TS TET Paper 2 Mock Test - 1 (Social Science) - TS TET MCQ

Bruner's theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition. The main aim was that instruction should be designed to facilitate extrapolation and/or fill in the gaps.

The hyperactive children need special attention in the classroom.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) belongs to the group of externalising disorders of childhood. The term hyperactive is familiar to most people, especially parents and teachers. The child who is constantly in motion, tapping fingers, jiggling legs, poking others for no apparent reason, talking out of turn, and fidgeting is often called hyperactive. These children also have difficulty concentrating on the task at hand for an appropriate period of time.

• Children with ADHD seem to have particular difficulty controlling their activity in situations that call for sitting still, such as in the classroom or at mealtimes. When required to be quiet, they appear unable to stop moving or talking.
• They have poor attention to details and distractibility. Their activities are often disorganised. They are often forgetful and leave many activities incomplete, make many silly mistakes in school work.
• Due to poor attention, they fail to comprehend long instructions, even avoid activities that require sustained attention. Thus, they require special attention in the classroom.

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.

Engrams are theorised to be means by which memories are stored as biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain.

While playing, a group of children enact scenes from a recent popular movie. This situation highlights that media is an important agency of socialization.
The process of learning to internalize the values and norms into itself or the mode of learning to live in society is called the process of socialization. There are many sources of socialization such as School, College, Friends, Society, Neighbourhood, Religion, Caste, Media, newspapers, Meetings, Events, etc.
Media is the source in which observational skills are considered, media such as Television, magazines, Mobile phone, reality shows, newspapers, etc.

Equilibration takes place when a child strikes balance between the two processes while trying to internalise the perceived object.
Equilibration: The process of striking a balance between accommodation and assimilation. On the other hand, When the child strikes a balance between the two processes while trying to internalize the perceived object, adaptation (a relatively stable structure) takes place.

Motivation refers to those factors which increase or decrease an individual's vigor for some activity. Motivation is something that energizes and directs behavior.

Critical Thinking: Critical thinking is a process that is way beyond mental exercise. It ensembles the various mechanisms of reasoning which enable us to, analyze, synthesize, process, and evaluate the information.

Teachers need to create a good classroom environment to facilitate children’s learning. To create such a learning environment, compliance with teachers of the given statements is not true.
The environment in which learning takes place may be described as a composite of natural conditions, circumstances and influences, and sociocultural contexts in which an individual is situated. Therefore, you can say that the learning environment is the sum total of the surroundings in which individuals interact to enrich experiences and thus leading to learning.

• उपर्युक्त गद्यांश के अनुसार अधिकारों के मामलों में भारतीय उपभोक्ताओं की स्थिति दयनीय है।
• अर्थात उपभोक्ताओं के पास अधिकार ना के बराबर है बाद के वर्षों में जाकर उपभोक्ता संगठन सक्रिय हुए।

गोंड जनजाति के लोग काले तथा गहरे भूरे रंग के होते हैं। 
गद्यांश के अनुसार: 

• गोंड जनजाति के लोग काले तथा गहरे भूरे रंग के होते हैं। 

'अभिमान' शब्द में उपसर्ग का विकल्प सही है - 'अभि + मान'

• अभि + मान = अभिमान
• 'अभि' (पास) उपसर्ग और 'मान' (प्रतिष्ठा) मूल शब्द 
• अर्थ: अपनी प्रतिष्ठा या मर्यादा एवं सत्ता की अनुचित धारणा, अहंकार, घमंड।
• विलोम शब्द - 'नम्रता'

संचारी क्षमता का तात्पर्य शिक्षार्थी की सफलतापूर्वक संवाद करने के लिए भाषा का उपयोग करने की क्षमता से है। यह क्षमता मौखिक, लिखित या अशाब्दिक भी हो सकती है।

• यह एक समावेशी शब्द है जो भाषा के ज्ञान के साथ-साथ संचार संबंधी जरूरतों को पूरा करने के लिए वास्तविक जीवन की स्थितियों में भाषा का उपयोग करने के कौशल को दर्शाता है।
• इसमें संदेशों को व्यक्त करने और व्याख्या करने और अर्थों पर बातचीत करने के लिए विभिन्न स्थितियों में व्याकरणिक संरचनाओं का उपयोग करने की क्षमता शामिल है।
• शिक्षार्थियों की बोलने की क्षमता का मूल्यांकन करने के लिए शिक्षक सूचना अंतराल और भूमिका निभाने वाली गतिविधियों का उपयोग कर सकते हैं। इसमें सटीकता, प्रवाह, जटिलता, उपयुक्तता और क्षमता शामिल है।

इस प्रकार, यह निष्कर्ष निकाला गया है कि बोलने के कौशल के मूल्यांकन के लिए संचार क्षमता मुख्य फोकस होना चाहिए।

उपरोक्त विकल्पों में 'हिरन' का पर्यायवाची शब्द 'सारंग' है। अत: विकल्प 'सारंग' इसका सही उत्तर है। अन्य विकल्प असंगत हैं। 

मुहावरे और लोकोक्तियों ये भाषा – प्रयोग को प्रभावी बनाते है।
हिंदी भाषा की सौंदर्य और आंचलिकता बनाए रखने हेतु शिक्षण कार्य के दौरान पाठ में निहित तथ्यों के संदर्भ में मुहावरों और लोकोक्तियों का उचित प्रयोग:

• भाषा प्रयोग को प्रभावी बनाता है।
• भाषिक अभिव्यक्ति को सजीव बनाता है।
• पाठ को अर्थपूर्ण, प्रवाहपूर्ण और रुचिकर बनाता है।
• बच्चों में लिखित-मौखिक अभिव्यक्ति कौशल का विकास करता है।
• बच्चों को तथ्यों को संदर्भ में जोड़ कर आसानी से समझने में मदद करता है।

इसलिए, यह कहा जा सकता है कि मुहावरे और लोकोक्तियों भाषा – प्रयोग को प्रभावी बनाते है।

वाइगोत्स्की के अनुसार भाषा सीखने, शब्दों को अर्थ देने में सामाजिक अंत:क्रिया की भूमिका को नकारा नहीं जा सकता है। रूसी मनोवैज्ञानिक 'वाइगोत्स्की' ने अपने 'सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक सिद्धांत' में भाषा विकास के सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक परिप्रेक्ष्य को प्रस्तुत किया था। इन्होंने भाषा विकास के सन्दर्भ में "सामाजिक अतःक्रिया" पर बल दिया है।

• वाइगोत्स्की के अनुसार ज्ञान का परिवर्तनशील भंडार दूसरों के साथ मिलकर तैयार किया जाता है अर्थात् भाषा सीखने मे सामाजिक अन्तःक्रिया का महत्वपूर्ण स्थान है। वाइगोत्स्की द्वारा दिये गये सिद्धान्त को संज्ञानात्मक विकास या सांस्कृतिक-एतिहासिक मनोविज्ञान कहा जाता है।

अतः निष्कर्ष निकलता है कि वाइगोत्स्की के अनुसार भाषा सीखने, शब्दों को अर्थ देने में सामाजिक अंतःक्रिया का भूमिका को नकारा नहीं जा सकता।

"She is so weak and so she cannot walk."
It will be the correct answer because a complex sentence is a sentence that combines one independent clause with at least one dependent clause. Here, 'she is so weak' is the independent clause and 'so she cannot walk' is the dependent clause.

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.

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.

This is the correct answer. Proper planning by the teacher ensures students to increase the time spent on academic activities. The teacher can prepare the lesson plan in advance, keeping in mind the time schedule, and the interest of the students.

• The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is appointed by the President of India under clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution.
• The chief justice is appointed by the president after consultation with such judges of the Supreme Court and high courts as he deems necessary.
• The other judges are appointed by the president after consultation with the chief justice and such other judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts as he deems necessary. The consultation with the chief justice is obligatory in the case of the appointment of a judge other than Chief justice.
• The basic procedure to be followed for the appointment of CJI is:
  • Appointment to the office of the Chief Justice of India should be of the senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court considered fit to hold the office.
  • The Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs would, at the appropriate time, seek the recommendation of the outgoing Chief Justice of India for the appointment of the next Chief Justice of India.
  • Whenever there is any doubt about the fitness of the senior-most Judge to hold the office of the Chief Justice of India, consultation with other Judges as envisaged in Article 124 (2) of the Constitution would be made for the appointment of the next Chief Justice of India.
  • After receipt of the recommendation of the Chief Justice of India, the Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs will put up the recommendation to the Prime Minister who will advise the President in the matter of appointment. 

Evaluation refers to a continuous process of making value judgments based on both qualitative and quantitative data collected over a period of time. 

Micro-teaching is a teacher training and faculty development technique whereby the teacher reviews a recording of a teaching session, in order to get constructive feedback from peers and/or students about what has worked and what improvements can be made to their teaching technique.

According to NCF 2005, Social Science teaching needs to be revitalised towards helping the learner acquire knowledge and skills in an interactive environment. The teaching of Social Sciences must adopt methods that promote creativity, aesthetics, and critical perspectives, and enable children to draw relationships between past and present. Problem solving, dramatisation and role play are some hither-to underexplored strategies that could be employed.
Hence, this is the correct answer.

Social sciences are the body of knowledge and thought pertaining to human affairs as distinguished from sticks, stones, stars, and physical objects.
The following points may characterize the nature of social sciences

• Direct bearing on human activity: Social sciences are those aspects of knowledge that have a direct bearing on man’s activities in different sociocultural fields.
• Advance studies of human society: Social sciences are advance level studies of human society, and they are generally taught at a higher education level.
• Find out truths about human relationships: Social sciences seek to find out truths about human relationships which ultimately contribute to the social utility and advancement of knowledge.

Hence, we conclude that all the above points are correct regarding the nature of social science.

Assessment and evaluation are important tasks in the teaching-learning process of Social Sciences. The constructivist approach to teaching-learning in Social Sciences emphasizes assessment as an integral part of the process of teaching and learning and using assessment for the enhancement of student learning. 

Statement 1: During the full moon days, the moon appears bright and prominent.

• A full moon occurs about once a month when the earth, sun, and moon are in a line and the earth is between the other two.
• The sun fully illuminates the side of the moon we can see from the earth.
• The full moon is the midpoint of the lunar cycle, which is the 29-day period from one new moon to the next.
• A full moon is opposite the sun in its orbit around Earth.
• Its sunlit side is entirely visible from Earth.
• The moon appears full to the eye for two to three nights.
• However, astronomers regard the moon as full at a precisely defined instant, when the moon is exactly 180 degrees opposite the sun in ecliptic longitude.
• It’s that feature of a full moon – the fact that it’s opposite the sun as viewed from Earth – that causes a full moon to look full and round.

Hence, statement 1 is correct.
Statement 2: After a fortnight of the full moon, the other celestial bodies, except the moon, appear better.

• A new moon occurs when the Moon is between Earth and the Sun, and thus the side of the Moon that is in shadow faces Earth.
• The lunar month starts with the new moon up to the full moon, which is halfway through the lunar month, i.e. the 15th day.
• Then it goes back to the new moon, at which time, the cycle begins anew.
• As New Moon nights are dark, they are often the best time to view other celestial objects like planets, meteor showers, and deep sky objects such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies.

Hence, statement 2 is also correct.
We can see the full moon only once in about a month’s time. It is Full moon night or Poornima. A fortnight later, we cannot see it at all. It is a New moon night or Amavasya. On this day, we can watch the night sky best, provided it is a clear night.