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PART - 1
CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY
Direction: Answer the following questions (Q. Nos 1 to 30) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. Mastery Oriented learners typically attribute success to and failure to
(1) ability and good luck; task difficulty
(2) ability and effort; bad luck
(3) ability and good luck; low ability
(4) ability and effort; insufficient effort
2. Which of the following statement represents 'Proximodistal principle of development ?
(1) Development is multidirectional and multidimensional.
(2) Identical twins living in different cultures can develop at different rates.
(3) Children develop ability to grasp the ball before putting beads in thread.
(4) Children develop ability to sit up before standing.
3. According to Vygotsky children speak to themselves :
(1) To aid thought and for self-regulation.
(2) To provide self-reinforcement when adults are ignoring them.
(3) Because they are egocentric.
(4) Because their thought is illogical.
4. Challenges in social communication are evident in:
(1) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(2) Cerebral palsy
(3) Autism Spectrum Disorder
(4) Learning Disabilities
5. According to Vygotsky's theory of learning and development, which of the following is an example of scaffolding ?
(1) Breaking a task down into smaller steps and providing support as needed.
(2) Providing a student with a grade for their work as motivation.
(3) Providing a student with a reading assignment and asking them to answer questions independently.
(4) Demonstrating a skill to a student and then having them master it on their own.
6. Dysgraphia is characterised by:
(1) Delayed motor skills
(2) Difficulties in writing
(3) Lack of reading fluency
(4) Repetitive behavioural patterns
7. In order to help students to become good problem solvers, a teacher should emphasize on the practice of:
(1) focusing on information that confirms existing beliefs and preconceptions.
(2) approaching problems in a particular fixed fashion.
(3) breaking large complex problems into smaller manageable problems.
(4) centering only on one particular piece of information related to problem.
8. Assertion (A): Teachers should use multisensory materials to cater to needs of students in an inclusive classroom.
Reason (R): Inclusive classrooms should adopt standardization of curricular materials as well as assessment strategies.
Choose the correct option:
(1) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
9. In the constructivist view:
(1) Individuals are passively influenced by environmental events.
(2) Individuals are conditioned to learn new behaviours.
(3) Learning is extending and transforming the current understanding.
(4) Learning is simply writing associations on the blank slates of our brains.
10. Assertion (A) : Effective teachers familiarize themselves with daily lives and socio-cultural backgrounds of learners.
Reason (R) : Learning takes place in a social context.
Choose the correct option.
(1) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
11. Meaningful learning is primarily NOT about:
(1) memorizing information
(2) understanding the concept
(3) constructing knowledge
(4) developing skills
12 . Assertion (A) : Teacher should encourage boys of her class to participate in sports while assigning art decoration to girls.
Reason (R) : Children acquire gender roles primarily because of the underlying biological differences.
Choose the correct option.
(1) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
13. Kinesthetic learners prefer to learn through ...................
(1) seeing
(2) touching
(3) doing and moving
(4) listening
14. According to Howard Gardner while a scientist would exhibit high .................. Intelligence, a sculptor would have high ................... Intelligence.
(1) Naturalistic; Spatial
(2) Transductive; Spatial
(3) Logical-mathematical; Bodily Kinesthetic
(4) Spatial; Bodily Kinesthetic
15. Inclusion needs to be promoted through:
(i) Flexible curriculum
(ii) Cooperative learning
(iii) Segregation and labelling
(iv) Accessibility of building
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(3) (i) (ii) (iii)
(4) (i) (ii) (iv)
16. Children learn better if they experience:
(1) Low level of alertness during activity
(2) Moderate level of excitement to learn
(3) High degree of anxiety to perform
(4) Learned helplessness
17. Assertion (A) : Children below the age of 5 - 6 years should not be pressurized to write 'properly' and 'within the lines'.
Reason (R) : Children gain a control of finer motor skills from 5-6 years onwards.
Choose the correct option.
(1) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
18. Children often come up with their own explanations of events around them. On being probed as to why does it rain Sia says - "God was tired of carrying the buckets of water on his shoulders".
Such explanations:
(1) Depict that children have an egocentric view and cannot consider other's viewpoint.
(2) Illustrate that children are not capable of any reasoning.
(3) Prove that children's thinking is much lesser than adults quantitively.
(4) Indicate that children have naïve understanding rooted in their cultural context with which they try to understand events.
19. Piaget described cognitive development as occurring in:
(1) A continuous continuum
(2) Four overlapping culture specific stages
(3) Four qualitatively different stages
(4) Three progressive levels
20. During play time at school, Rishab, a 7-year-old boy picked a doll to play with. Some of his peers made fun of him for his choice of toy. As a teacher who wants his students to grow up with gender role flexibility, which of the following would be the best response to the situation by the teacher ?
(1) Talk to Rishabh that dolls are suitable for girls and boys should not play with dolls.
(2) Tell Rishabh that he should play with something else because his friends won't approve of him playing with doll.
(3) Let Rishabh play with doll and tell other children that they can also choose any toy of their choice.
(4) Quitely take away the doll and give a car toy to Rishabh without saying anything.
21. In developmental terms, a time frame where an individual upholds an amplified sensitivity to particular incentives for developing particular skills to function in an efficient manner is referred to as ............. of development.
(1) Incentive period
(2) Stimulus period
(3) Critical period
(4) Encoding period
22. In order to cater to needs of students struggling, with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder teachers should avoid :
(1) Creating distractions and making noises
(2) Flexibility in curricular materials and instructions
(3) Breaking the task into small easily manageable parts
(4) Using multi-sensory materials
23. Lawrence Kohlberg argued that :
(1) moral development in children occurs in a continuous manner.
(2) there are cultural differences in moral reasoning of children.
(3) moral development occurs progressively in stages.
(4) there are gender differences in moral reasoning of children.
24. At which level of Kohlberg's moral development does individual's ethical behavior mainly depends on the mindset that "what do people think of me"?
(1) Postconventional
(2) Non-conventional
(3) Preconventional
(4) Conventional
25. According to Jean Piaget a child who is unable to understand the logic behind simple mathematical reversals such as 4+5=9 so 9-5=4, it is because of :
(1) animistic thinking
(2) irreversibility
(3) egocentrism
(4) perceptual centration
26. Assertion (A) : Teachers should distance themselves from students and place primary responsibility for learning on them only.
Reason (R) : Learning takes place affectively in an authoritative rather than a democratic environment.
Choose the correct option.
(1) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
27. Assertion (A) : Scaffolding provided by the teachers hinders the learning process of children.
Reason (R) : Lev Vygotsky proposed that children learn independently by acting upon and manipulating the environment.
Choose the correct option:
(1) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(2) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(3) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(4) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
28. Which of the following correctly describes extrinsic motivation?
(1) Motivation that comes from environmental consequences.
(2) Motivation that comes from a sense of personal satisfaction.
(3) Motivation that comes from personal enjoyment of the task.
(4) Motivation that comes from internal factors.
29. Two important cognitive development milestones of sensorimotor stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development are:
(1) Animism and Transformation
(2) Classification and seriation
(3) Object permanence and deferred imitation
(4) Reversibility of thought and hypothetic-deductive reasoning
30. Children -
(1) Are born unruly and need to be socialized.
(2) Come into this world with genetic codes that determine their destiny.
(3) Are greatly influenced by the social cultural context they grow up in.
(4) Come into this world as tabula rasa or blank slate.
PART II / à¤ाग - ।।
MATHEMATICS / गणित
Direction: Answer the following questions by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
31. What is the result when 7 kg 7 g is subtracted from 9 kg?
(1) 1.93 kg
(2) 1.093 kg
(3) 1.3 kg
(4) 1.993 kg
32. In class III, 150 children were asked to name their one favourite fruit and results for 5 favourite fruits were written in the form of the following table:
Choose the correct option:
(1) Equal number of children have Apple and Guava as their favourite fruit.
(2) The difference between the number of childrens who like grapes and those who like bananas is 16.
(3) The number of children who like Mangoes and Banana is two times the number of children who like Guava.
(4) Ten children do not like any fruit given in the table.
33. Which of the following is least appropriate about Formative Assessment in mathematics classrooms ?
(1) It helps to identify students' misconceptions
(2) It provides cumulative evaluations that helps to rank children
(3) To check the progress of students during instructional activities
(4) To identify students' conceptual understanding
34. A person withdrew Rs. 4,560 from his bank account on 4th of a month and deposited Rs. 2,567 on 20th of the same month. If at the end of the month, balance is Rs. 3,125, then money (in Rs.) at the start of the month in his account was :
(1) 5,128
(2) 5,118
(3) 4,998
(4) 5,213
36. A triangle having all sides of different lengths is called :
(1) A scalene triangle
(2) A right triangle
(3) An equilateral triangle
(4) An isosceles triangle
37. The sum of the prime numbers between 31 and 60 is:
(1) 280
(2) 311
(3) 221
(4) 227
38. The product of the predecessor of 201 and the successor of 4781 is:
(1) 965560
(2) 965650
(3) 956200
(4) 956400
39. What is the most appropriate cognitive skill that help students to recognize and group shapes according to their attributes and properties?
(1) Conservation
(2) Decomposition
(3) Classification
(4) Seriation
40. Students feel difficulty in solving division problems because :
(1) Division problems have no utility in daily life.
(2) There are no informal ways of solving division problems
(3) For solving division problems students need to know addition, subtraction and multiplication thoroughly.
(4) Students do not like the sign of division.
41. Most II graders are able to add two quantities like four candies and three candies, but when asked to do 4 + 5 on a worksheet a large number of the same set of learners is unable to do so. What is the most appropriate explanation of this observation according to National Curriculum Framework 2005 ?
(1) Learners are not interested in learning real-life mathematics
(2) The learners are not ready for the use of abstract mathematical symbols
(3) Learners are not taught addition properly
(4) Some learners are poor in mathematical skills
42. A 3rd standard student, when asked to write one hundred and five in numeral form, s/he writes it as '1005'. This indicates that:
(1) s/he needs more help in understanding the concept of place value
(2) s/he is unfit to learn mathematics
(3) The student is a slow learner
(4) s/he is mischievous
43. Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to the concept of Fractions?
(1) It represents a part of a collection of same objects
(2) The mathematical notation of a fraction can be represented as a ratio
(3) It represents a part of a whole which is greater than 1
(4) The mathematical notation of a fraction can be represented as a division problem
44. Radha walks 3 km 725 m per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, whereas she walks 2 km 9 m per day on Tuesday and Thursday. Total distance covered by her from Monday to Friday is:
(1) 15.355 km
(2) 15.193 km
(3) 16.975 km
(4) 16.202 km
45. Jasmine said, "A rectangle has two pairs of opposite sides parallel; a square also has two pairs of opposite sides parallel and so does a parallelogram. So, both rectangle and square are also parallelograms."
Jasmine is at ............. stage of Van Hieles theory of geometric thinking.
(1) Formal Deduction
(2) Visualization
(3) Analysis
(4) Relationships
46. The sum of the greatest and smallest six digit numbers that can be formed from the digits 5, 9, 0, 2, 8 and 6 (without repetition) is :
(1) 1192290
(2) 1192209
(3) 1292290
(4) 1292209
47. The missing numbers in the pattern 12, 14, 17, 13, 8, 14, 21,__ , __ are respectively :
(1) 14,5
(2) 13, 4
(3) 15,7
(4) 12, 3
48. The smallest four-digit number which is a multiple of 6, 7 and 4 is :
(1) 1006
(2) 1008
(3) 1000
(4) 1002
49. Which of the following has a definite length ?
(1) a ray
(2) a plane
(3) a line
(4) a line segment
50. Which of the following is most appropriate for including open ended questions in mathematics class ?
(1) These questions develop critical thinking in students
(2) Answers to these questions are not given in the book
(3) These questions take more time to solve
(4) These questions are not easy to copy from each other
51. Which of the following statements are true with respect to 'Data handling'?
(1) A line graph is used to show comparison among categories of data.
(2) A histogram is used to compare the parts of a whole.
(3) A graphical representation of data is easier to understand when there is a trend or comparison to be shown.
(4) A bar graph displays data that changes continuously over periods of time.
52. How many planks of size 2m x 35cm x 8 cm can be made from a wooden block 8 m long, 70 cm wide and 40 cm thick?
(1) 45
(2) 40
(3) 50
(4) 48
53. A child solved a problem : 1/2 + 1/3 = 2/5 solution? What is the most appropriate inference drawn from the solution ?
(1) Child does not know how to represent fractions on number line
(2) Child has extended the concept of addition of natural numbers to addition of fractions
(3) Child does not know addition of numbers
(4) Child does not know how to take L.C.M.