Assam TET Paper 2 Mock Test - 10 (Social Science) - Assam TET MCQ

Education would be meaningful only then when it would be student/child-centred. Education is referred to as child-centred education when it gives preference to a child's needs, interests & aptitudes.

The Cephalocaudal Principle states that development proceeds from top to bottom. According to this principle, a child will gain physical control of their head first. After this, physical control will move downward to the arms and lastly to the legs.

Language is a symbolic, rule-governed system, shared by a group of people to express their thoughts and feelings. It provides a bank of memories and symbols inherited from one's fellow speakers and created in one's own lifetime.​

Parents should play a forward-looking role in the learning process of their children and encourage them to do better. As preschoolers grow into school-age children, parents become their children's learning coaches. Through guidance and reminders, parents help their children organize their time and support their desire to learn new things in and out of school.

Children with special needs have unique learning requirements and it is the responsibility of the teacher to respond to these needs in a positive manner.

एक अच्छी बात यह रही है कि सीबीएसई ने कोरोना वायरस के कारण गद्यांश के इस भाग के अध्ययन से ज्ञात होता है कि इस वर्ष केंद्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा बोर्ड ने कोरोना को ध्यान में रखते हुए परीक्षाओं के टॉपर का नाम घोषित नहीं किया।

प्राथमिक स्तर के बच्चे अपने साथ बहुत कुछ लेकर विद्यालय आते हैं- अपनी भाषा, अपने अनुभव, दुनिया को देखने का अपना नजरिया आदि। बच्चे घर परिवार और परिवेश से जिन अनुभवों को लेकर विद्यालय आते हैं, वे बहुत समृद्ध होते हैं। उनकी इस भाषाई पूँजी का इस्तेमाल भाषा सीखने-सीखाने के लिए किया जाता है। इसके लिए बच्चे को घर पर बात करने के अवसरो की उपलब्धता होना अत्यन्त आवश्यक है। यदि बच्चे को घर पर बात करने के बहुत कम अवसर मिलते हैं, तो उसका भाषाई विकास, भाषा समृद्ध परिवेश के बच्चे की तुलना में धीमी गति से होगा।
यही कारण है कि पहली कक्षा की भाषा अध्यापिका अपने एक विद्यार्थी के भाषाई विकास के संबंध में चिंतित है, क्योंकि विद्यार्थी को घर पर बात करने के बहुत कम अवसर मिलते हैं।

अभिव्यक्ति से तात्पर्य मन के विचारों को स्वतंत्र रूप से खुल कर अभिव्यक्ति करने से है। मौखिक अभिव्यक्ति से तात्पर्य मन के विचारों को स्वतंत्र रूप से बोल कर अभिव्यक्त करने से है तथा लिखित अभिव्यक्ति के अन्तर्गत विषयानुकूल लेखन एवं अपने विचारों भावों को लिखित रूप में समझापाने का कौशल आता है।

Standardised assessment means summative assessment. Summative assessment (or summative evaluation) refers to the assessment of participants where the focus is on the outcome of a programme. This contrasts with formative assessment, which summarises the participants' development at a particular time.

Piaget was born in Switzerland. He was a student of biology and also had a keen interest in psychology and philosophy. His interest in the study of cognition evolved while working in a laboratory.

Active participation of the students in any kind of activity conducted by the teachers is really necessary as it imparts not just knowledge in the students, but also enhances their zeal towards completing the job efficiently. It also gives them the opportunity to take interest in learning as well as representing themselves on a platform other than that provided by the curriculum.

• Active participation means indulging in activity in such a way that the individual not only performs with full dedication but also takes complete responsibility for the actions.
• A teacher in the third-grade classroom decided to give some tasks to the students after teaching them a poem. 

Student-centric approach, also known as the learner-centered approach, encompasses teaching methods that shift focus from teachers to students.

The first line of the second paragraph states, "She dressed plainly because she had never been able to afford anything better, but she was as unhappy as if she had once been wealthy."

Multilingualism refers to speaking more than one language competently. The term multilingualism is derived from two Latin words namely “multi” which means many and “lingua” which means language. Thus multilingualism is referred to as the ability of a speaker to express himself or herself in several languages with equal and native-like proficiency.

The statement "Children should be asked to do written work" will be the least important to the language teacher.
Language teachers create an environment that is conducive to learning in the following ways:

• Providing different kinds of material so that they can learn concepts with ease and efficiency.
• Using every possible area of the room to create an atmosphere that encourages participation and learning.
• Creating a positive atmosphere conducive to learning is to develop a positive classroom climate and culture. 
• Making children feel free to express themselves as it provides them the opportunities to communicate in context.
• Maintaining a neat and organized environment that is conducive to learning is getting the students to cooperate.
• Respecting learners' mother tongue so that it could promote the cognitive flexibilities to express the thought in multiple ways.

Noam Chomsky, known as the father of modern linguistics, has made a crucial contribution in the field of linguistics.
Let's understand Chomsky's view about language in brief:

• Innate ability: He strongly believes that children are born with an innate knowledge of grammar that serves as the basis for all language acquisition.
• Generative grammar: According to Chomsky it refers to a finite set of rules to generate sentences and can be used to produce more sentences in that language.
• Universal grammar: Chomsky's universal grammar suggests that all children have an innate ability to acquire, understand and develop grammar.
• Language Acquisition Device: Chomsky proposed that humans are equipped with a language acquisition device that enables a child to acquire and produce language.

A brief description of other psychologists:

So, Noam Chomsky is associated with ‘language development'.

An inclusive classroom is part of inclusive education that is an approach to educating all children who are at risk for neglect in the education system. It expects that all learners learn together through access to common educational provisions.

• Surat in Gujarat was the emporium of western trade during the Mughal period along with Cambay (present-day Khambat) and somewhat later, Ahmedabad.
• Surat was the gateway for trade with West Asia via the Gulf of Ormuz.
• Surat has also been called the gate to Mecca because many pilgrim ships set sail from here.
• The city was cosmopolitan and people of all castes and creeds lived there.
• In the seventeenth century the Portuguese, Dutch and English had their factories and warehouses at Surat.
• According to the English chronicler Ovington who wrote an account of the port in 1689, on average a hundred ships of different countries could be found anchored at the port at any given time. 

Therefore, we can conclude that the statement  (A) is true but (R) is false.

The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into two equal halves. Its value is 0 degrees longitude and from it, we count 180 degrees eastwards and 180 degrees westwards. Therefore, 180 degrees east and 180 degrees west are on the same line.

Capacity building (or capacity development) is the process by which individuals and organisations obtain, improve, and retain the skills and knowledge needed to do their jobs competently. The teachers require conceptual and pedagogical clarity in different components of the subject, thereby, making capacity building processes inseparable part of their profession.

The direction of force acting on a current-carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field is determined by Fleming's Left Hand Rule. The direction of this force is always at a right angle to the plane containing both the conductor and the magnetic field, and is predicted by Fleming's Left Hand Rule.

• The Mughal rulers campaigned constantly against rulers who refused to accept their authority.
• But as the Mughals became powerful many other rulers also joined them voluntarily.
• The Rajputs are a good example of this.
• Many of them married their daughters into Mughal families and received high positions. Hence, statement II is true.
• But many resisted as well.​
• The Sisodiya Rajputs of Mewar refused to accept Mughal authority for a long time. So, statement I is true.
• Once defeated, however, they were honourably treated by the Mughals, given their lands (watan) back as assignments (watan jagir).
• The careful balance between defeating and not humiliating their opponents enabled the Mughals to extend their influence over many kings and chieftains.

Hence we conclude that the correct option is Both I and II are true but Il is not a cause for I.

East India Company:

• In 1600, the East India Company acquired a charter from the ruler of England, Queen Elizabeth I, granting it the sole right to trade with the East. Hence statement 1 is correct.
• Then onwards no other trading group in England could compete with the East India Company.
• However, the royal charter didn’t prevent other European powers from entering the Eastern markets. Hence statement 2 is not correct.
• The Portuguese had already established their presence on the western coast of India and had their base in the Dutch too were exploring the possibilities of trade in the Indian Ocean. Soon the French traders arrived on the scene.
• The problem was that all the companies were interested in buying the same things.
• So the only way the trading companies could flourish was by eliminating rival competitors.
• The urge to secure markets, therefore, led to fierce battles between the trading companies.
• Trade was carried on with arms and trading posts were protected through fortification.

The aims and objectives of teaching history have undergone changes with the shift in the philosophical thinking of the time and changes in social and political practices. Education is the process of bringing about desirable changes in the behavior of pupils. The idea of desirable changes has varied at different times in accordance with the dominant philosophical creed of the society and prevalent social and political practices.

List the following ranges of the Himalayas in order from north to south -

• Karakoram, Ladakh, Zaskar, Pir Panjal, Shivalik.

All the oceans of the world are connected with each other, so the level of the sea water remains the same everywhere. Therefore, the elevation of land is taken from the level of the sea, which is taken as zero.

At the upper primary stage, the subject area of Social Science drawing its content from history, geography, political science, and economics will be introduced. 

Different teaching methods have been propounded by educational thinkers to understand and practice the art of teaching. Teaching method changes with context, subject, and children.

• Earth is called the "Blue Planet" because it looks blue from space due to the presence of water on its surface.
• About 71 per cent of the planetary water is found in the oceans.
• The remaining is held as freshwater in glaciers and ice caps, groundwater sources, lakes, soil moisture, atmosphere, streams and within life.
• Nearly 59 per cent of the water that falls on land returns to the atmosphere through evaporation from over the oceans as well as from other places.
• The remainder runs off on the surface infiltrates into the ground or a part of it becomes a glacier.​​
• Total water on earth is majorly divided into two parts:
  • Freshwater (2.5%)
  • Saline water (97.4%)

The Lesson Plan refers to the outline of the lesson prepared by the teacher to bring forward the lesson in a coherent way. It starts with introductory questions to activate learner's previous knowledge and connects the new knowledge with the previous one.