1.

___ tests measure the extent of students

learning in a given content area.
A. Aptitude Positive practice
B. Diagnostic a student is rude to you, which strategy
C. Readiness would you adopt as a teacher?

D. Achievement A. Punish the student

2. “Anything can be B. Argue with the student

development”,
C. Express shock at such behaviour
A. Jean D. Remind the student of classroom rules
B. Jerome Bruner 6. What will be the IQ of a 25 years old boy
C. David Ausdbel whose mental age is 16?

D. Albert Banjrora A. 50

____isrhe degree to which a test measures what B. 64

it issupposed to measure?
C. 75
A. Validity
D. 100
B. Usability
7. Social change would bring a change in
C. Reliability which of the following?
D. Objectivity A. Human relationship
4. _____means reinforcing each small step to B. Structure of the society
wards a desired goal or behaviour.
C. Attitudes, ideals and values
A. Cuing
D. All of the above

1. D 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. D 6. B 7. D 8. B
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8. Which of the following are the characteristics 15. Their experiences

of a person with scientific attitude? 16. Inherited potentitalities
A. Brevity 17. Interaction of nature and nurture
B. Objectivity A. Social pressure on the individual
C. Adventure 18. For____, ‘Experimentation’ the standard
D. Sharp memory procedure to know the truth?

9. The concept of ‘SUPW’ was elucidated by A. Science

B. Geography
A. Adiseshiah Committee C. Archeology
B. Ramamurthi Committee D. Public Administration
19. The____amendem ental
C. Sampurnanand Committee
Duties” added to the India?
D. Ishwar Bhai Patel Review Committee
A. 41st Am
10. Who became the first Minister of Education
in the Indian government? B. 42nd
A. Shri M. C. Chagla C. 43rd Ame
B. Dr. K. L. Shrimali . 44th Amend
ndjeffect relationships are studied
C. Shri Humayun Kabir

D. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

11. On which list is education in Indi
Comparative
stitution?
A. State list C. Experimental

B. Central list D. Developmental

18. The development of a student’s personality is
C. Concurrent list
affected the most by________
D. None of the A. Discipline at institute
12. Computer Assiste on is based on B. Emotional climate at home
____pri
C. Inherited assets and liabilities
A. Operant ditioning
D. Social orientation of peers and elders
tioning
19. Which of the following situations would
ovia onditioning the best for maximum transfer of learning?
ndent Conditioning A. Similar tasks requiring different re-
h of the following is Doordarshan’s sponses
Educational Television B. Similar tasks requiring the same re-
Channel? sponse
A. Vidya
C. Different tasks requiring different re-
B. Gurukul
sponses
C. Gyan Bharati
D. Different tasks requiring the same re-
D. Gyan Darshan
sponse
14. Which of the following affects an individual’s
20. Which one of the following is the most im-
development at a given time?
portant elements in teaching?

9. D 10. D 11. C 12. A 13. D 14. C 15. A 16. B 17. C 18. B 19. D 20. D
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A. Subject matter 26. ____is the apex institution involved in the
planned and coordinated development of the
B. Student’s knowledge
teacher education system in the country.
C. Teaching techniques and aids used
D. Relationship between teachers and students A. UGC
You want to ensure participation of more
B. NCTE
21. students in class. Which of the following
methods of teaching would you adopt? C. NCERT

D. None of these
A. Role-play
27. What makes an adolescent re
B. Recitation Authority?
C. Discussion
A. He thinks that he is
D. Demonstration
B. He thinks that enough
22. To make learning effective, a goal must be
meaningful in terms_______ C. He believ es not need any
advice
A. Intellectual ideas
D. His nition and indepen-
B. Standards of others
d action
C. Objectives of the curriculum
t tojdevelop cooperation and team
D. The needs and purposes of students ifit in Students? Which activities would
23. Which of the following items of informa pose?
tion are important about students to mot
vate them for studies?
A. Personality Quiz

Debate
B. Learning style
C. Socio-cultural backg Project work

D. All of the abov 29. What is the main purpose of punishment to

24. ____is the pro ou identify students?
the common aspects c relationships A. Reform the offender
in a variety
B. Demonstrate authority
onin
C. Protect others from doing the same

ization D. Retaliate for the wrong that has been

done
em Solving
30. Why is Environment Awareness necessary at all
ou want to improve the ability to ob-
stages of education?
erve in children, which of the following
would you recommend? A. Important for human survival
A. Sharpening the senses B. Environment varies from region to region
B. Training mental faculties
C. Generating interest in subject C. Man must control and change environment
D. Developing a framework for experiences
D. None of the above

21. C 22. D 23. D 24. C 25. B 26. B 27. D 28. D 29. A 30. B 31. B
10 Chapter 1. Basic fact about education systems

31. “Recall the face of the poorest and weakest A. Obey teacher’s command
man whom you may have seen, and ask B. Submit home-work on time
yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to
be of any use to him”. Who said these lines? C. Improve their own capabilities
D. Score best grades in the class
37. How can a teacher develop creativity in himself
A. Zakir Husain and the learners?
B. Mahatma Gandhi
A. Set new tasks
C. Lal Bahadur Shastri B. By praising any creative work
D. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel C. By playing thought pr
32. Having variety of question sets in a question D. By giving new up Ao-date i
paper increases it__________ 38. What is the best wa
A. Validity solve the problems in &Ac
A. Ask for eachef^s opinion
B. Difficulty
B. Depe opinion
C. Reliability
Principal gives
D. Objectivity gestions offered by the
33. ____is the quality of a good teacher. implement the good ones
A. Sense of humour you make your students inde-

B. Physical strength gnoring their petty fights

C. Control over emotions Solving their problems for them
D. Good command over th C. Give responsibility to everyone
34. Which of the followi D. Giving orders and expecting obedience
ways of learning f 40. Why is ‘learning by doing’ important?

A. Each child h 41. Maintains discipline

B. Speed of learning is s ?for all students 42. Keeps children busy

43. Promotes meaningful learning
C. Childre the way other students
D. It develops interest among children
41. For a teacher teaching a class wit large
n immediately follow
strength, which of the techniques is best?
teacher’s instruction
A. Lecture and class notes
ould a teacher be related to his
B. Group work with a lecture
C. Debate, discussions, practicals
How independent views
D. Self study and asking questions
Should copy other teacher’s style 42. Talking and indiscipline in classroom is an
Should not intervene in other’s work indication of______
A. Indisciplined students
Suggest each other the effective ways
B. Confusion about things taught
to teach
36. A teacher should encourage the students to C. Not summarising lecture points
D. Boredom casued by repetitiveness

32. C 33. D 34. A 35. D 36. D 37. C 38. D 39. C 40. D 41. A 42. D
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43. You have a mixed class of boys and girls. 49. Learning in the mother-tongue helps a student
Which method would you adopt to improve to_________what is being taught.
co-operation between them? A. Create
A. Talking about equality in lessons B. Interpret
B. Asking parents to discuss equality C. Reproduce
C. Making boys and girls share a bench D. Easily comprehend
D. Setting tasks which have to be done to 50. Which educational psychologist belie
gether the fact that ‘All children have the noten
to learn’?
44. You are training in public speaking and de-
bate. Which of the following characteristics A. John Dewey
can you not expect to develop? B. Friedrich Frobel
A. Concept C. Maria Montess
B. Voice modulation D. Johann Fri
C. Control over emotions 51. A student is ‘Ex hen his perfor-
mance is
D. Using language creatively
elow ge student
45. What is the use of text book in a class?
verage student
A. Set new standards
to the average student
B. To delimit what is to be taught
b'ove or below the average student
C. To explain ideas and concepts en is the best time to evaluate a stu-
D. To achieve learning objectives ent’s performance?
46. Which subject tries to unders A. When the instruction have begun
of man in changing his enviro
B. When the instruction have ended
A. History
C. Throughout the instructional process
B. Biology
C. Only at the end of major units of instruc-
C. Geograph
tion
D. Political When was the National Adult Education
Why is teacher training necessary? Programme (NAEP) launched?
47.
A*4 A. 1975
satio rstand methods of school organi-
B. 1976
C. 1977
de knowledge of content
D. 1978
u Increase teaching skills
54. When is ‘National Teachers Day’ cele-
. All the above brated?
48. Study of_____improves a students ability to A. January 15
experiment and analyse
B. February 28
A. Science
C. September 5
B. History D. October 5
C. Language 55. What advantage do objective type tests have
D. Mathematics over essay tests?

43. D 44. C 45. D 46. C 47. D 48. A 49. D 50. B 51. D 52. C 53. D 54. C 55. C
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A. They are easier to interpret A. Reprimand them

B. They take less time to prepare B. Stop teaching for a while

C. Give a command seeking attention
C. The sampling content can be wider
D. Provide them a chance to be physically
D. They require less technical knowledge active
56. Equalisation of educational opportunity is 62. ‘National Policy on Education’ 1986 was
provided in_____of Indian Constitution. reviewed by_____
A. Article 41 A. Ramamurti Committee
B. Adielsehiah Committe
B. Article 42
C. Sampurnanand Committee
C. Article 44
D. Iswar Bhai Patel
D. Article 45 63. Suppose you get a Hirijji
who has lear student
57. How can forgetting be minimised?
sentence nglisH^ He is given five
A. Recitation glish. As an slate dm Hindi to En-
ich aspect would
B. Cramming
e in him?
C. Overlearning
thesis
D. Discrimination on
58. What would you do if you find two stude edge
of your class fighting?
nderstanding
A. Ignore the fight e issue of ‘academic burden on students’
was examined by_______
B. Punish both of them
A. Mathur Committee
C. Ignore the aggresso
B. Yashpal Committee
D. Punish the aggressive
C. Adielshiah Committee
59. Where is the Fi
D. Iswar Bhai Patel Committee
cational Educatio
-----is the apex institution in the area of
A. Bho training educational planners and adminis-
trators?
B. ^Mumbai
A. SIE
C. ~
B. NCTE
D. Coimbatore
C. NIEPA
60. The major disadvantage of punishment in
D. NCERT
education is that______
) 66. ____is the major cause of difference in the
A. It prevents team work classroom behaviour of boys and girls.

B. It generates unpleasant feelings A. Job aspirations

B. Educational levels
C. It causes embarrassment in children
D. It does not solve the problem permanently C. Societal expectations

61. What would you do if you notice that students D. Developmental differences
tend to doze off in your class? 67. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly
matched?

66. C 67. B
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A. Piaget - Moral Development 73. ___undertook the innovative project ‘Lok

Jumbish People’s movement for Education
B. Thorndike - Theory X and Y
for AH’?
C. Maslow - Hierarchy of Needs A. Bihar
D. Skinner - Programmed Learning B. Rajasthan
68. What is the biggest advantage of interaction C. Uttar Pradesh
between the teacher and the students?
D. Madhya Pradesh
A. It satisfies the teacher 74. Can a teacher suspend a student?
B. It facilitates effective learning A. Ye
C. It results in better group relations s
B. No
D. It encourages the students to ask ques- C. Doubt
tions
D. May not sure
69. ___cannot be adopted for effective class-
75. A blackboard cannot
room teaching.
A. Show schematic diagr s
A. Use of technological aids
B. Impro aragraph
B. Improving classroom climate
akin eports based on information
C. Manipulating teaching methods
f relationships between facts
D. Teaching latest trends and advances
70. Majority of the students in a class misb are held to______
have, what does it tell you? Assess learners skills
A. Too many rules Identify learning problems
B. Lack of a code of conduct Identify the level of learning
C. Presence of distractions in t Rank students for selection

D. General indiscipline 77. Which of the following policies was intro-

duced in 1975?
71. Young adolescents ess their
A. Macauly Report

A. Their c B. Radhakrishnan Report

eedom C. Kothari Commission Report

D. Curriculum for the 10 year school
inadequacy
78. The purpose of the textbook is to provide
1 discipline imposed
e an aggressive student in your A. A material to teachers to base teaching
lass' Which of the following would you on
opt to handle him?
B. Reading and reference materials for the
A. Punish him teachers
B. Allow him the opportunity to act C. A learning material based on a syllabus
aggressively to a learner

C. Put him in a highly frustrating and en- D. A material forming the basis and con-
barrassing situation tent for examinations
79. What is the purpose of the assignments in
D. Make him aware of the harmful
consequences of aggression the text book?

68. B 69. D 70. D 71. B 72. D 73. B 74. B 75. C 76. A 77. D 78. C 79. B
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A. To aid teachers 86. What is the importance of having devel-

B. To provide practice to the learners oped senses?

C. To act as a guidance for the unit tests A. To achieve happiness

D. To helpd learner revise and review the B. For physical well being
chapter C. Other learnings depend on them
80. The aim of the Charter Act of 1813 was_____ D. For all round mental development
81. To spend money on education 87. Which subject explains and apprec
82. To spread education worldwide contribution of the past to the pres
83. Government control on education A. History
A. To make English education common B. Economics
84. If your purpose is_____, group work is not a C. Sociology
good idea.
D. Geogra
A. Division of work and responsibility
88. Educati
B. To overcoming learning difficulties
A. Mostly in
C. To improve coordination and sharing
Given in G uls by a sage
D. To identify different aspects of a prob-
lem eant for the removal of inequality
82. ‘Generation gap’ refers to_______ ed to the princely classes and
A. Problems of teenagers
is not an objective of Formal Educa-
B. Attitude of adults to teenage
tion.
C. The growing awareness
A. Self-paced learning
D. Difference in valu
groups B. Teacher-centered learning
83. Choice of a vocation C. Learning discipline-based content

A. Ease of admi D. Comparing high and low achievers

Inter and skills learner 90. A student in your class is guilty of stealing.
What would you do?
Subjects'^student learnt at school
A. Send the child to the police
ed by the occupation
o slow learners. B. Publicly demand an apology

laying C. Punish and make the child repay

Creative writing
C. Learning by rote
D. Mechanical repetition of an action
85. Why should a teacher be an idealist and set
examples?
A. Teacher is an adult
B. Teacher is a paternal figure
C. Students do not have values
D. Students usually imitate teachers
D. Find the cause of the behaviour and ex-
plain the effects of stealing
91. EFA Programme is involved in______
A. Removing poverty
B. Removing illiteracy
C. Providing primary education to all
D. Improving administration of schools
92. ___is not an objective of the Adult Literacy
Program.

80. A 81. D 82. D 83. B 84. C 85. D 86. C 87. A 88. B 89. A 90. D 91. C 92. B
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A. Flexibility of time to learn A. Edgar Dale

B. Training women entrepreneurs B. Jeanne Clum
c. Providing work related literacy kits c. Ponting Barry
D. Providing literacy and health Education D. Jereme Krusner
99. Which of the following would you use
93. What is the most important contribution that a shape the habits?
teacher can make in the classroom?
A. Training
A. Develop interest in the lesson
B. Teaching
B. Set high achievement levels
C. Indoctrination
C. Impart knowledge of the subject
D. None of these
D. Reduce tension and make learning creative
100. A consultant or a
How would you improve student participation uation process in a p ay, which
94. in classroom activity? of the at
followi
A. Business analysi
A. By holding tests
ice
B. By giving written assignments
agement
C. By group activity and reporting
management
D. By reading textual information
ave a student who has failed in a
95. What type of teachers are appreciated?
irticular class. How will you motivate
A. Friendly lis student to study sincerely in the same
class?
B. With charming personality
A. By friend’s counselling
C. The one exercising strict c
his students B. By teacher’s counselling
D. The one who u roblems C. By guardian’s counselling
of students and hel
D. By psychological counselling
96. The scheme ring and Re-
102. As a principle, how would you behave
organizatio ached was approved in
with below average students?

A. Generously

B. 1 B. Won’t pay any attention

C. Same as with other students
D. Won’t allow them in the next class
called perceptional level learning. 103. A teacher should be_______towards his stu
Seen to unseen dents?
A. Tolerant
B. Simple to complex
B. Supreme
C. Known to unknown
C. Outspoken
D. Concrete to abstract
D. Sympathetic
98. The ‘Cone of Experience’ was developed by —
104. NLM stands for

93. D 94. C 95. D 96. A 97. A 98. A 99. A 100. B 101. D 102. A 103. A 104. C
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A. National Liberty Mission C. Froebel

B. National Labour Mission D. Montessori
C. National Literacy Mission C. Prof. A.H. Whitehead
D. National Literacy Movement D. All of the above
105. Its your first day in a class, what would 111. How do we get knowledge and how can
you do? we be sure it is true and not error? This
area of philosophy is called
A. Smile at everyone
A. Epistemology
B. Evaluate the subject
Introduce yourself to the students B. Beyond Philosophy
C.
D. Ask the students to stay disciplined C. Neurology

106. How would you dress yourself as a teacher? D. None of the abov
112. All levels of ucatio d from
the nurser in
A. Dignified
A. Arya Sa
B. Traditionally
antiniket
C. Comfortably
Samaj
D. Fashionably
107. Why are class tests conducted? hranTat Pondicherry
’s society school should give
A. To revise
ocational base
B. As a writing practice
. Ornamental base
C. To train students to thin
C. Both of the above
D. To evaluate educational ach
D. None of these
108. The statement by th ter
ation*wo 114. Following attributes would correctly de-
Rajiv Gandhi tha
uld fine learning
made so as to P
Century in the ye the 21st A. Belief, creativity, and endurance
B. Intution, intelligence and memorisation
C. Change of behaviour, practice and ex-
perience
D. Understanding, imagination and work-
manship
d observed that the art of 115. The 1968 national policy teacher educa-
educa- tion adopted by the Indian Government laid
would never attain clearness in itself stress on the following aspects of teacher’s
without philosophy? He was education
A. Fichte
B. M.K. Gandhi A. Promotion and retirement facilities for
C. John Dewey teachers.

D. Gautam Buddha B. Travel allowance and family pensions for

teachers.
110. The opinion that “our aim should be to
produce men who possess both culture and C. Adequate emoluments and academic
expect knowledge” given by freedom for teachers.

105. C 106. A 107. D 108. A 109. A 110. C 111. A 112. D 113. A 114. A 115. C
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B. In-service training and correspondence 120. Rama Krishna Mission was founded by
education for teachers. A. Guru Nanak Dev
116. If we believe in the dualistic theory of the mind B. Swami Dayanand
versus body nature of man, have to arrive at the
C. Swami Vivekanand
econsequence that
A. Learning an education should cater to D. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
121. Annie Besant inspired the opening
observable behaviour of man
schools in many cities in
D. Learning is purely a matter of material
changes in the behaviour of man A. Early nineteenth century
E. Education is purely a matter of mental B. End of nineteenth centur
training and development of the self C. Early twentieenth century
F. Education is mechanisation in process D. End twentieenth century
and theoretical in development 122. In ancient India oral aims
117. Article 45 under the Directive Principles were dominat
of State policy in the Indian Constitution, A. Kshatriya sy of education
provides for
B. Brah tenr*6f education
A. Free and compulsory primary education
B. Education for weaker sections of the
country
e concept of totalitarian education in
C. Giving financial assistance to less a the West was in favour of
vanced states
Making the state responsible to evolve
D. Rights of minorities to establi duca- education as a means of satisfying individ-
tional institutions ual’s needs and interests
118. Vivekanand was a B. Making the education of the individual
as an instrument for realising the ends of
A. Poet
the state
B. Philosopher
C. The education of the individual for de-
C. Religious g velopment of his total personality
D. All of th D. Treating education as a binding factor
119. The tion ducational Policy of 1979, of international understanding
nded 124. Regarding co-education at the secondary
o about the public schools
stage, the 1952-53 Education Commission
A. s bleTatio has to be maintained has suggested that
for
A. To maintain separate schools for boys
of middle class and poor student
and girls
they must be allowed the autonomy that
B. To start, resource, in several states could
was bestowed on them by the past system
not afford
of education
C. There should be objection to extend co-
A. their uniquencies and traditions have to educational school
preserved the interests of the best talents
of the country D. The situation in our country warrants
B. they should be brought under laws and establishment of more boys schools than co-
regulations of the government public edu- educational school.
cation system E. Who formed Brahmo Samaj

116. C 117. B 118. B 119. A 120. C 121. B 122. C 123. B 124. B 125. A
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A. Raja Ram Mohan Roy E. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

B. Guru Nanak F. Swami Dayanand Sarswati
C. Ramanand 129. Ahinsa & Truth in Gandhiji’s opinion is

D. Kabir A. Two side of a coin

125. Tagore was a B. Can’t translate

A. Poet C. Can’t inter-wined

B. Musician D. Have no relation between the
C. Philosopher 130. “The affection brought ab
up of the rigidity of Hindu S
D. None of these
been an admirable odern in
127. The topic method in education should be Hindu thought” said
interpreted
A. Kabir
A. a substitute for the project method of
teaching B. Swami-Pay a
C. Swami
B. a concentric approach of teaching the
classroom bindranat
C. a method of development of the syllabus aim in education was empha-
in a subject
D. a method suited better for arts subj
as compared to science subjects
128. Arya Samaj was founded
Sparta
A. Kabir D. Athenian
B. Swami Satyanand

126. A 127. A 128. D 129. A 130. C 131. A