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(a) show long-duration movies in class.
(b) avoid giving break-out time while switching from one activity to another.
(c) give multiple tasks to perform at the same time.
(d) break assignments into small, manageable chunks.
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Answer: (d) break assignments into small, manageable chunks.
Explanation:
1. Children with ADHD have difficulty sustaining attention.
2. Short, manageable tasks and breaks help them stay on track.
3. Long movies, no breaks and multitasking overload them.
Teacher's Note:
1. Use short tasks, clear instructions, movement breaks and positive reinforcement.
2. Avoid long, unstructured activities.
(a) understand and process meaning of content being taught.
(b) rote memorise the given information as it is.
(c) copy the content passively from black board.
(d) find solutions of problems through a fixed method only.
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Answer: (a) understand and process meaning of content being taught.
Explanation:
1. Meaningful learning comes from understanding and processing content.
2. Rote learning, passive copying and a single fixed method limit thinking.
Teacher's Note:
1. NCF and NEP stress understanding over memorisation.
2. Choose the option that promotes active thinking.
(i) Drill and Practice
(ii) Rote memorisation
(iii) Inquiry-based learning
(iv) Discussion-based approach
(a) (i), (ii) only
(b) (i), (iii) only
(c) (iii), (iv) only
(d) (i), (iv) only
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Answer: (c) (iii), (iv) only
Explanation:
1. NEP 2020 moves away from rote learning toward conceptual understanding.
2. It promotes inquiry-based, discovery-based, discussion-based and analysis-based learning.
3. So (iii) and (iv).
Teacher's Note:
1. NEP 2020 favours critical thinking, experiential and competency-based learning.
2. Rote memorisation is always the wrong option in such questions.
(a) Use of analogies
(b) Means-end analysis
(c) Response set
(d) Verbalisation
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Answer: (c) Response set
Explanation:
1. A response set is a tendency to keep using a previously successful method.
2. This mental rigidity blocks new approaches.
3. Analogies, means-end analysis and verbalisation help solve problems.
Teacher's Note:
1. Barriers to problem solving: mental set, functional fixedness, response set.
2. Strategies: algorithms, heuristics, analogy, means-end analysis.
Reason (R): Misconceptions are not always irrational rather represent 'naive' theories constructed by students based on their interaction with the environment.
Choose the correct option.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false.
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation:
1. Misconceptions are naive theories built from the child's experience, so they are meaningful to the child.
2. Because they have a reasonable origin, the teacher should address them rather than dismiss them.
3. So (R) explains (A).
Teacher's Note:
1. Misconceptions are starting points for conceptual change.
2. Dismissing them leaves the wrong ideas in place.
(a) High stress inhibits learning.
(b) Interest inhibits learning.
(c) High stress promotes learning.
(d) Disinterest promotes learning.
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Answer: (a) High stress inhibits learning.
Explanation:
1. Emotions and cognition interact closely.
2. High stress and anxiety reduce attention and memory, so they inhibit learning.
3. Interest promotes learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Moderate arousal helps, but high stress harms performance.
2. A safe, positive climate supports learning.
(a) promote entity view of ability.
(b) ignore students' interests.
(c) be considerate of individual differences among students.
(d) motivate students for performance-oriented goals.
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Answer: (c) be considerate of individual differences among students.
Explanation:
1. Learners differ in pace, style and interests, and good teaching responds to this.
2. An entity view (ability is fixed) and performance goals discourage effort.
Teacher's Note:
1. Prefer the incremental view (ability grows with effort) and mastery goals.
2. Individual differences are the base of learner-centred teaching.
(a) Rote memorization
(b) Brainstorming
(c) Schema activation
(d) Concept mapping
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Answer: (a) Rote memorization
Explanation:
1. Brainstorming, schema activation and concept mapping all bring out and link what children already know.
2. Rote memorization does not connect to prior knowledge.
Teacher's Note:
1. The word NOT reverses the question, so find the odd one out.
2. Meaningful learning links new ideas to existing schemas.
(a) Sensori-motor stage.
(b) Pre-operational stage.
(c) Concrete operational stage.
(d) Formal operational stage.
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Answer: (c) Concrete operational stage.
Explanation:
1. In Piaget's concrete operational stage (about 7-11 years), logical thinking works only on concrete, real objects.
2. Abstract reasoning comes later in the formal operational stage.
Teacher's Note:
1. Concrete operational: conservation, classification, reversibility.
2. Formal operational: abstract and hypothetical thinking.
(a) Providing equal opportunities of participation to all students.
(b) Making ability based rigid groups in class.
(c) Focusing only on high achievers in class.
(d) Encouraging students to get high marks by any means.
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Answer: (a) Providing equal opportunities of participation to all students.
Explanation:
1. A conducive environment is fair, inclusive and safe.
2. Equal opportunities to participate make every child feel valued.
3. Rigid groups, favouring toppers and unethical marking harm the climate.
Teacher's Note:
1. Inclusive participation builds motivation and belonging.
2. Reject options that favour only some students.
(a) a test based on criterion of minimum level of learning.
(b) a test with the percentile as evaluation criterion.
(c) a test with 'z' scores as evaluation criterion.
(d) a test which gives students rank in a class.
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Answer: (a) a test based on criterion of minimum level of learning.
Explanation:
1. Criterion-referenced assessment compares performance with a fixed standard, such as a minimum level of learning.
2. Percentiles, z-scores and ranks compare a student with other students, so they are norm-referenced.
Teacher's Note:
1. Criterion-referenced means a fixed standard; norm-referenced means comparison with peers.
2. Rank, percentile and z-score point to norm-referenced tests.
(a) continuous
(b) discontinuous
(c) culture dependent
(d) genetic dependent
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Answer: (b) discontinuous
Explanation:
1. Stage theories (Piaget, Kohlberg, Erikson, Freud) see development as qualitatively different steps.
2. Such jumps mean development is discontinuous.
Teacher's Note:
1. Continuous = gradual, quantitative change; discontinuous = stages.
2. Stage theory means discontinuity.
(a) Law, School
(b) Social policy, Culture
(c) Library, Neighbourhood
(d) Family, School
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Answer: (d) Family, School
Explanation:
1. The family is the first and primary agency of socialisation.
2. School is a secondary (formal) agency.
Teacher's Note:
1. Primary: family, close relatives. Secondary: school, peers, media, workplace.
2. Primary agencies act in early childhood.
(a) Assimilation
(b) Accommodation
(c) Biological maturity
(d) Operation stage
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Answer: (b) Accommodation
Explanation:
1. When a new experience does not fit existing schemes, the schemes must change.
2. This modification of schemes is accommodation.
3. Assimilation fits new information into existing schemes.
Teacher's Note:
1. Assimilation = fit in; accommodation = change the scheme.
2. Both together lead to equilibration.
(a) Socio-cultural theory of Lev Vygotsky.
(b) Cognitive theory of Jean Piaget.
(c) Psycho-social theory of Eric Erikson.
(d) Psycho-sexual theory of Sigmund Freud.
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Answer: (a) Socio-cultural theory of Lev Vygotsky.
Explanation:
1. ZPD is the gap between what a child can do alone and what the child can do with help.
2. It is a core concept of Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory.
Teacher's Note:
1. ZPD goes with scaffolding and the More Knowledgeable Other.
2. Piaget talks about schemes, assimilation and accommodation.
(a) demotivate students to work in mix-ability groups.
(b) restrict the use of cultural tools such as books and calculator in process of learning.
(c) provide scaffold to students so that they achieve till their best potential.
(d) encourage students to compete with each other to get highest marks.
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Answer: (c) provide scaffold to students so that they achieve till their best potential.
Explanation:
1. Vygotsky emphasised guided support (scaffolding) within the ZPD.
2. Mixed-ability groups and cultural tools help learning, so they should be encouraged, not restricted.
Teacher's Note:
1. Scaffolding is temporary support that is withdrawn as the learner gains competence.
2. Cooperation, not competition, fits Vygotsky.
(a) Level I - pre-conventional stage
(b) Level II - conventional stage
(c) Level III - post-conventional stage
(d) Both at level II and III
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Answer: (c) Level III - post-conventional stage
Explanation:
1. Stage 5 (social contract) in the post-conventional level values democratically accepted laws and community welfare.
2. The conventional level focuses on obeying laws and authority as given.
Teacher's Note:
1. Post-conventional: social contract (stage 5) and universal ethical principles (stage 6).
2. 'Democratically accepted' points to the social contract stage.
(a) the ability to use language effectively.
(b) the capacity to analyze problems logically.
(c) thinking in pictures rather than in words.
(d) strong physical abilities and coordination.
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Answer: (d) strong physical abilities and coordination.
Explanation:
1. Gardner's bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence is skill in using the body, with coordination and control.
2. The other options describe linguistic, logical-mathematical and spatial intelligence.
Teacher's Note:
1. Dancers, athletes and surgeons show bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence.
2. Match each definition with its Gardner type.
(a) is indicative of emotional development of children.
(b) hinders children's action and thinking.
(c) helps children in advancing their thinking.
(d) has no impact on cognitive development of children.
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Answer: (c) helps children in advancing their thinking.
Explanation:
1. For Vygotsky language is the main cultural tool for thought.
2. Private speech and conversation with others help children plan, reason and advance their thinking.
Teacher's Note:
1. Vygotsky: language shapes thought; Piaget: thought shapes language.
2. Private speech later becomes inner speech.
(a) to present examples which don't conform to those stereotypes.
(b) to provide books and films fostering those stereotypes.
(c) to consider viewpoint of only those students who belong to dominant group.
(d) to avoid discussions around diversity and individual differences.
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Answer: (a) to present examples which don't conform to those stereotypes.
Explanation:
1. Stereotypes are weakened by counter-examples that break them.
2. Fostering them, favouring a dominant group or avoiding discussion keeps them alive.
Teacher's Note:
1. Use counter-stereotypical role models and open discussion.
2. Silence on diversity does not remove bias.
(a) Formative Assessment
(b) Summative Assessment
(c) Non-continuous Assessment
(d) Rubrics
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Answer: (a) Formative Assessment
Explanation:
1. The activity is ongoing, checks understanding and guides the next steps of teaching.
2. That is formative assessment (an exit-slip or 'muddiest point' technique).
Teacher's Note:
1. Formative = assessment for learning; summative = assessment of learning at the end.
2. Rubrics are scoring guides, not a type of assessment.
(a) memorise the facts as it is.
(b) copy the answers written on the board as it is.
(c) reflect on the multiple perspectives shared by their peers.
(d) avoid sharing their ideas with others and work in isolation.
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Answer: (c) reflect on the multiple perspectives shared by their peers.
Explanation:
1. Critical thinking needs analysing and evaluating ideas.
2. Reflecting on multiple perspectives from peers builds this skill.
Teacher's Note:
1. Discussion, debate and reflection build critical thinking.
2. Memorising and copying are low-level activities.
(a) Analogy
(b) Hypothesis-testing
(c) Mnemonics
(d) Means-end analysis
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Answer: (a) Analogy
Explanation:
1. Using a solution from a similar, previously solved problem is solving by analogy.
2. Means-end analysis reduces the gap between the current state and the goal step by step.
Teacher's Note:
1. Analogy transfers a known solution to a new, similar problem.
2. Mnemonics are memory aids.
(a) using multiple means to represent the information.
(b) giving multiple options to express the opinions.
(c) applying multiple ways to assess the learning.
(d) using multiple ways to label the children.
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Answer: (d) using multiple ways to label the children.
Explanation:
1. Multiple representation, expression and assessment follow Universal Design for Learning and improve teaching.
2. Labelling children stigmatises them and harms learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. The word 'not' reverses the question.
2. Avoid labels like 'slow' or 'weak'; they lower self-esteem.
(a) only qualitative changes.
(b) only quantitative changes.
(c) both qualitative and quantitative changes.
(d) neither qualitative nor quantitative changes.
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Answer: (c) both qualitative and quantitative changes.
Explanation:
1. Development covers growth in size (quantitative) and changes in structure, skill and function (qualitative).
2. So it includes both kinds of change.
Teacher's Note:
1. Growth is mainly quantitative; development is broader and includes qualitative change.
2. Avoid options with 'only'.
Reason (R): Students develop a sense of belonging with education if examples and experiences from their socio-cultural context are included in the discussion.
Choose the correct option.
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) Both (A) and (R) are false.
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Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Explanation:
1. Diverse examples reflect learners' varied backgrounds.
2. When their own context appears in class, students feel they belong, which is the reason for using such examples.
3. So (R) explains (A).
Teacher's Note:
1. Culturally responsive teaching builds belonging and relevance.
2. Ask whether R answers 'why' A is recommended.
(a) implementing universal design for learning.
(b) using behaviouristic approach for learning.
(c) designing inaccessible infrastructure.
(d) discouraging collaboration and communication.
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Answer: (a) implementing universal design for learning.
Explanation:
1. Universal Design for Learning plans lessons so that all learners can access them.
2. Inaccessible buildings and discouraging collaboration create barriers.
Teacher's Note:
1. UDL gives multiple means of representation, expression and engagement.
2. Inclusion is about removing barriers.
(a) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(b) Autism
(c) Dyslexia
(d) Dyscalculia
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Answer: (b) Autism
Explanation:
1. Autism Spectrum Disorder is marked by difficulty in social interaction and communication, plus repetitive behaviours.
2. Dyslexia and dyscalculia are learning disabilities in reading and mathematics.
Teacher's Note:
1. Autism: social-communication difficulty. ADHD: attention and impulsivity.
2. Learn the core feature of each condition.
(a) Giftedness
(b) Average Intelligence Quotient
(c) Dyslexia
(d) Autism
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Answer: (a) Giftedness
Explanation:
1. Gifted children show exceptional ability early, often without training.
2. Strong intrinsic interest in creative work is also typical.
3. Average IQ, dyslexia and autism do not fit.
Teacher's Note:
1. Gifted children need enrichment, not just acceleration.
2. Early talent plus intrinsic motivation signals giftedness.
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