HTET TGT Social Studies Mock Test - 9 - HTET MCQ

A school gives preference to girls while preparing students for state-level solo song competitions. This reflects gender bias; this happens because girls are suppressed by their families, so schools want them to explore more and more by motivating and providing them with the opportunity and fully support them. Girls are also strong in this kind of field, and just because of their gender, everyone thing they won, but it is not true, talent also plays an important role, and with talent, there is a maximum chance of winning the competition. 
Hence, the correct answer is "Gender bias".

Active Participation means when children initiate to speak something when they try to participate in group discussions. The teachers force children so that they will try to be good speakers and gain confidence.
Hence, the correct answer is "Active participation".

A lesson can be introduced in the class by using examples related to the lesson so that it is easily understandable by children. Telling stories easily attracts students and students find it easy to understand such lessons by story-telling the children like to listen to the stories. That's why teachers introduce lessons with stories.
Hence, the correct answer is "All of these".

While storytelling, a teacher maintains a natural sequence so that children take more interest in the class. The nature of human beings is that they take more interest in realistic things. Characters of the story should be properly elaborated so that while listening to the story it will easily be understandable by others. 
Hence, the correct answer is "All of the above".

Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation refers to a school-based evaluation, which covers all aspects of school activities related to a child’s development.

• It emphasizes two-fold objectives such as continuity of evaluation and assessment of learning outcomes in a comprehensive manner.
• It covers all the domains of learning i.e. cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.

मैं आजकल घूमने जाता हूँ।शुद्ध वाक्य है। Key Points

• वाक्य शुद्धि - लिखने एवं बोलने में इस बात का ध्यान रखना कि जो कुछ भी लिखा या कहा जा रहा है वह बिल्कुल सार्थक एवं व्याकरण के नियमानुसार शुद्ध हो।
• उदाहरण - मुझे यह अच्छा नही लगता।

Additional Information

'परन्तू' का शुद्ध रूप- परन्तु

Key Points

• परन्तू शब्द में वर्तनी सम्बन्धी अशुद्धि है।
• संधि विच्छेद परम्+तु= परन्तु

Additional Information

• सुनने और बोलने (श्रवण और उच्चारण) के कारण शब्दों में कई अशुद्धियाँ (त्रुटियाँ – गलतियाँ) आ जाती हैं।
• हिन्दी की मात्राओं एवं व्याकरण के ज्ञान की कमी प्रायः इन शब्द और वर्तनी की अशुद्धियों का मुख्य कारण होती है।

दिए गए वाक्य का काल है - 'सामान्य भूतकाल'

• दिये गए वाक्य "आधुनिक युग की मीरा महादेवी वर्मा ने 'मेरा परिवार' नामक संस्‍मरण लिखा।" में भूतकाल का प्रयोग हुआ है। यह वाक्य बताता है कि कार्य पूर्णतः समाप्त हो चुका है, जिसके आधार पर इसे "सामान्य भूतकाल" में माना जा सकता है।

Key Points

सही उत्तर है - परिश्रम का फल अवश्य मिलता है।

• जो परिश्रमी होते हैं भले ही सफलता उन्हें देर से मिले लेकिन एक दिन अवश्य अपनी मंजिल पाने में सफल होते हैं।
• इसलिए परिश्रम का फल अवश्य मिलता है।

Key Pointsइसी लोकोक्ति से मिलता कबीर का एक दोहा भी है -

• जिन खोजा तिन पाइया, गहरे पानी पैठ, मैं बपुरा बूडन डरा, रहा किनारे बैठ।
  • अर्थात - जो प्रयत्न करते हैं, वे कुछ न कुछ वैसे ही पा ही लेते हैं जैसे कोई मेहनत करने वाला गोताखोर गहरे पानी में जाता है और कुछ ले कर आता है. लेकिन कुछ बेचारे लोग ऐसे भी होते हैं जो डूबने के भय से किनारे पर ही बैठे रह जाते हैं और कुछ नहीं पाते.

• Meaning of Quarantine: To separate someone into isolation.
• Meaning of Rescue: save (someone) from a dangerous or difficult situation
• Meaning of Detention: the action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody
• Meaning of Defence: the action of defending from or resisting an attack
• Meaning of Safety: the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury

Engender is to cause or create.

We can say that ,
The above given sentence is given in Passive Voice :- Use structure “auxiliary + past participle”
I cannot wear this shirt any longer.
Hence , option A will be correct answer .

As the result of Race is Fatigue similarly the result of Fast is Hunger.

Hence, Option B is correct.

The correct answer is Bansilal.

• Bansi Lal Legha founded Haryana Vikas Party.
• He became the third Chief Minister of Haryana.
• He took an oath of Haryana chief minister for the first time on 31 May 1968.
• He became Chief Minister four times in 1968, 1972, 1986 and 1996.
• He was prominently known as the architect of modern Haryana.

Additional Information

• Om Prakash Chautala is a former Chief Minister of Haryana.
  • He served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 1989 to 2005 at four different times.
• Bhupinder Singh Hooda is an Indian National Congress politician.
  • He also served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014.
  • He served for 9 years as chief minister.

The correct answer is Trans-Gangetic plain region.

• India has been broadly divided into fifteen agricultural regions.
• It is based on agroclimatic features particularly soil type, climate including temperature and rainfall and its variation and water resources availability.
• Haryana falls in the Agro Climatic Zone-VI, which is called Trans-Gangetic Plains Region.
• The four main geographical features of the state are:
  • Shivalik Hills, Ghaggar Yamuna Plain, Semi-desert sandy plain and Aravali hills.
• All the regions are given below:
  • Western Himalayan division
  • Eastern Himalayan division
  • Lower Gangetic plain region
  • Middle Gangetic plain region
  • Upper Gangetic plain region
  • Trans-Gangetic plain region
  • Eastern plateau and hill region
  • Central plateau and hill region
  • Western plateau and hill region
  • Southern plateau and hill region
  • East coast plain and hill region
  • West coast plain and hill region
  • Gujarat plain and hill region
  • Western plain and hill region
  • Island region

The correct answer is Shooting.

Key Points

• Shweta Chaudhry was born on 3 July 1986 in Faridabad, Haryana.
• She is an Indian shooter who competes in the 10-meter air pistol and 25-meter sports pistol events.
• Chaudhary won the bronze medal in the women's air pistol event, which was the first medal won by India in the games.
• In 2009, at the 2009 Asian Air Gun Championships in Doha.
• At the age of 14, she became the senior national champion with record-breaking results.
• Chaudhary, along with Sheila Kanungo, won a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester.

Additional Information

• Chief Minister of Haryana is - Manohar Lal Khattar
• Sex Ratio of Haryana - 879
• Literacy Rate of Haryana - 67.91%
• Lok Sabha seats in Haryana - 10

1st term = 20 - 0 = 20
2nd term = 20 - 1 = 19
3rd term = 19 - 2 = 17
4th term = 17 - 3 = 14
5th term = 14 - 4 = 10
6th term = 10 - 5 = 5

Thus, Missing number is 4th term = 14

18% of x = 13.50% of y

50% of x = 37.50% of y
Hence, Option D is correct.

The National Education Policy 2020 aims to bring transformational reforms in school and higher education and thus shape India into a global knowledge superpower.

• This policy will usher in sweeping changes to the education policy of the country, including a renaming of the Ministry of Human Resource Development as the Education Ministry.

Key Points

• NEP 2020 is based on the principle that education must develop not only cognitive capacities but also social, ethical, and emotional capacities and dispositions.
• NEP-2020 has given the emphasis on conceptual understanding, inquiry-based learning, creativity, critical thinking, human ethical values, and constitutional values.
• It proposes that experiential learning should be encouraged to promote conceptual understanding as experiential learning refers to learning by gaining experience through active involvement.
• As per National education policy 2020, education must adopt experiential learning including hands-on learning, arts-integrated and sports-integrated education, story-telling-based pedagogy, etc.

Hence, it is clear that instead of limiting classroom learning to textbooks, National Education Policy 2020 suggests that learning and education should be focused towards inquiry and development of critical thinking. ​

Moon is the nearest celestial body to our earth. Together with the Moon, Venus and Mars are the planets nearest to the Earth. All of these celestial bodies are continuously held captive to the sun by the effect of gravity; the bodies are continually forced to orbit the sun as the central body in elliptical orbits.

Booth Capturing is a practice carried out by members of a political party during an election, that involves staying in a polling booth for long periods of time, stopping people entering who are registered to vote, and voting in their place in order to give the party an unfair advantage.

The preamble to the Constitution declares India to be a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic and a welfare state committed to secure justice, liberty and equality for the people and for promoting fraternity, dignity of the individual and unity and integrity of the nation.

The primary business model of banks involves accepting deposits from the public and then using a major portion of these deposits to extend loans to individuals, businesses, and other entities. This is how banks earn interest income. Options (b) and (c) may be part of a bank's activities but do not represent the major use of deposits. Therefore, option (a) is correct.

• Profit Generation: Banks earn interest income by lending out deposits to borrowers at higher interest rates than what they pay depositors.


• Meeting Financial Needs: Extending loans allows banks to meet the financial needs of individuals, businesses, and other entities in the form of personal loans, business loans, mortgages, etc.


• Economic Growth: By providing loans, banks contribute to economic growth by facilitating investments, consumption, and overall economic activity.


• Risk Management: Banks carefully assess the creditworthiness of borrowers before extending loans to manage the risk of defaults and ensure the safety of depositors' funds.


• Regulatory Requirements: Banks are required by regulatory authorities to maintain a certain level of reserves but can use the majority of deposits to extend loans to promote economic growth.

• Banks play a crucial role in the economy by utilizing deposits to extend loans, which helps in generating profits, meeting financial needs, promoting economic growth, managing risks, and complying with regulatory requirements.

• free speech and free press 

• right to form associations 

• right to assemble 

• universal adult franchise 

• equal legal rights irrespective of caste, creed and sex 

• neutrality of the state in religious matters 

• free and compulsory primary education protection to culture, language, the script of minorities and linguistic groups

All of them are predominantly rain fed crops

National Education Policy 2020 is the first education policy of the 21st century and aims to address the many growing developmental imperatives of our country. This policy replaced the 34-year-old National Policy on Education (NPE), in 1986.

Key Points

• National Education Policy 2020 lays emphasis on conceptual understanding and improving educational outcomes so that children can implement the acquired knowledge and skills in real-life.
• It suggests that assessment is important to find out a child's progress over a certain period of time.
• Emphasizes on transforming assessment for optimizing learning and development of all students.
• NEP aims to provide a holistic report on student’s progress and learning.
• It should be able to depict the actual level of knowledge and performance of each student.

Thus, it is concluded that National Education Policy 2020 suggests that assessment is important to find out a child's progress over a certain period of time.

Lalu Prasad Yadav, involved in the Fodder Scam, resigned from his party and formed the Rashtriya Janata Dal.