CTET Solved Question Paper - 1 (01 Jan - 2022) | Child Development and Pedagogy for CTET Preparation - CTET & State TET PDF Download

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Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
1. Which of the following principle suggests that 
different body parts develop at different rates at 
various stages of development?
(1) Development is unidimensional.
(2) Development is unidirectional.
(3) Development is a discontinuous process.
(4) Direction of development is proximodistal and 
cephalocaudal.
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
(1) Children’s development takes place in a socio-
cultural context.
(2) Childhood is a period that can be divided into 10 
distinct stages.
(3) Children’s thinking is not influenced by social 
interactions.
(4) Children’s development is solely determined by 
genetics.
3. The process of predetermined unfolding of genetic 
dispositions is called—
(1) adaptation. (2) learning.
(3) socialization. (4) maturation.
4. ............... is a primary and ............... is a secondary 
agent of socialization.
(1) family, school
(2) media, family
(3) school, media
(4) media, neighbourhood
5. According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the 
primary basis for 7-8 year old children’s moral 
decision?
(1) Social order maintenance
(2) Social contract maintenance
(3) Punishment and obedience
(4) Universal Ethical Principal
6. Seriation in Jean’s Piaget’s theory refers to—
(1) the ability to order objects based on one 
dimension, for example ‘length’.
(2) the ability to take the perspective of others.
(3) a narrative form of thinking as used in story 
telling.
(4) the ability to spatially map places, like one’s 
school.
7. Naseema, a 5 year old is certain that rolling out a 
ball of clay into a snake creates more clay. According 
to Jean Piaget what is the reasoning behind her 
thinking?
(1) Animistic thinking
(2) Centration
(3) Hypothetic—deductive reasoning
(4) Transitive Inference
8. Lev Vygotsky offered a theory of cognitive 
development along the principal of—
(1) social constructivism. (2) behaviourism.
(3) psychoanalysis. (4) universalism.
9. Which of the following is the term used by Lev 
V ygotsky to describe child’s act of speaking to herself?
(1) Private speech (2) Talk aloud
(3) Scaffolding (4) Ego-centricism
10. Which of the following characterizes a progressive 
classroom?
(1) Focus on drill and practice
(2) Ability-based fixed segregation
(3) Collaborative Learning
(4) Use of rewards and punishment
11. A child has the ability to understand the intentions 
and desires of others. The child has:
(1) Spatial intelligence
(2) Interpersonal intelligence
(3) Intrapersonal intelligence
(4) Naturalistic intelligence
12. Which of the following statements is proposed in 
National Education Policy 2020?
(1) Being educated in one’s mother tongue is 
detrimental to educational and technological 
advancements.
(2) Schools should encourage children to learn and 
speak English as their first language.
(3) Multilingualism has great cognitive benefits for 
young students.
(4) Bilingual approach confuses students and 
hampers learning.
13. Gender roles are—
(1) learned behaviour.
(2) inmate behaviour.
(3) biological constructions.
(4) genetically determined.
14. The primary goal of continuous and comprehensive 
evaluation is—
(1) to compare students performance with one 
another.
(2) to assess children’s understanding and modify 
the curriculum and pedagogy for students.
(3) to assign ranks to students as per their 
performance.
(4) to declare students as ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ in particular 
subjects.
15. Before deciding an assessment method for her class, 
what all should the teacher keep in mind?
(i) Who is going to use the results beside me?
(ii) What is the best way to find out learning curves 
of individual students?
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Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
1. Which of the following principle suggests that 
different body parts develop at different rates at 
various stages of development?
(1) Development is unidimensional.
(2) Development is unidirectional.
(3) Development is a discontinuous process.
(4) Direction of development is proximodistal and 
cephalocaudal.
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
(1) Children’s development takes place in a socio-
cultural context.
(2) Childhood is a period that can be divided into 10 
distinct stages.
(3) Children’s thinking is not influenced by social 
interactions.
(4) Children’s development is solely determined by 
genetics.
3. The process of predetermined unfolding of genetic 
dispositions is called—
(1) adaptation. (2) learning.
(3) socialization. (4) maturation.
4. ............... is a primary and ............... is a secondary 
agent of socialization.
(1) family, school
(2) media, family
(3) school, media
(4) media, neighbourhood
5. According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the 
primary basis for 7-8 year old children’s moral 
decision?
(1) Social order maintenance
(2) Social contract maintenance
(3) Punishment and obedience
(4) Universal Ethical Principal
6. Seriation in Jean’s Piaget’s theory refers to—
(1) the ability to order objects based on one 
dimension, for example ‘length’.
(2) the ability to take the perspective of others.
(3) a narrative form of thinking as used in story 
telling.
(4) the ability to spatially map places, like one’s 
school.
7. Naseema, a 5 year old is certain that rolling out a 
ball of clay into a snake creates more clay. According 
to Jean Piaget what is the reasoning behind her 
thinking?
(1) Animistic thinking
(2) Centration
(3) Hypothetic—deductive reasoning
(4) Transitive Inference
8. Lev Vygotsky offered a theory of cognitive 
development along the principal of—
(1) social constructivism. (2) behaviourism.
(3) psychoanalysis. (4) universalism.
9. Which of the following is the term used by Lev 
V ygotsky to describe child’s act of speaking to herself?
(1) Private speech (2) Talk aloud
(3) Scaffolding (4) Ego-centricism
10. Which of the following characterizes a progressive 
classroom?
(1) Focus on drill and practice
(2) Ability-based fixed segregation
(3) Collaborative Learning
(4) Use of rewards and punishment
11. A child has the ability to understand the intentions 
and desires of others. The child has:
(1) Spatial intelligence
(2) Interpersonal intelligence
(3) Intrapersonal intelligence
(4) Naturalistic intelligence
12. Which of the following statements is proposed in 
National Education Policy 2020?
(1) Being educated in one’s mother tongue is 
detrimental to educational and technological 
advancements.
(2) Schools should encourage children to learn and 
speak English as their first language.
(3) Multilingualism has great cognitive benefits for 
young students.
(4) Bilingual approach confuses students and 
hampers learning.
13. Gender roles are—
(1) learned behaviour.
(2) inmate behaviour.
(3) biological constructions.
(4) genetically determined.
14. The primary goal of continuous and comprehensive 
evaluation is—
(1) to compare students performance with one 
another.
(2) to assess children’s understanding and modify 
the curriculum and pedagogy for students.
(3) to assign ranks to students as per their 
performance.
(4) to declare students as ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ in particular 
subjects.
15. Before deciding an assessment method for her class, 
what all should the teacher keep in mind?
(i) Who is going to use the results beside me?
(ii) What is the best way to find out learning curves 
of individual students?
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(iii) Which method would help me to reflect on my 
pedagogy?
(iv) Which method would help to label and 
segregate students?
(1) (i) (ii) (iii) (2) (i) (iv)
(3) (ii) (iii) (iv) (4) (i) (ii)
16. Inclusive education implies that
(1) EWS (Economically Weaker Section) quota be 
made available only in government schools.
(2) Students with disabilities should be placed in 
special schools only.
(3) Only English be taught in government schools.
(4) All children, irrespective of their abilities be 
provided quality education.
17. Assertion (A)—While teaching, a teacher should 
use a variety of ways to represent the context of 
teaching.
 Reason (R)—T eachers need to adapt their pedagogy 
to suit the diverse needs of learners.
 Choose the correct option.
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct 
explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct 
explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are false.
18. A child is facing regular difficulty in writing. She also 
experiences a challenge in formation of alphabets 
and spacing of words. These characteristics hints 
towards which of the following learning disability?
(1) Dyslexia
(2) Dysgraphia
(3) Dyscalculia
(4) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
19. To cater to individual differences among the 
students, a teacher should—
(1) use standardized instructional methods and uni-
form ways of assessment.
(2) use a variety of pedagogical approaches and 
mean of assessment.
(3) use uniform pedagogy to ensure memorization 
and focus on summative assessment.
(4) increase the number of paper-pencil tests and 
focus on recall.
20. Which of the following is an essential characteristic 
of creativity?
(1) Divergent thinking (2) Impulsiveness
(3) Centration in thought (4) Convergent thinking
21. Young children construct knowledge and make 
meanings through
(i) Active exploration
(ii) Play
(iii) Active on materials and experimenting
(iv) Interaction with peers and adults
(1) (i), (iii) (2) (i), (iii) , (iv)
(3) (i), (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
22. To help children memorise the phone numbers, 
a teacher suggested students to divide 10 digits 
of phone number into 3-4 smaller units and then 
remember. The strategy suggested by the teacher 
here is called—
(1) chunking. (2) encoding.
(3) assimilation. (4) adaptation.
23. Which of the following form of learning should be 
emphasised most in schools?
(1) Acquiring different skills and knowledge 
through interaction with surroundings
(2) Rate-memorizing the content
(3) Passive imitation of others
(4) Conditioning of behaviours through stimulus - 
response association
24. Which of the following set exemplify a social 
constructivist approach to facilitate reading among 
students?
(i) Salma uses flash cards to help students learn 
new words and rewards them with candy for 
correct responses.
(ii) Pramati has her students choose from a variety 
of books to read. Those students who read a 
particular book are made to discuss the book on 
a regular basis.
(iii) Arundhati emphasise the importance of using 
contextual material to help determine the 
meaning of new words.
(iv) Rekha has her students write each word they 
miss on a spelling test five times to help them 
remember the word.
(1) (i), (iv) (2) (i), (iii)
(3) (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii)
25. As a teacher how can you facilitate problem solving 
abilities in your students?
(1) Generating fear amongst your students.
(2) Encouraging a fixed way of solving problem.
(3) Encouraging use of analysis.
(4) Emphasising on use of passive memorisation 
strategies.
26. Which of the following will result in facilitation of 
meaningful learning?
(1) Promoting de-contextualised learning in the 
classroom.
(2) Encouraging multiple ways of working at a 
problem.
(3) Encouraging rote learning.
(4) Copying answers written by the teacher on the 
blackboard.
27. Students are likely to experience the emotion of 
............... when they attribute internal factors to 
explain their success at a task.
(1) shame (2) anger
(3) pride (4) anxiety
28. At primary level of education, use of multi- sensory 
approach should be encouraged because -
(1) it makes learning more effective.
(2) it gives opportunities to exclude certain children 
from education.
(3) it saves lot of instruction time of teacher.
(4) it yields to docility among children.
29. Children often form alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions about various concepts. Which of the 
following statement is NOT correct in this context?
(1) Alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
formed by students should be highly discouraged 
by the teacher.
(2) Formation of alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions is very natural among children 
as well as adults.
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Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
1. Which of the following principle suggests that 
different body parts develop at different rates at 
various stages of development?
(1) Development is unidimensional.
(2) Development is unidirectional.
(3) Development is a discontinuous process.
(4) Direction of development is proximodistal and 
cephalocaudal.
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
(1) Children’s development takes place in a socio-
cultural context.
(2) Childhood is a period that can be divided into 10 
distinct stages.
(3) Children’s thinking is not influenced by social 
interactions.
(4) Children’s development is solely determined by 
genetics.
3. The process of predetermined unfolding of genetic 
dispositions is called—
(1) adaptation. (2) learning.
(3) socialization. (4) maturation.
4. ............... is a primary and ............... is a secondary 
agent of socialization.
(1) family, school
(2) media, family
(3) school, media
(4) media, neighbourhood
5. According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the 
primary basis for 7-8 year old children’s moral 
decision?
(1) Social order maintenance
(2) Social contract maintenance
(3) Punishment and obedience
(4) Universal Ethical Principal
6. Seriation in Jean’s Piaget’s theory refers to—
(1) the ability to order objects based on one 
dimension, for example ‘length’.
(2) the ability to take the perspective of others.
(3) a narrative form of thinking as used in story 
telling.
(4) the ability to spatially map places, like one’s 
school.
7. Naseema, a 5 year old is certain that rolling out a 
ball of clay into a snake creates more clay. According 
to Jean Piaget what is the reasoning behind her 
thinking?
(1) Animistic thinking
(2) Centration
(3) Hypothetic—deductive reasoning
(4) Transitive Inference
8. Lev Vygotsky offered a theory of cognitive 
development along the principal of—
(1) social constructivism. (2) behaviourism.
(3) psychoanalysis. (4) universalism.
9. Which of the following is the term used by Lev 
V ygotsky to describe child’s act of speaking to herself?
(1) Private speech (2) Talk aloud
(3) Scaffolding (4) Ego-centricism
10. Which of the following characterizes a progressive 
classroom?
(1) Focus on drill and practice
(2) Ability-based fixed segregation
(3) Collaborative Learning
(4) Use of rewards and punishment
11. A child has the ability to understand the intentions 
and desires of others. The child has:
(1) Spatial intelligence
(2) Interpersonal intelligence
(3) Intrapersonal intelligence
(4) Naturalistic intelligence
12. Which of the following statements is proposed in 
National Education Policy 2020?
(1) Being educated in one’s mother tongue is 
detrimental to educational and technological 
advancements.
(2) Schools should encourage children to learn and 
speak English as their first language.
(3) Multilingualism has great cognitive benefits for 
young students.
(4) Bilingual approach confuses students and 
hampers learning.
13. Gender roles are—
(1) learned behaviour.
(2) inmate behaviour.
(3) biological constructions.
(4) genetically determined.
14. The primary goal of continuous and comprehensive 
evaluation is—
(1) to compare students performance with one 
another.
(2) to assess children’s understanding and modify 
the curriculum and pedagogy for students.
(3) to assign ranks to students as per their 
performance.
(4) to declare students as ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ in particular 
subjects.
15. Before deciding an assessment method for her class, 
what all should the teacher keep in mind?
(i) Who is going to use the results beside me?
(ii) What is the best way to find out learning curves 
of individual students?
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(iii) Which method would help me to reflect on my 
pedagogy?
(iv) Which method would help to label and 
segregate students?
(1) (i) (ii) (iii) (2) (i) (iv)
(3) (ii) (iii) (iv) (4) (i) (ii)
16. Inclusive education implies that
(1) EWS (Economically Weaker Section) quota be 
made available only in government schools.
(2) Students with disabilities should be placed in 
special schools only.
(3) Only English be taught in government schools.
(4) All children, irrespective of their abilities be 
provided quality education.
17. Assertion (A)—While teaching, a teacher should 
use a variety of ways to represent the context of 
teaching.
 Reason (R)—T eachers need to adapt their pedagogy 
to suit the diverse needs of learners.
 Choose the correct option.
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct 
explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct 
explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are false.
18. A child is facing regular difficulty in writing. She also 
experiences a challenge in formation of alphabets 
and spacing of words. These characteristics hints 
towards which of the following learning disability?
(1) Dyslexia
(2) Dysgraphia
(3) Dyscalculia
(4) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
19. To cater to individual differences among the 
students, a teacher should—
(1) use standardized instructional methods and uni-
form ways of assessment.
(2) use a variety of pedagogical approaches and 
mean of assessment.
(3) use uniform pedagogy to ensure memorization 
and focus on summative assessment.
(4) increase the number of paper-pencil tests and 
focus on recall.
20. Which of the following is an essential characteristic 
of creativity?
(1) Divergent thinking (2) Impulsiveness
(3) Centration in thought (4) Convergent thinking
21. Young children construct knowledge and make 
meanings through
(i) Active exploration
(ii) Play
(iii) Active on materials and experimenting
(iv) Interaction with peers and adults
(1) (i), (iii) (2) (i), (iii) , (iv)
(3) (i), (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
22. To help children memorise the phone numbers, 
a teacher suggested students to divide 10 digits 
of phone number into 3-4 smaller units and then 
remember. The strategy suggested by the teacher 
here is called—
(1) chunking. (2) encoding.
(3) assimilation. (4) adaptation.
23. Which of the following form of learning should be 
emphasised most in schools?
(1) Acquiring different skills and knowledge 
through interaction with surroundings
(2) Rate-memorizing the content
(3) Passive imitation of others
(4) Conditioning of behaviours through stimulus - 
response association
24. Which of the following set exemplify a social 
constructivist approach to facilitate reading among 
students?
(i) Salma uses flash cards to help students learn 
new words and rewards them with candy for 
correct responses.
(ii) Pramati has her students choose from a variety 
of books to read. Those students who read a 
particular book are made to discuss the book on 
a regular basis.
(iii) Arundhati emphasise the importance of using 
contextual material to help determine the 
meaning of new words.
(iv) Rekha has her students write each word they 
miss on a spelling test five times to help them 
remember the word.
(1) (i), (iv) (2) (i), (iii)
(3) (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii)
25. As a teacher how can you facilitate problem solving 
abilities in your students?
(1) Generating fear amongst your students.
(2) Encouraging a fixed way of solving problem.
(3) Encouraging use of analysis.
(4) Emphasising on use of passive memorisation 
strategies.
26. Which of the following will result in facilitation of 
meaningful learning?
(1) Promoting de-contextualised learning in the 
classroom.
(2) Encouraging multiple ways of working at a 
problem.
(3) Encouraging rote learning.
(4) Copying answers written by the teacher on the 
blackboard.
27. Students are likely to experience the emotion of 
............... when they attribute internal factors to 
explain their success at a task.
(1) shame (2) anger
(3) pride (4) anxiety
28. At primary level of education, use of multi- sensory 
approach should be encouraged because -
(1) it makes learning more effective.
(2) it gives opportunities to exclude certain children 
from education.
(3) it saves lot of instruction time of teacher.
(4) it yields to docility among children.
29. Children often form alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions about various concepts. Which of the 
following statement is NOT correct in this context?
(1) Alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
formed by students should be highly discouraged 
by the teacher.
(2) Formation of alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions is very natural among children 
as well as adults.
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(3) A teacher should definitely attend to these 
alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
as they are significant in process of teaching- 
learning.
(4) Alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
are not always baseless rather these represent 
children’s intuitive ideas about world around 
them.
30. ............... view of learning explains that tangible 
incentives and rewards motivate students for 
leaning.
(1) Humanistic (2) Behavioural
(3) Cognitive (4) Socio-Cultural
Mathematics
31. In a school there are 96 teachers, out of which
 
3
8
th teaches High school classes. If 
2
9
th of the High 
school teachers are Mathematics teachers, then the 
number of High school teachers who don’t teach 
Mathematics are:
(1) 36 (2) 30
(3) 28 (4) 60
32.
 
1
2
2
3
4
5







 
is:
(1)
 
13
30
 
(2)
 
3
10
(3)
 
39
30
 
(4)
 
19
30
33. What is the difference between the face value of the 
number 7 in the numbers 4782 and 32170.
(1) 630 (2) 712
(3) 0 (4) 770
34. Which of the following statements is not true for the 
set of whole numbers?
(1) a + b = b + a
(2) a – b = b – a
(3) a × b = b × a
(4) (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)
35. When asked to divide a number by 6, Rani has 
divided it by 9 and she got the quotient as 21 and 
remainder as 3. Realising her mistake, later she 
divided it by 6. What will be the quotient and 
remainder?
(1) Quotient—31, Remainder—0
(2) Quotient—31, Remainder—3
(3) Quotient—32, Remainder—3
(4) Quotient—32, Remainder—0
36. Which of the following is a pair of ‘like fractions’?
(1)
 
2
3
3
2
 and 
 
(2)
 
1
3
3
8
 and 
(3)
 
3
4
3
7
 and 
 
(4)
 
1
4
3
4
 and 
37. Which of the following numbers are not perfect 
cubes?
(1) 729 (2) 1000
(3) 333 (4) 216
38. Shikha went to a brick kiln to buy bricks. The rate of 
the bricks was 2500 rupees per one thousand bricks. 
How many bricks can she buy if she has only 4000 
rupees?
(1) 10000 (2) 1600
(3) 16000 (4) 4000
39. Mini told her teacher ‘I made a rectangle whose 
each side is 4 cm’. Which of the following statements 
is correct:
(1) A rectangle cannot have all sides equal
(2) All squares are rectangle
(3) All rectangles are square
(4) There is no link between a square and a rectangle
40. The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 4:5:6. What 
will be the measure of the angles of the triangle?
(1) 50°, 60°, 70° (2) 45°, 60°, 75°
(3) 48°, 60°, 72° (4) 52°, 60°, 68°
41. Ragini reaches the station at 2:00 in the afternoon. 
She has to take a train to Aligarh. There are four 
trains. T rain A, T rain B, T rain C, T rain D scheduled for 
departure at 17:05, 4:32, 18:30 and 19:15 respectively. 
Which train must she take so that she spends 
minimum amount of time waiting for the train?
(1) Train A (2) Train B
(3) Train C (4) Train D
42. Rita is a ward-member of her area; she wishes to 
create a community room of size 11 feet × 16 feet. 
T o lay tiles on the floor she has four options: 1.5 feet 
× 1.5 feet, 2 feet × 2 feet, 2.5 feet × 2.5 feet, 3 feet × 
3 feet.
 Which size of tile should she buy for the community 
room, so that she can lay the tiles without cutting?
(1) 1.5 feet × 1.5 feet (2) 2 feet × 2 feet
(3) 2.5 feet × 2.5 feet (4) 3 feet × 3 feet
43. Ms. Renu divided her students into groups of 8 each 
and asked them to record their weights. She further 
asked the groups to calculate the mean weight of 
their respective group. Group A (which consists of 8 
students) measured their weights and calculated the 
mean weight as 38.2 kg. Later on they realized that 
the weight of one of the students they recorded is 
incorrect. Instead of 25.9 kg, they recorded it as 29.5 
kg.
 What will be the correct mean for the group?
(1) 37.75 kg (2) 38.65 kg
(3) 37.2 kg (4) 38.9 kg
44. Observe the following pattern and select the next 
term:
 (9 – 1) ÷ 8 = 1
 (98 – 2) ÷ 8 = 12
 (987 – 3) ÷ 8 = 123
 (9876 – 4) ÷ 8 = 1234
(1) (98765 – 5) ÷ 8 = 123456
(2) (9876 – 4) ÷ 8 = 12345
(3) (98765 – 4) ÷ 8 = 12345
(4) (98765 – 5) ÷ 8 = 12345
45. Priyanshu has currency notes of `10 and `20. She 
uses 2 notes of `20 and 1 note of `10 to form `50. 
How many other combinations are possible to form 
the same amount using both the currency notes? 
You can ignore the spatial arrangements of the 
currency notes.
(1) 0 (2) 1
(3) 2 (4) 3
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Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
1. Which of the following principle suggests that 
different body parts develop at different rates at 
various stages of development?
(1) Development is unidimensional.
(2) Development is unidirectional.
(3) Development is a discontinuous process.
(4) Direction of development is proximodistal and 
cephalocaudal.
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
(1) Children’s development takes place in a socio-
cultural context.
(2) Childhood is a period that can be divided into 10 
distinct stages.
(3) Children’s thinking is not influenced by social 
interactions.
(4) Children’s development is solely determined by 
genetics.
3. The process of predetermined unfolding of genetic 
dispositions is called—
(1) adaptation. (2) learning.
(3) socialization. (4) maturation.
4. ............... is a primary and ............... is a secondary 
agent of socialization.
(1) family, school
(2) media, family
(3) school, media
(4) media, neighbourhood
5. According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the 
primary basis for 7-8 year old children’s moral 
decision?
(1) Social order maintenance
(2) Social contract maintenance
(3) Punishment and obedience
(4) Universal Ethical Principal
6. Seriation in Jean’s Piaget’s theory refers to—
(1) the ability to order objects based on one 
dimension, for example ‘length’.
(2) the ability to take the perspective of others.
(3) a narrative form of thinking as used in story 
telling.
(4) the ability to spatially map places, like one’s 
school.
7. Naseema, a 5 year old is certain that rolling out a 
ball of clay into a snake creates more clay. According 
to Jean Piaget what is the reasoning behind her 
thinking?
(1) Animistic thinking
(2) Centration
(3) Hypothetic—deductive reasoning
(4) Transitive Inference
8. Lev Vygotsky offered a theory of cognitive 
development along the principal of—
(1) social constructivism. (2) behaviourism.
(3) psychoanalysis. (4) universalism.
9. Which of the following is the term used by Lev 
V ygotsky to describe child’s act of speaking to herself?
(1) Private speech (2) Talk aloud
(3) Scaffolding (4) Ego-centricism
10. Which of the following characterizes a progressive 
classroom?
(1) Focus on drill and practice
(2) Ability-based fixed segregation
(3) Collaborative Learning
(4) Use of rewards and punishment
11. A child has the ability to understand the intentions 
and desires of others. The child has:
(1) Spatial intelligence
(2) Interpersonal intelligence
(3) Intrapersonal intelligence
(4) Naturalistic intelligence
12. Which of the following statements is proposed in 
National Education Policy 2020?
(1) Being educated in one’s mother tongue is 
detrimental to educational and technological 
advancements.
(2) Schools should encourage children to learn and 
speak English as their first language.
(3) Multilingualism has great cognitive benefits for 
young students.
(4) Bilingual approach confuses students and 
hampers learning.
13. Gender roles are—
(1) learned behaviour.
(2) inmate behaviour.
(3) biological constructions.
(4) genetically determined.
14. The primary goal of continuous and comprehensive 
evaluation is—
(1) to compare students performance with one 
another.
(2) to assess children’s understanding and modify 
the curriculum and pedagogy for students.
(3) to assign ranks to students as per their 
performance.
(4) to declare students as ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ in particular 
subjects.
15. Before deciding an assessment method for her class, 
what all should the teacher keep in mind?
(i) Who is going to use the results beside me?
(ii) What is the best way to find out learning curves 
of individual students?
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(iii) Which method would help me to reflect on my 
pedagogy?
(iv) Which method would help to label and 
segregate students?
(1) (i) (ii) (iii) (2) (i) (iv)
(3) (ii) (iii) (iv) (4) (i) (ii)
16. Inclusive education implies that
(1) EWS (Economically Weaker Section) quota be 
made available only in government schools.
(2) Students with disabilities should be placed in 
special schools only.
(3) Only English be taught in government schools.
(4) All children, irrespective of their abilities be 
provided quality education.
17. Assertion (A)—While teaching, a teacher should 
use a variety of ways to represent the context of 
teaching.
 Reason (R)—T eachers need to adapt their pedagogy 
to suit the diverse needs of learners.
 Choose the correct option.
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct 
explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct 
explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are false.
18. A child is facing regular difficulty in writing. She also 
experiences a challenge in formation of alphabets 
and spacing of words. These characteristics hints 
towards which of the following learning disability?
(1) Dyslexia
(2) Dysgraphia
(3) Dyscalculia
(4) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
19. To cater to individual differences among the 
students, a teacher should—
(1) use standardized instructional methods and uni-
form ways of assessment.
(2) use a variety of pedagogical approaches and 
mean of assessment.
(3) use uniform pedagogy to ensure memorization 
and focus on summative assessment.
(4) increase the number of paper-pencil tests and 
focus on recall.
20. Which of the following is an essential characteristic 
of creativity?
(1) Divergent thinking (2) Impulsiveness
(3) Centration in thought (4) Convergent thinking
21. Young children construct knowledge and make 
meanings through
(i) Active exploration
(ii) Play
(iii) Active on materials and experimenting
(iv) Interaction with peers and adults
(1) (i), (iii) (2) (i), (iii) , (iv)
(3) (i), (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
22. To help children memorise the phone numbers, 
a teacher suggested students to divide 10 digits 
of phone number into 3-4 smaller units and then 
remember. The strategy suggested by the teacher 
here is called—
(1) chunking. (2) encoding.
(3) assimilation. (4) adaptation.
23. Which of the following form of learning should be 
emphasised most in schools?
(1) Acquiring different skills and knowledge 
through interaction with surroundings
(2) Rate-memorizing the content
(3) Passive imitation of others
(4) Conditioning of behaviours through stimulus - 
response association
24. Which of the following set exemplify a social 
constructivist approach to facilitate reading among 
students?
(i) Salma uses flash cards to help students learn 
new words and rewards them with candy for 
correct responses.
(ii) Pramati has her students choose from a variety 
of books to read. Those students who read a 
particular book are made to discuss the book on 
a regular basis.
(iii) Arundhati emphasise the importance of using 
contextual material to help determine the 
meaning of new words.
(iv) Rekha has her students write each word they 
miss on a spelling test five times to help them 
remember the word.
(1) (i), (iv) (2) (i), (iii)
(3) (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii)
25. As a teacher how can you facilitate problem solving 
abilities in your students?
(1) Generating fear amongst your students.
(2) Encouraging a fixed way of solving problem.
(3) Encouraging use of analysis.
(4) Emphasising on use of passive memorisation 
strategies.
26. Which of the following will result in facilitation of 
meaningful learning?
(1) Promoting de-contextualised learning in the 
classroom.
(2) Encouraging multiple ways of working at a 
problem.
(3) Encouraging rote learning.
(4) Copying answers written by the teacher on the 
blackboard.
27. Students are likely to experience the emotion of 
............... when they attribute internal factors to 
explain their success at a task.
(1) shame (2) anger
(3) pride (4) anxiety
28. At primary level of education, use of multi- sensory 
approach should be encouraged because -
(1) it makes learning more effective.
(2) it gives opportunities to exclude certain children 
from education.
(3) it saves lot of instruction time of teacher.
(4) it yields to docility among children.
29. Children often form alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions about various concepts. Which of the 
following statement is NOT correct in this context?
(1) Alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
formed by students should be highly discouraged 
by the teacher.
(2) Formation of alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions is very natural among children 
as well as adults.
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(3) A teacher should definitely attend to these 
alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
as they are significant in process of teaching- 
learning.
(4) Alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
are not always baseless rather these represent 
children’s intuitive ideas about world around 
them.
30. ............... view of learning explains that tangible 
incentives and rewards motivate students for 
leaning.
(1) Humanistic (2) Behavioural
(3) Cognitive (4) Socio-Cultural
Mathematics
31. In a school there are 96 teachers, out of which
 
3
8
th teaches High school classes. If 
2
9
th of the High 
school teachers are Mathematics teachers, then the 
number of High school teachers who don’t teach 
Mathematics are:
(1) 36 (2) 30
(3) 28 (4) 60
32.
 
1
2
2
3
4
5







 
is:
(1)
 
13
30
 
(2)
 
3
10
(3)
 
39
30
 
(4)
 
19
30
33. What is the difference between the face value of the 
number 7 in the numbers 4782 and 32170.
(1) 630 (2) 712
(3) 0 (4) 770
34. Which of the following statements is not true for the 
set of whole numbers?
(1) a + b = b + a
(2) a – b = b – a
(3) a × b = b × a
(4) (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)
35. When asked to divide a number by 6, Rani has 
divided it by 9 and she got the quotient as 21 and 
remainder as 3. Realising her mistake, later she 
divided it by 6. What will be the quotient and 
remainder?
(1) Quotient—31, Remainder—0
(2) Quotient—31, Remainder—3
(3) Quotient—32, Remainder—3
(4) Quotient—32, Remainder—0
36. Which of the following is a pair of ‘like fractions’?
(1)
 
2
3
3
2
 and 
 
(2)
 
1
3
3
8
 and 
(3)
 
3
4
3
7
 and 
 
(4)
 
1
4
3
4
 and 
37. Which of the following numbers are not perfect 
cubes?
(1) 729 (2) 1000
(3) 333 (4) 216
38. Shikha went to a brick kiln to buy bricks. The rate of 
the bricks was 2500 rupees per one thousand bricks. 
How many bricks can she buy if she has only 4000 
rupees?
(1) 10000 (2) 1600
(3) 16000 (4) 4000
39. Mini told her teacher ‘I made a rectangle whose 
each side is 4 cm’. Which of the following statements 
is correct:
(1) A rectangle cannot have all sides equal
(2) All squares are rectangle
(3) All rectangles are square
(4) There is no link between a square and a rectangle
40. The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 4:5:6. What 
will be the measure of the angles of the triangle?
(1) 50°, 60°, 70° (2) 45°, 60°, 75°
(3) 48°, 60°, 72° (4) 52°, 60°, 68°
41. Ragini reaches the station at 2:00 in the afternoon. 
She has to take a train to Aligarh. There are four 
trains. T rain A, T rain B, T rain C, T rain D scheduled for 
departure at 17:05, 4:32, 18:30 and 19:15 respectively. 
Which train must she take so that she spends 
minimum amount of time waiting for the train?
(1) Train A (2) Train B
(3) Train C (4) Train D
42. Rita is a ward-member of her area; she wishes to 
create a community room of size 11 feet × 16 feet. 
T o lay tiles on the floor she has four options: 1.5 feet 
× 1.5 feet, 2 feet × 2 feet, 2.5 feet × 2.5 feet, 3 feet × 
3 feet.
 Which size of tile should she buy for the community 
room, so that she can lay the tiles without cutting?
(1) 1.5 feet × 1.5 feet (2) 2 feet × 2 feet
(3) 2.5 feet × 2.5 feet (4) 3 feet × 3 feet
43. Ms. Renu divided her students into groups of 8 each 
and asked them to record their weights. She further 
asked the groups to calculate the mean weight of 
their respective group. Group A (which consists of 8 
students) measured their weights and calculated the 
mean weight as 38.2 kg. Later on they realized that 
the weight of one of the students they recorded is 
incorrect. Instead of 25.9 kg, they recorded it as 29.5 
kg.
 What will be the correct mean for the group?
(1) 37.75 kg (2) 38.65 kg
(3) 37.2 kg (4) 38.9 kg
44. Observe the following pattern and select the next 
term:
 (9 – 1) ÷ 8 = 1
 (98 – 2) ÷ 8 = 12
 (987 – 3) ÷ 8 = 123
 (9876 – 4) ÷ 8 = 1234
(1) (98765 – 5) ÷ 8 = 123456
(2) (9876 – 4) ÷ 8 = 12345
(3) (98765 – 4) ÷ 8 = 12345
(4) (98765 – 5) ÷ 8 = 12345
45. Priyanshu has currency notes of `10 and `20. She 
uses 2 notes of `20 and 1 note of `10 to form `50. 
How many other combinations are possible to form 
the same amount using both the currency notes? 
You can ignore the spatial arrangements of the 
currency notes.
(1) 0 (2) 1
(3) 2 (4) 3
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46. Following are four questions posed by a mathematics 
teacher. Which of the following is an open-ended 
question?
(1) If sum of two numbers is 15 and one of them is 
7, what will be the other number?
(2) If the age of Anil is 7 years and his father’s age 
is 5 times more than that of Anil’s age. What will 
be the age of his father?
(3) If sum of two numbers is 17, then what are the 
numbers?
(4) What should be added to 17 to get 23?
47. A teacher uses the following riddle in the class while 
developing the concept of place value ‘I am less than 
5 tens and 4 ones’. The objective of this riddle is to
(1) Do a summative assessment.
(2) Break the monotony of a mathematics class.
(3) Ask close ended questions on place value.
(4) Reinforce the concept of base 10 and place value.
48. Which among the following is/are the objective/
objectives of teaching ‘shapes’ at Primary class?
(a) To develop visualisation skill
(b) To memorise the names of geometrical shapes
(c) To enhance spatial reasoning ability
(1) (a) and (b) (2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (c) (4) Only (b)
49. Which of the following teaching-learning resources 
in mathematics can be used for visually challenged 
students?
(a) Geoboard (b) Geogebra
(c) Abacus (d) Graphic calculator
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (d) (2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d) (4) (a), (b) and (d)
50. While teaching ‘geometrical shapes’ a teacher thinks 
of planning a trip to historical places. It reflects:
(1) Field trips have been recommended by CBSE, so 
they must be done
(2) A good break from routine mathematics class 
and an opportunity to visit the historical places.
(3) Shapes are an integral part of any architecture 
and such trips encourage mathematics beyond 
classroom.
(4) T eachers has completed most of the syllabus well 
in time and now needs to provide leisure.
51. A primary class mathematics teacher poses the 
following question to his students:
 “Reena and Shama went to a shop to buy a bag. 
There were many bags with different price tags. 
They got confused by looking at so many price 
tags. Can you help them by arranging the price tags 
either in ascending or descending order'?
 Bag-A ? `4732,
 Bag-B ? `2364,
 Bag-C ? `1934,
 Bag-D ? `3475,
 Bag-E ? `2937,
 Bag-F ? `3004.
 In the given context, which of the following 
statements is true?
(1) Only the concepts of ascending and descending 
order can be strengthened using the question.
(2) The teacher can use the question to go beyond 
comparison of numbers and introduced the 
concept of data handling and sorting of data.
(3) It is not a mathematical question as it does not 
involve basic operations on numbers.
(4) The teacher should avoid bringing contextual 
questions into the classroom.
52. According to National Curriculum Framework 2005, 
which of the following represents the vision of a 
mathematics classroom?
(1) Students memorizing the formulae
(2) Teacher as the only narrator in the class
(3) Students copying solved examples from the 
textbook
(4) Children posing and solving meaningful 
problems in the classroom.
53. Which of the following statements is true for 
‘Anecdotal Records’ as an assessment tool in 
mathematics?
(1) It includes the project and field work done by 
the child
(2) It is used to record and judge the quality of a 
child’s work against a specified criteria
(3) It records the presence or absence of a particular 
skill or process
(4) It includes written description of a child’s 
progress on a day to day basis and provides 
observational narrative records.
54. A class III teacher introduces the multiplication in 
her class using repeated addition and rectangular 
arrays. She is
(1) Introducing multiplication through informal 
strategies by utilising the previous knowledge 
and experiences of students.
(2) Teaching multiple formal algorithms of 
multiplication.
(3) Wasting a lot of time and should focus on 
teaching formal algorithm only.
(4) Finding leisure time for herself by keeping the 
students engaged.
55. A child is counting the number of balls by putting 
a finger on the balls one by one and saying number 
names in order. She has counted some balls twice. 
Which pre number concept is yet to be strengthened 
in the child?
(1) One-to-one correspondence
(2) Seriation
(3) Classification
(4) Cardinality
56. Misconceptions in mathematics can be removed by
(1) Engaging children with examples and non-
examples
(2) Framing similar questions and repeating them 
many times
(3) Lot of practice and drill of questions
(4) Demonstrating the algorithm again
57. Ms. Romi in her mathematics class asks her students 
to create appropriate situations for following 
computations:
(i) 10+2 (ii) 10×2
(iii) 10–2 (iv) 10 ÷2
 Which of the following statements is correct about 
the pedagogy used by Ms. Romi? 
(1) She is testing the problem solving skills of 
student by giving mixed set of problems
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Child Development and Pedagogy
1. Which of the following principle suggests that 
different body parts develop at different rates at 
various stages of development?
(1) Development is unidimensional.
(2) Development is unidirectional.
(3) Development is a discontinuous process.
(4) Direction of development is proximodistal and 
cephalocaudal.
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
(1) Children’s development takes place in a socio-
cultural context.
(2) Childhood is a period that can be divided into 10 
distinct stages.
(3) Children’s thinking is not influenced by social 
interactions.
(4) Children’s development is solely determined by 
genetics.
3. The process of predetermined unfolding of genetic 
dispositions is called—
(1) adaptation. (2) learning.
(3) socialization. (4) maturation.
4. ............... is a primary and ............... is a secondary 
agent of socialization.
(1) family, school
(2) media, family
(3) school, media
(4) media, neighbourhood
5. According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the 
primary basis for 7-8 year old children’s moral 
decision?
(1) Social order maintenance
(2) Social contract maintenance
(3) Punishment and obedience
(4) Universal Ethical Principal
6. Seriation in Jean’s Piaget’s theory refers to—
(1) the ability to order objects based on one 
dimension, for example ‘length’.
(2) the ability to take the perspective of others.
(3) a narrative form of thinking as used in story 
telling.
(4) the ability to spatially map places, like one’s 
school.
7. Naseema, a 5 year old is certain that rolling out a 
ball of clay into a snake creates more clay. According 
to Jean Piaget what is the reasoning behind her 
thinking?
(1) Animistic thinking
(2) Centration
(3) Hypothetic—deductive reasoning
(4) Transitive Inference
8. Lev Vygotsky offered a theory of cognitive 
development along the principal of—
(1) social constructivism. (2) behaviourism.
(3) psychoanalysis. (4) universalism.
9. Which of the following is the term used by Lev 
V ygotsky to describe child’s act of speaking to herself?
(1) Private speech (2) Talk aloud
(3) Scaffolding (4) Ego-centricism
10. Which of the following characterizes a progressive 
classroom?
(1) Focus on drill and practice
(2) Ability-based fixed segregation
(3) Collaborative Learning
(4) Use of rewards and punishment
11. A child has the ability to understand the intentions 
and desires of others. The child has:
(1) Spatial intelligence
(2) Interpersonal intelligence
(3) Intrapersonal intelligence
(4) Naturalistic intelligence
12. Which of the following statements is proposed in 
National Education Policy 2020?
(1) Being educated in one’s mother tongue is 
detrimental to educational and technological 
advancements.
(2) Schools should encourage children to learn and 
speak English as their first language.
(3) Multilingualism has great cognitive benefits for 
young students.
(4) Bilingual approach confuses students and 
hampers learning.
13. Gender roles are—
(1) learned behaviour.
(2) inmate behaviour.
(3) biological constructions.
(4) genetically determined.
14. The primary goal of continuous and comprehensive 
evaluation is—
(1) to compare students performance with one 
another.
(2) to assess children’s understanding and modify 
the curriculum and pedagogy for students.
(3) to assign ranks to students as per their 
performance.
(4) to declare students as ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ in particular 
subjects.
15. Before deciding an assessment method for her class, 
what all should the teacher keep in mind?
(i) Who is going to use the results beside me?
(ii) What is the best way to find out learning curves 
of individual students?
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(iii) Which method would help me to reflect on my 
pedagogy?
(iv) Which method would help to label and 
segregate students?
(1) (i) (ii) (iii) (2) (i) (iv)
(3) (ii) (iii) (iv) (4) (i) (ii)
16. Inclusive education implies that
(1) EWS (Economically Weaker Section) quota be 
made available only in government schools.
(2) Students with disabilities should be placed in 
special schools only.
(3) Only English be taught in government schools.
(4) All children, irrespective of their abilities be 
provided quality education.
17. Assertion (A)—While teaching, a teacher should 
use a variety of ways to represent the context of 
teaching.
 Reason (R)—T eachers need to adapt their pedagogy 
to suit the diverse needs of learners.
 Choose the correct option.
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct 
explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct 
explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(4) Both (A) and (R) are false.
18. A child is facing regular difficulty in writing. She also 
experiences a challenge in formation of alphabets 
and spacing of words. These characteristics hints 
towards which of the following learning disability?
(1) Dyslexia
(2) Dysgraphia
(3) Dyscalculia
(4) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
19. To cater to individual differences among the 
students, a teacher should—
(1) use standardized instructional methods and uni-
form ways of assessment.
(2) use a variety of pedagogical approaches and 
mean of assessment.
(3) use uniform pedagogy to ensure memorization 
and focus on summative assessment.
(4) increase the number of paper-pencil tests and 
focus on recall.
20. Which of the following is an essential characteristic 
of creativity?
(1) Divergent thinking (2) Impulsiveness
(3) Centration in thought (4) Convergent thinking
21. Young children construct knowledge and make 
meanings through
(i) Active exploration
(ii) Play
(iii) Active on materials and experimenting
(iv) Interaction with peers and adults
(1) (i), (iii) (2) (i), (iii) , (iv)
(3) (i), (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
22. To help children memorise the phone numbers, 
a teacher suggested students to divide 10 digits 
of phone number into 3-4 smaller units and then 
remember. The strategy suggested by the teacher 
here is called—
(1) chunking. (2) encoding.
(3) assimilation. (4) adaptation.
23. Which of the following form of learning should be 
emphasised most in schools?
(1) Acquiring different skills and knowledge 
through interaction with surroundings
(2) Rate-memorizing the content
(3) Passive imitation of others
(4) Conditioning of behaviours through stimulus - 
response association
24. Which of the following set exemplify a social 
constructivist approach to facilitate reading among 
students?
(i) Salma uses flash cards to help students learn 
new words and rewards them with candy for 
correct responses.
(ii) Pramati has her students choose from a variety 
of books to read. Those students who read a 
particular book are made to discuss the book on 
a regular basis.
(iii) Arundhati emphasise the importance of using 
contextual material to help determine the 
meaning of new words.
(iv) Rekha has her students write each word they 
miss on a spelling test five times to help them 
remember the word.
(1) (i), (iv) (2) (i), (iii)
(3) (ii), (iii) (4) (i), (ii)
25. As a teacher how can you facilitate problem solving 
abilities in your students?
(1) Generating fear amongst your students.
(2) Encouraging a fixed way of solving problem.
(3) Encouraging use of analysis.
(4) Emphasising on use of passive memorisation 
strategies.
26. Which of the following will result in facilitation of 
meaningful learning?
(1) Promoting de-contextualised learning in the 
classroom.
(2) Encouraging multiple ways of working at a 
problem.
(3) Encouraging rote learning.
(4) Copying answers written by the teacher on the 
blackboard.
27. Students are likely to experience the emotion of 
............... when they attribute internal factors to 
explain their success at a task.
(1) shame (2) anger
(3) pride (4) anxiety
28. At primary level of education, use of multi- sensory 
approach should be encouraged because -
(1) it makes learning more effective.
(2) it gives opportunities to exclude certain children 
from education.
(3) it saves lot of instruction time of teacher.
(4) it yields to docility among children.
29. Children often form alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions about various concepts. Which of the 
following statement is NOT correct in this context?
(1) Alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
formed by students should be highly discouraged 
by the teacher.
(2) Formation of alternative conceptions and 
misconceptions is very natural among children 
as well as adults.
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(3) A teacher should definitely attend to these 
alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
as they are significant in process of teaching- 
learning.
(4) Alternative conceptions and misconceptions 
are not always baseless rather these represent 
children’s intuitive ideas about world around 
them.
30. ............... view of learning explains that tangible 
incentives and rewards motivate students for 
leaning.
(1) Humanistic (2) Behavioural
(3) Cognitive (4) Socio-Cultural
Mathematics
31. In a school there are 96 teachers, out of which
 
3
8
th teaches High school classes. If 
2
9
th of the High 
school teachers are Mathematics teachers, then the 
number of High school teachers who don’t teach 
Mathematics are:
(1) 36 (2) 30
(3) 28 (4) 60
32.
 
1
2
2
3
4
5







 
is:
(1)
 
13
30
 
(2)
 
3
10
(3)
 
39
30
 
(4)
 
19
30
33. What is the difference between the face value of the 
number 7 in the numbers 4782 and 32170.
(1) 630 (2) 712
(3) 0 (4) 770
34. Which of the following statements is not true for the 
set of whole numbers?
(1) a + b = b + a
(2) a – b = b – a
(3) a × b = b × a
(4) (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)
35. When asked to divide a number by 6, Rani has 
divided it by 9 and she got the quotient as 21 and 
remainder as 3. Realising her mistake, later she 
divided it by 6. What will be the quotient and 
remainder?
(1) Quotient—31, Remainder—0
(2) Quotient—31, Remainder—3
(3) Quotient—32, Remainder—3
(4) Quotient—32, Remainder—0
36. Which of the following is a pair of ‘like fractions’?
(1)
 
2
3
3
2
 and 
 
(2)
 
1
3
3
8
 and 
(3)
 
3
4
3
7
 and 
 
(4)
 
1
4
3
4
 and 
37. Which of the following numbers are not perfect 
cubes?
(1) 729 (2) 1000
(3) 333 (4) 216
38. Shikha went to a brick kiln to buy bricks. The rate of 
the bricks was 2500 rupees per one thousand bricks. 
How many bricks can she buy if she has only 4000 
rupees?
(1) 10000 (2) 1600
(3) 16000 (4) 4000
39. Mini told her teacher ‘I made a rectangle whose 
each side is 4 cm’. Which of the following statements 
is correct:
(1) A rectangle cannot have all sides equal
(2) All squares are rectangle
(3) All rectangles are square
(4) There is no link between a square and a rectangle
40. The angles of a triangle are in the ratio 4:5:6. What 
will be the measure of the angles of the triangle?
(1) 50°, 60°, 70° (2) 45°, 60°, 75°
(3) 48°, 60°, 72° (4) 52°, 60°, 68°
41. Ragini reaches the station at 2:00 in the afternoon. 
She has to take a train to Aligarh. There are four 
trains. T rain A, T rain B, T rain C, T rain D scheduled for 
departure at 17:05, 4:32, 18:30 and 19:15 respectively. 
Which train must she take so that she spends 
minimum amount of time waiting for the train?
(1) Train A (2) Train B
(3) Train C (4) Train D
42. Rita is a ward-member of her area; she wishes to 
create a community room of size 11 feet × 16 feet. 
T o lay tiles on the floor she has four options: 1.5 feet 
× 1.5 feet, 2 feet × 2 feet, 2.5 feet × 2.5 feet, 3 feet × 
3 feet.
 Which size of tile should she buy for the community 
room, so that she can lay the tiles without cutting?
(1) 1.5 feet × 1.5 feet (2) 2 feet × 2 feet
(3) 2.5 feet × 2.5 feet (4) 3 feet × 3 feet
43. Ms. Renu divided her students into groups of 8 each 
and asked them to record their weights. She further 
asked the groups to calculate the mean weight of 
their respective group. Group A (which consists of 8 
students) measured their weights and calculated the 
mean weight as 38.2 kg. Later on they realized that 
the weight of one of the students they recorded is 
incorrect. Instead of 25.9 kg, they recorded it as 29.5 
kg.
 What will be the correct mean for the group?
(1) 37.75 kg (2) 38.65 kg
(3) 37.2 kg (4) 38.9 kg
44. Observe the following pattern and select the next 
term:
 (9 – 1) ÷ 8 = 1
 (98 – 2) ÷ 8 = 12
 (987 – 3) ÷ 8 = 123
 (9876 – 4) ÷ 8 = 1234
(1) (98765 – 5) ÷ 8 = 123456
(2) (9876 – 4) ÷ 8 = 12345
(3) (98765 – 4) ÷ 8 = 12345
(4) (98765 – 5) ÷ 8 = 12345
45. Priyanshu has currency notes of `10 and `20. She 
uses 2 notes of `20 and 1 note of `10 to form `50. 
How many other combinations are possible to form 
the same amount using both the currency notes? 
You can ignore the spatial arrangements of the 
currency notes.
(1) 0 (2) 1
(3) 2 (4) 3
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46. Following are four questions posed by a mathematics 
teacher. Which of the following is an open-ended 
question?
(1) If sum of two numbers is 15 and one of them is 
7, what will be the other number?
(2) If the age of Anil is 7 years and his father’s age 
is 5 times more than that of Anil’s age. What will 
be the age of his father?
(3) If sum of two numbers is 17, then what are the 
numbers?
(4) What should be added to 17 to get 23?
47. A teacher uses the following riddle in the class while 
developing the concept of place value ‘I am less than 
5 tens and 4 ones’. The objective of this riddle is to
(1) Do a summative assessment.
(2) Break the monotony of a mathematics class.
(3) Ask close ended questions on place value.
(4) Reinforce the concept of base 10 and place value.
48. Which among the following is/are the objective/
objectives of teaching ‘shapes’ at Primary class?
(a) To develop visualisation skill
(b) To memorise the names of geometrical shapes
(c) To enhance spatial reasoning ability
(1) (a) and (b) (2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (c) (4) Only (b)
49. Which of the following teaching-learning resources 
in mathematics can be used for visually challenged 
students?
(a) Geoboard (b) Geogebra
(c) Abacus (d) Graphic calculator
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (d) (2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d) (4) (a), (b) and (d)
50. While teaching ‘geometrical shapes’ a teacher thinks 
of planning a trip to historical places. It reflects:
(1) Field trips have been recommended by CBSE, so 
they must be done
(2) A good break from routine mathematics class 
and an opportunity to visit the historical places.
(3) Shapes are an integral part of any architecture 
and such trips encourage mathematics beyond 
classroom.
(4) T eachers has completed most of the syllabus well 
in time and now needs to provide leisure.
51. A primary class mathematics teacher poses the 
following question to his students:
 “Reena and Shama went to a shop to buy a bag. 
There were many bags with different price tags. 
They got confused by looking at so many price 
tags. Can you help them by arranging the price tags 
either in ascending or descending order'?
 Bag-A ? `4732,
 Bag-B ? `2364,
 Bag-C ? `1934,
 Bag-D ? `3475,
 Bag-E ? `2937,
 Bag-F ? `3004.
 In the given context, which of the following 
statements is true?
(1) Only the concepts of ascending and descending 
order can be strengthened using the question.
(2) The teacher can use the question to go beyond 
comparison of numbers and introduced the 
concept of data handling and sorting of data.
(3) It is not a mathematical question as it does not 
involve basic operations on numbers.
(4) The teacher should avoid bringing contextual 
questions into the classroom.
52. According to National Curriculum Framework 2005, 
which of the following represents the vision of a 
mathematics classroom?
(1) Students memorizing the formulae
(2) Teacher as the only narrator in the class
(3) Students copying solved examples from the 
textbook
(4) Children posing and solving meaningful 
problems in the classroom.
53. Which of the following statements is true for 
‘Anecdotal Records’ as an assessment tool in 
mathematics?
(1) It includes the project and field work done by 
the child
(2) It is used to record and judge the quality of a 
child’s work against a specified criteria
(3) It records the presence or absence of a particular 
skill or process
(4) It includes written description of a child’s 
progress on a day to day basis and provides 
observational narrative records.
54. A class III teacher introduces the multiplication in 
her class using repeated addition and rectangular 
arrays. She is
(1) Introducing multiplication through informal 
strategies by utilising the previous knowledge 
and experiences of students.
(2) Teaching multiple formal algorithms of 
multiplication.
(3) Wasting a lot of time and should focus on 
teaching formal algorithm only.
(4) Finding leisure time for herself by keeping the 
students engaged.
55. A child is counting the number of balls by putting 
a finger on the balls one by one and saying number 
names in order. She has counted some balls twice. 
Which pre number concept is yet to be strengthened 
in the child?
(1) One-to-one correspondence
(2) Seriation
(3) Classification
(4) Cardinality
56. Misconceptions in mathematics can be removed by
(1) Engaging children with examples and non-
examples
(2) Framing similar questions and repeating them 
many times
(3) Lot of practice and drill of questions
(4) Demonstrating the algorithm again
57. Ms. Romi in her mathematics class asks her students 
to create appropriate situations for following 
computations:
(i) 10+2 (ii) 10×2
(iii) 10–2 (iv) 10 ÷2
 Which of the following statements is correct about 
the pedagogy used by Ms. Romi? 
(1) She is testing the problem solving skills of 
student by giving mixed set of problems
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(2) She is testing the language proficiency of 
students
(3) She is trying to help students to develop 
mathematical statements and problem solving 
skills
(4) She is trying to maintain discipline in her class 
by giving some task to the students.
58. Which of the following statements are indicative of 
higher aims of teaching mathematics?
(a) Mathematics education should turn out 
employable adults who contribute to economic 
and social development.
(b) Mathematics education should develop child’s 
inner resources like abstract thinking and 
drawing logical conclusions.
(c) Children should see mathematics as a way of life 
like communicating, discussing and developing 
attitude for problem solving.
(d) Mathematics education should focus on factual 
knowledge and procedural fluency.
(1) (a) and (c) (2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d) (4) (b) and (d)
59. According to Newman, there are five levels to be 
undertaken before a student is able to solve a word 
problem. They are listed below in a random order.
(a) Comprehend what the task is asking.
(b) Must be able to read the question.
(c) Undertake the necessary mathematical opera-
tions.
(d) Need to translate the problems into mathematical 
demands.
(e) Represent the answer as a meaningful construct.
 Which of the following represents the correct order 
of levels?
(1) (b), (a), (c), (d), (e) (2) (b), (d), (a), (c), (e)
(3) (a), (b), (e), (c), (d) (4) (b), (a), (d), (c), (e)
60. Which of the following is NOT desirable for the 
professional development of mathematics teachers?
(1) Attending workshops and seminars on 
mathematics
(2) Developing teaching-learning resources
(3) Minimum interaction with other mathematics 
teachers working in same school or in 
neighbourhood schools.
(4) Participating in faculty development 
programmes.
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61. The distance between T rivandrum and Gandhidham 
is 2268 kilometers. If a train covers this distance in 
42 hours, the average speed of the train in between 
the railway stations of these two cities in metre per 
second is.
(1) 54 (2) 30
(3) 27 (4) 15
62. A student is at A and wants to reach at B. For this 
he first goes to O which is 150 m due north of A 
and then he goes from O to B is 80 m. By covering 
a distance of A from B and the direction of A with 
respect to B are respectively.
(1) 130 m; South-west (2) 130 m; South-east
(3) 170 m; South-east (4) 170 m; South-west
63. Select true statement about sloths from the 
following?
(1) Sloths look like bear and spend almost 22 hour 
a day sleeping while hanging upside down on a 
tree branch.
(2) Sloths look like chimpanzee and spend almost 
17 hours a day sleeping while hanging on a tree 
branch.
(3) Sloths look like chimpanzee and spend almost 
22 hours a day sleeping while hanging upside 
down on a tree branch.
(4) Sloths look like bear and spend almost 17 hours 
a day sleeping while hanging upside down on a 
tree branch.
64. When you pour milk through a piece of cloth, cream 
remains on it. The method of separation here is—
(1) Filtration (2) Sieving
(3) Sedimentation (4) Decantation
65. On the map of Galconda Fort given in the class V 
textbook, 1cm distance is equal to a distance of 110 
metres on the ground. On this map the distance 
between Fateh Darwaja and Jamali Darwaja is 10.7 
cm. On the ground, the minimum distance between 
the two would be.
(1) 1.070 km (2) 1.177 km
(3) 10.70 km (4) 11.77 km
66. A group of three states having Bay of Bengal on one 
side is—
(1) Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu
(2) Odisha, Kerala, Tamil Nadu
(3) Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
(4) Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
67. Suppose you are in Madhya Pradesh. With respect 
to this state the direction of our country’s thickest 
forest is.
(1) Due North (2) North-East
(3) North-West (4) South-West
68. The height of the peak of Mount Everest is.
(1) 8600 m (2) 8850 m
(3) 8950 m (4) 8990 m
69. A shooting star is a
(1) Star (2) Comet
(3) Meteor (4) Asteroid
70. Consider the following statements about the 
‘Khejadi’ tree.
A. This tree is mainly found in desert areas.
B. This tree can grow without much water.
C. This tree stores water in its trunk which can be 
used for drinking when needed.
D. The bark of this tree is used for making medicine 
and its wood is not affected by insects.
E. This tree has very few leaves.
The correct statements are
(1) A, B and D (2) A, B and C
(3) B, C and D (4) A, C and E
71. Consider the following statement given by a student 
“I have come from an area where rainfall is very 
scarce. It is very hot too. Our houses are made of 
mud. The walls of the houses are very thick and also 
plastered with mud. The roofs are made of thorny 
bushes.'
 This student must be from a village of
(1) Laddakh (2) Assam
(3) Rajasthan (4) Uttar Pradesh