains of develoment in any way
(2) may be incorrect as develoment varies from individual to individual
(3) is true because hysical develoment occuies the tomost lace in the sequence of
develoment
(4) is true because hysical develoment is interrelated with other domains of develoment
61. Bakelite is used in making electrical aliances because it is a
(1) thermolastic
(2) good conductor of heat
(3) good conductor of electricity
(4) good insulator of electricity
62. In which of the following cases of motion, are the distance moved and the magnitude of
dislacement equal ?
(1) A car moving on a straight road
(2) A car moving in a circular ath
(3) A endulum oscillating to and fro
(4) The Earth revolving around the Sun
63. LED and CFL are very commonly used as sources of light in homes. Which of the following
statements is true ?
(1) CFL is better because LED contains toxic materials
(2) LED is better because CFL contains toxic materials
(3) Both are equally good
(4) Neither of them is good because both contain toxic materials
64. An air bubble inside water behaves like a
(1) concave lens
(2) convex lens
(3) lano-convex lens
(4) concave mirror
65. A feather weighing 5 gm and a nail weighing 10 gm have the same kinetic energy. Which of the
following statements is true about the momentum of the two bodies ?
(1) The lighter body will have higher momentum
(2) The heavier body will have higher momentum
(3) Both will have equal momentum
(4) It is not ossible to comare the momentum of two objects
66. If the ressure over a liquid increases, its boiling oint

(1) decreases
(2) increases
(3) does not change
(4) first decreases and then increases
67. A doctor rescribes a medicine to treat hyeracidity. The main ingredient of the medicine is
(1) Al(OH)3
(2) MgCl2
(3) CaCO3
(4) Na2CO3
68. Non-metallic oxides
(1) are acidic in nature
(2) are basic in nature
(3) are amhoteric in nature
(4) turn red litmus aer blue
69. The inner surfaces of food cans are coated with tin and not with zinc because
(1) zinc is costlier than tin
(2) zinc is more reactive than tin
(3) zinc has a higher melting oint than tin
(4) zinc is less reactive than tin
70. A man goes door to door osing as a goldsmith. He romises to bring back the glitter on dull gold
ornaments. An unsusecting woman gives a set of gold bangles to him which he dis in a articular
solution. The bangles sarkle but their weight has considerably reduced. The solution used by the
imostor robably is
(1) dil. HCl
(2) conc. HCl
(3) a mixture of conc. HCl and conc. HNO3
(4) conc. HNO3
71. Bleeding is stoed by the alication of alum to a wound because
(1) the wound is lugged by the alum chunk
(2) alum coagulates the blood and forms a clot
(3) alum reduces the temerature near the wound
(4) alum is an antisetic
72. When an iron nail is died in coer sulhate solution, the colour of coer sulhate solution fades
and a brownish layer is deosited over the iron nail. This is an examle of
(1) combination reaction
(2) decomosition reaction

(3) double dislacement reaction
(4) dislacement and redox reactions
73. While diluting sulhuric acid, it is recommended that the acid should be added to water because
(1) acid has strong affinity for water
(2) acid may break the glass container
(3) dilution of acid is highly exothermic
(4) dilution of acid is highly endothermic
74. The thumb of humans moves more freely than other fingers due to the resence of
(1) ivotal joint
(2) gliding joint
(3) hinge joint
(4) saddle joint
75. Root ca is absent in
(1) Xerohytes
(2) Hydrohytes
(3) Mesohytes
(4) Halohytes
76. Adding salt and sugar to food substances hels in reserving them for a longer
duration. It is because excess salt and sugar
(1) lasmolyse the microbial cells
(2) cause ruturing of microbial cells
(3) cause change in the shae of microbial cells
(4) remove water from food
77. Hormone Adrenaline
(1) hels control level of sugar in the blood
(2) hels the body to adjust stress level when one is very angry or worried
(3) hels control height
(4) hels control balance of electrolytes in the body
78. The green house effect which is causing an increase in the atmosheric temerature is mainly due
to
(1) oxygen
(2) nitrogen
(3) carbon dioxide
(4) sulhur
79. Green lants aear to release oxygen instead of carbon dioxide into the atmoshere during the day
time because
(1) green lants do not resire during the night time

(2) green lants resire only during the night time
(3) green lants resire during the day time but are involved in hotosynthesis during the night
time
(4) the rate of hotosynthesis is higher than the rate of resiration during the day time
80. A common characteristic feature of lant sieve-tube cells and mammalian erythrocytes is
(1) absence of nucleus
(2) absence of chlorolast
(3) absence of cell wall
(4) resence of haemoglobin
81. Most Boards of Education have banned the dissection of animals because
(1) animals are no longer available for dissection
(2) rocuring animals has become an exensive roosition
(3) there is a need to sensitise students to revention of cruelty to animals
(4) they may sread new diseases
82. The main aim of conducting Mathematics and Science Olymiads is to
(1) romote excellence in the subject by nurturing creativity and exerimentation
(2) grade students according to their caabilities
(3) hel students score high marks in rofessional examinations
(4) grade schools based on the erformance of their students
83. Four alicants for a ost of TGT (Science) were asked to lan a lesson on ‘‘Consequences of
Deforestation’’. Which one of the following lesson lans reflects the scientific aroach ?
(1) Exlains in detail the consequences of deforestation
(2) rovides a variety of examles to exlain the concet
(3) Includes activities that children can erform in grous and draw conclusions through a
oweroint resentation
(4) Mentions about the use of ICT to hel students understand the concet
84. Ms. atel, rincial of a School XYZ, is keen about integrated aroach to
teaching of Science rather than teaching different discilines searately. The
basis of this is
(1) non-availability of qualified teachers in her school to teach searate discilines
(2) difficulty to adjust the teachers in the time-table
(3) difficulty of students to adjust to different teachers
(4) all the discilines are interlinked and a teacher can draw on cross-curricular linkages

85. A teacher lans to teach ‘‘Comonents of Food’’ in Class-VI. Which of the following can be used as
an essential question ?
(1) List the food items your mother serves you in lunch.
(2) Why does your mother serve you a meal with a variety of food items ?
(3) Does your mother reare a definite set of food items for lunch every day ?
(4) Do you eat all the items served in your lunch every day ?
86. While teaching the concet, ‘‘force can change the shae of an object’’ to students, a teacher lans
the following activities :
a. Exlain concets using commonly observed examles.
b. rovide a dough on a late and ask the students to ress it down with the hand.
c. Show an audio-visual film exlaining the concet with some examles.
The teacher is using different aroaches to learning because
(1) she wants to rove her knowledge
(2) she knows she must follow her lesson lan
(3) she wants to reare students for a test
(4) there are different kinds of learners in the class and she wants to address multile
intelligences
87. Which of the following can be assessed when Geeta is using only MCQ as a tool to assess ‘‘Nutrition
in Humans’’ ?
(1) Analytical ability to classify food items and make a oster
(2) Misconcetions related to food habits
(3) Learners’ ability to aly knowledge and reare a role lay to resent in the morning
assembly
(4) Learners’ ability to comrehend the imortance of comonents of food and write a long essay
88. A Science teacher lans grou activities to teach ‘‘roerties of Air’’ to her
students of Class-VI. Which one set of attributes would she like to have in the
students she selects as grou leaders ?
(1) Freedom to choose roles, work at their own ace and understanding
(2) Ordering students to take roles and deliver in consonance with their understanding
(3) Giving major roles to brighter students to ensure the grou finishes first
(4) Assigning roles as er caability, motivating and coordinating among the grou members

89. While selecting a erformance task to hel students develo research oriented skills in a Science
class, a teacher may ick u a toic
(1) from the content given in the syllabus which must be comleted in time
(2) which majority of the students in a class find interesting
(3) which she thinks is imortant for the students
(4) related to a roblem faced by students in their day-to-day functioning and which is a art of
the concets to be covered for this class
90. While investigating ‘how water affects the germination of seeds’, a teacher asked the students to
soak bean seeds on a bed of cotton wool for a few days and observe the changes. What is the
guideline that she forgot to mention ?
To lace
(1) many seeds on wet cotton
(2) a few seeds on wet cotton
(3) many seeds on dry cotton
(4) a few seeds on dry cotton
Candidates have to do questions 31 to 90 EITHER from art II (Mathematics and Science) OR from
art III (Social Studies/Social Science).
SOCIAL STUDIES / SOCIAL SCIENCE 
Directions : Based on your reading of the assage given below, answer the next three questions (Q. No. 31 to 33), by
selecting the most aroriate otion.(4)
A Letter For You
‘‘‘Civics is boring.’ You may have heard this from your students. You may have felt that they had a
oint. Syllabi of Civics in our country tends to focus on formal olitical institutions of government.
The textbooks are full of constitutional, legal and rocedural details resented in a dry and abstract
manner. No wonder children exerience a disconnect between the theory they read in the textbook
and what they see in real life around them. This is erhas what makes Civics ‘boring’ for young
adults in a country otherwise full of assion for olitics.’’
Source : Democratic olitics-I
IX Social Science
31. What is the context in which the word ‘disconnect’ is used in the assage ?
(1) Civics teaching is dull in schools
(2) Children find themselves unable to relate what haens in the real world with what they read
in the textbooks
(3) It is related to how Civics textbooks are written and transacted

(4) It is related to the attitude of students towards schooling in general and Civics in articular
35. Around 3900 years ago, the earliest cities, Haraa and Mohanjodaro, began to come to an end
because of various reasons. Which one of the following is not one of those reasons ?
(1) There was internal rivalry and warfare between cities
(2) Deforestation and floods brought in destruction
(3) Grazing of green cover by herds of cattle destroyed the soil cover
(4) Rivers dried u leading to the end of the cities
36. Most of the ‘Mahajanaadas’ were fortified because
(1) of availability of wood, brick and stones, in the area
(2) they reflected their wealth and ower
(3) the rulers were scared of attack and wanted to ensure they were rotected
(4) they were symbols of their ‘rich’ warrior tradition
37. When it is 10:00 a.m. in London in June, the Indian Standard Time will be
(1) 2:30 .m.
(2) 3:00 .m.
(3) 3:30 .m.
(4) 2:00 .m.
38. In the following diagram, which arrow shows the South-East direction ?
(1) D
(2) B
(3) F
(4) H
39. A ma uses a scale in which 1 cm on the ma covers 20 meters on the ground. If two laces are 5 cm
aart on the ma, the actual distance between them is

(1) 20 meters
(2) 150 meters
(3) 200 meters
(4) 100 meters
40. For creating an effective administration ractice in India, which one of the following was adoted
by the British Government ?
(1) Military exedition
(2) ractice of surveying
(3) ractice of land revenue collection
(4) ractice of exloiting native oulation
41. The two main systems of Indigo cultivation were
(1) Nij and Kij
(2) Nij and Ryoti
(3) Kharif and Rabi
(4) Nij and terrace farming
42. What roblems did shifting cultivators face under the British rule ?
(1) Exloitation
(2) Decline in their agricultural roduction
(3) Their movement was restricted
(4) Unemloyment
43. What was the main reason behind the destruction of Somnath temle by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni
?
(1) He wanted to build a alace there
(2) He did not like the architecture of the temle
(3) He tried to win credit as a great hero of Islam
(4) He wanted to use the temle for some other urose
44. During the medieval eriod in India, temles were regarded as a hub of
(1) architecture
(2) cultural activities
(3) extensive foreign trade
(4) Sufi movement
45. In Bengal, temles and other religious structures were often built by individuals or grous who
were becoming owerful in order to
(1) ensure that they did good ‘karma’
(2) demonstrate a marvel of architecture to the society

(3) add value to the surroundings
(4) demonstrate their ower, roclaim their iety and gain followers
46. A system of structure and ractice in which men dominate, oress and exloit women is called
(1) Hierarchy
(2) Fascism
(3) Monarchy
(4) atriarchy
47. Which of the following statements is not an objective of social advertising ?
(1) To change attitudes and mindset, as eole influence eole
(2) To target social networks and social grous
(3) To advertise roducts on social networking sites for ersonal commercial value
(4) To motivate members of the ublic to engage in voluntary social activity
48. Which of the following statements about ‘rasastis’ is an incorrect statement ?
(1) The achievements of rulers or kings are described in ‘rasastis’.
(2) They were written by scholars/oets/ learned eole for the urose of raising the kings and
earning their atronage.
(3) Usually the kings themselves wrote them.
(4) They are valuable sources of history of the eriod to which they belong.
49. What does HC stand for ?
(1) rivate Health Centre
(2) ublic Health Court
(3) ublic Health Centre
(4) ublic Health Cororation
50. Which of the following is not a rimary economic activity ?
(1) Mining
(2) Agriculture
(3) Trading
(4) Fishing
51. Industrialists set u industries when
(1) they can develo their own native laces
(2) they find favourable government olicies
(3) towns can be develoed
(4) incentives rovided by the government reduce their rofit

52. Which one of the following exlains the term ‘market’ ?
(1) A local area which has conducive conditions for setting u an industry
(2) A sho to sell the goods manufactured by the industrialist
(3) The otential trade in a articular tye of good being roduced by an industry
(4) A mall which sells roducts
53. Which of the following edagogical aroaches exhibited by four different teachers for teaching
‘Industrialisation’ is most aroriate ?
(1) The teacher believes that she must cover the entire rocess of industrialisation in detail and
brings in coious material to the class
(2) The teacher asks the class to read the entire lesson silently and asks questions if they have
not understood
(3) The teacher is a believer in the timeless glory of the textbook and teaches by exlaining every
word and asking comrehension questions to students
(4) The teacher is aware of multile aroaches to edagogy and lans a tri to an industry in
the nearby area to demonstrate the concets, discuss and debate in grous the issues and
then in a lenary, sum u the conclusions
54. Which of the following statements about ‘ancient manuscrits’ is not correct ?
(1) Some manuscrits were engraved on stone or metal
(2) They were usually written on alm leaves
(3) They are the rimary sources of the eriod they reflect
(4) They were handwritten and then rinted
55. In the middle of the 19th century, British historians divided history of India into three eriods —
Hindu India, Muslim India and British India. What is the basis of this division ?
(1) It was convenient and easy to remember
(2) It was based on the idea that religion of the rulers was an imortant historical change
(3) History of England is also written in a similar way
(4) Britishers felt they were more knowledgeable at that oint of time in history and so used this
division
56. Match the following and ick the correct otion :
a. Agriculture I. Cultivation ofgraes
b. Horticulture II. Growingcros
and farming
c. isiculture III. Growing flowers,
fruitsand vegetables
d. Viticulture IV. Breeding of fish
(1) a-I, b-IV, c-II, d-III
(2) a-II, b-III, c-IV, d-I
(3) a-III, b-II, c-I, d-IV

(4) a-II, b-IV, c-III, d-I
57. Which develoment facilitated the debates and discussions about social customs and ractices on a
wider scale during the 19th century ?
(1) Magazines
(2) Theatre
(3) Movies
(4) Radio
58. Social reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy used the following strategy to camaign about the
revailing social injustices (e.g. sati) against women.
(1) They took the hel of the oular social milieu
(2) They used the influence of the government
(3) They used a verse or sentence which is in the ancient sacred texts to rove their stand
(4) They took the hel of oular nationalist leaders
Directions : Based on your reading of the assage given below, answer the next two questions (Q. No. 59
& 60), by selecting the most aroriate otion.
‘‘By the end of the nineteenth century, women themselves were actively working for reform. They
wrote books, edited magazines, founded schools and training centres and set u women’s
associations. From the early twentieth century, they formed olitical ressure grous to ush
through laws for female suffrage (the right to vote) and better health care and education for women.
Women from all communities joined various kinds of nationalist and socialist movements from the
1920s.
In the twentieth century, leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose lent their
suort to demands for greater equality and freedom for women. Nationalist leaders romised that
there would be full suffrage for all men and women after Indeendence. However, till then they
asked women to concentrate on the anti-British struggles.’’
Source : ‘Our asts’-III, art-II
59. Which of the following statements best describes the inference that can be drawn from the above
extract with resect to the strategy used by leaders of India’s national movement ?
(1) articiation of women would make the struggle for Indeendence much more attractive
(2) Women and men were encouraged to follow a olicy of ‘give and take’
(3) Indian women through their seeches could draw many more eole into the movement
(4) Nationalist leaders enlisted the suort of the women to their cause by romising them the
right to vote after Indeendence
60. Which one of the following statements regarding women’s rights is untrue based on the assage ?
(1) Women were now becoming vocal in their demands for rights, including olitical rights
(2) Many women from all communities came forward to join the struggle for freedom
(3) Women got the suort of nationalist leaders
(4) Women’s writings were not areciated
61. ‘‘Throughout the 19th century, most educated women were taught at home
by liberal fathers and husbands instead of sending them to schools.’’
Which of the following statements is not a correct reason for the above trend ?
(1) eole feared that schools would take girls away from home
(2) Men derived great leasure by teaching girls at home

(3) Girls had to travel through ublic laces in order to reach school and their safety remained a
concern
(4) There was a fear that schooling would revent girls from doing their domestic duties
62. Why is mining called a rimary activity ?
(1) It involves roduction from the natural resources of the earth
(2) It is one of the earliest forms of human activities
(3) It brings a lot of money to the government
(4) It is the biggest emloyer of workers
63. Which of the following is not a mineral ?
(1) Grahite in encil
(2) Salt used for cooking
(3) Gold and silver in jewellery
(4) Mica used for insulation
64. Which of the following was not a roblem faced by India soon after Indeendence ?
(1) Wealth and debts to be equally distributed among India, akistan and Great Britain
(2) ersuading the rincely States to join the Indian Union
(3) Economic develoment
(4) Refugees from akistan
 65. Though India chose universal adult franchise after becoming indeendent,
this was withheld in many other sovereign countries on the basis of certain
criteria. Which of the following was not one of the criteria ?
(1) Education
(2) Religion
(3) Gender
(4) roerty
66. Which one of the following statements exlains the essence of ‘mixed economy’ ?
(1) Both the States and Centre divide resonsibility towards economic develoment
(2) Both the ublic and the rivate sector lay a significant role in increasing roduction and
generation of jobs
(3) Both the ublic and the rivate sector share the rofits generated in the economy equally
(4) Both the Central and State Governments have a say in the legislation controlling the economy
of the country
67. Which one among the following is not a feature of ‘Lithoshere’ ?
(1) 97% of the Earth’s water lies in the Lithoshere
(2) Landforms are found on ocean floor also
(3) Mineral wealth is found in this shere
(4) Mountains, lateaus and valleys form a art of Lithoshere
68. Which one of the following cannot be said about our lanet ‘Earth’ ?

(1) It is a erfect shere
(2) It is slightly flattened at the oles
(3) It has a bulge in the middle
(4) It is called the ‘blue lanet’
69. Ocean water kees moving continuously unlike the calm water of onds and lakes. Which one of the
following categories is not one of the movements of water ?
(1) Waves
(2) Water cycle
(3) Tides
(4) Currents

[Kiran Chandar]

70. Which of the following is not an advantage of high tides ?
(1) They hel in fishing
(2) Electricity could be generated from them
(3) They hel the local economy by drawing tourists
(4) Navigation is easier
Directions : Based on your reading of the case study given below, answer the next two questions (Q. No. 71 & 72), by
selecting the most aroriate otion.
Rashmi has the habit of asking the surnames of ersons whom she comes across for the first time.
She has to lace the concerned erson in the varna system of Indian society. This enquiry about
caste identity is resented by many eole though it is not exressed oenly. Things are more
comlicated when she meets a erson from another region or art of India. She is unable to figure
out their caste status even if that erson reveals the surname. This ‘world view’ of Rashmi,
according to her, does not affect/influence her teaching-learning transaction rocess. She says that
it is art of her rimary socialization and she cannot hel it.
71. rimary socialization is
(1) social networking at the rimary level
(2) learning from family and friends at an early age
(3) learning from society during adolescence
(4) memorising and imitating the teacher
72. The resentment is justified because the teacher’s attitude
(1) highlights the need for socialization
(2) is urely based on ersonal biases
(3) is not an indictment of the stereotyes it creates
(4) eretuates social, olitical and economic inequalities
73. Most eole during the 19th century felt education will have a ‘corruting’
influence on women.
Which of the following brings out the contextual meaning of ‘corruting’ in the above sentence ?
(1) Women were more corrut than men

(2) It would bring them more money
(3) The ower they gain through education would take them away from their traditional roles
(4) They would become imure
74. A teacher gives the following exercise to her students :
Imagine you are a member of a nomadic community that shifts residence every 3 months. How
would this change your life ?
(1) The question will rove that a student’s life is far safer and more enjoyable than the life of
eole in such situations
(2) The question will make students less egocentric and romote universal brotherhood
(3) The question will imress uon the students that facts are more imortant than reflection in
Social Science
(4) The question will hel students lace themselves in new situations to gain a better
understanding of the concets involved
the assage given below, answer the next two questions (Q. No. 75 & 76), by selecting the most
aroriate otion.
‘‘The oular ercetion of Social Science is that it is a non-utility subject. As a result, low selfesteem
governs the classroom transactions, with both teachers and students feeling uninterested in
comrehending its contents. From the initial stages of schooling, it is often suggested to students
that the Natural Sciences are suerior to the Social Sciences.’’
Source : NCF–2005,
Teaching of Social Sciences
75. What is the context in which the term ‘non-utility subject’ is used in the above extract ?
(1) Social Science has nothing to offer to imrove human civilization
(2) Studying Social Science does not lead to well-aid jobs and material wealth
(3) Social Science is a subject that cannot be learnt for its utility
(4) Social Science is a dry and difficult subject having no use for educators or learners
76. Which of the following best conveys the essence of the above extract ?
(1) The way Social Science is taught to students does not enthuse them to take Social Science
seriously
(2) Natural Sciences need to be given imortance in school curriculum
(3) Students considered good in Natural Sciences are considered bright
(4) Social Sciences are inferior to Natural Sciences since they are non-utilitarian subjects
77. The significance of language in teaching-learning of Social Science cannot be over-emhasized.
Which of the following statements does not convey the above idea ?
(1) Effective understanding of the meaning and use of a language enhances learning in Social
Science
(2) Language is of least significance in a fact-oriented subject like Social Science
(3) Only a language teacher can do justice to the teaching-learning rocess of Social Science

(4) Since language is imortant, a Social Science teacher should include comrehension and
grammar questions in Social Science tests
78. Which of the following statements is incorrect about Social Science ?
(1) Social Science encomasses diverse concerns of society, including historical, geograhical,
economic and olitical dimensions
(2) Social Science creates and widens human values such as freedom, resect for diversity, etc.
(3) As Social Science deals with eole, the nature of enquiry is not scientific
(4) Social Science lays the foundations for an analytical and creative mindset
79. Which of the following is not a source material for writing oral history ?
(1) The anecdotes of a erson who articiated in the ‘Quit India Movement’
(2) A British soldier’s oral account of the Seoy Mutiny
(3) The memories of a erson who migrated to akistan from India at the time of artition
(4) A scholar talking about today’s education system
80. Which of the following statements about the title of NCERT History textbook, ‘Our asts’, as
exressed by the authors, is not correct ?
(1) It is about the asts of neighbouring countries
(2) It does not talk about the times of kings and queens only
(3) It tries to bring out contribution of various grous or communities like farmers and artisans
(4) It emhasizes the notion that India does not have just ‘one ast’ but ‘many asts’
81. The following question is given under the heading ‘Let’s discuss’ at the end of a chater :
‘Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally kee records of what they did ?’
What is the relevance of asking this question ?
(1) Such questions encourage guesswork and so should not be given
(2) Ordinary men and women lead common lives. There is nothing great or of significance to
write about them
(3) It is good to ignite a discussion and let students come out with their reasoning
(4) Questions which do not have fixed answers should not be given, as they will confuse the
students
82. Which tye of questions will not develo critical thinking among students ?
(1) Closed-ended questions
(2) Oen-ended questions
(3) robing questions
(4) Divergent questions
83. While discussing gender roles in the classroom, you would assert that
(1) there are different rofessions for men and women
(2) boys need to attend school as they are the future earning members of the family
(3) gender stereotyes in society need to be addressed meaningfully
(4) household work should not be seen as roductive
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84. The aroach of the ‘Social and olitical Life’ textbooks of NCERT is to

(1) give the learner one correct answer for a question
(2) focus the attention of the learners on the factual content of lessons
(3) use definitions to sum u a concet
(4) use case studies and narratives to exlain concets
85. Which of the following questions would hel build the critical thinking skills of students ?
(1) ‘All communicable diseases are water borne’. State whether true or false.
(2) Comment on the ‘double burden of women’s work’.
(3) Write two measures the government has adoted to control ollution.
(4) What is the government’s role in Indian Health and Indian Education ?
86. You are teaching ‘Unity in Diversity’ to the students of Class-VIII. Which of the following activities
would you do to make the students understand the concet effectively ?
(1) Write an essay on the river disutes between States of India
(2) reare a model of the Hydro-electric roject near the school
(3) Conduct a test after the lesson is thoroughly taught
(4) resent a feature on the different dance forms of our country areciating their underlying
similarities and differences
87. Diagnostic testing in Social Science will hel a teacher understand
(1) the art of the toic the student has not memorised
(2) learning difficulties a student is facing in Social Science
(3) how revision work has heled her students
(4) how intelligent her students are
88. Choose the most inaroriate statement regarding teaching of Social Science in middle school.
(1) Social Science should be taught as it hels to acquire an understanding of human
relationshis
(2) Social Science should be taught as it hels sensitize children regarding social reality
(3) Social Science should be taught because it hels students debate and reflect on social issues
(4) Social Science should be a art of the curriculum so that the learners know about the lives of
kings and the battles they fought
89. Doing activities with children will be effective only if
(1) the teacher does not know why she is doing it
(2) the teacher conducts them to comlete her ‘Lesson lan’
(3) the teacher does them as a retence to obey her rincial’s directions for activity-based
learning
(4) she believes that activity-based education will hel the child in understanding the concets
90. Which of the following should not be a art of the Social Science instructional rocess ?
(1) lanning

(2) Dictation of facts
(3) Feedback mechanism
(4) Imlementation
ART IV
LANGUAGE I
ENGLISH
Directions : Read the assage given below and answer the
questions that follow (Q. No. 91 to 99) by selecting the most
aroriate otion.
Surviving a Snakebite
1 Annually, there are a million cases of
snakebite in India and of these, close to
50,000 succumb to the bites.
2 When you look around the countryside,
where most bites occur, and notice
eole’s habits and lifestyles, these
figures aren’t surrising. eole walk
barefoot without a torch at night when
they are most likely to ste on a
foraging venomous snake.
3 We encourage rodents by disosing
waste food out in the oen, or by storing
foodgrains in the house. Attracted by
the smell of rats, snakes enter houses
and when one crawls over someone
aslee on the floor and the erson
twitches or rolls over, it may bite in
defence.
4 Once bitten, we don’t rush to the
hosital. Instead, we seek out the
nearest conman, tie tourniquets, eat
vile tasting herbal chutneys, aly
oultices or surious stones,
cut/slice/suck the bitten sot, and other
ghastly time-consuming deadly
‘‘remedies’’.
5 As Rom cattily remarks : ‘‘If the snake
hasn’t injected enough venom, even
oing an asirin can save your life.’’
That’s the key — snakes inject venom
voluntarily and we have no way of
knowing if it has injected venom, and if
it is a lethal dose. The only first aid is to
immobilise the bitten limb like you
would a fracture, and get to a hosital
for anti-venom serum without wasting
time.
91. Of the eole who are bitten by snakes in
India, the fatality rate is
(1) 5%
(2) 25%
(3) 50%
(4) 100%
92. According to the author, eole living in
which arts are more rone to snake bites ?
(1) Crowded cities
(2) The oen
(3) Villages
(4) Forests
93. Storing foodgrains in the house is one of the
causes for snake bites because
(1) foodgrains attract rats which in turn
attract snakes
(2) snakes enter houses in search of stored
foodgrains
(3) the smell of foodgrains brings both
snakes and other animals into the
house
(4) stored foodgrains create convenient
hiding laces for snakes within houses
94. ‘... it may bite in defence’ (ara-3). This
observation imlies that
(1) a snake is very good at defending itself
(2) a snake may bite a human being in
order to defend its rey
(3) human beings are defenceless against
snakes
(4) a snake bites a human only when it is
threatened
95. What, according to the author, is the reason
for the high fatality rate due to snakebites in
India ?
( 48 )

(1) Shortage of medical facilities
(2) Lack of scientific knowledge about
snakebites
(3) Shortage of anti-venom serum
(4) Shortage of doctors
96. In the instance of a snakebite, what should
we do immediately ?
(1) Tie torniquets
(2) Eat herbal chutneys
(3) Immobilise the bitten art and get antivenom
serum
(4) Cut-slice-suck the bitten sot
97. ick out a word from the assage which
means ‘to go around in search of food’. (ara
2)
(1) foraging
(2) countryside
(3) venomous
(4) barefoot
98. ‘‘If the snake hasn’t injected enough venom,
even oing an asirin can save your life.’’
This sentence can be rewritten without
changing the meaning as
(1) When a snake has not injected enough
venom, life can be saved even by
swallowing an asirin.
(2) Life can be saved even by swallowing an
asirin, even though the snake hasn’t
injected enough venom.
(3) Even oing an asirin can save your
life, in site of a snake not having
injected enough venom.
(4) As long as you are oing an asirin to
save your life, the snake will not inject
enough venom.
99. ick out a word from the assage, that means
‘having the ower to cause death’. (ara 5)
(1) immobilise
(2) voluntarily
(3) lethal
(4) serum
Directions : Read the oem given below and answer the
questions that follow (Q. No. 100–105) by selecting the
most aroriate otion.
Common Cold
1 Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
You shall not sneer at me.
ick u your hat and stethoscoe,
Go wash your mouth with laundry soa;
I contemlate a joy exquisite
I’m not aying you for your visit.
I did not call you to be told
My malady is a common cold.
2 By ounding brow and swollen li;
By fever’s hot and scaly gri;
By those two red redundant eyes
That wee like woeful Aril skies;
By racking snuffle, snort, and sniff;
By handkerchief after handkerchief;
This cold you wave away as naught
Is the damnedest cold man ever caught !
3 Bacilli swarm within my ortals
Such as were ne’er conceived by mortals,
But bred by scientists wise and hoary
In some Olymic laboratory;
Bacteria as large as mice,
With feet of fire and heads of ice
Who never interrut for slumber
Their staming elehantine rumba.
100. What is the emotion that the oet dislays in
the first stanza ?
(1) Anger
(2) Joy
(3) Jealousy
(4) Symathy

101. Why and at whom does the oet show his
emotion ?
(1) At an old man because he has sneered
at the oet
(2) At a doctor for an incorrect diagnosis of
his medical condition
(3) At a friend who is hay at the oet’s
light
(4) At a doctor who has said the oet
merely has a cold
102. The oet describes his eyes as ‘two red
redundant eyes’ because
(1) he cannot see roerly due to the cold
(2) they show how furious the oet is
(3) they have been affected by an eyedisease
(4) in his medical condition the oet is
imagining things
103. ‘Bacteria as large as mice’ is an instance of
a/an
(1) simile and a hyerbole
(2) metahor
(3) ersonification
(4) alliteration
104. ‘Who never interrut for slumber
Their staming elehantine rumba.’
The meaning of these lines is that
(1) the bacteria are continuously staming
their elehant-like feet
(2) the cold-causing germs are causing
much discomfort and ain to the oet
without any break
(3) the bacilli are so active that they refuse
to go to slee
(4) the oet is not able to concentrate on his
work due to the raging cold
105. The general tone of the oem can be described
as
(1) satirical and harsh
(2) ironical and mocking
(3) whimsical and humorous
(4) sad and tragic
Directions : Answer the following questions by selecting the
most aroriate otion.
106. The Constructivist Aroach to learning
means
(1) involving the students in a variety of
activities to encourage them to learn
new words and structures by
accommodating them with those that
they have already learnt through a
rocess of discovery
(2) teaching rules of grammar and
consolidating through rigorous ractice
(3) heling learners acquire new vocabulary
by studying literature intensively
(4) teaching new words and structures
using a variety of audio-visual aids
followed by ractice through drill
107. What is the skill among the ones given below
that cannot be tested in a formal written
examination ?
(1) Reading for information
(2) Meaning of words and hrases
(3) Extensive reading for leasure
(4) Analysing texts
108. Which of the following is suitable for making
students resonsible for their own learning ?
(1) Discouraging students from making
decisions about how they learn best
(2) Using technology to chat and network
(3) Encouraging students to ask more and
more questions
(4) Giving a lot of homework, roject work
and assignments to imrove language
skills of students
109. Ania, while teaching aragrah construction,
should draw attention to
(1) a large variety of ideas
(2) originality of ideas
(3) toic sentence, suorting details and
connectors
(4) a range of vocabulary
( 49 )

110. Communicative Language Teaching is
concerned with
(1) teaching of vocabulary and grammar
through rules of selling and language
(2) teaching language to learners for
written tests
(3) interreting grammar rules to suit the
audience
(4) enhancing recetive and roductive
skills such as seaking, listening,
reading and writing
111. Formative Assessment is assessment
(1) of learning
(2) at learning
(3) in learning
(4) for learning
112. The term ‘Comrehensive’ in Continuous and
Comrehensive Evaluation means
(1) scholastic develoment
(2) co-scholastic develoment
(3) academic skills
(4) scholastic and co-scholastic develoment
113. A teacher designs a test to find out the cause
of the oor grades of her learners through
a/an
(1) Diagnostic Test
(2) roficiency Test
(3) Achievement Test
(4) Atitude Test
114. An inclusive class is that in which
(1) differently abled learners study with
normal students
(2) students from different nationalities
study together
(3) students from different religions study
together
(4) both boys and girls study together
115. ‘Concrete Oerational Stage’ refers to those
learners who are
(1) adolescents
(2) at middle level
(3) toddlers
(4) adults
116. When learners are engaged in a air activity,
taking on roles of a doctor and a atient, the
activity is called
(1) Real Activity
(2) Declamation
(3) Simulation
(4) Exchanging notes
117. Essays or long writing tasks esecially on a
discursive issue should
(1) hel students develo their literary
skills
(2) hel students with grammar
(3) hel them to imrove their handwriting
(4) hel them discuss the different oints of
view and justify them with illustrative
oints
118. A teacher, Amrita, uses various tasks such as
creating charts, grahs, drawing, gathering
information and resenting them through
air or grou work. This differentiated
instruction
(1) hels learners with multile
intelligences to erform well and learn
better
(2) is a way of demonstrating her own
knowledge
(3) only hels the bright learners
(4) is the best way to reare students for
an assessment
119. Using a word bank and brainstorming hels
to build
(1) Vocabulary
(2) Ideas
(3) Writing skills
(4) Reading comrehension
120. Gender stereotyes and bias among learners
can be discouraged by
(1) enabling all learners to cook and sew
irresective of gender
(2) using textbooks which do not eretuate
such beliefs
(3) creating an oen and encouraging
atmoshere in a mixed class
(4) ressuring girls to learn cooking
( 50 )
A
ART V
LANGUAGE II
ENGLISH
Directions : Read the assage given below and
answer the questions that follow (Q. No. 121 to 129)
by selecting the most aroriate otion.
1 If you are living in a house with a child on
the cus of becoming a teenager,
congratulations. I’m not being sarcastic; you
are about to embark on an amazing voyage.
It may be a bumy ride, but on the journey
your child will grow, change and blossom
into the adult she will one day become. If
you are living with an older teenager, I won’t
try to sugar coat it : you will meet
challenges. The raging hormones; the
ressures of exams; the angst of
relationshis with friends and eventually
lovers — modern teenagers are under so
much ressure, it’s no wonder they get
moody !
2 Living with teens can be difficult because
your child is in the rocess of great change.
Gone is the baby who adored you without
question; only shadows remain of the child
who hung on your every word of wisdom.
Your teenager is becoming a young adult,
trying to find his way in the world. He is
now rogrammed to reject your values and
kick against your authority. Some days,
when arguments are raging, music is
blaring, dishes ile u in the sink and your
daughter misses her curfew again, you may
feel that you just can’t bear it any longer.
3 But if you take a ste backwards, breathing
deely for a moment, you will be able to see
that most of the roblems and irritations we
have arenting teens are small ones. It’s
only because we are so close to them that
they look so big. It’s all about ersective.
Your baby is metamorhosing into the adult
he or she will be, and it’s hard to watch. You
want to save them from making your
mistakes, and make their lives easier. News
flash : you can’t. What you can—and must—
do is always be there to listen. There will be
times when you are the last erson she
wants to talk to, but you must make sure
the oortunity is always there. Be
available.
Source : Raising Teenagers
Lynn Huggins-Cooer (adated)
121. According to the author, living with a
teenager is like an ‘amazing voyage’ because
(1) during this voyage the arent will see
the teenager blossoming into an adult
(2) the voyage will be very bumy and
dangerous
(3) both the teenager and the arent will
get to see many amazing sights
(4) the vogage will take them to different
wonderful laces on the earth
122. ‘I won’t try to sugar coat it’ — By this what
the author wants to convey is that
(1) she does not want to hide the fact that
arenting a teenager is full of
challenges
(2) arenting is very challenging and
arents must be reared for it in a
gentle manner
(3) arenting teenagers is like taking an
unleasant cure for an ailment
(4) she does not want to flatter the arents
into believing that they are caable of
managing teenagers
123. Modern teenagers easily become annoyed or
unhay for no reason because of
(1) the hormonal imbalance that is
characteristic of this eriod of
develoment
(2) the failed relationshis with friends and
lovers
(3) failing in examinations
(4) the enormous stress they exerience at
this age
124. ‘Only shadows remain of the child ...’. The
word ‘shadows’ here refers to
(1) faint traces of the adoring child
(2) old memories of the teenager
(3) old memories of the arents
(4) the darker asect of the growing
teenager
125. ‘Kick against your authority’ is a
manifestation of a teenager’s
(1) innate tendency to become hysically
violent
(2) natural rebellious tendency
(3) excessive sentimentality
(4) need for identification with family
values
126. ‘He is now rogrammed to reject your values’
imlies that the teenager
(1) behaves in such a way because of
biological factors
(2) derives much leasure in going against
the family
(3) is caable of rogramming his
behaviour carefully
(4) rejects arents’ values out of sheer site
127. The author says that arents cannot revent
their teenage children from making mistakes.
What is his advice to the arents ?
(1) Be available for consultations and listen
to the teenagers
(2) Don’t try to save the teenagers or make
their lives easier
(3) Be the last erson to aroach the
teenagers with advice
(4) Do not watch the children growing u at
this stage because it can be ainful
128. ick out a word from the first aragrah of
the above assage that means ‘strong feelings
of anxiety and unhainess.’
(1) angst
(2) raging
(3) sarcastic
(4) cus
129. Living with teens can be difficult because
your child is in the rocess of great change.
The underlined art of this sentence is a/an
(1) adverb clause
(2) adjective clause
(3) reositional hrase
(4) noun clause
Directions : Read the oem given below and answer the
questions (Q. No. 130–135) that follow by choosing the
most aroriate otion.
The Hand Holders:
A Tribute To Caregivers
There is no job more imortant than yours,
no job anywhere else in the land.
You are the keeers of the future;
you hold the smallest of hands.
Into your care you are trusted
to nurture and care for the young,
and for all of your everyday heroics,
your talents and skills go unsung.
You wie tears from the eyes of the injured.
You rock babies brand new in your arms.
You encourage the shy and unsure child.
You make sure they are safe from all harm.
You foster the bonds of friendshis,
letting no child go away mad.
You resect and you honour their emotions.
You give hugs to each child when they’re sad.
You have more imact than does a rofessor,
a child’s mind is moulded by four;
so whatever you lay on the table
is whatever the child will exlore.
Give each child the tools for adventure,
let them be artists and writers and more;
let them fly on the wind and dance on the stars
and build castles of sand on the shore.
It is true that you don’t make much money
and you don’t get a whole lot of raise,
but when one small child says ‘‘I love you’’,
you’re reminded of how this job ays.
Author unknown
( 58 )

130. The exression ‘the smallest of hands’ refers
to
(1) babies
(2) caregivers with small hands
(3) arents with small hands
(4) eole with small hands
131. Though caregivers look after the young they
are
(1) never tired of their work
(2) not roerly recognised
(3) not loved by the children under their
care
(4) aid very well in return
132. A caregiver has more influence on a child
than a rofessor because
(1) the child generally refers a caregiver to
a rofessor
(2) the rofessor is not caable of roviding
love to a child
(3) the child sends the formative years
with the caregiver
(4) the caregiver can teach better than a
rofessor
133. What is the most valuable gift that a
caregiver gets ?
(1) Acknowledgement of the society
(2) raise from the arents
(3) Money for her services
(4) Love from children
134. ‘You give hugs to each child when they’re sad.’
This act can be described as one of
(1) emathy
(2) encouragement
(3) recrimination
(4) reassurance
135. ‘Letting no child go away mad’ — the meaning
of this line is
(1) no child is allowed to be angry for long
(2) no child is ermitted to go away from
school without ermission
(3) no child is allowed to become mad
(4) no caregiver is ermitted to be mad with
a child
Directions : Answer the following questions by selecting the
most aroriate otion.
136. Which among the following is a feature of a
child-centred language classroom ?
(1) Teacher gives instructions and exects
children to obey and be discilined
(2) Children interact in the target language
through tasks that require multile
intelligences
(3) Children work individually to reare
rojects
(4) Teacher lans assessment every day
137. Fluency in English can be develoed through
(1) creating oortunities to use the target
language for communication
(2) the teacher talking for most of the time
(3) the teacher being alert to sot the errors
and correct them
(4) allowing students who are not confident
to have the freedom to be quiet
138. An effective lesson for teaching a language
begins with
(1) listing the learning objectives of the
lesson
(2) resenting the content of the lesson
(3) recaitulation and motivation through
fun activity
(4) writing on the blackboard
139. Some noise in the language class indicates
(1) indisciline of learners
(2) teacher’s lack of control over the class
(3) incometence of the teacher
(4) constructive activities with learners
engaged in language learning
140. Enquiry-based learning
(1) does not lace students in thought
rovoking situations
(2) encourages quiet learners
(3) does not nurture creative thinking in
students
( 59 )
( 60 )
(4) allows learners to raise questions
141. Effective learning takes lace when students
are
(1) assive
(2) interactive
(3) quiet
(4) good at rearing for examinations
142. In large language classes, grou work can be
accomlished by
(1) asking 4–5 students to sit together on a
narrow bench desite lack of sace
(2) asking students to turn around for
grou work
(3) asking all students to stand in a circle
(4) asking half the class to go out to the
layground
143. A test to assess the otential of students for
secific abilities and skills such as music,
satial ability or logical ability is called a/an
(1) roficiency Test
(2) Atitude Test
(3) Attitude Test
(4) Achievement Test
144. A teacher can develo listening skills in
English by
(1) seaking to them continuously both
within the classroom and outside
(2) focusing only on listening skills without
associating it with other language skills
(3) making the learners listen to everything
they hear assively
(4) creating oortunities for them to listen
to a variety of sources and eole and
engage in listening activities
145. Which of the following is best suited for
imroving the seaking skills of learners ?
(1) Recitation of oetry
(2) Reading a rose and drama aloud
(3) Oral language drill
(4) Debates and grou discussions followed
by role lay
146. Which of the following will be most effective
to remove conventional beliefs about gender
roles ?
(1) Showing a icture in which the mother
is seen cooking and the father is seen
reading a newsaer
(2) Teaching all the learners to swee,
wash and sew in the craft class without
any gender discrimination
(3) Encouraging girls to develo interest in
household chores from a young age
(4) Telling the girls that talking freely is
not a trait of good girls
147. The Right of Children to Free and
Comulsory Education Act, 2009 has ‘overall
develoment’ as an aim. It means
(1) training the children for the
develoment of the country
(2) nurturing both the scholastic and coscholastic
areas
(3) coaching all the children for academic
excellence
(4) training the children for different
careers
148. A lay can be best taught by
(1) making the students read it silently a
number of times to understand the
story
(2) encouraging the students to stage the
lay after working in grous to
understand the lot, characters etc.
(3) asking a number of questions to test the
comrehension of the students
(4) conducting a test with secific questions
on the story and grammar items
149. A class is reading a story based in a village.
The teacher asks some students to mark the
villages in an outline ma of their locality.
Some other students are asked to collect
information about the different cros grown
in these villages. Yet another grou works on
the nutritional value of the grains, fruits and
vegetables grown in the locality. Later the
students exchange their work and have a
class discussion, relating the information with
the story. What is the underlying rincile of
this aroach ?
( 61 )

(1) Treating knowledge in secific segments
based on geograhy, science, language,
etc.
(2) Making connections across discilines
and bringing out the inter-relatedness
of knowledge
(3) Teaching language through written
assignments and rojects
(4) Giving imortance to the ractical and
scholastic asects of literary ieces
150. ‘‘Schools need to become centres that reare
children for life and ensure that all children,
esecially the differently abled, children from
marginalised sections, and children in
difficult circumstances get the maximum
benefit of this critical area of education.’’ —
This observation found in the National
Curriculum Framework-2005 is related to
(1) Inclusive education
(2) Constructivist learning
(3) Gender equality
(4) Critical edagogy

[Kiran Chandar]

70. Which of the following is not an advantage of high tides ?
(1) They hel in fishing
(2) Electricity could be generated from them
(3) They hel the local economy by drawing tourists
(4) Navigation is easier
Directions : Based on your reading of the case study given below, answer the next two questions (Q. No. 71 & 72), by
selecting the most aroriate otion.
Rashmi has the habit of asking the surnames of ersons whom she comes across for the first time.
She has to lace the concerned erson in the varna system of Indian society. This enquiry about
caste identity is resented by many eole though it is not exressed oenly. Things are more
comlicated when she meets a erson from another region or art of India. She is unable to figure
out their caste status even if that erson reveals the surname. This ‘world view’ of Rashmi,
according to her, does not affect/influence her teaching-learning transaction rocess. She says that
it is art of her rimary socialization and she cannot hel it.
71. rimary socialization is
(1) social networking at the rimary level
(2) learning from family and friends at an early age
(3) learning from society during adolescence
(4) memorising and imitating the teacher
72. The resentment is justified because the teacher’s attitude
(1) highlights the need for socialization
(2) is urely based on ersonal biases
(3) is not an indictment of the stereotyes it creates
(4) eretuates social, olitical and economic inequalities
73. Most eole during the 19th century felt education will have a ‘corruting’
influence on women.
Which of the following brings out the contextual meaning of ‘corruting’ in the above sentence ?
(1) Women were more corrut than men

(2) It would bring them more money
(3) The ower they gain through education would take them away from their traditional roles
(4) They would become imure
74. A teacher gives the following exercise to her students :
Imagine you are a member of a nomadic community that shifts residence every 3 months. How
would this change your life ?
(1) The question will rove that a student’s life is far safer and more enjoyable than the life of
eole in such situations
(2) The question will make students less egocentric and romote universal brotherhood
(3) The question will imress uon the students that facts are more imortant than reflection in
Social Science
(4) The question will hel students lace themselves in new situations to gain a better
understanding of the concets involved
the assage given below, answer the next two questions (Q. No. 75 & 76), by selecting the most
aroriate otion.
‘‘The oular ercetion of Social Science is that it is a non-utility subject. As a result, low selfesteem
governs the classroom transactions, with both teachers and students feeling uninterested in
comrehending its contents. From the initial stages of schooling, it is often suggested to students
that the Natural Sciences are suerior to the Social Sciences.’’
Source : NCF–2005,
Teaching of Social Sciences
75. What is the context in which the term ‘non-utility subject’ is used in the above extract ?
(1) Social Science has nothing to offer to imrove human civilization
(2) Studying Social Science does not lead to well-aid jobs and material wealth
(3) Social Science is a subject that cannot be learnt for its utility
(4) Social Science is a dry and difficult subject having no use for educators or learners
76. Which of the following best conveys the essence of the above extract ?
(1) The way Social Science is taught to students does not enthuse them to take Social Science
seriously
(2) Natural Sciences need to be given imortance in school curriculum
(3) Students considered good in Natural Sciences are considered bright
(4) Social Sciences are inferior to Natural Sciences since they are non-utilitarian subjects
77. The significance of language in teaching-learning of Social Science cannot be over-emhasized.
Which of the following statements does not convey the above idea ?
(1) Effective understanding of the meaning and use of a language enhances learning in Social
Science
(2) Language is of least significance in a fact-oriented subject like Social Science
(3) Only a language teacher can do justice to the teaching-learning rocess of Social Science

(4) Since language is imortant, a Social Science teacher should include comrehension and
grammar questions in Social Science tests
78. Which of the following statements is incorrect about Social Science ?
(1) Social Science encomasses diverse concerns of society, including historical, geograhical,
economic and olitical dimensions
(2) Social Science creates and widens human values such as freedom, resect for diversity, etc.
(3) As Social Science deals with eole, the nature of enquiry is not scientific
(4) Social Science lays the foundations for an analytical and creative mindset
79. Which of the following is not a source material for writing oral history ?
(1) The anecdotes of a erson who articiated in the ‘Quit India Movement’
(2) A British soldier’s oral account of the Seoy Mutiny
(3) The memories of a erson who migrated to akistan from India at the time of artition
(4) A scholar talking about today’s education system
80. Which of the following statements about the title of NCERT History textbook, ‘Our asts’, as
exressed by the authors, is not correct ?
(1) It is about the asts of neighbouring countries
(2) It does not talk about the times of kings and queens only
(3) It tries to bring out contribution of various grous or communities like farmers and artisans
(4) It emhasizes the notion that India does not have just ‘one ast’ but ‘many asts’
81. The following question is given under the heading ‘Let’s discuss’ at the end of a chater :
‘Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally kee records of what they did ?’
What is the relevance of asking this question ?
(1) Such questions encourage guesswork and so should not be given
(2) Ordinary men and women lead common lives. There is nothing great or of significance to
write about them
(3) It is good to ignite a discussion and let students come out with their reasoning
(4) Questions which do not have fixed answers should not be given, as they will confuse the
students
82. Which tye of questions will not develo critical thinking among students ?
(1) Closed-ended questions
(2) Oen-ended questions
(3) robing questions
(4) Divergent questions
83. While discussing gender roles in the classroom, you would assert that
(1) there are different rofessions for men and women
(2) boys need to attend school as they are the future earning members of the family
(3) gender stereotyes in society need to be addressed meaningfully
(4) household work should not be seen as roductive
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84. The aroach of the ‘Social and olitical Life’ textbooks of NCERT is to

(1) give the learner one correct answer for a question
(2) focus the attention of the learners on the factual content of lessons
(3) use definitions to sum u a concet
(4) use case studies and narratives to exlain concets
85. Which of the following questions would hel build the critical thinking skills of students ?
(1) ‘All communicable diseases are water borne’. State whether true or false.
(2) Comment on the ‘double burden of women’s work’.
(3) Write two measures the government has adoted to control ollution.
(4) What is the government’s role in Indian Health and Indian Education ?
86. You are teaching ‘Unity in Diversity’ to the students of Class-VIII. Which of the following activities
would you do to make the students understand the concet effectively ?
(1) Write an essay on the river disutes between States of India
(2) reare a model of the Hydro-electric roject near the school
(3) Conduct a test after the lesson is thoroughly taught
(4) resent a feature on the different dance forms of our country areciating their underlying
similarities and differences
87. Diagnostic testing in Social Science will hel a teacher understand
(1) the art of the toic the student has not memorised
(2) learning difficulties a student is facing in Social Science
(3) how revision work has heled her students
(4) how intelligent her students are
88. Choose the most inaroriate statement regarding teaching of Social Science in middle school.
(1) Social Science should be taught as it hels to acquire an understanding of human
relationshis
(2) Social Science should be taught as it hels sensitize children regarding social reality
(3) Social Science should be taught because it hels students debate and reflect on social issues
(4) Social Science should be a art of the curriculum so that the learners know about the lives of
kings and the battles they fought
89. Doing activities with children will be effective only if
(1) the teacher does not know why she is doing it
(2) the teacher conducts them to comlete her ‘Lesson lan’
(3) the teacher does them as a retence to obey her rincial’s directions for activity-based
learning
(4) she believes that activity-based education will hel the child in understanding the concets
90. Which of the following should not be a art of the Social Science instructional rocess ?
(1) lanning

(2) Dictation of facts
(3) Feedback mechanism
(4) Imlementation
ART IV
LANGUAGE I
ENGLISH
Directions : Read the assage given below and answer the
questions that follow (Q. No. 91 to 99) by selecting the most
aroriate otion.
Surviving a Snakebite
1 Annually, there are a million cases of
snakebite in India and of these, close to
50,000 succumb to the bites.
2 When you look around the countryside,
where most bites occur, and notice
eole’s habits and lifestyles, these
figures aren’t surrising. eole walk
barefoot without a torch at night when
they are most likely to ste on a
foraging venomous snake.
3 We encourage rodents by disosing
waste food out in the oen, or by storing
foodgrains in the house. Attracted by
the smell of rats, snakes enter houses
and when one crawls over someone
aslee on the floor and the erson
twitches or rolls over, it may bite in
defence.
4 Once bitten, we don’t rush to the
hosital. Instead, we seek out the
nearest conman, tie tourniquets, eat
vile tasting herbal chutneys, aly
oultices or surious stones,
cut/slice/suck the bitten sot, and other
ghastly time-consuming deadly
‘‘remedies’’.
5 As Rom cattily remarks : ‘‘If the snake
hasn’t injected enough venom, even
oing an asirin can save your life.’’
That’s the key — snakes inject venom
voluntarily and we have no way of
knowing if it has injected venom, and if
it is a lethal dose. The only first aid is to
immobilise the bitten limb like you
would a fracture, and get to a hosital
for anti-venom serum without wasting
time.
91. Of the eole who are bitten by snakes in
India, the fatality rate is
(1) 5%
(2) 25%
(3) 50%
(4) 100%
92. According to the author, eole living in
which arts are more rone to snake bites ?
(1) Crowded cities
(2) The oen
(3) Villages
(4) Forests
93. Storing foodgrains in the house is one of the
causes for snake bites because
(1) foodgrains attract rats which in turn
attract snakes
(2) snakes enter houses in search of stored
foodgrains
(3) the smell of foodgrains brings both
snakes and other animals into the
house
(4) stored foodgrains create convenient
hiding laces for snakes within houses
94. ‘... it may bite in defence’ (ara-3). This
observation imlies that
(1) a snake is very good at defending itself
(2) a snake may bite a human being in
order to defend its rey
(3) human beings are defenceless against
snakes
(4) a snake bites a human only when it is
threatened
95. What, according to the author, is the reason
for the high fatality rate due to snakebites in
India ?
( 48 )

(1) Shortage of medical facilities
(2) Lack of scientific knowledge about
snakebites
(3) Shortage of anti-venom serum
(4) Shortage of doctors
96. In the instance of a snakebite, what should
we do immediately ?
(1) Tie torniquets
(2) Eat herbal chutneys
(3) Immobilise the bitten art and get antivenom
serum
(4) Cut-slice-suck the bitten sot
97. ick out a word from the assage which
means ‘to go around in search of food’. (ara
2)
(1) foraging
(2) countryside
(3) venomous
(4) barefoot
98. ‘‘If the snake hasn’t injected enough venom,
even oing an asirin can save your life.’’
This sentence can be rewritten without
changing the meaning as
(1) When a snake has not injected enough
venom, life can be saved even by
swallowing an asirin.
(2) Life can be saved even by swallowing an
asirin, even though the snake hasn’t
injected enough venom.
(3) Even oing an asirin can save your
life, in site of a snake not having
injected enough venom.
(4) As long as you are oing an asirin to
save your life, the snake will not inject
enough venom.
99. ick out a word from the assage, that means
‘having the ower to cause death’. (ara 5)
(1) immobilise
(2) voluntarily
(3) lethal
(4) serum
Directions : Read the oem given below and answer the
questions that follow (Q. No. 100–105) by selecting the
most aroriate otion.
Common Cold
1 Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
You shall not sneer at me.
ick u your hat and stethoscoe,
Go wash your mouth with laundry soa;
I contemlate a joy exquisite
I’m not aying you for your visit.
I did not call you to be told
My malady is a common cold.
2 By ounding brow and swollen li;
By fever’s hot and scaly gri;
By those two red redundant eyes
That wee like woeful Aril skies;
By racking snuffle, snort, and sniff;
By handkerchief after handkerchief;
This cold you wave away as naught
Is the damnedest cold man ever caught !
3 Bacilli swarm within my ortals
Such as were ne’er conceived by mortals,
But bred by scientists wise and hoary
In some Olymic laboratory;
Bacteria as large as mice,
With feet of fire and heads of ice
Who never interrut for slumber
Their staming elehantine rumba.
100. What is the emotion that the oet dislays in
the first stanza ?
(1) Anger
(2) Joy
(3) Jealousy
(4) Symathy

101. Why and at whom does the oet show his
emotion ?
(1) At an old man because he has sneered
at the oet
(2) At a doctor for an incorrect diagnosis of
his medical condition
(3) At a friend who is hay at the oet’s
light
(4) At a doctor who has said the oet
merely has a cold
102. The oet describes his eyes as ‘two red
redundant eyes’ because
(1) he cannot see roerly due to the cold
(2) they show how furious the oet is
(3) they have been affected by an eyedisease
(4) in his medical condition the oet is
imagining things
103. ‘Bacteria as large as mice’ is an instance of
a/an
(1) simile and a hyerbole
(2) metahor
(3) ersonification
(4) alliteration
104. ‘Who never interrut for slumber
Their staming elehantine rumba.’
The meaning of these lines is that
(1) the bacteria are continuously staming
their elehant-like feet
(2) the cold-causing germs are causing
much discomfort and ain to the oet
without any break
(3) the bacilli are so active that they refuse
to go to slee
(4) the oet is not able to concentrate on his
work due to the raging cold
105. The general tone of the oem can be described
as
(1) satirical and harsh
(2) ironical and mocking
(3) whimsical and humorous
(4) sad and tragic
Directions : Answer the following questions by selecting the
most aroriate otion.
106. The Constructivist Aroach to learning
means
(1) involving the students in a variety of
activities to encourage them to learn
new words and structures by
accommodating them with those that
they have already learnt through a
rocess of discovery
(2) teaching rules of grammar and
consolidating through rigorous ractice
(3) heling learners acquire new vocabulary
by studying literature intensively
(4) teaching new words and structures
using a variety of audio-visual aids
followed by ractice through drill
107. What is the skill among the ones given below
that cannot be tested in a formal written
examination ?
(1) Reading for information
(2) Meaning of words and hrases
(3) Extensive reading for leasure
(4) Analysing texts
108. Which of the following is suitable for making
students resonsible for their own learning ?
(1) Discouraging students from making
decisions about how they learn best
(2) Using technology to chat and network
(3) Encouraging students to ask more and
more questions
(4) Giving a lot of homework, roject work
and assignments to imrove language
skills of students
109. Ania, while teaching aragrah construction,
should draw attention to
(1) a large variety of ideas
(2) originality of ideas
(3) toic sentence, suorting details and
connectors
(4) a range of vocabulary
( 49 )

110. Communicative Language Teaching is
concerned with
(1) teaching of vocabulary and grammar
through rules of selling and language
(2) teaching language to learners for
written tests
(3) interreting grammar rules to suit the
audience
(4) enhancing recetive and roductive
skills such as seaking, listening,
reading and writing
111. Formative Assessment is assessment
(1) of learning
(2) at learning
(3) in learning
(4) for learning
112. The term ‘Comrehensive’ in Continuous and
Comrehensive Evaluation means
(1) scholastic develoment
(2) co-scholastic develoment
(3) academic skills
(4) scholastic and co-scholastic develoment
113. A teacher designs a test to find out the cause
of the oor grades of her learners through
a/an
(1) Diagnostic Test
(2) roficiency Test
(3) Achievement Test
(4) Atitude Test
114. An inclusive class is that in which
(1) differently abled learners study with
normal students
(2) students from different nationalities
study together
(3) students from different religions study
together
(4) both boys and girls study together
115. ‘Concrete Oerational Stage’ refers to those
learners who are
(1) adolescents
(2) at middle level
(3) toddlers
(4) adults
116. When learners are engaged in a air activity,
taking on roles of a doctor and a atient, the
activity is called
(1) Real Activity
(2) Declamation
(3) Simulation
(4) Exchanging notes
117. Essays or long writing tasks esecially on a
discursive issue should
(1) hel students develo their literary
skills
(2) hel students with grammar
(3) hel them to imrove their handwriting
(4) hel them discuss the different oints of
view and justify them with illustrative
oints
118. A teacher, Amrita, uses various tasks such as
creating charts, grahs, drawing, gathering
information and resenting them through
air or grou work. This differentiated
instruction
(1) hels learners with multile
intelligences to erform well and learn
better
(2) is a way of demonstrating her own
knowledge
(3) only hels the bright learners
(4) is the best way to reare students for
an assessment
119. Using a word bank and brainstorming hels
to build
(1) Vocabulary
(2) Ideas
(3) Writing skills
(4) Reading comrehension
120. Gender stereotyes and bias among learners
can be discouraged by
(1) enabling all learners to cook and sew
irresective of gender
(2) using textbooks which do not eretuate
such beliefs
(3) creating an oen and encouraging
atmoshere in a mixed class
(4) ressuring girls to learn cooking
( 50 )
A
ART V
LANGUAGE II
ENGLISH
Directions : Read the assage given below and
answer the questions that follow (Q. No. 121 to 129)
by selecting the most aroriate otion.
1 If you are living in a house with a child on
the cus of becoming a teenager,
congratulations. I’m not being sarcastic; you
are about to embark on an amazing voyage.
It may be a bumy ride, but on the journey
your child will grow, change and blossom
into the adult she will one day become. If
you are living with an older teenager, I won’t
try to sugar coat it : you will meet
challenges. The raging hormones; the
ressures of exams; the angst of
relationshis with friends and eventually
lovers — modern teenagers are under so
much ressure, it’s no wonder they get
moody !
2 Living with teens can be difficult because
your child is in the rocess of great change.
Gone is the baby who adored you without
question; only shadows remain of the child
who hung on your every word of wisdom.
Your teenager is becoming a young adult,
trying to find his way in the world. He is
now rogrammed to reject your values and
kick against your authority. Some days,
when arguments are raging, music is
blaring, dishes ile u in the sink and your
daughter misses her curfew again, you may
feel that you just can’t bear it any longer.
3 But if you take a ste backwards, breathing
deely for a moment, you will be able to see
that most of the roblems and irritations we
have arenting teens are small ones. It’s
only because we are so close to them that
they look so big. It’s all about ersective.
Your baby is metamorhosing into the adult
he or she will be, and it’s hard to watch. You
want to save them from making your
mistakes, and make their lives easier. News
flash : you can’t. What you can—and must—
do is always be there to listen. There will be
times when you are the last erson she
wants to talk to, but you must make sure
the oortunity is always there. Be
available.
Source : Raising Teenagers
Lynn Huggins-Cooer (adated)
121. According to the author, living with a
teenager is like an ‘amazing voyage’ because
(1) during this voyage the arent will see
the teenager blossoming into an adult
(2) the voyage will be very bumy and
dangerous
(3) both the teenager and the arent will
get to see many amazing sights
(4) the vogage will take them to different
wonderful laces on the earth
122. ‘I won’t try to sugar coat it’ — By this what
the author wants to convey is that
(1) she does not want to hide the fact that
arenting a teenager is full of
challenges
(2) arenting is very challenging and
arents must be reared for it in a
gentle manner
(3) arenting teenagers is like taking an
unleasant cure for an ailment
(4) she does not want to flatter the arents
into believing that they are caable of
managing teenagers
123. Modern teenagers easily become annoyed or
unhay for no reason because of
(1) the hormonal imbalance that is
characteristic of this eriod of
develoment
(2) the failed relationshis with friends and
lovers
(3) failing in examinations
(4) the enormous stress they exerience at
this age
124. ‘Only shadows remain of the child ...’. The
word ‘shadows’ here refers to
(1) faint traces of the adoring child
(2) old memories of the teenager
(3) old memories of the arents
(4) the darker asect of the growing
teenager
125. ‘Kick against your authority’ is a
manifestation of a teenager’s
(1) innate tendency to become hysically
violent
(2) natural rebellious tendency
(3) excessive sentimentality
(4) need for identification with family
values
126. ‘He is now rogrammed to reject your values’
imlies that the teenager
(1) behaves in such a way because of
biological factors
(2) derives much leasure in going against
the family
(3) is caable of rogramming his
behaviour carefully
(4) rejects arents’ values out of sheer site
127. The author says that arents cannot revent
their teenage children from making mistakes.
What is his advice to the arents ?
(1) Be available for consultations and listen
to the teenagers
(2) Don’t try to save the teenagers or make
their lives easier
(3) Be the last erson to aroach the
teenagers with advice
(4) Do not watch the children growing u at
this stage because it can be ainful
128. ick out a word from the first aragrah of
the above assage that means ‘strong feelings
of anxiety and unhainess.’
(1) angst
(2) raging
(3) sarcastic
(4) cus
129. Living with teens can be difficult because
your child is in the rocess of great change.
The underlined art of this sentence is a/an
(1) adverb clause
(2) adjective clause
(3) reositional hrase
(4) noun clause
Directions : Read the oem given below and answer the
questions (Q. No. 130–135) that follow by choosing the
most aroriate otion.
The Hand Holders:
A Tribute To Caregivers
There is no job more imortant than yours,
no job anywhere else in the land.
You are the keeers of the future;
you hold the smallest of hands.
Into your care you are trusted
to nurture and care for the young,
and for all of your everyday heroics,
your talents and skills go unsung.
You wie tears from the eyes of the injured.
You rock babies brand new in your arms.
You encourage the shy and unsure child.
You make sure they are safe from all harm.
You foster the bonds of friendshis,
letting no child go away mad.
You resect and you honour their emotions.
You give hugs to each child when they’re sad.
You have more imact than does a rofessor,
a child’s mind is moulded by four;
so whatever you lay on the table
is whatever the child will exlore.
Give each child the tools for adventure,
let them be artists and writers and more;
let them fly on the wind and dance on the stars
and build castles of sand on the shore.
It is true that you don’t make much money
and you don’t get a whole lot of raise,
but when one small child says ‘‘I love you’’,
you’re reminded of how this job ays.
Author unknown
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130. The exression ‘the smallest of hands’ refers
to
(1) babies
(2) caregivers with small hands
(3) arents with small hands
(4) eole with small hands
131. Though caregivers look after the young they
are
(1) never tired of their work
(2) not roerly recognised
(3) not loved by the children under their
care
(4) aid very well in return
132. A caregiver has more influence on a child
than a rofessor because
(1) the child generally refers a caregiver to
a rofessor
(2) the rofessor is not caable of roviding
love to a child
(3) the child sends the formative years
with the caregiver
(4) the caregiver can teach better than a
rofessor
133. What is the most valuable gift that a
caregiver gets ?
(1) Acknowledgement of the society
(2) raise from the arents
(3) Money for her services
(4) Love from children
134. ‘You give hugs to each child when they’re sad.’
This act can be described as one of
(1) emathy
(2) encouragement
(3) recrimination
(4) reassurance
135. ‘Letting no child go away mad’ — the meaning
of this line is
(1) no child is allowed to be angry for long
(2) no child is ermitted to go away from
school without ermission
(3) no child is allowed to become mad
(4) no caregiver is ermitted to be mad with
a child
Directions : Answer the following questions by selecting the
most aroriate otion.
136. Which among the following is a feature of a
child-centred language classroom ?
(1) Teacher gives instructions and exects
children to obey and be discilined
(2) Children interact in the target language
through tasks that require multile
intelligences
(3) Children work individually to reare
rojects
(4) Teacher lans assessment every day
137. Fluency in English can be develoed through
(1) creating oortunities to use the target
language for communication
(2) the teacher talking for most of the time
(3) the teacher being alert to sot the errors
and correct them
(4) allowing students who are not confident
to have the freedom to be quiet
138. An effective lesson for teaching a language
begins with
(1) listing the learning objectives of the
lesson
(2) resenting the content of the lesson
(3) recaitulation and motivation through
fun activity
(4) writing on the blackboard
139. Some noise in the language class indicates
(1) indisciline of learners
(2) teacher’s lack of control over the class
(3) incometence of the teacher
(4) constructive activities with learners
engaged in language learning
140. Enquiry-based learning
(1) does not lace students in thought
rovoking situations
(2) encourages quiet learners
(3) does not nurture creative thinking in
students
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(4) allows learners to raise questions
141. Effective learning takes lace when students
are
(1) assive
(2) interactive
(3) quiet
(4) good at rearing for examinations
142. In large language classes, grou work can be
accomlished by
(1) asking 4–5 students to sit together on a
narrow bench desite lack of sace
(2) asking students to turn around for
grou work
(3) asking all students to stand in a circle
(4) asking half the class to go out to the
layground
143. A test to assess the otential of students for
secific abilities and skills such as music,
satial ability or logical ability is called a/an
(1) roficiency Test
(2) Atitude Test
(3) Attitude Test
(4) Achievement Test
144. A teacher can develo listening skills in
English by
(1) seaking to them continuously both
within the classroom and outside
(2) focusing only on listening skills without
associating it with other language skills
(3) making the learners listen to everything
they hear assively
(4) creating oortunities for them to listen
to a variety of sources and eole and
engage in listening activities
145. Which of the following is best suited for
imroving the seaking skills of learners ?
(1) Recitation of oetry
(2) Reading a rose and drama aloud
(3) Oral language drill
(4) Debates and grou discussions followed
by role lay
146. Which of the following will be most effective
to remove conventional beliefs about gender
roles ?
(1) Showing a icture in which the mother
is seen cooking and the father is seen
reading a newsaer
(2) Teaching all the learners to swee,
wash and sew in the craft class without
any gender discrimination
(3) Encouraging girls to develo interest in
household chores from a young age
(4) Telling the girls that talking freely is
not a trait of good girls
147. The Right of Children to Free and
Comulsory Education Act, 2009 has ‘overall
develoment’ as an aim. It means
(1) training the children for the
develoment of the country
(2) nurturing both the scholastic and coscholastic
areas
(3) coaching all the children for academic
excellence
(4) training the children for different
careers
148. A lay can be best taught by
(1) making the students read it silently a
number of times to understand the
story
(2) encouraging the students to stage the
lay after working in grous to
understand the lot, characters etc.
(3) asking a number of questions to test the
comrehension of the students
(4) conducting a test with secific questions
on the story and grammar items
149. A class is reading a story based in a village.
The teacher asks some students to mark the
villages in an outline ma of their locality.
Some other students are asked to collect
information about the different cros grown
in these villages. Yet another grou works on
the nutritional value of the grains, fruits and
vegetables grown in the locality. Later the
students exchange their work and have a
class discussion, relating the information with
the story. What is the underlying rincile of
this aroach ?
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(1) Treating knowledge in secific segments
based on geograhy, science, language,
etc.
(2) Making connections across discilines
and bringing out the inter-relatedness
of knowledge
(3) Teaching language through written
assignments and rojects
(4) Giving imortance to the ractical and
scholastic asects of literary ieces
150. ‘‘Schools need to become centres that reare
children for life and ensure that all children,
esecially the differently abled, children from
marginalised sections, and children in
difficult circumstances get the maximum
benefit of this critical area of education.’’ —
This observation found in the National
Curriculum Framework-2005 is related to
(1) Inclusive education
(2) Constructivist learning
(3) Gender equality
(4) Critical edagogy