TS TET Paper 2 Mock Test - 4 (Social Science) - TS TET MCQ

Assessment refers to the process of obtaining information about a learner’s learning and achievement in a course, with a view to bringing improvement in his learning. Assessment is considered a part of the teaching-learning process and is often categorized as assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning.

According to Ross, “Thinking is a mental activity in its cognitive aspect of mental ability with regard to the psychological object.”
According to Garrett, “Thinking is behaviour which is often implicit and hidden and in which symbols (images, ideas, and concepts) are ordinarily employed.”
Critical Thinking: The ability to apply reasoning and logic to new or unfamiliar situations, ideas, and opinions. It refers to the process of judging or analyzing facts, events, etc. It requires proper analysis, evaluation, inference, and explanation.

• Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.   People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, and empathically.
• People use the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers – concepts and principles that enable them to analyze, assess, and improve their thinking.
• Thinking critically involves seeing and observing things in an open-minded way and examining an idea or concept in a way to form as many angles as possible.
• It can be enhanced by asking children to discuss among themselves in groups followed by sharing in a large group.

Abstract thinking is the ability to understand real concepts, such as freedom or vulnerability, but not directly tied to concrete physical objects and experiences.
So, self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way is called critical thinking.

Scanning is reading a text quickly in order to find specific information, e.g. figures or names. This technique is employed to locate terms and references in an index or thesaurus.

Intelligence involves a number of abilities together. It is the ability to understand the incoming information and make sense of it. It is the ability to acquire new skills and use the existing knowledge to complete a task or deal with a situation. 

Learning refers to the modification of behavioral patterns. It is a comprehensive process which refers to a change in behavior, knowledge, and skill as a result of practice and experience.

• Learning of children will be most effective when development of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of children will take place.
• These domains are proposed by Benjamin Bloom's in his taxonomy. It is a set of three hierarchical models that refers to the classification of educational learning objectives.

Let's Understand these domains in the context of child's learning:

• Cognitive domains: In this domain, a child deals with knowledge and hence, learns to create, evaluate, analyze, etc.
• Affective domains: This domain comes into play when child grows in emotional areas such as feelings, attitudes, etc.
• Psychomotor domains: It is concerned with acquiring skills that require the integration of mental and physical movements.

So, it could be concluded that the learning of children will be most effective when development of cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of children will take place.

Lev Vygotsky states that the child’s mental strength grows when assisted by a more advanced and competent individual.

Assumptions of Vygotsky’s theory:

• The first assumption is that through informal and formal conversations and education, the competent individual can guide the children the way their culture interprets and responds to the world.
• The second assumption is that thought and language become increasingly independent in the first few years of life.
• The third assumption explains that mental strength increases when the children begin to involve them in social activities. When children grow, their internalize process increases and they begin to use them independently. This internalize process allows the children to transform ideas and process to make them unique.
• The children can do more challenging tasks when assisted by a competent individual. Vygotsky identified two levels of development are:
  • The actual development is the maximum ability of the child to perform individually and
  • Potential development is the maximum ability of the child to perform with the assistance of an experienced individual.
• The final assumption is that play allows children to stretch themselves cognitively. 

Hence, we can conclude that according to Lev Vygotsky, the primary cause of cognitive development is social interaction.

Constructivism is centered on the idea that human knowledge and learning are actively constructed by the teacher, not passively received from the environment. It is based on the theory of constructivism which holds that learning always builds upon the knowledge that a student already has.

In a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom, before deciding whether a student comes under special education category, a teacher should evaluate student on his/her mother language to establish disability.

ड्योढ़ी का अर्थ चौखट होता है। 

• ड्योढ़ी अथवा चौखट का अर्थ:- प्रवेश करते समय द्वार के पास की जगह 
• ड्योढ़ी- क्षेत्रीय भाषा का देशज शब्द है। 

सहकर्मी सहायता कार्यक्रम छात्रों को अपने ज्ञान को सुदृढ़ करने और उनके संचार और सहयोग कौशल के साथ-साथ अच्छे पारस्परिक संबंध विकसित करने में मदद करता है।
इस प्रकार के कार्यक्रम में शिक्षक उन छात्रों को पढ़ा सकते हैं और प्रशिक्षित कर सकते हैं जो किसी विशेष विषय में बेहतर प्रदर्शन करते हैं और समूह शिक्षण और स्व अध्ययन के भीतर ही उनकी शिक्षण सीखने की कठिनाइयों को बनाए रखने में मदद करते हैं। यह कार्यक्रम छात्रों को अपने ज्ञान को सुदृढ़ करने और उनके संचार और सहयोग कौशल के साथ-साथ अच्छे पारस्परिक संबंध विकसित करने में मदद करता है।

महानता शब्‍द में उपसर्ग का प्रयोग नहीं किया गया है।

• महान + ता = महानता
• 'महान' मूलशब्द और 'ता' प्रत्यय 
• अर्थ: महान होने का भाव, श्रेष्ठता, बड़प्पन।

• A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea. 
• In the given passage, "perspectives" refers to viewpoints or ways of considering something, which is an idea, making it a noun.
• Here,  "perspectives" is the direct object of the verb "explore", representing the things that are being explored.

Thus, the correct answer is Option 1. 

The last line of the first paragraph states, "So she let herself be married to a minor official at the Ministry of Education."
From the above line, it is clear that she was married to a minor official instead major, and Thus, option (B) is false.

A traditional language syllabus usually specified the vocabulary students needed to learn and the grammatical items they should master, normally graded across levels from beginner to advanced. The choice of a syllabus is a major decision in language teaching, and it should be made as consciously and with as much information as possible. 

Error: When a learner can’t master a topic, he/she is vulnerable to make errors. Errors are nothing but incorrectness made by a child during learning. 
Misconceptions: It takes place due to the mismatch in previously assimilated and newly accommodated knowledge. 
Children’s errors and misconceptions:

• are significant steps in the teaching-learning process.
• are necessary in the learning process to give insight into children's thinking.
• help the teacher to be aware of learners' learning styles, to cater them according to their needs.
• are considered as a part of the teaching-learning process as it helps to understand the child.

So, it could be concluded that children’s errors and misconceptions are a significant step in the teaching-learning process.

The main objectives of teaching poetry at the secondary level are as follows:

• To understand and derive pleasure from the given poem.
• To appreciate the beauty of the language and the thought in the poem.
• To recite the poem with proper beats, stress, accent, intonation and
• rhythm.
• To kindle the students' imagination and develop their aesthetic sense.

The nature of these objectives, though laudable, is complimentary in the process of language learning. Only the objectives of teaching prose and fiction fulfill the needs of the learner in so far as the intensive and extensive reading skills, writing and communication skills are concerned.

Storytelling refers to the art of narrating a story. It is used as a strategy in language teaching which broadens learners' reading choices. Storytelling promotes a whole language approach.

Maps have a universal language that can be understood by all. There is an international agreement regarding the use of these symbols. These are called conventional symbols.

This season is marked by the onset and advance of monsoon. The winds blow from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal towards the land. They carry moisture with them. When these winds strike the mountain barriers, rainfall occurs.

The child is able to attempt the questions with same base and is able to get correct solutions, but he has committed mistakes only in the questions having different bases.

A goiter is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland.

• The Rowlatt Satyagraha turned out to be the first all-India struggle against the British government although it was largely restricted to cities.
• The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on April 13, 1919, during the Rowlatt Satyagraha movement in India.
• The movement was a nonviolent protest against the Rowlatt Act, which had been passed by the British government to give them greater powers of arrest and detention in response to growing unrest in the country.
• General Dyer, who was the British military commander in Amritsar at the time, ordered his troops to fire on a crowd of unarmed protesters who had gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh, a public square in the city, killing hundreds of people and injuring many more.
• The incident sparked outrage across India and led to a significant increase in anti-British sentiment.
• The Jallianwala Bagh massacre is considered to be a turning point in India's struggle for independence, and it remains a symbol of British colonial oppression. So, statement I is true.
• Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, was deeply disturbed by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
• In protest against the atrocity, he renounced his knighthood, which had been awarded to him by the British government in 1915.
• Tagore wrote a letter to the Viceroy of India, Lord Chelmsford, expressing his outrage at the incident and his decision to renounce the knighthood. Thus, statement II is false.
• In the letter, he wrote: "The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part wish to stand, shorn of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so-called insignificance, are liable to suffer a degradation not fit for human beings."

Hence, we conclude that the correct answer is Statement (I) is true but (II) is false. 

High tide has no relation to tourism. Infact, high tides can prove to be dangerous for visitors. So, option (3) is the correct answer.

A maloca is an ancestral long house used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil. Each community has a maloca with its own unique characteristics. For many years, these long houses were Jesuit missionaries' objects of attack.

The National Curriculum Framework 2005 proposes that Geography should be taught to focus on the optimum extraction and utilisation of natural resources.

Children find themselves unable to relate what happens in the real world with what they read in the textbooks.
"The textbooks are full of constitutional, legal and procedural details presented in a dry and abstract manner. No wonder children experience a disconnect between the theory they read in the textbook and what they see in real life around them. This is perhaps what makes Civics 'boring' for young adults in a country otherwise full of passion for politics.''

Polar vortex, also called circumpolar vortex, polar low, or polar cyclone, is a large area of persistent low pressure generally located above each of Earth's polar regions and containing a mass of extremely cold air. The polar vortex over Antarctica and its adjacent seas is isolated from air outside the region by the polar-front jet stream in the southern hemisphere, which circulates between approximately 50° and 65° S over the Southern Ocean.

In a mixed economy, the means of production are shared between the Private and Public sectors. They are responsible for increasing production as well as for the generation of jobs.

The tabulation chart will be the most useful in teaching the topic, since the data will be arranged in a table, and will allow better learning for students.

Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy is a set of three hierarchical models that refers to the classification of educational learning objectives.

• In the taxonomy, Bloom identified three domains of learning which include cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. These three domains have been divided in a way that proceeds from the simplest process to the complex.
  • Cognitive: In this domain, only those objectives are included which are concerned with the intellectual abilities and skills of the learner.
  • Affective:  Only those objectives are included that are related to the domain of interests, attitudes, and values that bring out the desirable changes in the same.
  • Conative or psychomotor: It includes physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas​. The training of physical activities is the main objective of this domain.