CTET Paper II — 9 December 2018 (Set M) — Social Studies

1. The development from central part of the body towards peripheries or extremities denotes the—

• (a) principles of radiated development
• (b) principles of decentralized development
• (c) principles of proximodistal development
• (d) principles of cascade development

2. School is an institution of socialization of children where—

• (a) schoolchildren occupy the central position
• (b) school routines occupy the central position
• (c) school activities occupy the central position
• (d) schoolteachers occupy the central position

3. If you join a teacher fraternity and choose to dress like most of the others in your group, you are exhibiting—

• (a) group identity
• (b) obedience
• (c) compliance
• (d) conformity

4. The concept of object permanence is attained during Piaget’s _____ stage of development.

• (a) sensorimotor
• (b) preoperational
• (c) concrete operational
• (d) formal operational

5. Individualized Education Programme is planned from the perspective of—

• (a) Special Education Programme
• (b) Child-centered Education Programme
• (c) Open School Education Programme
• (d) e-Learning Education Programme

6. Between _____ months of age, most children begin to combine words into short sentences while speaking.

• (a) 12 and 18
• (b) 18 and 24
• (c) 24 and 30
• (d) 30 and 36

7. The concept of Intelligence Quotient or IQ was developed by—

• (a) Galton
• (b) Binet
• (c) Stern
• (d) Terman

8. Creativity is thought to be related to the concept of—

• (a) fluid intelligence
• (b) crystallized intelligence
• (c) convergent thinking
• (d) divergent thinking

9. The acceptable sound combinations of a language are specified in its _____ rules.

• (a) phonological
• (b) grammatical
• (c) syntactic
• (d) inflection

10. The position where thought patterns are influenced by language is called—

• (a) cultural tendency
• (b) linguistic determination
• (c) cognitive bias
• (d) sociolinguistic genesis

11. Ravi repairs appliances by testing hypothesis about the cause of the malfunction based on his experiences with the symptoms. He uses—

• (a) insight
• (b) algorithms
• (c) mental set
• (d) heuristics

12. Divya often divides the assigned job into small tasks which she can handle easily. She is using—

• (a) reductionism
• (b) secondary elaboration
• (c) subgoal analysis
• (d) functional fixedness

13. “Society determines the roles of male and female.” This statement articulates—

• (a) gender as an inherent construct
• (b) gender as a hereditary endowment
• (c) gender as an intuitive construct
• (d) gender as a social construct

14. Grading, coding, marking and credit accumulation systems are some of the examples of—

• (a) evaluation procedure of answer sheets of the examination
• (b) symbolizing position of children in the class
• (c) depicting the academic progress in report card
• (d) scoring procedure of assessment of learners’ achievement

15. Assessment of learners’ achievement helps the teachers to—

• (a) maintain the performance record of learners
• (b) evaluate the effectiveness of pedagogy
• (c) make ability grouping of learners in the classrooms
• (d) prepare activity log for teaching

16. Inclusive Education is based on the principle of—

• (a) social equilibrium
• (b) equity and equal opportunities
• (c) social existence and globalization
• (d) world brotherhood

17. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act has been enacted in the year—

• (a) 1992
• (b) 1995
• (c) 1999
• (d) 2016

18. Children with individual differences should be taught in a school having teachers—

• (a) to teach in different sections of classrooms based on their individual differences
• (b) trained to use different pedagogy to meet their diverse learning needs
• (c) trained to teach children with specific individual differences
• (d) trained to make them homogeneous learners

19. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 ensures the rights of children with disabilities to free education from—

• (a) 6 years to 18 years
• (b) 3 years to 18 years
• (c) 6 years to 14 years
• (d) 6 years to 22 years

20. Providing teaching-learning materials in accessible formats to the diverse learners implies—

• (a) Universal Inclusive Education Ethical Considerate
• (b) Universal Code of Teaching Practices
• (c) Universal Humanistic Approach of Teaching
• (d) Universal Design of Learning

21. _____ involves self-awareness and control of cognitive abilities, e.g., planning, reviewing and revising, etc.

• (a) Centration
• (b) Metacognition
• (c) Cognition
• (d) Accommodation

22. When children think to interpret the received information according to their experiences, it is called—

• (a) reflective thinking
• (b) creative thinking
• (c) abstract thinking
• (d) concrete thinking

23. Teaching learners at varying levels of difficulty based on the ability of individual learner is known as—

• (a) differentiated instruction
• (b) selective instruction
• (c) precision teaching
• (d) errorless instruction

24. Maintenance is the specific stage of learning which is antecedent to _____ stage of learning.

• (a) acquisition
• (b) motivation
• (c) independent
• (d) generalization

25. Zajonc believes that cognition and emotion are—

• (a) interdependent
• (b) independent
• (c) interrelated
• (d) integrated

26. A teacher is teaching children by demonstration of a task to correct the performances of an already learned task. He is using _____ method of teaching.

• (a) imitation
• (b) observation
• (c) correction
• (d) modelling

27. According to Mann and Janis, decision maker children analyze the problem, list the alternatives and weigh each option for its advantages and disadvantages. His behaviour reflects—

• (a) surveillance
• (b) vigilant
• (c) outgoing
• (d) autocratic

28. In _____ thinking, a child as a problem solver evaluates the truth or likelihood of statements.

• (a) creative
• (b) aesthetic
• (c) abstract
• (d) logical

29. The task in which the children get experience while enjoying themselves is known as—

• (a) drill and practice task
• (b) consumer type task
• (c) producer type task
• (d) problem type task

30. Multisensory approach in teaching-learning is the simultaneous use of visual, auditory, tactile and _____ senses to enhance learning.

• (a) kinesthetic
• (b) vestibular
• (c) perceptual
• (d) observational IMPORTANT :

31. Wind vane is used for measuring—

• (a) wind velocity
• (b) air pressure
• (c) wind direction
• (d) air temperature

32. Which one of the following layers of the atmosphere helps in the transmission of radio waves?

• (a) Stratosphere
• (b) Mesosphere
• (c) Thermosphere
• (d) Exosphere

33. Identify the various layers of the earth in order from interior to the outermost layer :

• (a) Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
• (b) Mantle, crust, outer core, inner core
• (c) Inner core, outer core, crust, mantle
• (d) Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

35. When the river enters the plain, it bends and flows forming large bends known as—

• (a) levee
• (b) floodplain
• (c) meander
• (d) oxbow lake

36. Which means of transport is extremely useful in most inaccessible areas and in time of calamities for rescuing people and distributing food, water, clothes and medicines?

• (a) Airways
• (b) Railways
• (c) Roadways
• (d) Waterways

37. The branch of geography which deals with composition of a particular human population is called—

• (a) urban geography
• (b) biogeography
• (c) demography
• (d) human geography

38. Assertion (A) : The sun sets in Gujarat about two hours after Arunachal Pradesh. Reason (R) : Arunachal Pradesh is on a higher latitude than Gujarat. Select the correct option from the given alternatives.

• (a) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) explains (A)
• (b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does not explain (A)
• (c) (A) is true and (R) is false
• (d) (A) is false and (R) is true

39. Which one of the following is a nonconventional source of energy?

• (a) Firewood
• (b) Natural gas
• (c) Solar energy
• (d) Coal

40. The breeding of fish in specially constructed tanks and ponds is known as—

• (a) sericulture
• (b) viticulture
• (c) horticulture
• (d) pisciculture

41. A narrow strip of land joining two landmasses is known as—

• (a) strait
• (b) isthmus
• (c) island
• (d) bay

42. Which one of the following continents is smallest in size?

• (a) Australia
• (b) South America
• (c) Africa
• (d) Europe

43. At the upper primary stage, Social Science comprises of—

• (a) History, Geography, Political Science, Psychology
• (b) History, Geography, Economics, Sociology
• (c) History, Geography, Political Science, Economics
• (d) History, Geography, Political Science, Sociology

44. Inductive learning is contradictory to which one of the following approaches?

• (a) Expository teaching
• (b) Structure training
• (c) Simulation
• (d) Mastery learning

45. Read the given statements A and B and select the correct answer : A. Critical thinking promotes the building of concepts, application and expansion of ideas. B. It does not help in understanding and evaluating arguments and beliefs of others.

• (a) A is true and B is false
• (b) A is false and B is true
• (c) Both A and B are false
• (d) Both A and B are true

46. What is an empirical evidence?

• (a) Data gathered in the real world through the senses
• (b) A numeric approach for research
• (c) Data measured in metric units
• (d) Data gathered using reliable methods of data collection

47. The models/replicas of physical features are most suitable for teaching—

• (a) History
• (b) Economics
• (c) Geography
• (d) Political Science

48. The collection of weather information from the local newspaper is an example of which type of source?

• (a) Primary
• (b) Secondary
• (c) Tertiary
• (d) Both primary and tertiary

49. In which type of classroom, the students with learning disabilities learn alongside other students?

• (a) Exclusive
• (b) Special
• (c) Inclusive
• (d) Modern

50. Who has given the following theory? “All children go through the same sequence of development, but at different rates. Therefore teacher must plan activities for individual children and small groups, not just for the class as a whole.”

• (a) C. L. Ogden
• (b) D. Purcell
• (c) J. H. Bell
• (d) J. Piaget

51. In order to promote cooperative learning in the classroom, a teacher should—

• (a) engage students in debate and discussions
• (b) give them individual projects
• (c) divide the class in small groups for work
• (d) provide them various sources to do the project

52. A self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way is called—

• (a) critical thinking
• (b) complex thinking
• (c) intelligent thinking
• (d) abstract thinking

53. The colours used in the Ajanta Caves Paintings have been derived from which of the following materials?

• (a) Remains of animal organs
• (b) Graphite
• (c) Plants and minerals
• (d) Slate

54. The earliest manuscripts were written on—

• (a) palm leaves
• (b) stones
• (c) paper
• (d) wood

55. Which one of the following periods is longest in the human history?

• (a) Palaeolithic
• (b) Mesolithic
• (c) Neolithic
• (d) Megalithic

56. Read the given statements A and B and select the correct answer : A. Mehrgarh is located in a fertile plain near Bolan Pass of Pakistan. B. Evidences of farming and herding are found here.

• (a) A is true and B is false
• (b) A is false and B is true
• (c) Both A and B are false
• (d) Both A and B are true

57. In which one of the following States of India, the largest number of Harappan sites have been found?

• (a) Punjab
• (b) Haryana
• (c) Gujarat
• (d) Jammu and Kashmir

58. ‘Rig Veda’ was originally composed in which one of the following languages?

• (a) Brahmi
• (b) Pali
• (c) Sanskrit
• (d) Prakrit

59. The first ruler of Magadha Mahajanapadas in the sixth century BC was—

• (a) Mahavira
• (b) Prasenjit
• (c) Bimbisara
• (d) Ajatashatru

60. Which one of the following is not among the three jewels of Buddhism?

• (a) Buddha
• (b) Dhamma
• (c) Ahimsa
• (d) Sangha

61. Who among the following elects the Rajya Sabha Members?

• (a) Voters in Assembly Constituencies
• (b) Voters in Parliamentary Constituencies
• (c) Lok Sabha Members
• (d) Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs)

62. Which of the following systems of government was adopted by India?

• (a) Parliamentary and Unitary
• (b) Presidential and Federal
• (c) Presidential and Unitary
• (d) Parliamentary and Federal

63. How many Parliamentary Constituencies are reserved for the Scheduled Castes?

• (a) 48
• (b) 84
• (c) 47
• (d) 74

64. Which one of the following Fundamental Rights is violated due to practice of untouchability in India?

• (a) Right to Equality
• (b) Right to Freedom
• (c) Right against Exploitation
• (d) Right to Constitutional Remedies

65. As per the Constitution of India, which one of the following is not a Fundamental Right?

• (a) Right to Education
• (b) Right against Exploitation
• (c) Right to Freedom of Religion
• (d) Right to Property

66. Untouchability refers to the discrimination on the basis of—

• (a) physical disability
• (b) gender
• (c) caste
• (d) race

67. Who appoints the Chief Minister?

• (a) The President
• (b) The Prime Minister
• (c) The Governor
• (d) The Chief Justice of the High Court

68. Who appoints the Governor?

• (a) The Prime Minister
• (b) The Chief Minister
• (c) The Chief Justice of India
• (d) The President

69. Who elects the Prime Minister?

• (a) The Council of Ministers
• (b) The Chief Ministers
• (c) MPs
• (d) MPs and MLAs

70. Who among the following is called the first citizen of India?

• (a) The Chief Justice of India
• (b) The Home Minister
• (c) The President
• (d) The Prime Minister

71. Who among the following is called the first citizen of a State in India?

• (a) The Chief Justice of the High Court
• (b) The Home Minister
• (c) The Governor
• (d) The Chief Minister

72. The current Lok Sabha (from 2014 onwards) is the—

• (a) 13th
• (b) 14th
• (c) 15th
• (d) 16th

73. Who is the current President of India?

• (a) Narendra Modi
• (b) Pratibha Patil
• (c) M. Venkaiah Naidu
• (d) Ram Nath Kovind

74. Which of the following is not mentioned in the Constitution of India?

• (a) Names of the States and Union Territories
• (b) Structure of the Government
• (c) Names of political parties
• (d) Rights of the citizens

75. Who nominates Members to the Rajya Sabha?

• (a) The President
• (b) The Vice President
• (c) The Prime Minister
• (d) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

76. Who among the following was the President of the Constituent Assembly of India?

• (a) C. Rajagopalachari
• (b) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
• (c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

77. Who among the following was the only Indian Governor-General of India?

• (a) Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• (b) B. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
• (c) T. T. Krishnamachari
• (d) C. Rajagopalachari

78. When was the Constitution of India adopted?

• (a) August 15, 1947
• (b) November 26, 1947
• (c) November 26, 1949
• (d) January 26, 1950

79. Who among the following played a decisive role in integrating the Princely States of India?

• (a) Jawaharlal Nehru
• (b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• (c) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
• (d) C. Rajagopalachari

80. Which of the following deal with the matters in the Concurrent List of the Constitution of India?

• (a) Union Government and State Governments
• (b) State Governments and Local Government Bodies
• (c) Union Territories
• (d) Local Government Bodies

81. Who among the following was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee in the Constituent Assembly of India?

• (a) C. Rajagopalachari
• (b) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
• (c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

82. In the 18th century, under whom did Bengal gradually break away from the Mughal control?

• (a) Murshid Quli Khan
• (b) Nadir Shah
• (c) Alivardi Khan
• (d) Burhan-ul-Mulk

83. Who among the following Governor- Generals decided that Bahadur Shah Zafar would be the last Mughal emperor and after his death none of the descendents would be recognized as a ruler?

• (a) Lord Dalhousie
• (b) William Bentinck
• (c) Lord Canning
• (d) Lord Cornwallis

84. Which Governor-General declared that Awadh was being misgoverned and British rule was needed to ensure proper administration?

• (a) Lord Ripon
• (b) Lord Canning
• (c) Lord Dalhousie
• (d) Lord Mountbatten

85. Which ruler of Kanpur called himself ‘Peshwa’?

• (a) Nana Saheb
• (b) Bajirao I
• (c) Bajirao II
• (d) Bahadur Shah Zafar

86. The best methodology to teach the theme ‘Factory’ would be—

• (a) to narrate a story
• (b) to invite a resource person
• (c) to organize a visit to an industrial plant
• (d) to screen a documentary film

87. What is EDUSAT?

• (a) The rocket that carries man-made satellites to be placed in the orbit around the sun
• (b) A newly discovered planet in the solar system
• (c) An asteroid found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
• (d) A man-made Indian satellite

88. The verses and ideas of which one of the following personalities have been preserved in ‘Panchvani’ and ‘Bijak’?

• (a) Mirabai
• (b) Kabir
• (c) Guru Nanak
• (d) Ravidas

89. The mural painting from Ellora Caves which shows Vishnu as Narasimha, the man-lion, is a work of which period?

• (a) Gurjara-Pratihara period
• (b) Rashtrakuta period
• (c) Chalukya period
• (d) Gupta period

90. Which one of the following organizations believes in Upanishads?

• (a) Brahma Samaj
• (b) Ramakrishna Mission
• (c) Satyashodhak Samaj
• (d) Seva Samaj

106. Which one of the following does not come under the principle of selection and gradation?

• (a) Accuracy
• (b) Availability
• (c) Coverage
• (d) Frequency

107. The phenomenon, where a single word is associated with two or several related meanings, is known as—

• (a) homonyms
• (b) homograph
• (c) polysemy
• (d) homonymy

108. “The dog lived in the garden, but the cat, who was smarter, lived inside the house” is an example of—

• (a) simple sentence
• (b) complex compound sentence
• (c) complex sentence
• (d) compound sentence

109. If a student of language is cramming his/her answers, then he/she would not be able to—

• (a) attempt question answers
• (b) attempt vocabulary-based exercise
• (c) attempt structural questions
• (d) attempt creative writing

110. During reading, if a student is piercing information together as they read a text keeping track of what is happening, he/she is—

• (a) inferring
• (b) skimming
• (c) paraphrasing
• (d) synthesizing

111. Which one of the following does not affect the intonation?

• (a) Voice/Pronunciation
• (b) Tone
• (c) Rhythm
• (d) Loudness

112. _____ are involved in thinking.

• (a) Image, language, imagination, proposition
• (b) Image, imagination, concept, proposition
• (c) Imagination, language, concept, proposition
• (d) Image, language, concept, proposition

113. Language laboratory is the place where the learners have to listen on headphone. The language labs are set up with a view to provide listening activities in order to develop—

• (a) analysis habit
• (b) speech habit
• (c) criticizing habit
• (d) listening activities

114. Grammar-translation method is basically used to teach—

• (a) grammar
• (b) foreign language
• (c) rules of any language usage
• (d) classical language

115. Which one of the following can be used as a rubric for the assessment of fluency and coherence of language?

• (a) Can express with some flexibility and appropriacy on variety of topics
• (b) Can initiate and logically develop simple conversation on a familiar topic
• (c) Is always comprehensible, uses appropriate intonation
• (d) Demonstrates hesitation to find words or use correct grammatical structures

116. Which one of the following is not the objective defined by NCF–2005 for teaching English at upper primary level?

• (a) To negotiate their own learning goals and evaluate their own progress; edit, revise, review their own work
• (b) To use dictionary suitable to their needs
• (c) To be able to articulate individual/personal responses effectively
• (d) To promote learners’ conceptualization of printed texts in terms of heading, paragraph and horizontal lines

117. If you are listening to the description of how to reach a specific location, then you are doing—

• (a) casual listening
• (b) focused listening
• (c) intensive listening
• (d) extensive listening

118. If a language teacher has put the words ‘school, teacher, headmaster, peon’ in a group, then she is following—

• (a) lexical grouping
• (b) semantic grouping
• (c) phonetic grouping
• (d) grammatical grouping

119. “At the initial stages of language learning, _____ may be one of the languages for learning activities that create the child’s awareness to the world.” (NCF–2005)

• (a) English
• (b) Vernacular language
• (c) Second language
• (d) Hindi

120. Little or no attention is given to pronunciation in _____ method.

• (a) audio-lingual
• (b) grammar-translation
• (c) CLT
• (d) SLT

136. Positive interference is a kind of—

• (a) target language
• (b) foreign language
• (c) pictorial language
• (d) native language

137. In learning the new language, multilingualism is—

• (a) a methodology
• (b) an asset
• (c) an interference
• (d) a burden

138. Note taking is done—

• (a) during a lecture
• (b) while reading a review
• (c) during extensive reference work
• (d) while writing an essay

139. The method of teaching foreign language without using the pupil’s first language is—

• (a) direct method
• (b) classical method
• (c) grammar-translation method
• (d) old method

140. Two words have identical sound and spelling, but not related in meaning. It is known as—

• (a) homophone
• (b) homonymy
• (c) homograph
• (d) polysemy

141. Language of word is not necessary for—

• (a) imaginative thinking
• (b) conceptual thinking
• (c) associative thinking
• (d) perceptual thinking

142. Communicative Language Teaching replaced basically—

• (a) Natural Language Processing
• (b) Structural Teaching
• (c) Situational Language Teaching
• (d) Motivational Teaching

143. Students are not organisms. Which one of the following methods sees them as a whole person?

• (a) CLT
• (b) SLT
• (c) Silent way
• (d) CLL

144. Writing is the _____ representation of speech sounds.

• (a) alphabetical
• (b) graphical
• (c) phonetic
• (d) systematic

145. When a teacher uses realia to teach vocabulary and grammar, she is—

• (a) using role play as a learning device
• (b) using real objects, actions and real-life situations
• (c) using computer technology
• (d) teaching through true stories

146. A poem whose first letters of each line spell out a word is called—

• (a) alliterative
• (b) epic
• (c) acrostic
• (d) haiku

147. Decorum in spoken English pertains to—

• (a) appropriate gestures
• (b) clarity and purity of style
• (c) correct grammatical usage
• (d) voice quality

148. Inquiry-based curriculum is based on—

• (a) deductive reasoning
• (b) inductive reasoning
• (c) heuristic reasoning
• (d) analogical reasoning

149. Which of the following are structural words?

• (a) Auxiliaries
• (b) Prepositions
• (c) Conjunctions
• (d) All of the above

150. Conventions of writing include—

• (a) story ideas
• (b) proper punctuation
• (c) imagination
• (d) good vocabulary READ THE FOL LOW ING IN STRUC TIONS CARE FULLY :