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and controlling 1. The following psychologist A. Developmental

30. Which of the following is not introduced the stimulus B. Historical
an aim of subject teachers' response (S-R) theory C. Correlational
association in Nigeria? A. Pavlov D. Case study
A. Encourage research in their B. Theorndike E. Experimentational
subjects C. Guthrie 6. Types of research and
B. To prevent entry of non- D. Skinner classification based on design
professionals into teaching 2. In the classical conditioning include the following except
C. Organize seminars and theory, the conditioned A. Historical research
workshops for the stimulus is the B. Descriptive
improvement of their fields A. sound of the bell C. Ex-post factor
D. They publish textbooks in B. salivation D. Correlational
their subject fields C. food E. Evaluative research
D. Stimulating 7. Which of the following
3. Which of these is not a Psychologists is credited with
characteristic of adult the operant conditioning
learners? theory of learning?
A. High expectation A. Thorndike
B. Impactful learners B. Pavlov
C. Goal oriented C. Skinner
D. Timely education D. Guthrie
4. The objectives of adult 8. Perception is a key concept
education exclude in which of the following
A. Vocational theory?
B. Philosophical A. Behavioural
C. Social B. Cognitive
D. Recreational C. Classical conditioning
5. Research classification D. Operant conditioning
according to kinds of 9. Management theories
information they provide exclude the following
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B. Conditional theory
C. Empirical approach
theory
D. Mathematical approach
theory
10. Verb is derived from the
Latin word “verbum” which
originally means
A. Nerve
B. Most important word
C. Ordinary
D. Action
11. Leadership majorly provides
A. Direction
B. Discussion
C. Cooperation
D. Resource
12. The most common
leadership style in Nigeria is
A. Transactional leadership
B. Democratic leadership
C. Charismatic leadership
D. Autocratic leadership
13. Children with behaviour
disorder have problems of
A. Injuries at birth
B. Slow intelligence
C. Attention span
D. Over reading
14. Educable, trainable and
totally dependent as
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category of children with
A. Gifted and talented
B. Disabled learners
C. Able individuals
D. Intellectual retardation
15. Which of the following is not
among TRCN
Registrars/Chief Executive?
A. Prof. Addison Mark
Wokocha
B. Mr. Anjikwi Musa Ciwar
C. Prof. William Njoku
Okojie
D. Prof. Josiah Olusegun
Ajiboye
16. “Creating New Things” is
among which of the
following taxonomies in the
cognitive domain
A. Application
B. Analysis
C. Synthesis
D. Evaluation
17. During delivery of lesson,
evaluation of learning
outcome cane be referred to
as
A. Summative evaluation
B. Progressive evaluation
C. Monitoring evaluation
D. Formative evaluation
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maximum ceiling? C. An account of the origin and
A. Growth progress of the world's
B. Development events
C. Bothe growth and D. An opinion of what happened
development 21. Preschool education in
D. None of the above Nigerian excludes which of
17. Leadership refers to the following?
A. Autocracy A. Crèche
B. Authority B. Playgroup or Daycare
C. Influencing others to achieve C. Home Education
goals D. Pre-primary education
D. Educational process E. Home lessons
18. The following types of 22. Effective instructional
teachers existed in Nigeria in communication should be
the early days of teaching A. Formal
except B. Informal
A. Auxiliary teachers C. Reflective
B. Professional teachers D. Systemic
C. European teachers 23. The following is not a main
D. Pastors problem of curriculum
E. Student teachers design in Nigeria
19. Bloom's taxonomy of A. Scope
educational objectives are B. Sequence
the following except C. Continuity and integration
A. Affective domain D. Content
B. Cognitive domain 24. The Christian Missionaries
C. Psychomotor domain began their activities in
D. Effective domain Nigeria in the year _______
20. History implies A. 1842
A. Story telling B. 1860
B. Narration C. 1820
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which prevents he carrying out
of functions of that part
C. Any loss of part of the body
which does not prevent
community function part
D. Any loss of part of body
which prevents the carrying
out of that part
9. Research classification
according to forms is not
which of the following?
A. Historical
B. Descriptive
C. Experimental
D. Social
10. Necessary factors to
consider when borrowing a
book from the library
excludes which of the
following?
A. Content
B. Writer
C. Size
D. Title
11. The study of educational
philosophy is important due
to
A. Philosophical issues
B. Education issues
C. Theoretical analysis
D. Practical analysis
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12. The descriptive essay vividly
describes which of the
following?
A. The object (person or thing)
B. The action
C. The argument
D. Order of event
13. Which of the following is not
a mode of teaching?
A. Instruction methodology
B. Lecture
C. Discussion
D. Teaching
14. Which of these is a form of
educational process
involving the study of
technologies, skills and
general understanding in
various sectors of economy
and social life?
A. Vocational education
B. Polytechnic education
C. Agricultural and Economic
Education
D. Technical College Education
15. Find ¾ of 72g
A. 64g
B. 54g
C. 34g
D. 74g
16. Which of the following has a
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18. Which of the following is not 22. “Previous Knowledge”
an objective of test requires the following except
administration? A. Learner's field of
A. Remedial experience
B. Placement B. Learner's basic
C. Teaching improvement experience
D. Record keeping C. Learner's entry behaviour
19. Which of the following does D. Learner's contributions to
Psychology not study? lesson
A. People's reaction 23. Factors that influence
B. People's motive students' motivation
C. People's perception excludes the following
D. People's feelings A. Interest
E. None of the above B. Attitude
20. The ICT is beneficial in C. Curiosity
learning to the following D. Fear
except E. Anxiety
A. Gifted and talented 24. “Psyche” and “Logos”
B. Disabled learners translated to
C. Able individuals A. Love and wisdom
D. Uneducable individuals B. Psychology and love
21. Which of the following is not C. Mind and soul
true in school management D. Soul and science
of guidance and counseling? 25. Which of the following is not
A. It is for everyone among human organs of
B. It is for only those with speech?
needs A. Eye
C. All teachers are B. Mouth
responsible for guidance C. Nose
and counseling D. Oesophagus
D. It is a continuous process
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26. Alfred Adler propounded 29. Which of the following is not TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 24 harm
that the strongest motivating part of a sentence? C. Poses threat of
force in a person's life is A. Subject 1. Comparative Education abandonment
A. Quest for superiority B. Predicate Society was introduced by 5. Conflict theory is associated
B. Quest for power C. Complement Brickman in what year with the following
C. Physical needs and D. Agreement A. 1960 A. Abraham Maslow
gratification E. Adjunct B. 1956 B. Karl Max
D. Anxiety of existence 30. Contributions of Greek C. 1950 C. Weber
27. “Furniture” is an example of Education to modern D. 1978 D. Sigmund Freud
which type of noun? education exclude which of 2. Which of these is not among 6. The interests in children and
A. Singular the following? types of learners' categories observation approach to
B. Plural A. National service we have in class? education brought about the
C. Uncountable B. Private schools A. Habitual learners child study movement in the
D. Common noun C. State controlled schools B. Visual learners year
28. In English usage, when a D. Equal educational C. Audio learners A. 1900
subject is singular, the verb opportunities D. Kinesthetic leaners B. 1806
should be 3. Which of these is true of C. 1883
A. Plural microteaching? D. 1960
B. The same word A. It can be a substitute for real 7. The follow are different
C. Singular teaching methods of graphic
D. Negative B. It is a substitute to practical representation of data
teaching except
C. It has all ingredients of A. Histogram
normal teaching B. Frequency polygons
D. It is complete teaching C. The ogive
4. Counseling Ethics permits a D. Sample size
counselor to earn a third 8. Handicap refers to
party if client's action A. The loss of part of body
A. Will result in long legal which does not prevent the
tussle carrying out of that part
B. Poses a threat or serious B. The loss of part of the body

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A. Knowledge C. Bangladesh 1. The main sources of Nigeria?

B. Understanding D. Nigeria knowledge in Islamic A. Geographical
C. Power E. Cameroun education include B. Political
D. Listening 27. Find the value of x which A. Emirs and Mallams C. Religion
24. Which of these satisfies the equation: 5(x-7) = B. Quran and Sunnah D. Ethnicity
words/sounds refers to 7-2x (Hadith) 6. Curriculum of African
“mention an authority” A. x=7 C. Home and school Traditional Education is
example in book? B. x=5 D. Mosque and Church described as integrated
A. Sight C. x=6 2. Earliest school in Nigeria because
B. Cite D. X=8 began in A. It emphasized morality
C. Site 28. Which of the following A. Calabar and Lagos and character
D. Cight changes involve learning? B. Abeokuta and Badagry B. It emphasized skills and
25. Instructional resources A. A toddler hurt by picking red C. Ibadan and Abeokuta intellectual development
deliberately produced for fire D. Lagos and Ibadan C. It is concerned with
classroom usage are types of B. Changes in lady's maturation 3. Evaluate 1001two x 101two physical development
A. Instructional resources by C. Adult walking differently after A. 10110two D. All of the above
design being drunk B. 1110two 7. _________ is the first
B. Instructional resources by D. Passing of examination C. 1100two Governor-General of Nigeria.
utilization 29. The following identifies D. 10011two A. Nnamdi Azikiwe
C. Instructional resources by functions of management 4. Which of the following B. Lord Frederick Lugard
method A. Planning, organizing, proposed that “All things C. Tafawa Balewa
D. Instructional resources by directing, coordinating and come to be in accordance D. Sir. Ahmadu Bello
purpose controlling with number”? 8. A learner is a product of ____
26. According to UNESCO which B. Planning, organizing, A. Thales A. His environment
of the following countries is deciding, communicating B. Aristotle B. Hereditary
excluded from the E9 group and budgeting C. Pythagoras C. Nurture and environment
(a group of countries in the C. Planning, controlling, D. Socrates D. Environment and heredity
world with very high directing, budgeting and 5. Which of the following was 9. The law of valid reasoning
numbers of illiterates)? communicating not a factor that hindered defines which of the
A. Indonesia D. Planning, directing, early introduction of western following?
B. Pakistan communicating, coordinating education in Northern A. Induction

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D. A major review D. Formal, traditional and needs of the people of Nigeria competition
18. In the data collection for a informal C. To encourage the 19. In the early days of teaching
historical research, which of 22. Test refers to the following advancement of learning in Nigeria, teaching was
the following is a primary except throughout Nigeria A. Restricted for those trained
source of data collection? A. A measuring instrument in D. To provide courses of B. Open to anybody who can
A. The textbook education instruction and facilities for teach
B. Official gazette B. A kind of measurement the pursuit of learning C. Hijacked by technical training
C. Academic book device used to find out 16. Find the area of a rectangle D. For only pastors
D. Encyclopedia something about a whose base is 12cm and 20. Which of the following is not
19. Which of these are person or group height 7cm. a school programme that
curriculum sub themes C. An instrument used to A. 84cm2 can be found in a
A. Vertical subthemes obtain data by which an B. 74cm2 curriculum?
B. Horizontal subthemes individual is judged C. 64cm2 A. Programme of studies
C. Diagonal subtheme D. Questions and answers to D. 54cm2 B. Programmes of activities
D. Vertical and horizontal be administered to pupils 17. Educational Psychology is C. Programme of break
subthemes 23. People who live in a majorly concerned with the D. Programme of guidance
20. The following are the scores geographic area and following except 21. British rule was established
in a test; 1, 3, 7, 4, 9, 6. Find maintain a relationship which A. What to teach in Nigeria in
the mean. satisfy their physical and B. How to learn A. 1861
A. 8 societal needs can be C. How to teach B. 1882
B. 4 referred to as D. How to understand C. 1900
C. 5 A. Organization E. How to write D. 1914
D. 7 B. Bureaucracy 18. Which of the following does 22. The total years of basic
21. Forms of education are C. Enclave not promote public relations? education in Nigeria is
classified as D. Community A. School unions and A. 6 years
A. Formal, traditional and 24. Which of these philosophical organizations B. 9 years
non-formal school of thought is firmly B. Inter-school sports C. 3 years
B. Formal, non-formal and rooted in the idea of seeing is competition D. 12 years
informal believing? C. Inter-school debating 23. Communication is a tool to
C. Informal, non-formal and A. Pragmatism competition enhance
intraformal B. Existentialism D. Inter-school literacy and quiz A. Knowledge

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C. Mode B. South Africans B. Premise childhood education is

D. The coefficient C. British C. Logic A. 20
8. Disability in special D. Americans (USA) D. Proposition B. 40
education means which of 12. 10. Which of the following does C. 50
the? 13. Narrative writing vividly not define sociology? D. 60
A. Any form of inability describes the following A. The study of man's natural 14. Challenges with professional
B. Any form of disability in any except: development practice can be minimized
part of the body A. A succession of action and B. The study of relationship through the following except
C. Any loss of part of the body events patterns of people in A. Teacher continuous
which does not prevent the B. Storytelling groups professional training
community functions part C. A chronological order of C. The study of man's social B. Facility provision
D. Any loss of part of body events life C. Teacher growth plan
which prevents the carrying D. The object of things D. The study of man's social D. Students training
out of that part 14. At the secondary school behaviour 15. The square has how many
9. A common trend in good level, which of the following 11. Which of the following symmetrical lines
research include the is not a subject teachers' influences curriculum design A. 5
following except association found in Nigeria? and organization? B. 6
A. Logical A. Science Teachers Association A. Societal activity C. 4
B. Systematic B. Psychology Teachers B. School activity D. 2
C. Specific objectives Association C. Teacher activity 16. Child friendly schools aim to
D. Unverifiable C. Nigeria Social Studies D. Learner activity provide a ____ environment to
10. In a library, a book's call Association 12. The ethical revolution in motivate learners.
number enhances D. Mathematics Teachers Nigeria caption “Change A. Healthy
A. Lending Association begins with me” was B. Learning
B. Shelving 15. Which of the following is not introduced by C. Conducive
C. Retrieval included in the objectives of A. Shehu Shagari D. Favourable
D. Cataloguing NOUN? B. Olusegun Obasanjo 17. In written communication, the
11. The following contributed A. To award certificated to their C. Mohammed Buhari paragraph identifies
“pragmatism” as philosophic graduates D. Umar Yar'dua A. A brake in discussion
school of thoughts except B. To relate its activities to the 13. The preferred population of B. A new topic
A. Greeks social, cultural and economic children in class for early C. An aspect of the discuss

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C. Progressivism 29. The cuboid has how many TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 23 school guidance and
D. Realism surfaces? 1. The Society for Comparative counseling programmes
25. Realia is an instructional A. 5 Education was founded in excludes which of the
material requiring the use of B. 7 Nigeria in following?
A. Dramatization C. 6 A. 1960 A. Preplanning
B. Existentialism D. 8 B. 1956 B. Planning
C. Progressivism 30. Athens Educational system C. 1976 C. Implementation
D. Realism helps other countries in the D. 1983 D. Innovation
26. The progressives believe that following areas 2. Kinesthetic learning style E. Observation
a desirable curriculum A. Spiritual development refers to 5. Categories of social
should be based on B. Political stability A. The use of learning styles stratification excludes which
A. Societal need C. Military and sport that involve looking and of the following?
B. Schools' needs development watching A. Marriage
C. Learners' needs D. Economic development B. The use of learning styles B. Power
D. Educational needs that involve use of C. Class
27. The arithmetic procedure for movement and touch D. status
ordinal scale can be referred C. The use of learning styles 6. The following pressed the
to as that use attention and need that it was the duty of
A. Counting and subtraction listening government to impose
B. Ranking and D. The use of learning styles school on children and to
multiplication that involve communication take responsibility for making
C. Ranking and addition 3. Microteaching activity the children physically fit to
D. Counting and subtraction involves the following except learn.
28. Big Brother search is an A. Full teaching session in class A. Aristotle
example of the following B. Scaled down number of B. Macmillan
curriculum students C. Dewey
A. Null curriculum C. Scaled down teaching time D. Pestallozi
B. Phantom curriculum D. Breaking down teaching into 7. Frequency distribution is
C. Informal curriculum simple components summarized as
D. Entertainment curriculum 4. The main stages involved in A. Mean
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A. There is a master-servant an academic library? 1. Instructional technology for which of the below
relationship in teaching and A. University Library refers to arithmetic processes?
learning B. Colleges of Education Library A. Religious messages moral A. Counting
B. There is a measure of C. Polytechnic Library instructions B. Addition
equality in expression of D. Teachers Registration B. Moral instructions C. Subtraction
views Council's Library C. Learning and teaching D. Multiplication
C. The teacher should not 27. The Philosophic mode facilities 6. Features of Existentialism
challenge the students' concerned with setting D. Theories of instructions exclude which of the
views and vice versa standards of concepts as 2. The colonial government in following
D. Learners view are paramount right or wrong, good and Nigeria first showed interest A. Things are experienced
23. Find the mean for the bad, ugly and beautiful is in education in the year based on perception
following numbers: 15, 10, 12, A. Analytical A. 1885 B. The world is absurd
13 B. Speculative B. 1862 C. Ultimate explanation can
A. 12 C. Prescriptive C. 1900 be given
B. 13 D. Axiology D. 1914 D. The world is regional
C. 12.5 28. The following is an example 3. In a class, the black/white 7. Types of curricula are the
D. 13.5 of formative evaluation board should be at following except
24. Special education began A. Tests that helps teachers to A. Centre of class A. Traditional and
seriously in Nigeria in the correct their learners and B. Back corner of class progressive
year improve on their delivery C. Front left corner B. Formal and informal
A. 1977 B. Tests between schools for a D. Front centre of class C. Overt and covert
B. 1984 prize 4. Features of good classroom D. Centralized and
C. 1970 C. Test in a relay management exclude which decentralized
D. 1975 D. Test of intensity of these 8. Examples of overt curriculum
25. Research empiricism A. Recognizing individual include the following
demands it to be differences documents except
A. Objective B. Class control A. Text books
B. Logical C. Subject coverage and B. Films
C. Verifiable time management C. Notes
D. Systematic D. Teacher entry behaviour D. Classroom interaction
26. Which of the following is not 5. Nominal scale can be used 9. The school is a social

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environment which affects A. Knowledge the same of society

the following except B. Understanding B. Growth could take place B. The idea of what should
A. Students C. Power without development constitute knowledge of any
B. Parents D. Listening C. Development cannot take society and the learners
C. Community 14. Effective instructional place without growth C. Activities and programmes of
D. Laws communication should be D. Growth cannot take place school as platforms of
10. “His teeth is sharper than A. Formal without development curriculum
razor” is an example of B. Informal 16. An organization can be D. Societal needs as basis for
A. Hyperbole C. Reflective defined as a social group curriculum
B. Metaphor D. Systemic whereby 19. Islam was first introduce in
C. Irony 15. Good communication implies A. Members work for their own some parts of northern
D. Personification to interests Nigeria in which century?
11. Identify the figure of speech A. Speak B. Members come together to A. 6th
in the underlined. The old B. Follow share positions B. 14th
man kicked the bucket C. Study C. Members come together to C. 15th
yesterday. D. Teach satisfy their needs D. 16th
A. Metaphor 16. Which of these is a non- D. Members come together to 20. Education for all (EFA)
B. Irony human resource in learning contribute and achieve their declares that learning begins
C. Personification A. Educational media common objectives and at
D. Euphemism B. Mental facilities 17. Professionalism focuses on A. 6 years
12. Narrative writing vividly C. Physical facilities the following except B. 1 year
describes the following D. Financial facilities A. Knowledge C. Both
except 17. Education for All (EFA) B. Skills D. none
A. A succession of actions declares that learning begins C. Competence 21. CAPCHA refers to ____
and events at D. Values A. Unique identification code
B. Storytelling A. 6 years E. Subject B. Children game
C. A chronological order of B. 1 year 18. In defining curriculum, C. A new cap style
events C. Both scholars agree with the D. Ancient cap style
D. The object or things D. Corruption following except 22. In learner friendly schools,
13. Communication is a tool to 18. The total years of basic A. The role of school in the following relationship
enhance education in Nigeria is achieving educational goals pattern exist in class

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C. Prophetic planning include the following areas A. 6 years D. State library

D. Geographic planning except B. 9 years 23. The table of specifications
8. In solving the problem of the A. Biology C. 3 years shows
relationship between special B. Theatre Arts D. 12 years A. The marking scheme
and general education, the C. Physics 19. Narrative writing vividly B. Table of instructions
following was proposed D. Poetry describes the following C. The order of ranking in
A. Child-centered learning for 12. Identify the figure of speech except class examination
disables in the underlined: The old A. A succession of actions D. How marks will be
B. Inclusive education man kicked the bucket and events awarded based on areas
C. Subject centered learning yesterday. B. Storytelling of cognitive domain
D. All of the above A. Metaphor C. A chronological order of 24. The mean helps the teacher
9. Objectives of research are B. Irony events to
these, except C. Personification D. The object or things A. Identify atmospheric
A. To analyze events and D. euphemism 20. Express 5cm to metre conditions in class
identify the cause and effect 13. The instructional mode of A. 0.05m B. Draw the dividing line
relationship teaching is suitable for B. 0.5m between two groups
B. To fulfill educational A. Large group instruction C. 0.1m C. Determine the table of
certification needs B. Small group D. 1m seriousness
C. To find solutions to scientific C. Higher level instruction 21. How many zeros are there in D. Draw the pass mark in
and non-scientific social D. None of the above trillion? class
problems 14. International intervention on A. 12 25. Learning best take place
D. Overcoming problems the education of special B. 15 when students
occurring in everyday life needs in Nigeria is not C. 18 A. Are happy
10. Which section of the library among the following D. 14 B. Are involved
can one find reserved books? A. ILO 22. A library mainly concerned C. Hear
A. Cataloguing section B. UKAID with the bibliographic control D. See
B. Reference section C. WHO of publications can be 26. The first stage of curriculum
C. Periodic section D. UNDP referred to as is
D. Circulation section E. UNICEF A. Special library A. Activity selection
11. Aristotle's contribution to 15. Which of these is true? B. Academic library B. Content organization
educational development A. Development and growth are C. National library C. Goals identification

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27. One million has how many student teacher for further
zeros 1. The stages of historical employment
A. 6 development of Comparative 4. Components of guidance
B. 7 Education exclude the and counseling excludes
C. 12 following which of the following?
D. 9 A. Descriptive A. Personal and social guidance
28. Principles of educational B. Prescriptive B. Psychological
technology exclude the C. Predictive C. Educational
following D. Scientific D. Vocational
A. Specific objective 2. Which of these is not a 5. Conflict theories hold that
B. Specific congruity learning skill children may be social stratification is based
C. Information sequence taught. on
D. Learners apathy A. To remember A. Age
29. Professionally, teaching can B. To explain B. Power
be defined as C. To create C. Economy
A. The promotion of learning D. To apply D. Education
B. Helping others to learn E. None of the above 6. Which of the following
C. Transmission of 3. Which of the following is not psychologist/earliest thinker
knowledge by a trained an objective of teaching was credited with his
expert who knows ways practice? contribution that “children
of imparting knowledge A. Assessment of professional should be treated as children
effectively competence of student rather than young adults”?
D. The act of finding teacher A. Rousseau
someone to behave in a B. Provision of adequate field B. Pestalozzi
certain manner experience for teacher C. Bacon
30. The key implementers of development D. Galileo
curriculum are the C. For the provision of 7. Statistics is important in the
A. Government opportunity for student following areas except
B. Teachers teacher to translate theory to A. Sports planning
C. Learners practice B. Educational planning

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involve the following persons education was introduced in 1. The traditionalists view B. 12.434
A. Teacher the year ______ under the curriculum as C. 11.443
B. Parent government of A. Organized knowledge that D. 9.344
C. Learner A. 1977, Murtala Muhammed learners must learn 6. Effective classroom
D. Librarian B. 1981, Shehu Shagari B. Innate knowledge learners interaction should be
23. The renaissance period of C. 1979, Olusegun Obasanjo should be guided to bring A. Noisy
education brought out a new D. 1960, Ahmadu Bello out B. Silent
method of thinking referred 27. Characteristics of good C. Societal expectations to C. Interactive
to as classroom organization acquire D. One sided
A. Early period include the following except D. Societal need to learn 7. In Nigeria, the constitutional
B. Scientific method A. Classroom control and clear 2. Early theories of learning responsibility of the control
C. Modern method instructions present the child as of basic education is vested
D. Historic method B. Understanding students' A. Filled with knowledge in
24. Some of the challenges behaviour and gaining their B. Blank slate A. The state government
besetting Nigeria Education involvement C. Empty B. Federal government
excludes which of the C. Handling disruptive D. Unlearnable C. Local government
following behaviour issues with 3. What does xcix stand for D. All of the above
A. Falling education standards authority and confidence A. 89 8. Major international
B. Moral decadence D. Rigid disposition B. 49 development partner
C. Increasing vices 28. Team teaching aims to C. 99 involved in implementation
D. Increasing I.T. use improve D. 79 of literacy programming in
25. Factors to consider in A. The student 4. Study the scores of the Nigeria is
selecting instructional B. The teacher following sets of tests and A. UNICEF
materials include the C. Teaching and learning find the mode 10, 4, 5, 4, 16, 7, B. UNESCO
following except D. The school 3, 0, 0, 4 C. WHO
A. Objective of lesson A. 3 D. UNDP
B. Availability B. 5 9. The NUC was established
C. Relevance to lesson C. 4 under the recommendation
D. Learner D. 0 which of these commissions?
E. Parents 5. Simplify 12.745 – 6.491 + 5.09 A. Elliots
26. The 6-3-3-4 system of A. 11.344 B. Henry Car

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C. Ashby A. Home background C. 4 educational objectives which

D. Philip Stoke B. Knowledge of previous D. 0 a good curriculum must
10. Types of teaching lesson 16. Development occurs when cover is the following
environment include the C. Native intelligence there is increase in A. History, content and
following except D. Recalcitrant behaviour A. Function objectives
A. Physical environment 14. Tyler's elements of B. Size B. Cognitive, affective and
B. Physiological environment curriculum include the C. Weight psychomotor
C. Emotional or psychological following except D. All of the above C. Aims, objectives, philosophy
environment A. Selection of content 17. Component s of educational D. Scope and duration of
D. Social forces environment B. Selection of goals management can be curriculum content
11. Which of these are not C. Organization of learning summarized as 20. The earliest colonial traders
factors affecting educational experience A. Curriculum entered Nigeria through
system of a country? D. Pre-evaluation B. Utilization of human _____
A. Language E. Integration of learning resources A. River Nile
B. Aptitude experience C. Formation of educational B. Cross River
C. Geography 15. Which of the following policies C. River Niger
D. Social factors philosophical school doubt D. Utilization of natural and D. Cameroun River
E. Politics the possibility for human resources 21. The UBE overall goal is to
12. The various definitions of knowledge? 18. The major task of any A. Provide greater access and
curriculum can be grouped A. Agnostics educational system is ensure quality in higher
into these two categories B. Realists A. Ensure that learners get to education
A. Traditionalist and idealist C. Skeptics school at the right time B. Provide greater access and
conception D. Empiricists B. Equipping learners with ensure quality at all level of
B. Pragmatist and empiricist 16. The following comprises the knowledge and skills for education in Nigeria
conception features of serials, except economic, political and social C. Provide free and compulsory
C. Traditionalist and progressive A. They are published survival education
conception B. They have ISSN C. Ensure people graduate from D. Provide greater access and
D. Cultural and traditionalist C. They come at intervals school quality primary education
conception D. They are only acted D. Equipping learners with 22. The design and production
13. Child's behavior excludes the 17. In library, the classified cognitive knowledge of an effective educational
following catalogue arranges record 19. The Blooms's taxonomy of media should not necessarily

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in Nigeria was established by
A. British government
B. Christian missionaries
C. Federal government
D. Islamic missionaries
8. The following are acceptable
research processes except
A. Problem identification and
statement
B. Hypothesis
C. Review of literature
D. Research design and data
collection
E. Problem solution
9. Which of the following is not
a part of a book?
A. Content
B. Spine
C. References
D. Review
10. The three types of syllogism
is not one of the following
A. Categorical
B. Alternative
C. Hypothetical
D. Practical
11. The following are types of
evaluation except
A. Placement evaluation
B. Formative evaluation
C. Diagnostic evaluation
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D. Summative evaluation
E. Remedial evaluation
12. Identify the figure of speech
in the underlined: He
thanked the teacher a million
times for his assistance.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Paradox
D. Euphemism
13. Activity as part of lesson
helps in the following ways
except
A. Time to run
B. Keep learners occupied
C. Keep learners awake
D. Enables learners learn
through the senses
14. In which year was the
National Open University of
Nigeria (NOUN) established?
A. 1979
B. 1983
C. 1975
D. 1960
15. Study the scores of the
following sets of tests and
find the mode: 10, 4, 5, 4, 16,
7, 3, 0, 0, 4
A. 3
B. 5
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according to childhood education?
A. Type A. Play
B. Title B. Reading
C. Author C. Questioning
D. Subject D. Lecturing
18. The socialization roles of the 23. Early childhood education as
family exclude the following practiced today, began with
A. Moral upbringing A. Florence Nightingale
B. Social integration B. Dr. Maria Montessori
C. Love and care C. Tai Solarin
D. Character training D. Wale Soyinka
19. Schools transmit 24. The vertical subtheme of the
A. Cultural heritage curriculum refers to
B. Cultural artefacts A. The division of the
C. Cultural needs curriculum into grades,
20. The last stage of curriculum levels or classes
is B. The division of curriculum
A. Implementation into subjects
B. Integration of learning C. The division of curriculum
experience into levels of school
C. Evaluation D. The division of curriculum
D. Identification of goals into content
21. A teacher's lesson plan will 25. Which of the following would
fail especially at what stage not be used for teaching
is not properly handled? visually impaired learners?
A. Preparation stage A. Braille
B. Implementation stage B. Taking calculator
C. Introduction stage C. Hearing aid
D. Examination stage D. Tape recorder
22. What is the dominant 26. Special education is _____
teaching method in early centered in approach.
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A. Methodology C. Audio-visual TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 21 counseling is an aspect of

B. Child D. Serial section guidance
C. Subject 1. The Nigeria educational B. Guidance services is for all,
D. Teacher calendar is influenced by counseling is for only those
27. A health challenge of the A. Politics with need
loss of a body part that does B. Geography C. Guidance services appeal to
not prevent the use or C. Languages cognitive domain, while
functioning of the lost part is D. Religion counseling appeal to
referred to as 2. Which type of learner affective domain
A. Handicap comprehends best through D. Guidance is for specially
B. Disability rhymes, listening and songs? trained experts, while
C. Special need education A. Visual learners cousnseling is for all
D. Paralysis B. Audio learners teachers
28. Which of the following best C. Kinesthetic learner 5. Karl Max, in his theory, views
describes intellectual D. Mixed learner class as group of people in
disability? 3. The philosophy behind common relationship to
A. Autism teaching practice includes to A. Power
B. Learning disability A. Assess student teachers' B. Means of production
C. Mental retardation methodology C. Religion
D. Cognitive disability B. To note subject competence D. Education
29. Individualized instruction is of the student teacher 6. Which of the earliest thinkers
usually administered by C. To produce competent produced “orbis sensualism
A. The principal teachers pictus” and advocated that
B. The teacher D. To create a platform for “teaching should use
C. The class teaching encounter for the children's senses rather than
D. The school student teacher memorization”?
30. The technical section of the 4. The following relationship A. Galileo
library contains the following between guidance and B. Bacon
except counseling is not correct C. Cornelius
A. Bindery A. Guidance include all the D. Pestalozzi
B. Cataloguing section school aspect, while 7. Early schools for the disabled

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21. Philosophy of Education is the learning process 1. The progressives believe that B. They live in villages
important due to C. Students learn through a desirable curriculum C. They go to schools
A. Philosophical issues inquiry without supervision should be based on D. They take care of themselves
B. Educational issues D. Students learn through A. Societal need 6. An individualized and
C. Sociological issues inquiry with supervision B. School's need remedial teaching
D. Religious issues 25. Which of the following is not C. Learners' need educational programme can
22. test refers to the following an aim and objective of adult D. Educational need be administered for children
except and distance learning 2. The charging systems used with
A. A measuring instrument in education? in the library exclude the A. Learning disability
education A. Reduction of child mortality following B. Speech disorder
B. A kind of measuring device B. Reduction of poverty A. Newark C. High fever
used to find out something C. Attainment of equal political B. Bookmark D. Behaviour disorder
about a person or group consciousness C. Token 7. The wild boy discovered in
C. An instrument used to obtain D. Achieving gender equality D. Browne the wood suffered
data by which an individual is 26. Simplify: (2a)0 = 3. Which of the following A. Mental retardation
judged A. 2a human institutions is B. Learning disability
D. Question and answers to be B. 1 foremost in reproducing C. Cerebral palsy
administered to pupils C. 2 itself? D. Multiple handicap
23. Idioms and figures of speech D. 0 A. Education 8. Tools that drive appropriate
helps the language user to 27. Which of the following does B. Family education for learners with
achieve the following except Psychology not study? C. Politics disabilities.
A. Beauty and colour A. People's reaction D. Economy A. Open
B. Style and creativity B. People's motive 4. Index at end of book is B. Inclusive Education
C. Originality C. People's perception arranged C. Individualized Education &
D. pride D. People's feelings A. Alphabetically Family Service Programmes
24. The characteristics of E. People's physic B. By name D. Group Educational
inquiry-based method C. By dates Programmes
exclude the following D. By page 9. Principles of organizing
A. Teachers guide learners in 5. Human beings are defined as includes the following
the learning process social products because EXCEPT ______
B. Teachers guide learners in A. They live as a family A. Evaluation

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B. Cooperation
C. Unity of Objective
D. Diversity of Objective.
10. The following are examples
of the new book of
knowledge (NBK)
A. Specialized Encyclopedia
B. General Dictionary
C. General Encyclopedia
D. Subject Directory
11. “Impressions made upon the
children at home determines
the child's personality”, is a
concept of _______
A. Para-analysis
B. Socio-analysis
C. Psycho-analysis
D. Psycholinguistics
12. Tools that aid the education
of the visually impaired
exclude the following…
A. Talking Calculator
B. The Braille
C. Simulations
D. Duxbury word processor
13. The import of research in
special need education
excludes to---
A. Evaluate authenticity of
concepts in the field.
B. Assess effects of beliefs and
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decisions
C. Assess effectiveness of
programme
D. Contribute theories in the
field
14. Enculturation indicates
A. Cultivation of culture
B. Cultural Mix
C. Internalization of Native
culture
D. Cultural Change
15. Express ¾ as a decimal
fraction
A. 0.85
B. 0.75
C. 0.65
D. 0.45
16. Dominant large class sizes
especially in Nigerian
schools can be curbed using
Montessori's model of ______
A. Freedom of the child
B. Individualized Instruction
C. Professional Training of
Teachers
D. Sensory and Physical
exercise
17. “Ultimate Reality” in view of
idealist is
A. Physical
B. Mental
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A. It is for everyone
B. It is for only those with needs
C. All teachers are responsible
for guidance and counseling
D. It is a continuous process
15. Sociology deals with the
following except
A. The totality of man's
interaction in society
B. Systematic and scientific
study of social behaviours
and human groups
C. The influence of social
conditions or human
relationship
D. A totality of man and animal
interactions in society
16. Teaching methods that could
be used in early childhood
evaluation excludes which of
the following
A. Games
B. Singing
C. Footballing
D. Dancing
E. Dramatization
17. A good set of record requires
the following except
A. For gathering data
B. A set of educational
objectives
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C. Enables staff determine their
achievement
D. The promotion of academic
discipline
18. The education designed to
help exceptional students
who are gifted or disabled to
make maximum use of their
abilities refers to
A. Adult education
B. Nomadic education
C. Special education
D. Gifted school
19. In the past, human beings
found solutions to their
problems using the following
approaches except
A. Traditional knowledge of
truth
B. Learned authority
C. Personal experience
D. Logical reasoning
E. Scientific investigation
20. Which of the following is an
example of the new book of
knowledge (NBK)?
A. Specialized Encyclopedia (for
primary children)
B. Dictionary
C. General Encyclopedia
D. Subject dictionary
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A. The teacher generations C. Material 22. Which of the theories most

B. The society D. Acquiring technical skills and D. Objective emphasize the teacher's
C. The learner competencies 18. Environment of effective role?
D. The material E. Socializing the future classroom interaction is A. Cognitive
8. Which of these best defines generation A. Noisy B. Behaviorism
the curriculum? 11. Realia is an instructional B. Silent C. Gestalt
A. A totality of school material requiring the use of C. Interactive D. Instructional Theory
programmes of learning A. Dramatization D. Engaging 23. Professional prerequisites to
B. A learning race from birth to B. Artificial objects 19. George Orwell's Animal practice as a teacher
death C. Real objects Farm” is a classic example of excludes
C. Content of learning D. Simple objects _______ A. Possession of professional
experience 12. Currently, which of the A. Injustice certificate
D. Academic programme of following is not among B. Social Stratification B. Possession of practicing
learning common categories of C. Injustice license
E. Expected learning outcome materials for classroom use D. Social Diversity C. Possession of subject
to qualify a child for in Nigeria? 20. Find the simple interest of qualification and teaching
graduation A. Audio visual materials N700 for 2 years at 3% per qualification
9. The Roman education B. Audio materials annum D. Possession of good higher
emphasizes C. Internet A. 32 degrees
A. Religion D. Print materials B. 42 24. In 1771 which of the following
B. Moral and intellectual 13. Microteaching serves as a C. 52 researcher propounded that
education A. Window to teaching D. 62 the blind could read and
C. Military and practical training activities 21. The doctrine of “Melorism” write by using his/her
D. Adult education B. Guide to all involved in advocated by Dewey holds fingers?
10. Which of the following is the teaching that A. Nightingale
process of education not C. Smallest unit of teaching A. Selfishness is in Man B. Valentine Haye
involved in? D. A summary of all involved in B. The universe is neither bad C. Iean Itard
A. Knowledge acquisition teaching or good, but can be D. Marcus Haye
B. Acquiring certain behaviour 14. Which of the following is not improved through education 25. In the library, the call number
norms true in school management C. The universe is good is critical to
C. Indoctrinating the future of Guidance and Counseling? D. Education is good A. Lending

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B. Shelving A. 10002 TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 20 4. Express ¾ as a decimal

C. Retrieval B. 1000/2 fraction
D. Cataloguing C. 100002 1. What is the nearest in A. 0.85
26. Which of this best explains D. 1000002 meaning to the underlined B. 0.75
the coordination of human 29. Key component of defining phrase in the following C. 0.65
and material resources intellectual retardation sentence: Kemi confessed D. 0.45
towards achievement of exclude which of these that her plan to wed John is 5. Which of the following best
diverse organizational goals? variables “up in the air”. defines Educational
A. Administration A. Nomenclature A. Cancelled Psychology?
B. Management B. Intellectual Function B. Undecided A. The application of
C. Auditing C. Systems Support C. In media Psychology principles to the
D. Directing D. Adaptive Behavior D. concluded problems confronting the
27. Sociological studies affirm 30. The wild boy of Aveyron 2. Characteristics of subject teacher in an education
that found in the wood was matters a teacher should situation
A. Children exposed to treated by--- cover include the following B. The application of education
permissive discipline are A. Jean Itard except principle in Psychology
conforming and more B. Douglas Hill A. Practical nature of subjects C. The application of Education
dependent C. Mary Slessor B. Applicability of subject Principles in Psychology
B. Children exposed to D. Aristotle C. Theoretical and philosophical D. The application of principles
restrictive disciplines are nature of subject of learning in Education
conforming and more D. Utilities 6. According to the National
dependent E. Distinctiveness Policy on Education (NPE),
C. The more the parents 3. Which of the following is not the nature and purpose of
discipline, the more the a target group for adult education is
child's cognitive literacy programme? A. A tool for excellence
development A. School dropouts B. A tool par excellence
D. The more severe the B. Higher school dropouts C. A tool for development
discipline, the more the child C. Girl-child and victims of D. A tool for learning
conforms. teenage pregnancy 7. Teaching is a system of
28. Convert 3210 to a binary D. Nomadic communities interaction involving the
number. E. Almajiris and adult illiterates following except

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except D. Post Christian era 1. Abstractions and indexing D. Teacher made test
A. Eclectic 27. The doctrine of reasoning services in the library is aided 6. Plato believe that ultimate
B. Direct approach which laid the foundation to by activities of reality is
C. Indirect approach all researches is associated A. Circulation A. Knowledge
D. Cultural approach with B. Bibliography B. Virtue
23. Human beings are defined as A. Aristotle C. Cataloging C. Poison
social products because B. Plato D. Support Services D. Physical things
A. They live as a family C. John Locke 2. Types of division of labour 7. The traditionalist view
B. They live in villages D. Maslow common to organizations are curriculum as
C. They go to schools 28. Which of the following library categorized as A. Organized knowledge
D. They take care of themselves section does not offer any A. Structured learners must learn
24. Which of the following is not kind of lending services? B. Unstructured B. Innate knowledge learners
necessary in the child A. Cataloguing C. Vertical should be guided
friendly school? B. Reference D. Vertical or Horizontal C. Societal Expectations to
A. The teacher C. Circulation section 3. Convert 11012 to base 10 acquire
B. The lecture D. Macmillan section A. 3110 D. Societal Needs to learn
C. Guardian 29. Which of this philosophical B. 1310 8. The bi-system classification
D. Community school of thought is firmly C. 3310 of curriculum is the ________
25. Identify which of the rooted in the idea of “seeing D. 2310 A. Assignment Of Subjects To
following is not an inferential is believing”? 4. In English writing, replacing Different Classes
statistic? A. Pragmatism “and” with “&” is called B. Assignment Of Learners Into
A. Chi-square B. Existentialism A. Abbreviation Classes
B. Spearman iho C. Progressivism B. Short form C. Assignment Of Teachers Into
C. Skewness D. Realism C. Ampersand Different Subjects
D. Simple regression 30. The purpose of assessment D. Symbolism D. Assignment Of Subjects Into
26. Historical development of in school is 5. A test whose expected Time
special education excludes A. To diagnose learners' learning outcome is limited 9. "Difficulty to participate in
the following problem and improving the to WAEC curriculum is called group tasks", "Low frustration
A. Pre-Christian era quality of their learning A. Achievement test to tolerance" "Followers
B. Scientific era B. To differentiate between fast B. Norm referenced test rather than leaders" are
C. Christian era and slow learners C. Standard test A. Intellectual Characteristics

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Of Intellectual Retardation government level TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 19 D. undisputable

B. Social Characteristics Of B. non participation at the state 5. Major functions of library
Intellectual Retardation level 1. Which of the earliest thinkers include the following except
C. Academic Characteristics Of C. non participation at the observed that a child learns A. Providing access for reading
Intellectual Retardation federal level by activities and imitation, B. Acquisition and storage of
D. General Characteristics Of D. non participation by e.g. training, collecting and materials
Intellectual Retardation implementers observing”? C. Organization of material
10. Which of the following wrote 13. Which of the following A. Cornelius D. Information processing
"My Pedagogical Creed?' special need disability B. Pestalozzi 6. Philosophical concepts and
A. John Dewey classification is most difficult C. Rouseau terminologies in education
B. John Locke to identify and define? D. Bacon can be classified through the
C. Aristotle A. intellectual disability 2. The “median” most serious use of
D. Plato B. learning disability defect is that A. Measurement scale
11. The difference between C. emotional disability A. It is infraction B. Theoretical analysis
Wheeler and Tyler's D. autism B. It is difficult C. Practical analysis
elements of curriculum is 14. Research holds that autism C. It is skewed D. Consensual analysis
that approximately affects D. It is simple 7. Evaluation in education
A. both have four elements A. 1 in 50 children 3. The first school for the involves the following
B. both have organization of B. 1 in 500 children disabled in Nigeria was processes except
learning experience and C. 1 in 1000 children founded in A. Identifying and defining the
content with respect to D. 1 in 200 children A. 1914 in Gindiri intended outcome
attainment of goals 15. The belief that "Governments B. 1951 in Gindiri B. Constructing or selecting
C. Wheelers has five elements, are not established to C. 1960 in Gindiri test and other evaluation
but Tyler's has four elements maintain the rights of the D. 1976 in Gindiri tools
of curriculum ruling class, but designed for 4. A common trend in the C. Using evaluation result to
D. they both do not evaluate all the happiness and welfare of definition of research improve learning and
aspects of other elements men" is linked to exclude which of the teaching
12. Repeated arguments against A. Plato following? D. Ascribing value to
curriculum development in B. John Lock A. It is controlled educational phenomena
Nigeria is the C. Aristotle B. Empirical 8. Identify the figure of speech
A. non participation at the local D. Dewey C. Hypothetical propositions in the following sentence:

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The new class representative A. Increase in function 16. The child's mind being a exclude the following
has a heart of stone. B. Increase in size "tabula rasa" at birth is a A. formalized arrangement
A. Hyperbole C. Geographic expansion concept of B. joint planning
B. Metaphor D. Increase in complexity A. Abraham Maslow C. two or more professionals
C. Personification 13. Bureaucracy enhance the B. Lincoln D. student teachers
D. paradox following except C. John Locke 20. Pioneers of comparative
9. Teacher-centered teaching A. Monopoly D. Karl Marx education exclude the
methods excludes the B. Specialization 17. Similarities existing in Nigeria following
following C. Economic stability and England educational A. John Griscom
A. Storytelling D. Welfarism systems is in which of the B. Victor Cousin
B. Lecture 14. Which of the following following areas C. Austin Saunders
C. Project negates teaching A. private individuals run D. Horrace Mann
D. Demonstration professionalism in Nigeria? educational institutions 21. The doctrine of "reasoning"
10. Which of the following types A. Creation of TRCN beyond primary schools which gave foundation of
of education is most flexible B. Existence of professional B. private individuals can run researches is associated with
and available to anyone who bodies educational institutions to A. Aristotle
is interested no matter the C. Existence of quacks in primary school level B. Plato
age or occupation? schools C. religious bodies are involved C. John Locke
A. Formal education D. Existence of teachers' code in running educational D. Maslow
B. Non-formal education of conduct and professional institutions 22. Inferential statistics exclude
C. Informal education standards D. Nigeria and England the following…
D. Semi-formal education 15. Any comprehensive educational calendar are A. chi square
11. Find the volume of a cylinder definition of curriculum must similar B. variance
whose radius r = 7cm and cover the following school 18. The criteria for assessing C. mode
height h = 4cm (take π = 22/7) programmes except student teachers' practical D. kurtios
A. 516cm3 A. Programme of learning exclude the following 23. The application of
B. 616cm3 B. Programme of guidance A. introduction philosophical approach to
C. 166cm3 C. Programme of examination B. examination comparative education is
D. 416cm3 D. Programme of activities C. interaction associated with
12. Growth in Psychology 16. The first secondary school in D. conclusion A. Julius Nyerere
involves Nigeria began in the year 19. Elements of team teaching B. Rasmos Sergius Hassan

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C. Serguis Hassan A. liberal knowledge

D. Hegel B. subject knowledge
24. UNESCO classification of C. scientific knowledge
countries in the E-9 group of D. professional knowledge
countries with very high 28. Effective classroom
numbers of illiteracy exclude interaction is
the following A. silent
A. Indonesia B. noisy
B. Pakistan C. interactive
C. Bangladesh D. disengaging
D. Cameroon 29. The essence of guidance and
25. The universal design counseling in Nigeria
enhances access to exclude which of the
A. environment and community following?
B. Intensive education and A. adjustment and growing
community needs of youths
C. technology and community B. changes in educational
D. society and community system
26. Which of the following C. increasing societal vices
computer networks does not D. problems of democratic
use the global system? participation
A. intranet 30. Counseling theories exclude
B. google the following
C. info@trcn.gov.ng A. Psychoanalytic
D. www.trcn.gov.ng B. client centered
27. Teacher education C. reliability
curriculum is designed D. validation
particularly to equip trainee
teachers with knowledge
and skills in the following
EXCEPT

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1. The realignment of basic necessary for his/her

school curriculum which promotion to next level
integrated certain school D. learners age should
subjects towards vocational determine the categorization
bent in Nigeria can be said to of his/her school type
be a 5. Cognitive theory emphasizes
A. threat activities of
B. strength A. mental processes involved in
C. weakness human behavior
D. opportunity B. mental processes involved in
2. Median most serious defect perception
is that C. mental processes in
A. it is infraction acquiring, storing and using
B. it is difficult knowledge
C. it is skewed D. mental capacities to
D. it is simple recognize
3. Scientific approach in 6. Learning in the psychomotor
thinking implies domain is measured by
A. individualized thinking A. aptitude test
B. group thinking B. performance test
C. dogmatic thinking C. achievement test
D. technical thinking D. intelligence test
4. The implication of 7. Features of a good
"successive stage" of growth measurement scale exclude
to learning is that A. equal intervals
A. the stages of educational B. absolute zero point
attainment if rigid C. direction
B. educational material should D. approximation
be presented in bits 8. Curriculum traditionalists
C. learner's adequate school of thoughts exclude
preparation in a class is A. essentialists

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B. pragmatists C. cultural change

C. discipline advocates D. cultural freedom
D. perenialists 12. The contest between one
9. Research modes exclude the culture and another to range
following existing culture can
A. contract technically be referred to
B. consultant A. acculturation
C. sponsored B. cultural change
D. occupational C. cultural dispute
10. Educational differences D. cultural lag
between Nigeria and Japan 13. A research on the effects of
is mainly that smoking on two variables
A. Three tier administrations (male and female gender) is
exists in both A. continuous
B. Graduates of Junior B. constant
secondary schools can go to C. flexible
colleges of technology D. categorical
C. Public school education to all 14. The school is an example of
levels in both -countries is A. one social class
not free B. two social class
D. Maintaining educational C. multiple social class
standards is centralized in D. inter disciplinary class
both countries education in 15. The mobilization of
Nigeria is free resources towards
11. A condition that occurs when achievement of
new traits of tradition, values organizations' goals defines
and custom emerge to A. administration
replace old ones can be B. management
referred to as C. organization
A. cultural lag D. business unit
B. cultural norm 16. Charges are placed for

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overdue books in the library A. accident of birth

by which of the following B. capacity
sections C. merit
A. Catalogue D. ability
B. reference 21. Which of the following
C. Circulation successfully educated the
D. Lending 'Wild boy found in Aveyron
17. Calculate the range of the France?
following numbers 4, 2, 5,11, A. Jean ltard
19, 23. B. Edward Seguin
A. 21 C. Nightangle
B. 17 D. Mary Slessor
C. 18 22. "Baby Method" of educating
D. 19 the intellectual retarded
18. Find the mean of 91, 68, 74, refers to
85 and 52 A. use of pictures to indicate
A. 74 action
B. 84 B. use of toys
C. 94 C. Pronouncing a word and
D. 100 demonstrating it
19. Identify the nearest in D. play way method
meaning to the underlined: 23. Express 5cm to metre
the new radio presenter put A. 0.05m
airs in her style B. 0.5m
A. shouts C. 0.1m
B. is lively D. lm
C. is hardworking 24. If 33% of a certain number is
D. is pompous 1.386, what is the 42% of that
20. Plato believes that one's number?
class in society does not A. 1.968
depend on B. 2.089

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C. 2.189 B. use of out dated phrases

D. 1.764
25. An essay that emphasizes
the characteristics of a
person or thing is an
example of
A. Narrative
B. argumentative
C. descriptive
D. emphatic
26. Parts of a book excludes
A. spine
B. content
C. references
D. review
27. Sociological theory of
embourgeiosement dictates
that
A. education increases stability
B. increase in education,
increases inter-generational
mobility
C. the higher the education, the
lower the sire and
opportunity for mobility,
D. education explains all man's
problem in society
28. Problems confronting
English learners in Nigeria
exclude the following
A. mother tongue interference
C. changing English usage
D. British influence in Nigeria
29. Water-down approach of
educating children with
special needs requires
A. use of water related
elements in teaching
B. visit to coastal areas on
excursion
C. waterfalls simulations in
teaching
D. teaching from simple to
complex
30. Everything is provisional;
nothing is ultimate,
knowledge is a means, not
an end itself-but
instrumental". Above concept
is credited to
A. Dewey
B. Pierce
C. Plato
D. Socrates

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1. The Nigerian aims of following 8th century visually

education, physical, moral impaired (blindman).
and intellectual A. Homer
development of the child is a B. Stevie Wonder
concept traced to C. Julius Caesar
A. Plato D. Nicholas Sanders
B. John Locke 6. In building a socially
C. Athens acceptable person, other
D. Romans agents rely on which of the
2. Methods of educating following critical education
children with intellectual agent?
retardation exclude, A. family
A. physiological method B. Basic school
B. permissive method C. Religion
C. picture exchange D. Media
D. text exchange 7. Plato's identification of three
3. Which of the following is not classes of people in society
a behaviorist theorist? excludes which of the
A. Ivan Pavlov following?
B. R.L Thorndike A. the common people
C. B.F Skinner B. the guardian
D. A.K Watson C. the angels
4. My sister____ me some D. the auxiliary (military)
money to complete my 8. Peoples' day to day practices
school fees. can be referred to as
A. learnt A. Daily culture
B. loaned B. Ideal culture
C. borrowed C. real culture
D. text D. personal culture
5. "Odyssey and the Iliad" is a 9. Nigeria's first secondary
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A. St. Andrews College Oyo D. 6th century

B. Ibadan Government college 13. Proponents of pragmatism as
C. CMS Grammer school Lagos philosophical school of
D. Lord Lugard College Calabar thought exclude
10. The psychoanalytic A. Plato
personality theory believes B. John Dewey
that C. Parmenides
A. Man's mental actions are D. C.S Pierce
interpreted socially 14. Efforts to solve large class
B. Man's mental activities are sizes in Nigeria exclude the
only subject to super ego use of
C. Man's mental activities can A. e-learning
be explained by actions of B. NTI
ego C. Distant and open education
D. Humans mental activities D. Conventional learning
could be described in terms 15. The child's skills develop
of influence of id, ego and from crude and diffuse mass
super ego. action to specific response
11. Intellectual retardation describes
traceable to the use of A. Growth
forceps or non-provision of B. Skill
oxygen can be categorized C. Readiness
as D. Cause Effect
A. perinatal 16. The first Nigerian sub-
B. post-natal inspector of protectorate of
C. ex-postnatal Lagos was
D. prenatal A. Lord Luggard
12. Islam came to Nigeria in B. Henry car
A. 12th century C. Ajayi Crowther
B. 15th century D. Flora Shaw
C. 11th century 17. Evidence of learning in the

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cognitive domain can be 21. Throughout history every

measured by normal human being
A. Achievement test belongs to a
B. Aptitude test A. religion
C. Intelligence test B. family
D. Performance test C. school
18. One billion has how many D. profession
zeros____ 22. Which of the following is
A. 9 regarded as the father of
B. 3 realism, as a philosophic
C. 12 school of thought?
D. 6 A. Aristotle
19. Gifted and talented learners B. Plato
are often categorized as C. John Dewey
follows EXCEPT D. John Don
A. prodigious 23. The notion that natural
B. classic causes and laws explain all
C. (c)gifted phenomena and not
D. precocious supernatural/divine is which
20. Which of the following is the philosophic school of
first education law which thought?
spelt out that a person must A. realism
be a qualified and registered B. naturalism
teacher before he could be C. existentialism
employed to teach in D. pragmatism
Nigeria? 24. The following is not among
A. TRCN Act 31 of 1993 guidance programmes found
B. 1882 education ordinance in schools
C. 1926 education ordinance A. oriental and appraisal
D. 1977 national policy on B. communication and
education dismissal

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C. counseling and referral based on cognitive areas

D. career guidance D. Identical tables
25. In the year ___, during Mungo 29. The statement of problem
Park's second missionary does not identify which of
journey to Africa, he was the following
attacked and drowned in a A. activities and related factors
town called of research
A. 1796/Lokoja B. problems to be encountered
B. 1805/Bussa and to solve the research
C. 1796/Lagos C. problems to be
D. 1805/Benue recommended for solution
26. Factors to consider in the D. problems other research
selection of instructional have solved
materials exclude the 30. Slave trade was abolished in
following the year
A. Lesson objectives A. 1900
B. availability B. 1833
C. Relevance C. 1850
D. teachers interest D. 1880
27. CAPCHA refers to
A. catch children young in
Africa
B. Unique identification code
C. capitalization code in key
board
D. ancient cap style
28. The table of specification
indicates
A. marking scheme
B. table of instruction
C. how marks will be awarded

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1. Which of the following is not A. Newark

correct? B. penny
A. principles of educational C. token
technology can only solve D. Browne
problems at macro level 5. Efforts at universal definition
B. principles of instructional of the curriculum is difficult
technology can only be due to
applied to solve problem at A. Changing nature of
micro level knowledge
C. principles of instructional B. Changing conception of
technology can be applied to learners
solve educational problem C. Changing societal
D. principles of instructional expectations
technology can be applied at D. Changing learning processes
macro and micro levels 6. A research type that can be
2. Areas of cognitive domain used to analyze opinions,
exclude which of the thoughts, and feelings is
following A. Scientific
A. discipline B. Historical
B. morality C. Survey
C. ability D. Case study
D. relationship 7. The fake doctor is "a gentle
3. Measures of dispersion man of the road" contains
consists of the following what figure of speech
except A. Euphemism
A. range B. Irony
B. quartile deviation C. Metaphor
C. semi inter-percentile range D. Paradox
D. population distribution 8. Find the mean of 91, 68, 74,
4. Charging system operational 85, 52
in library exclude A. 74

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B. 84
C. 94
D. 64
9. For education rules or
policies to become Laws
they must pass through
A. Courts
B. Presidential accents
C. Legislative processes
D. Cooperate Affairs
10. Regional control of education
in Nigeria began in ……. and
ended in
A. 1900/1914
B. 1908 /1960
C. 1914 /1919
D. 1908/ 1999
11. Realia is an instructional
material requiring use
A. Schematization
B. artificial objects
C. real object
D. Available objects
12. The application of scientific
knowledge in classrooms for
learning refers to
A. Learning Technology
B. Instructional Technology
C. Classroom Technology
D. Scientific Technology
13. Technology in Education
refers to
A. Application of equipment to
improve education
B. Application of education to
improve technology
C. Application of technology in
instructions
D. Application of theories and
education rules to improve
education
14. Which of the following is a
major problem which hinders
the implementation of
education policies in Nigeria?
A. Lack of data
B. Lack of personnel
C. Lack of political will
D. Knowledge of the issue
15. The ego adopts the following
defense mechanism to
cushion the effects of anxiety
generated by various
aspects of personality
EXCEPT
A. Repression
B. Suppression
C. Sublimation
D. Rationalization
16. Which of these is not a factor
that hindered early
introduction of Western

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D. 13.1 responsibility of the control

25. In Edgar Dale's cone of of basic education in Nigeria
experience, the lowest and is vested with
highest levels are A. The State Government
A. Indirect experience and B. Federal Government
visual symbols C. Local Government
B. Contrived experience and D. The Municipal
demonstration 29. Characteristics of a good
C. Direct real experience and curriculum exclude the
verbal symbols following
D. Verbal symbols and visual A. Purposefulness
symbols B. Rigidity
26. The acronym AFTRA stands C. Relevance
for D. Flexibility
A. African forum of Teachers 30. Pragmatism, as a philosophic
registration authority idea was initiated by ________
B. Africa forum of Teaching A. Dewey
regulating authorities B. Locke
C. African forum of Teaching C. C.S Pierce
regulating authorities D. Socrates
D. Africa front for Teaching
regulating in Africa
27. The problem confronting the
study of comparative
education excludes which of
the following:
A. Geographical
B. Language
C. Cultural
D. Vocational
28. The constitutional

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1. The objective of the Nigeria classrooms

philosophy of education is B. Provision of mobile
dominated by the following classrooms
philosophic school of C. Encouraging herdsmen to
thought send children to
A. Realism D. Encouraging them to read
B. Pragmatics and write
C. Idealism 5. Categories of social
D. Existentialism stratification exclude:
2. The following are some A. Marriage
characteristics exhibited by B. Power
gifted learners except C. Class
A. Learns new materials faster D. Status
and earlier than age mates 6. Human beings are called
B. Remembers what is learnt social products because
with little or no need for A. They live as a family
revision B. They live in villages
C. Passionate about one or C. They go to school
more topics and spends D. They take care of themselves
available time learning about 7. Which of the following
the topic decides the narrative in a
D. Spends long time revising his story?
lectures to commit A. Author
3. "Pragmatism" means B. Editor
A. Find and critique C. The reviewer
B. Practice and invent D. A poet
C. Find, analyze and conclude 8. Speech disorders may be
D. Do, practice and discover classified according the
4. Programme for educating following EXCEPT
the cattle herdsmen exclude A. Fluency
A. Construction of Permanent B. Language

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Education in Northern C. Registering, certifying and

Nigeria? licensing teachers
A. Geographical D. Teachers employment and
B. Political promotion
C. Religion 21. In modern teaching and
D. Ethnicity learning the teacher is
17. The following methods are A. a purveyor of knowledge
used for teaching the hearing B. a director
impaired EXCEPT C. a facilitator
A. Sign language D. controller
B. Finger spelling 22. Types of counseling services
C. Word processor can be as
D. lip/speech reading A. Vocational, personal and
18. Distance learning can be public
classified as following except B. Vocational, psychological
A. Correspondence education and social
B. Independent education C. Vocational, education and
C. Institutional broadcast personal
D. Indirect education D. Religious Social and
19. Teaching method can be educational
referred to as 23. Which of these is not a prime
A. Teaching Professionalism factor?
B. Teaching Plan A. 7
C. Teaching Experience B. 3
D. Pedagogical Experience C. 5
20. Teachers Registration D. 9
Council of Nigeria mandates 24. Approximate 13.072 to 3
exclude significant figures.
A. Conducting Teachers A. 12.7
Professional B. 13.07
B. Determining who is a teacher C. 13.072

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C. Voice education ordinance was

D. Communication passed in
9. Some characteristics A. 1887
common to all organizations B. 1882
exclude which of these C. 1900
A. Division of labour D. 1914
B. Purpose of tasks 14. Curriculum planning is an
C. Resources activity of
D. Formality A. Evaluation
10. The trade union is an B. Previous knowledge
example of C. New thinking
A. Formal organization D. Summarization
B. Informal organization 15. Rapport in teaching is an
C. Social organization activity of
D. Non formal organization A. Evaluation
11. Books stored in the library for B. Introduction
use on special cases are C. Conclusion
called D. Main instruction
A. References 16. The history of education
B. Catalogue Laws in Nigeria dates back to
C. Periodical A. 1842
D. journals B. 1882
12. The curriculum for the gifted C. 1887
learners can be modified D. 1914
along the following areas 17. The idea of the school being
except primarily a social institution is
A. Content credited to
B. Environment A. Plato
C. Term duration B. Aristotle
D. Process C. Dewey
13. The first purely, Nigeria D. Montessori

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18. Some of the problems that Aveyron (France) was called

characterize Nigeria society A. Moley
arising from social B. Victor
stratification exclude C. Jim
A. Ethnicity D. Haruna
B. Religion diversity 23. Findings of behaviorist
C. Industrial actions theorists on learning exclude
D. Unity in diversity the following
19. Don't you like onions? A. Learning is mechanical
A. Yes, I don't B. Learning takes place through
B. Yes, I do trial and error
C. No I do C. Learning is permanent
D. No, I did D. Learning is measurable
20. The learner who just change in behaviour
completed a class lesson has 24. Wheelers curriculum model
the information stored in can be described
A. Long term memory A. Vertical
B. Short term memory B. Cyclic
C. Midterm memory C. Horizontal
D. acuitic Memory D. Didactic
21. Dewey's concept of the 25. The totally blind person has
application of science and a visual accir. :ff
industrial art as well as social A. 100/100
factors is embraced in B. 20/200
Nigeria educational system C. 30/300
in the following ways except D. 0/100
A. Vocational education 26. Patterns of behavior
B. 6-3-3-4 system members of society pass to
C. Polytechnic education its generations can be
D. Mass education referred to as
22. The wild boy found in A. Culture

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B. Socialisation D. Guidance and counseling

C. Stratification uses discipline to correct the
D. Morality learner
27. The first establishment of a 30. The Laws of valid reasoning
department of education defines which of the
(with full director) in Nigeria following
is traced to the education A. Induction
ordinance of B. Premises
A. 1882 C. Logic
B. 1857 D. Proposition
C. 1890
D. 1908
28. The first education Law that
enhanced the status of
teaching profession and
stipulated minimum salary to
Qualified and registered
teachers, in Nigeria was in
A. 1926
B. 1882
C. 1908
D. 1992
29. The importance of Guidance
and Counseling exclude
which of the following
A. It helps individuals
understand themselves
B. It helps learners understand
themselves
C. Through guidance individual
uniqueness is emphasized

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 11 documents in any desired

field?
1. Research classification A. Lending
according to form is not B. Cataloguing
which of the following C. Referencing
A. Historical D. Bibliography
B. Descriptive 6. Criterion referenced
C. Experimental evaluation is mostly
D. Social concerned with
2. Primary sources of data A. Psychomotor domain
exclude which of the B. Cognitive domain
following C. Spiritual domain
A. Research finding D. Affective domain
B. Journals 7. In the classroom
C. Magazine management, the teacher
D. Expert opinion in lecture should be
3. Which of these is not an A. Rigid
inferential statistic? B. Flexible
A. Chi square C. Simple
B. Spearman D. Harsh
C. Skewers 8. Stages of educational
D. Simple Regression development was introduced
4. Features of serials exclude by
the following A. Aristotle
A. They are published B. Plato
B. They have ISSN C. Piaget
C. They come at intervals D. Quintilanus
D. They are only acted 9. Which of the following type
5. Which of the following library of education can take place
services helps the reader to anywhere?
identify and retrieve A. Prussian Education

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B. Formal 14. Conflict theory is associated

C. Informal with the following
D. Distance A. Abraham Maslow
10. The value of one 9th of 81 is B. Karl Max
A. 9 C. Weber
B. 81 D. Freud
C. 19 15. Which of these is not used
D. 90 for teaching the hearing
11. Historically, earliest impaired?
generation of computers A. toys
worked through electronic B. Braille paper
valve called C. Adjustable desk
A. Vacuum Valve D. Sign Language
B. Value Valve 16. Principles of operant
C. Value tube conditioning excludes the
D. Vacuum tube following
12. Inductive method of A. motivation
education introduced by B. Behaviour modification
Aristotle implies teaching C. reinforcement
from D. cognition
A. Particular to particular 17. Organizations are classified
B. General to general as
C. General to particular A. Official & Unofficial
D. Particular to general B. Structured & Unstructured
13. In Nigeria, formal education C. Formal & Non formal
for special education dates D. Formal & Informal
back to 18. Characteristics of a good
A. 1960s curriculum exclude the
B. 1950s following
C. 1940s A. Appropriateness
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C. Rigidity D. Combination of methods

D. Relevance 23. Principles of educational
19. "Waoh! today is my birthday", technology are derived from
is a A. Educational theories alone
A. Command B. Technological theories
B. Statement C. Philosophical & educational
C. Exclamation theories
D. Question D. Psychological & educational
20. The test type that needs a theories
word or phrase to answer is 24. The natural reaction and
referred to as drive of man and other things
A. Multiple Choice to interact with its
B. Alternative response environment is
C. Short Answer A. Assimilation
D. Matching game B. Acculturation
21. The Nigerian basic education C. Adaptation
comprises of the D. Association
A. Three years primary and six 25. Interaction types that may
years secondary exist in any room exclude
B. Six years primary and six A. Teacher student
years primary B. Student-student
C. Six years primary and three C. Peer-peer
years junior secondary D. Teacher-teacher
D. Nine years primary and 26. Curriculum planning is
secondary carried out by
22. The best instructional A. Teachers
method in a child friendly B. Specialist
school is C. Stake holders
A. Drama D. Subject experts
B. Play method 27. Early childhood illness can
C. Child friendly method be caused by these except

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A. Poor nutrition
B. Unhealthy environment
C. Poor school care
D. poor health care
28. Challenges to research in
special education exclude
A. culture and tradition
B. Negative attitudes
C. Ethical & personal issues
D. Availability of data
29. The suitable method of
teaching at the junior
secondary school is
A. Project method
B. Play method
C. Lecture method
D. Combined method
30. 95 divide by 40
approximately is
A. 2
B. 1
C. 4
D. 3

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 12 5. Sensory organs can be

stimulated through
A. Sensation
1. Which of the following can B. perception
be used to teach the learning C. Transfer
impaired? D. Adaptation
A. Paper 6. Advantages of micro
B. Hearing Kit teaching exclude?
C. Biro A. Platform for student
D. Tape recorder teacher's practical
2. Which of these research B. It supports teachers lesson
types does not give e C. Platform to assess student
opportunity of gaining new teacher
knowledge and theories? D. Offers skills to would be
A. Basic research teachers
B. Applied research 7. Socialization is a process
C. Academic research whereby individuals acquires
D. Pure research the desirable ____ of its
3. The renown philosopher who society
taught Alexander the Great A. Skills & attitude
was B. Attitude & occupation
A. Aristotle C. Laws & values
B. Plato D. Norms, value & expected
C. Socrates behaviour
D. John Locke 8. Communication disorder
4. Source of research funding excludes
excludes A. Articulation disorder
A. Individual B. Delayed speech
B. Supervisor C. Mouth odour
C. Organisation D. Voice disorder
D. NGO 9. Don't you like me?

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A. Yes, I don't except

B. Yes, I do A. Mean
C. No, I do B. Central tendency
D. Yes, I does C. Mode
10. The last stage of Tyler's D. The coefficient
curriculum planning 15. The wild boy in the wood was
procedure is found in which country
A. Objectives A. Argentina
B. Evaluation B. Britain
C. learning experience C. France
D. Organization D. Congo
11. Teacher centred method 16. Elements of communication
exclude the following exclude which of the
A. Lecture following
B. Project A. Source
C. Demonstration B. Receiver
D. Story telling C. Noise
12. Educational problem in D. Language
Nigeria exclude 17. Special need education can
A. Funding be referred to as
B. Policy A. Education for handicap
C. Low teachers esteem B. Inclusive education
D. Private school provision C. Gifted education
13. The British rule began in D. Special education
Nigeria in the year 18. Philosophy of education is
A. 1860 important due to
B. 1842 A. Philosophical issues
C. 1914 B. Educational issues
D. 1800 C. Sociological issues
14. Frequency distribution can D. Religious issues
be summarized as follows 19. The main functions of the

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library exclude the following sections of the library cannot

A. Provision of access for be borrowed
reading A. New arrivals
B. Acquisition & storage of B. Circulation materials
materials C. Reference section
C. Organization of materials D. Archival materials
D. Processing of materials 24. Users of library "A" can be
20. The first curriculum given access to library "B"
conference in Nigeria was through
held in A. Library support
A. 1977 B. Inter library services
B. 1970 C. Intra library services
C. 1969 D. Auxiliary services
D. 1960 25. Which of these is not a
21. The Nigerian certificate in function of philosophy
education (NCE) became the A. Analytic
minimum teaching B. Speculative
qualification in Nigeria in the C. prescriptive & descriptive
year D. Inspirational
A. 1960 26. Traditional mode of
B. 1969 education includes which of
C. 1975 the following
D. 1977 A. Slates & classrooms
22. In the study of society, the B. Proverbs
family value commonly C. Superstition
emphasized is D. Story telling
A. Polygamy 27. The teacher's position in the
B. Polyandry classroom is the role of a
C. Continuity A. Lecturer
D. Heredity B. The head
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D. Manager
28. Adult education is the
education for
A. The poor
B. The old
C. The less privileged
D. Those who did not attend
regular programmes
29. The history of guidance
service in Nigeria began in
the late 50s through the
efforts of
A. The parliament
B. Counselling association
C. Reverend Sisters at Oke- Ado
Ibadan
D. Catholic priests at Ibadan
30. Sociology can be defined as
a totality of human
A. Behaviour
B. Interaction
C. Activities
D. Expectations

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 13 A. USA

B. Britain
1. Teacher's registration council C. Canada
of Nigeria was established by D. Japan
what law 6. How many zero are in one
A. Cooperate affairs billion?
commission A. 6
B. 1999 Nigerian constitution B. 10
C. Act 31 of 1993 C. 9
D. 2004 act of National D. 12
Assembly 7. The ultimate goal of
2. Homogeneity in society curriculum planning is to
implies A. Develop programmes for
A. Duplicity society
B. Heredity B. Develop individual skills
C. Multiplicity C. Establish more schools
D. Oneness D. Guide educational
3. A nuclear family belongs to programmes
A. Two social class E. Design teachers'
B. One social class programmes
C. Three social class 8. Curriculum design differ
D. Multiple class primary in
4. Abacus numbers are A. Teaching and learning
counted in outcome
A. 1 B. Principles of teaching and
B. 2 learning
C. 4 C. Method, content and
D. 3 structure
5. The 6-3-3-4 system of D. Methodology and application
education is derived from E. Scope and sequence.
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design is usually criticized D. Organization of content and

because learning experience
A. It is difficult to organize E. Content and evaluation
B. Of its cumbersome nature 13. The new UBE curriculum
C. It does not include fieldtrips emphasizes
D. It does not take care of A. Society-centred learning
student's interests. B. Teacher-centred learning
E. Subject demarcations still C. Child-centred learning
exist. D. Parent-centred learning
10. Activity curriculum does not E. Government-centred
require 14. Which of the following is not
A. A lot of instructional a method of teaching?
materials. A. Discussion method
B. Co-curricula activities B. Project method
C. Game and sports C. Interactive method
D. Planned activities D. Power point presentation
E. Infrastructure and equipment E. Distraction method
11. Tyler's curriculum planning 15. Agencies of curriculum
process has planning and innovation in
A. 6steps Nigeria include
B. 5steps A. NERDC and NAFDAC
C. 4steps B. NERDC and TRCN
D. 3 steps C. NUC and lCPC
E. 2 steps D. NCCE and NBTE
12. The common features of E. ICPC and EFCC
most curriculum models are 16. An importance of a lesson
A. Learning experiences and plan is that it
content A. Guides the teacher in the
B. Objectives and learning delivery of the lesson
experiences. B. Evaluated the learners in the
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C. Guides the school in leaders

implementing its E. Lack of common syllabus
programmes 20. Which of the following was
D. Guides the teacher in not provided for in the
planning Nigerian Education
17. The guiding principle of the ordinance of 1887?
Nigeria traditional education A. Board of Education
was B. Grant-in-aids to schools
A. Functionalism C. Parents' right to choose
B. Naturalism religion of instruction
C. Idealism D. Certification of teacher
D. Realism E. Power of Governor to
E. Existentialism establish and maintain
18. Islamic Education was schools
introduced to Nigeria in the 21. The UPE scheme was
A. 12th century launched in the Western and
B. 14th century Eastern regions of Nigeria in
C. 10th century A. 1955 and 1958 respectively
D. 13th century B. 1955 and 1957 respectively
E. 16th century C. 1954 and 1958 respectively
19. Which of these was not a D. 1952 and 1953 respectively
problem in the E. 1950 and 1959 respectively
implementation of early 22. Which of the following was
colonial education not a major problem in the
programmes? implementation of the 1976
A. Lack of central school laws Universal Primary Education?
B. Lack of standard qualification A. Language policy
for teachers B. Political discrepancies
C. Emphasis on conversion to C. Financial problem
Christianity D. Girl-child education
D. Emphasis on the future E. Public enlightenment

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23. Which of these is not one of 26. The school of philosophy of

the functions of philosophy? education associated with
A. Analytic function the concepts of freedom,
B. Speculative function choice responsibility and
C. Inspirational function self-reliance is
D. Prescriptive function A. idealism
E. Descriptive function B. realism
24. Philosophy can be described C. existentialism
as an activity in three modes D. naturalism
or styles namely E. Marxism
A. Speculative, metaphysics 27. A factor that is not directly
and prescriptive responsible for examination
B. Speculative, prescriptive and malpractices in school is
analytic A. Lack of committed teachers
C. Speculative, analytic and B. Religious intolerance
epistemology C. Inability of teachers to make
D. Metaphysics, analytic and lessons interesting
Prescriptive D. Inability of school managers
E. Prescriptive, epistemology to motivate teachers
and axiology E. Student desperation for
25. Area of Philosophical inquiry certificates
include 28. In the study of society, the
A. Metaphysic, epistemology family value commonly
B. Metaphysic and mechanism emphasized is
and epistemology A. Polygamy
C. Metaphysics, axiology and B. Polyandry
materialism C. Serial polygamy
D. Epistemology, axiology and D. Continuity
mechanism E. Monogamy
E. Metaphysics, materialism
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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 14 A. The teacher

B. The bursar
C. The administrative officer
1. Which of the following is not D. The secretary
a factor that holds society E. The executive officer
together? 5. Which of the following is not
A. Participation and interaction part of the acronym
B. Cohesion "POSDCORB"?
C. Conformity A. Planning
D. Politics B. Coordinating
E. Co-operation C. Commanding
2. Which of the following is not D. Organizing
a characteristic of the E. Reporting
secondary group in the 6. Which of the following
socialization process? constitute the administration
A. Impersonal behavior of school?
B. Intimate relationship A. Men and women
C. Indirect contact B. Staff and students
D. Limited face to face contact C. Academy and non-academy
E. Formal behavior staff
3. The Management of D. Money and materials
secondary schools in a State 7. The Log book keeps records
is the responsibility of the of
A. Schools Board A. Staff movement
B. Ministry of Education B. Financial transactions
C. Executive Council C. School activities
D. Education committee D. Students' activities
E. NUT E. Teachers' promotion
4. Which of the following is a 8. The control of unity school in
line - staff in a school Nigeria is the responsibility of
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A. Universal Basic Education A. Routine inspection

Commission B. Follow-up inspection
B. Federal Ministry of Education C. Recognition inspection
C. Parent-teachers Association D. Visitation inspection
of Nigeria E. Full inspection
D. All Nigeria Conference of 12. Modern supervisory
principals of secondary technique does not include
schools A. Consultation
E. State Ministries of Education B. Participation
9. Which of the following is the C. Coercion
primary purpose of school D. Dialogue
supervision? E. Cooperation
A. To determine the 13. Which of the following is not
competence of teachers a major reason for
B. Quality assurance in conducting research?
education A. Advancing of knowledge
C. To check student attendance B. Creation ideas
and learning C. Exploring areas of difficulties
D. Quality measures for school D. Searching for book
management E. Sparking of knowledge
E. Quality control in teaching 14. A study in which the
method effectiveness of a particular
10. The supervision of school by teaching method is
an external agent is referred investigated is referred to as
to as A. Experimental study
A. Sensitization B. Ex-post factor research
B. Quality control C. Non-experimental research
C. Inspection D. Historical research
D. Evaluation E. Survey study
E. Monitoring 15. Action research is one in
11. Which of the following is not which
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A. A detailed guide of how to problem

solve a problem is provided 18. Which of the following is a
B. Line of action for solving a primary data?
problem is articulated A. Questionnaire response
C. Observable actions are B. Textbooks content
demonstrated by the sample C. Newspaper report
D. Recommendations are made D. Journal article
for solving a problem E. Mimeograph
E. A theory is tested to 19. Which of the following
demonstrate its efficacy response formats is most
16. The design in which a suitable for quantitative
selected unit of a population analysis?
is studied and the findings A. Binary choice
assumed to be the same for B. Close response
members of the population is C. Extended response
known as D. Likert type
A. descriptive survey E. Semantic differential
B. ethnographic design 20. Measurement is often
C. historical design defined as
D. qualitative design A. The interpretation of test
E. qualitative survey scores
17. Which of the following would B. Manipulation of statistical
least influence the choice of process
a research topic in C. Qualification of behavioural
education? traits
A. Education relevance D. Systematic approach to
B. Feasibility of the study issues of education
C. Meeting graduation E. Systematic assignment of
requirement numbers to attributes
D. Personal competence of the 21. The scale of measurement
investigator that uses numbers or signs
E. Research ability of the for the identification of a

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group is C. Legible prints

A. Interval scale D. Pleasant weather
B. Ordinal scale E. Ventilation
C. Magnitude scale 25. The statistic used in
D. Ratio scale determining the signification
E. Nominal scale of the difference between
22. Which characteristic feature two sets of scores is
of continuous assessment A. Chi square test
ensures that the date, time B. Man-whitey U test
and nature of assessment to C. One-way analysis of variance
be conducted is scheduled? D. Person correlation
A. Descriptive E. The 'T-test'
B. Comprehensive 26. Which of the following is a
C. Cumulative disadvantage of objective
D. Guidance-oriented tests?
E. Systematic A. Absence of bias in the
23. The number located in the scoring process
middle when all the number B. Coverage of wide content
in a distribution are arranged area
in either ascending or C. Discouragement of
descending order of superficial study habit
magnitude is the D. Prompt release of result
A. Mean E. Possibility of guessing
B. Median correctly
C. Mode
D. Standard
E. Variance
24. Which of the following is a
psychological requirement
for conducting a test?
A. Comfortable furniture
B. Light

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 15 D. Adolescent development

personality inventory
1. The counseling association E. Student inventory
of Nigeria was established 5. Amnesia is the loss of___?
in___ A. Sleep
A. 1960 B. Vision
B. 1968 C. Memory
C. 1970 D. Health
D. 1976 E. Hearing
E. 1986 6. Operant conditioning is
2. Client- centered counseling associated with____
approach was pioneered A. Z.B Thorndike
by____ B. B.F. Skinner
A. Albert Ellis C. Ivan parlor Abraham
B. C.G Bakare D. Maslow Albert Bandura
C. Carl Rogers 7. Stimulus-response (S-R) is a
D. Sigmund Freud concept found
E. Albert Bandora A. Operant conditioning
3. The first stage in the B. Classical conditioning
counseling process is___ C. Social conditioning
A. Appointment D. Moral conditioning
B. Referral E. Mixed conditioning
C. Rapport 8. Which of the following does
D. Termination not belong to Abraham
E. Interview Maslow's theory of
4. Which of the following is motivation?
related to career choice A. Self-esteem
measurement? B. Survival
A. Vocation interest inventory C. Belongingness
B. Student problem inventory D. Self-actualization
C. Student habit inventory E. Aggression

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9. Which of the following is not and writing

a learning difficulty? E. Learning, listening, speaking
A. Visual impairment and seeing
B. Hearing impairment F. Listening, speaking, writing
C. Epilepsy and learning
D. Speech disorder 13. Parts of speech in grammar
E. Truancy include
10. In the teaching and learning A. Narrative, inferences,
process, learners mostly adjectives and preposition
remember what they B. Nouns, pronouns, narrative
A. See, read and hear and outlining
B. Read, hear and write C. Nouns, adverbs, adjectives
C. Hear, speak and feel and preposition
D. Are told, hear and copy D. Nouns, inferences, outlining
E. Write, hear and say and pronouns
11. The Suleja Academy is a E. Narrative, adverbs, adjectives
school for the and inferences
A. Blind 14. The techniques used to
B. Gifted improve reading in the
C. Deaf classroom include
D. Dumb A. Pleasure and creative
E. Lame reading
12. The four elements of B. Pleasure and memorization
language are C. Creative and silent reading
A. Listening, speaking, reading D. Creative and memorization
and writing E. Reciting and chorus reading
B. Listening, speaking, learning 15. The most appropriate place
and writing to confirm the availability of a
C. Seeing, speaking, learning book in a library is
and writing A. Reference section
D. Seeing, speaking, learning B. Reception

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C. Shelves 19. One of the teaching

D. Catalogue unit strategies that enable
E. Reading learners to develop at his
16. The earliest components of rate is
the communication process A. Demonstration of instruction
are B. Lecturing method
A. Noise, messenger and C. Individualized instruction
receiver D. Group work
B. Messenger, sender and 'noise E. Discussion method
C. Sender, messenger and 20. An adjective helps to
receiver A. Define a noun
D. Sender receiver and decoder B. Qualify a noun
E. Receiver, decoder and C. Denote a noun
encoder D. Promote a noun
17. Books kept in the reference E. Describes a noun
sections of a library are those 21. The printer is use'8 for
that? producing a
A. Can be borrowed out of the A. Soft copy
Library B. Machine copy
B. Should be used within the C. Hardcopy
Library only D. Saved copy
C. Are used by the Library staff E. Photocopy
only 22. Documents are saved into
D. Are demanded to interested A. Flash drives
users B. Printers
E. Are outdated C. Joystick
18. Communication models are D. Mice
A. Symbolic and replica E. Keyboard
B. Symbolic and dramatic 23. The major components of a
C. Dramatic and systematic computer are
D. Systematic and symbolic A. Flash drive, CPU, Monitor,

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Keyboard communication technology

B. CPU, Monitor, Mouse and 27. Panel board has a
Printer A. Paper background
C. CPU, Monitor, Mouse and B. Wood background
Keyboard C. Metal background'
D. Zip disk, printer, keyboard D. Water background
E. Monitor, mouse, diskette and E. Blanket background
CPU 28. Transparencies are used with
24. E-mail addresses can be A. Overhead projector
accessed with the use of B. Overhead lamp
A. Username and password C. Overhead search light
B. User word and domain D. Overhead camera
C. Password and keyboard E. Overhead slide
D. Password and domain 29. Which of the following is an
E. Keyboard and PIN application package?
25. Papers are best presented in A. Linux
conference using B. Window XP Professional
A. Microsoft Word C. MS-Access
B. Desktop publishing D. Window 200
C. Power point E. COBOL
D. Microsoft excel 30. Improvisation of instructional
E. Microsoft access medium deals with
26. The full meaning of ICT is A. Design aids
A. Integrated communication B. Visual
B. Interrupted community C. Individuals
technology D. Pupils
C. Interpersonal computer E. Basic roads
technology
D. Informal and community
technology
E. Information and

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 16 D. Information

E. Rating
1. One of the components of 5. Computer can only process
system approach of data in binary digits which
instruction is are
A. Research A. 0 and 2
B. Stating objectives B. 0 and 1
C. Theory C. 0 and 3
D. Behavior attitude D. 0 and 4
E. The developed curriculum E. 0 and 5
2. One of the limitations of a flip 6. One of the word processing
chart is that it is application is
A. Brittle A. Corel draw
B. Large B. Instant artist
C. Energy sapping C. Database
D. Expensive D. MS word
E. Not visible E. Spread sheet
3. The advantage of a still 7. An example of a high level
picture as a form of language is
instructional media is that it A. MS Excel
A. Can be manipulated B. Window XP
B. Is easy to prepare C. Windows Vista
C. Is easy to trace D. ORACLE
D. Requires artistic skills E. COBOL
E. Is produced by learners 8. One of the advantages of
4. Which of the following is a computer based instructions
component of instructional in the classroom is
system? A. Cost reduction
A. Sequence B. The dramatization of
B. Practice instruction
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D. Symbolic presentation
E. Structural projection
9. How many local government
areas are in Nigeria?
A. 727
B. 747
C. 774
D. 776
E. 777
10. Which of the following is not
a responsibility of NAFDAC?
A. Manufacturing drugs
B. Checking fake drug
C. Inspecting drugs shops
D. Monitoring the importation of
food
E. Destroying fake drugs
11. The first indigenous
university in Nigeria is
A. University of Ibadan
B. University of Nigeria Nsukka
C. Obafemi Awolowo University,
lle-lfe
D. Ahmadu Bello Unieversity,
Zaria
E. University of Lagos
12. What is the motto of UBE?
A. Education for all is the
responsibility of all
B. Education for one is the
responsibility for all
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C. Education for all is the
business of one
D. Education for one is the
business of one
E. Education for all is the
responsibility of many
13. Which of the following
agencies of United Nations
are responsible for the
advancement of education?
A. UNESCO and UNICEF
B. FAO and UNDP
C. UNDP and UNICEF
D. FAO and ILO
E. WHO and FAO
14. The first curriculum
conference in Nigeria was
held in
A. 1970
B. 1972
C. 1975
D. 1977
E. 1969
15. The first female University
Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria is
A. Prof. Bolanle Awe
B. Prof. GamboRarabaAdbullahi
C. Prof. Grace Alele Williams
D. Prof. JadesolaAkande
E. Prof. Mary Lar
16. Headquarters of UNESCO is
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located in approved format

A. London D. Manage class effectively with
B. New York interaction
C. C. Paris E. Evaluate self and lesson
D. Geneva during and after exercise
E. Washinton D.C 20. Counseling theories is not
17. Pioneers of comparative any of the following
education excludes the A. Client centered
following B. Psychoanalytic
A. John Griscom C. Behavioural
B. Victor Cousin D. Reliability therapy
C. Michael Sadier E. Withdrawal therapy
D. Tai Solarin 21. Which of the following
E. Horrace Mann factors does not stimulate
18. Which of the following is not social change?
a teaching technique a A. Discovery and intervention
teacher can adopt to capture B. Population change and
different learners' interest? diffusion
A. Group and pair work C. inactivity
B. Individual work D. physical environment
C. Games and role playing 22. Early theories of learning
D. Phone games present the child as ____
19. Objectives of teaching A. Filled with knowledge
practice is to enable the B. Blank slate
student-teacher fulfill the C. Empty
following except D. unlearnable
A. Earn some little money as a 23. The measure of central
part time teacher tendency (which refers to
B. Teach any subject with middle value) can be
competence and zeal measured using the
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A. Median begins with me” was

B. Variance introduced by
C. Mode A. Shehu Shagari
D. Mean B. Olusegun Obasanjo
24. The care, special provision C. Muhammadu Buhari
and education of them D. Umar Yar'dua
disabled children began in 28. Measurement could be
the following phases defined as the following
A. Pre-Christian era except
B. Scientific era A. A systematic process of
C. Christian era obtaining the degree to
D. Post Christian era which a trait or attribute is
25. Aristotle's doctrine of present in object
reasoning used in B. The assignment of numerical
educational research does values to trait in person or
not include which of the object
following structure? C. It is awarding of mark to
A. General assumption answer papers or assignment
B. Particular instances of the D. A framework to ascertain
assumption information on an object or
C. Conclusion person
D. Methodology
26. The charging system used in
the library exclude the
following
A. Newark
B. Bookmark
C. Token
D. Browne
27. The ethical revolution in
Nigeria captioned “Change

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 17 include the following except

A. Organizing
1. Which of the following is not B. Administration
included in the strategies C. Planning
and principles of non-formal D. Commanding and controlling
education in Nigeria? 5. The following does not
A. Provision of adult literacy define professionalism
B. Meeting the learning needs A. Occupation which can claim
of adults and young people exclusive, technical
C. Provision of quality in the competence with its own
educational system laws and ethics
D. Bridging the gap between B. A calling where one acquires
the poor and the rich special knowledge used in
2. In the set of numbers serving the public in some
3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9, calculate way
the probability of selecting, C. An occupation with quality
at random, an even number. control measure
A. 4/7 6. Curriculum is important to
B. 2/7 the teacher because it
C. 3/7 enables the teacher
D. 1/2 A. Execute several activities to
3. Which of the following be completed for the
educational processes is learners
Psychology nit interested in? B. Acquire knowledge skills and
A. Developmental values
characteristics of learners C. Learn about the child
B. Learning processes D. Learn about societal
C. Learning evaluation and expectations
performance E. All of the above
D. Learning content 7. Athens educational system
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following areas: A. Britain

A. Spiritual development B. Germany
B. Political stability C. Japan
C. Military and sports D. USA
development 11. Which of the following
D. Economic development classroom arrangement
8. The global education policy does not ensure that all
of the United Nation's learners care carried along in
Universal Declaration of the class?
Fundamental Human Rights A. Rotating their sitting
excludes the believe that positions in some days of the
education should be weeks
A. Human rights B. Ensuring a mix of learners
B. A privileges when asking questions
C. Accessible C. Avoiding negative comments
D. Free and stereotypes or certain
9. According to Edgar Dale's learners
cone of experience, the D. Using different learning
lowest and highest levels materials and teaching
are: techniques
A. Indirect experience and E. Inviting other teachers to
visual symbols take some lessons
B. Contrived experience and 12. The external moderators for
demonstration teaching practice are
C. Direct real experience and A. The heads of institution
verbal symbols hosting the student teacher
D. Verbal symbols and visual for the teaching practice
symbols B. The subject teachers
10. The Nigeria 6-3-3-4 assigned to moderate the
educational system was student teacher in the
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C. Appointed professional following

chose from parent institution A. It helps students to graduate
to assess and grade the B. It helps decision making
student teacher C. It helps in the study of large
D. Any external assessor for the population
teaching practice D. It can be used to
13. The psychoanalytic theory is approximate a large sample
associated with which of the 17. The historical age that
following? emphasized “love and
A. Carl Rogers charity” for fellow human
B. Sigmund Freud beings whether able bodied
C. John Krumboltz or disabled can be
D. Abraham Maslow summarized as
14. Socialization helps society do A. Pre-Christian era
the following except? B. Scientific era
A. Helps ensure stability C. Christian era
B. Provides platform for D. Post Christian era
interaction 18. The scientific approach to
C. Helps individuals identify problem solving involves the
their roles in society following steps except
D. Helps individuals to be A. Problem identification and
different from groups definition
15. Child's entry behavior B. Formulation of hypothesis
excludes the following C. Studying hypothesis
A. Home background D. Traditional knowledge
B. Knowledge of previous E. Drawing conclusion
lesson 19. The following comprises of
C. Native intelligence features of serials, except
D. Recalcitrant behavoiur A. They are published
16. In society, the functions of B. They have ISSN
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D. They are only acted included in the target groups

20. The law of valid reasoning for mass literacy, adult and
defines which of the non-formal education?
following? A. Women in purdah
A. Induction B. Rural women
B. Premise C. Imams
C. Logic D. Out of school children
D. Proposition 25. Find the compound interest
21. Measurement in education on N6,000 for 3 years at 8%
determines the following rate per annum
except A. 1855
A. Scholastic abilities B. 8155
B. Aptitude C. 1585
C. Achievements D. 1558
D. hyperactivity 26. Educational Psychology is a
22. Identify the figure of speech branch of
in the following sentence: His A. Development Psychology
tongue cuts sharper than B. Cognitive Psychology
dagger. C. Applied Psychology
A. Hyperbole (exaggeration) D. Comparative Psychology
B. Metaphor 27. Qualities of a good
C. Irony supervisor exclude which of
D. personification the following?
23. Principal sources of subject A. Tolerance
matter of teaching are B. Curiosity
A. Primary and secondary C. Sound education
sources D. Friendly and cheerful
B. Tertiary sources
C. Environmental sources
D. Physical sources
24. Which of the following is not

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 18 5. Collaborative teaching

session involves the
1. The universal basic following except
Education (UBE) was A. Two or more facilitators or
launched in the year who teach a subject
A. 199 B. Exchange of tutor
B. 1980 programmes between
C. 2007 schools
D. 1976 C. Tutors and students teaching
2. Approaches of solving topics together
instructional problems D. An expert teacher being
through educational called upon to assist in some
technology exclude the topic
following 6. Psychoanalytic theory is
A. Software approach associated with which of the
B. System approach following?
C. Hardware approach A. 1960
D. Dynamic approach B. 1900
3. Approaches of Comparative C. 1920
Education study exclude the D. 1946
following 7. Which of the following
A. Historical factors does not determine
B. Philosophical acceptance or resistance to
C. Technological changes?
D. Sociological A. Use and purpose of change
4. Which of the following is not B. Societal attitude
a category of learning style a C. Cost and compatibility of
teacher may adopt? change
A. Visual learning styles D. Population
B. Audio learning styles 8. Which of the following was
C. Still learning styles credited with the

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“introduction of kindergarten, of publications can be

play or nursery schools”? referred to as
A. Pestalozzi A. Special library
B. Froebel B. Academic library
C. Dewery C. National library
D. Bacon D. State library
9. An example of inferential 13. Types of knowledge are as
statistics is which of the follows except
following? A. Revealed knowledge
A. Chi square B. Scientific knowledge
B. Variance C. Empirical knowledge
C. Mode D. Traditional knowledge
D. Kurtosis 14. Evaluation refers to
10. Which of the following did A. Examination of a process or
not contribute to the early task to see whether they are
years' special education? satisfactory with reference to
A. Edward Seguin stated objectives
B. Jean Itard B. Inquiry to determine work
C. Thomas Hopkins done
D. George Washington C. Inquiry to determine
11. The systematic approach of truthfulness
solving educational D. Examination of moral
problems include the rectitude
following except 15. Identify the nearest in
A. Scientific method meaning to the underlined:
B. Laid down procedure John was a breath of fresh air
C. Controlled to the class.
D. Empirical A. Of advantage
E. Personal interest B. Is a deodorant
12. A library mainly concerned C. Is new
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16. Students centered teaching C. It helps the teacher to

methods exclude which of construct appropriate tests
the following? D. It helps the teachers to know
A. Project learners background and
B. Discussion socio-economic factors
C. Discovery E. None of the above
D. storytelling 20. “Management is a word from
17. Which of these is not manage” which means to
included among special A. Manipulate
need educators in Nigeria? B. Organize
A. Disadvantaged children C. Mastery
B. Gifted children D. Inject new blood
C. Disabled children 21. Qualities of a good
D. Academically deficient professional include the
students following except
18. If U α 1/n and U = 72 when n = A. Law abiding
5; find n when U = 8 B. Competence
A. n = 45 C. Willing to serve
B. n = 48 D. Abetting nonprofessional to
C. n = 54 practice
D. n = 64 22. Curriculum scholars agree
19. Which of the following does that a child continues to tun
not capture the importance the curriculum race until
of Psychology to the he/she
teacher? A. Learns
A. It helps the teacher to B. Graduates
effectively use knowledge C. Becomes an adult
motivation D. dies
B. It helps the teacher to know 23. The first school in Nigeria
learners collectively and began in the year _______
individually A. 1842

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B. 1862 constant characteristics of

C. 1900 visual learners?
D. 1914 A. They like to tell stories
24. Under the UBE mandate, the B. They use lots of body
benchmark to consider a language and gestures
person literate in Nigeria, C. They use lots of colours and
he/she must pictures to describe things
A. Be able to read and write D. They talk more than other
B. Have completed the primary types of learners
school 28. Mini-teaching refers to
C. Have completed nine years teaching where
of primary and junior A. Teacher trainees teach in
secondary school small groups using
D. Be a graduate from higher classroom methodology
institution B. Introduction of a student
25. The following comprise the teacher
attributes of good C. An abridged teaching
information except session
A. Completeness D. Micro teaching
B. Accuracy 29. Guidance and Counseling
C. Relevance began in USA in the year
D. Confidentiality A. 1908
26. Which of these are not factor B. 1900
affecting education systems C. 1920
of a country D. 1946
A. Language 30. Social stratifications are
B. Aptitude societal ranking according to
C. Geography the following except
D. Social factors A. Income
E. Politics B. Height
27. Which of the following is a C. Age

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TRCN PQE PRACTICE TEST 19 D. undisputable

5. Major functions of library
1. Which of the earliest thinkers include the following except
observed that a child learns A. Providing access for reading
by activities and imitation, B. Acquisition and storage of
e.g. training, collecting and materials
observing”? C. Organization of material
A. Cornelius D. Information processing
B. Pestalozzi 6. Philosophical concepts and
C. Rouseau terminologies in education
D. Bacon can be classified through the
2. The “median” most serious use of
defect is that A. Measurement scale
A. It is infraction B. Theoretical analysis
B. It is difficult C. Practical analysis
C. It is skewed D. Consensual analysis
D. It is simple 7. Evaluation in education
3. The first school for the involves the following
disabled in Nigeria was processes except
founded in A. Identifying and defining the
A. 1914 in Gindiri intended outcome
B. 1951 in Gindiri B. Constructing or selecting
C. 1960 in Gindiri test and other evaluation
D. 1976 in Gindiri tools
4. A common trend in the C. Using evaluation result to
definition of research improve learning and
exclude which of the teaching
following? D. Ascribing value to
A. It is controlled educational phenomena
B. Empirical 8. Identify the figure of speech
C. Hypothetical propositions in the following sentence:

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