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1. Which is most relevant to the mid-day meal time in school?
(1) It wastes a lot of precious time of teaching-learning
(2) It has nothing to do with teaching-learning
(3) It is a good teaching-learning opportunity for EVS teaching-learning
(4) It is for children who come empty stomach to school
2. What does ‘Learning without Burden’ in the context of Environmental Studies imply?
(1) The EVS curriculum needs to be reduced to half
(2) Less weight of schoolbag
(3) Less number of chapters in EVS textbooks
(4) Load of incomprehension needs to be reduced
3. What purpose does group learning serve in an EVS classroom?
(1) To manage students easily and reduce workload
(2) Boys and girls can learn separately
(3) To segregate high performers and low achieving students and to do remedial teaching
(4) To inculcate values of cooperation and working together to enable each child participate actively and learn
4. What is the full form of ‘BALA’?
(1) Braille Aided Learning Assessment (2) Brain Aided Learning Assignment
(3) Braille as Learning Aid (4) Building as Learning Aid
CTET SOLVED PAPERS
Paper - 1 ( EVS)
09 December, 2018
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1. Which is most relevant to the mid-day meal time in school?
(1) It wastes a lot of precious time of teaching-learning
(2) It has nothing to do with teaching-learning
(3) It is a good teaching-learning opportunity for EVS teaching-learning
(4) It is for children who come empty stomach to school
2. What does ‘Learning without Burden’ in the context of Environmental Studies imply?
(1) The EVS curriculum needs to be reduced to half
(2) Less weight of schoolbag
(3) Less number of chapters in EVS textbooks
(4) Load of incomprehension needs to be reduced
3. What purpose does group learning serve in an EVS classroom?
(1) To manage students easily and reduce workload
(2) Boys and girls can learn separately
(3) To segregate high performers and low achieving students and to do remedial teaching
(4) To inculcate values of cooperation and working together to enable each child participate actively and learn
4. What is the full form of ‘BALA’?
(1) Braille Aided Learning Assessment (2) Brain Aided Learning Assignment
(3) Braille as Learning Aid (4) Building as Learning Aid
CTET SOLVED PAPERS
Paper - 1 ( EVS)
09 December, 2018
5. What do ‘alternative frameworks’ mean?
(1) All ideas that are firmly held by children
(2) Textbook explanations of various physical
phenomena
(3) Ideas that differ from the formally accepted
explanations of the concepts
(4) Ideas presently held by scientists and social
scientists
6. Women are weaker than men. It is a
(1) superstition (2) myth
(3) scientific fact (4) stereotype
7. What is the location of Jammu and Kashmir
and Goa with respect to Bihar in India?
(1) South-West and North-East
(2) East and West
(3) West and East
(4) North-West and South-West
8. Under which of the following conditions will
the process of evaporation be slowest?
(1) Both surface area and temperature decrease
(2) Both surface area and temperature increase
(3) Surface area increases but temperature decreases
(4) Surface area decreases but temperature increases
9. The ability to understand relative position of
places, distances and directions is
(1) graphic skill (2) directional skill
(3) mapping skill (4) positional skill
10. Which National Curriculum Framework
(NCF) recommended Environmental Studies
to be taught as an integrated curricular area
at the primary level?
(1) NCF-1975 (2) NCF-2005
(3) NCF-1988 (4) NCF-2000
11. Which region has the practice of shifting
cultivation in India?
(1) South-Eastern region
(2) North-Eastern region
(3) Southern region
(4) North-Western region
12. Which one of the following statements is not true
for hydropower generated from river dams?
(1) Dams displace indigenous people from their
river lifelines
(2) Dams encourage sustainable growth
(3) It does not pollute water or air
(4) Hydropower facilities can have large
environmental impacts
13. Which of the following is/are greenhouse
gas/gases?
(1) Water vapour (2) Carbon dioxide
(3) Methane (4) All of these
14. Why are cold deserts in India not affected
by the monsoon?
(1) Cold deserts are at a very high altitude
(2) Cold deserts have hot summers and
extremely cold winters
(3) Cold deserts lie in the rain shadow of the
Himalayas
(4) Air is very thin in cold deserts
15. Which one of the following is responsible
for turning Taj Mahal yellow?
(1) Chlorine (2) Nitrogen dioxide
(3) Sulphur dioxide (4) Sulphur
16. Who built the Golconda Fort?
(1) Pallava Dynasty (2) Chola Dynasty
(3) Chalukya Dynasty (4) Kakatiya Dynasty
17. What is the mass of an object with a
density of 15 g/ml and a volume of 3 ml?
(1) 12 g (2) 18 g (3) 45 g (4) 5 g
18. Which one of the following is a scalar
quantity?
(1) Weight (2) Mass
(3) Gravity (4) Momentum
19. An object in which no light rays can pass
through is called
(1) convex (2) opaque
(3) translucent (4) transparent
20. What will be the weight of an object on
the surface of the Earth whose mass is 10
kg on the Moon’s surface?
(1) 10 N (2) 60 kg (3) 10 kg (4) 60 N
21. The rate of dissolution of a solute depends
on
(1) weight (2) pressure
(3) temperature (4) surface area
22. Sushma wants her students to be
sensitised for ‘conservation of trees’.
Which one of the following is the most
suitable strategy to do so?
(1) Helping children to adopt and nurture a plant
(2) Conducting a debate in classroom
(3) Group discussion
(4) Poster making
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CTET
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1. Which is most relevant to the mid-day meal time in school?
(1) It wastes a lot of precious time of teaching-learning
(2) It has nothing to do with teaching-learning
(3) It is a good teaching-learning opportunity for EVS teaching-learning
(4) It is for children who come empty stomach to school
2. What does ‘Learning without Burden’ in the context of Environmental Studies imply?
(1) The EVS curriculum needs to be reduced to half
(2) Less weight of schoolbag
(3) Less number of chapters in EVS textbooks
(4) Load of incomprehension needs to be reduced
3. What purpose does group learning serve in an EVS classroom?
(1) To manage students easily and reduce workload
(2) Boys and girls can learn separately
(3) To segregate high performers and low achieving students and to do remedial teaching
(4) To inculcate values of cooperation and working together to enable each child participate actively and learn
4. What is the full form of ‘BALA’?
(1) Braille Aided Learning Assessment (2) Brain Aided Learning Assignment
(3) Braille as Learning Aid (4) Building as Learning Aid
CTET SOLVED PAPERS
Paper - 1 ( EVS)
09 December, 2018
5. What do ‘alternative frameworks’ mean?
(1) All ideas that are firmly held by children
(2) Textbook explanations of various physical
phenomena
(3) Ideas that differ from the formally accepted
explanations of the concepts
(4) Ideas presently held by scientists and social
scientists
6. Women are weaker than men. It is a
(1) superstition (2) myth
(3) scientific fact (4) stereotype
7. What is the location of Jammu and Kashmir
and Goa with respect to Bihar in India?
(1) South-West and North-East
(2) East and West
(3) West and East
(4) North-West and South-West
8. Under which of the following conditions will
the process of evaporation be slowest?
(1) Both surface area and temperature decrease
(2) Both surface area and temperature increase
(3) Surface area increases but temperature decreases
(4) Surface area decreases but temperature increases
9. The ability to understand relative position of
places, distances and directions is
(1) graphic skill (2) directional skill
(3) mapping skill (4) positional skill
10. Which National Curriculum Framework
(NCF) recommended Environmental Studies
to be taught as an integrated curricular area
at the primary level?
(1) NCF-1975 (2) NCF-2005
(3) NCF-1988 (4) NCF-2000
11. Which region has the practice of shifting
cultivation in India?
(1) South-Eastern region
(2) North-Eastern region
(3) Southern region
(4) North-Western region
12. Which one of the following statements is not true
for hydropower generated from river dams?
(1) Dams displace indigenous people from their
river lifelines
(2) Dams encourage sustainable growth
(3) It does not pollute water or air
(4) Hydropower facilities can have large
environmental impacts
13. Which of the following is/are greenhouse
gas/gases?
(1) Water vapour (2) Carbon dioxide
(3) Methane (4) All of these
14. Why are cold deserts in India not affected
by the monsoon?
(1) Cold deserts are at a very high altitude
(2) Cold deserts have hot summers and
extremely cold winters
(3) Cold deserts lie in the rain shadow of the
Himalayas
(4) Air is very thin in cold deserts
15. Which one of the following is responsible
for turning Taj Mahal yellow?
(1) Chlorine (2) Nitrogen dioxide
(3) Sulphur dioxide (4) Sulphur
16. Who built the Golconda Fort?
(1) Pallava Dynasty (2) Chola Dynasty
(3) Chalukya Dynasty (4) Kakatiya Dynasty
17. What is the mass of an object with a
density of 15 g/ml and a volume of 3 ml?
(1) 12 g (2) 18 g (3) 45 g (4) 5 g
18. Which one of the following is a scalar
quantity?
(1) Weight (2) Mass
(3) Gravity (4) Momentum
19. An object in which no light rays can pass
through is called
(1) convex (2) opaque
(3) translucent (4) transparent
20. What will be the weight of an object on
the surface of the Earth whose mass is 10
kg on the Moon’s surface?
(1) 10 N (2) 60 kg (3) 10 kg (4) 60 N
21. The rate of dissolution of a solute depends
on
(1) weight (2) pressure
(3) temperature (4) surface area
22. Sushma wants her students to be
sensitised for ‘conservation of trees’.
Which one of the following is the most
suitable strategy to do so?
(1) Helping children to adopt and nurture a plant
(2) Conducting a debate in classroom
(3) Group discussion
(4) Poster making
2
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CTET
23. Abhay asked his students to do a survey
in groups on diseases that people in their
neighbourhood suffered from. The survey
is not mentioned in the textbook. Which
option is not relevant for this
teaching-learning strategy?
(1) It helped the community understand the
diseases that they suffered from
(2) It provided opportunity to interact with
community
(3) It helped children connect learning with real
life
(4) It enabled children understand data handling
and work together
24. To talk about emergency situations, Priya
asked children’s experiences when they
faced any emergencies. Children narrated
their experiences with fire, electric shock
and road accidents. She asked questions,
assessed their existing understanding and
discussed safety aspects using resources
such as road safety advertisements from
newspapers and also used LPG and electric
bill to discuss safety guidelines on fire and
electric shock, respectively. Which is the
most appropriate approach that Priya
employed?
(1) Humanistic approach
(2) Cognitive approach
(3) Experiential learning approach
(4) Enquiry approach
25. ‘Community’ is an important teaching and
learning resource, because
(1) one can accept all knowledge available in the
community uncritically
(2) it is inexpensive and accessible
(3) elderly people are wise and have time
(4) it provides learning opportunity in real
setting
26. In EVS teaching-learning, linking classroom
learning to life outside school and enriching it
implies
(1) going beyond curriculum
(2) going beyond the textbooks
(3) linking textbooks to global environmental issues
and concerns
(4) whole school approach
27. To class III students, Rama taught that a
father, mother and their children constitute
nuclear family and if grandparents and other
relatives stay along, then it is an extended
family. What do you think of this?
(1) The concept of family has to be taught like this
(2) The definition of a family is incorrect
(3) Rama is insensitive towards her students
(4) The teaching-learning approach is not inclusive
28. Which of the following is/are
activity/activities in EVS classroom?
(1) Use of blackboard
(2) Picture reading
(3) Field visit
(4) All of the above
29. Environmental Studies curriculum may lead
to holistic learning of children if it is
(1) thematic (2) integrated
(3) inclusive (4) All of these
30. The EVS textbook has a chapter on snake
charmer. It is intended to make children
aware and be sensitised
(1) that animal keeping is good source of livelihood
(2) that it is an illegal act
(3) for snake charmers as children do not see them
often these days
(4) that snake charmers may not harm snakes and they
need to be provided with alternatives before
depriving them of their livelihoods
ANSWERS
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1 (4) 2 (2) 3 (4) 4 (4) 5 (3) 6 (4) 7 (4) 8 (1) 9 (3) 10 (4)
11 (2) 12 (2) 13 (4) 14 (1,3) 15 (3) 16 (4) 17 (3) 18 (2) 19 (2) 20 (2)
21 (3) 22 (1) 23 (4) 24 (4) 25 (4) 26 (2) 27 (4) 28 (4) 29 (4) 30 (4)
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1. Which is most relevant to the mid-day meal time in school?
(1) It wastes a lot of precious time of teaching-learning
(2) It has nothing to do with teaching-learning
(3) It is a good teaching-learning opportunity for EVS teaching-learning
(4) It is for children who come empty stomach to school
2. What does ‘Learning without Burden’ in the context of Environmental Studies imply?
(1) The EVS curriculum needs to be reduced to half
(2) Less weight of schoolbag
(3) Less number of chapters in EVS textbooks
(4) Load of incomprehension needs to be reduced
3. What purpose does group learning serve in an EVS classroom?
(1) To manage students easily and reduce workload
(2) Boys and girls can learn separately
(3) To segregate high performers and low achieving students and to do remedial teaching
(4) To inculcate values of cooperation and working together to enable each child participate actively and learn
4. What is the full form of ‘BALA’?
(1) Braille Aided Learning Assessment (2) Brain Aided Learning Assignment
(3) Braille as Learning Aid (4) Building as Learning Aid
CTET SOLVED PAPERS
Paper - 1 ( EVS)
09 December, 2018
5. What do ‘alternative frameworks’ mean?
(1) All ideas that are firmly held by children
(2) Textbook explanations of various physical
phenomena
(3) Ideas that differ from the formally accepted
explanations of the concepts
(4) Ideas presently held by scientists and social
scientists
6. Women are weaker than men. It is a
(1) superstition (2) myth
(3) scientific fact (4) stereotype
7. What is the location of Jammu and Kashmir
and Goa with respect to Bihar in India?
(1) South-West and North-East
(2) East and West
(3) West and East
(4) North-West and South-West
8. Under which of the following conditions will
the process of evaporation be slowest?
(1) Both surface area and temperature decrease
(2) Both surface area and temperature increase
(3) Surface area increases but temperature decreases
(4) Surface area decreases but temperature increases
9. The ability to understand relative position of
places, distances and directions is
(1) graphic skill (2) directional skill
(3) mapping skill (4) positional skill
10. Which National Curriculum Framework
(NCF) recommended Environmental Studies
to be taught as an integrated curricular area
at the primary level?
(1) NCF-1975 (2) NCF-2005
(3) NCF-1988 (4) NCF-2000
11. Which region has the practice of shifting
cultivation in India?
(1) South-Eastern region
(2) North-Eastern region
(3) Southern region
(4) North-Western region
12. Which one of the following statements is not true
for hydropower generated from river dams?
(1) Dams displace indigenous people from their
river lifelines
(2) Dams encourage sustainable growth
(3) It does not pollute water or air
(4) Hydropower facilities can have large
environmental impacts
13. Which of the following is/are greenhouse
gas/gases?
(1) Water vapour (2) Carbon dioxide
(3) Methane (4) All of these
14. Why are cold deserts in India not affected
by the monsoon?
(1) Cold deserts are at a very high altitude
(2) Cold deserts have hot summers and
extremely cold winters
(3) Cold deserts lie in the rain shadow of the
Himalayas
(4) Air is very thin in cold deserts
15. Which one of the following is responsible
for turning Taj Mahal yellow?
(1) Chlorine (2) Nitrogen dioxide
(3) Sulphur dioxide (4) Sulphur
16. Who built the Golconda Fort?
(1) Pallava Dynasty (2) Chola Dynasty
(3) Chalukya Dynasty (4) Kakatiya Dynasty
17. What is the mass of an object with a
density of 15 g/ml and a volume of 3 ml?
(1) 12 g (2) 18 g (3) 45 g (4) 5 g
18. Which one of the following is a scalar
quantity?
(1) Weight (2) Mass
(3) Gravity (4) Momentum
19. An object in which no light rays can pass
through is called
(1) convex (2) opaque
(3) translucent (4) transparent
20. What will be the weight of an object on
the surface of the Earth whose mass is 10
kg on the Moon’s surface?
(1) 10 N (2) 60 kg (3) 10 kg (4) 60 N
21. The rate of dissolution of a solute depends
on
(1) weight (2) pressure
(3) temperature (4) surface area
22. Sushma wants her students to be
sensitised for ‘conservation of trees’.
Which one of the following is the most
suitable strategy to do so?
(1) Helping children to adopt and nurture a plant
(2) Conducting a debate in classroom
(3) Group discussion
(4) Poster making
2
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CTET
23. Abhay asked his students to do a survey
in groups on diseases that people in their
neighbourhood suffered from. The survey
is not mentioned in the textbook. Which
option is not relevant for this
teaching-learning strategy?
(1) It helped the community understand the
diseases that they suffered from
(2) It provided opportunity to interact with
community
(3) It helped children connect learning with real
life
(4) It enabled children understand data handling
and work together
24. To talk about emergency situations, Priya
asked children’s experiences when they
faced any emergencies. Children narrated
their experiences with fire, electric shock
and road accidents. She asked questions,
assessed their existing understanding and
discussed safety aspects using resources
such as road safety advertisements from
newspapers and also used LPG and electric
bill to discuss safety guidelines on fire and
electric shock, respectively. Which is the
most appropriate approach that Priya
employed?
(1) Humanistic approach
(2) Cognitive approach
(3) Experiential learning approach
(4) Enquiry approach
25. ‘Community’ is an important teaching and
learning resource, because
(1) one can accept all knowledge available in the
community uncritically
(2) it is inexpensive and accessible
(3) elderly people are wise and have time
(4) it provides learning opportunity in real
setting
26. In EVS teaching-learning, linking classroom
learning to life outside school and enriching it
implies
(1) going beyond curriculum
(2) going beyond the textbooks
(3) linking textbooks to global environmental issues
and concerns
(4) whole school approach
27. To class III students, Rama taught that a
father, mother and their children constitute
nuclear family and if grandparents and other
relatives stay along, then it is an extended
family. What do you think of this?
(1) The concept of family has to be taught like this
(2) The definition of a family is incorrect
(3) Rama is insensitive towards her students
(4) The teaching-learning approach is not inclusive
28. Which of the following is/are
activity/activities in EVS classroom?
(1) Use of blackboard
(2) Picture reading
(3) Field visit
(4) All of the above
29. Environmental Studies curriculum may lead
to holistic learning of children if it is
(1) thematic (2) integrated
(3) inclusive (4) All of these
30. The EVS textbook has a chapter on snake
charmer. It is intended to make children
aware and be sensitised
(1) that animal keeping is good source of livelihood
(2) that it is an illegal act
(3) for snake charmers as children do not see them
often these days
(4) that snake charmers may not harm snakes and they
need to be provided with alternatives before
depriving them of their livelihoods
ANSWERS
3
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CTET
1 (4) 2 (2) 3 (4) 4 (4) 5 (3) 6 (4) 7 (4) 8 (1) 9 (3) 10 (4)
11 (2) 12 (2) 13 (4) 14 (1,3) 15 (3) 16 (4) 17 (3) 18 (2) 19 (2) 20 (2)
21 (3) 22 (1) 23 (4) 24 (4) 25 (4) 26 (2) 27 (4) 28 (4) 29 (4) 30 (4)
1. (4) The Mid-day Meal Scheme is a school meal
programme. It was launched by the Government of India
in 1995. It was designed to provide better nutritional
food to school going children of primary and upper
primary classes in government, government aided
schools. It is for children who come empty stomach in
schools.
2. (2) A National Advisory Committee, known as Yash
Pal Committee was set up by the Government in March
1992 under the chairmanship of Prof. Yash Pal. This
committee suggested ways and means to reduce academic
burden on school students to reduce the weight of school
bag and gave the report of ‘Learning without Burden’.
3. (4) The purpose of group learning in Environmental
Studies (EVS) is to inculcate values of cooperation and
working together to enable each child participate actively
and learn.
4. (4) Building as Learning Aid or BALA is a concept
which was originally developed by Vinyas, Centre for
Architectural Research and Design with support from
UNICEF. It is an innovative concept towards qualitative
improvement in education, through developing
child-friendly learning and fun based physical
environment building in school infrastructure.
5. (3) The term Alternative Framework was first time
used by Driver and Easley in 1978. It is widely used to
discuss the opinions of students than a proper concept as
proposed by the educationists and scientists.
6. (4) Women are weaker than men is a gender
stereotype. Women should be communal and avoid
being dominant, men should be independent, masculine
in appearance, avoid being weak, emotional, shy etc are
some examples of gender stereotype.
7. (4) Jammu and Kashmir lies on the North-West
direction and Goa lies on the South-West direction of
Bihar State.
8. (1) Evaporation takes place when a liquid turns into a
gas. The process of evaporation becomes slowest when
both surface area and temperature decrease.
9. (3) The ability to understand relative position of places,
distances and directions is known as mapping skill.
10. (4) National Curriculum Framework, 2000
recommended that Environmental Studies be taught as
an integrated course for the entire primary stage.
11. (2) Shifting cultivation is a type of agriculture in which
a piece of land is used for quite some years until the
fertility is dropped. After some years farmers leave that
land and move to the new plots. This cultivation is mainly
done over a large part of North-East India.
12. (2) To construct dams over rivers have some
advantages, but these also pose great threat to the life of
human and biodiversity too. On one side, they generate
hydroelectricity without causing pollution but on the
other hand, they displace indigenous people from their
river lifelines. They also degrade large tracts of forests
because of their construction.
13. (4) Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called
Greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases cause the greenhouse
effect. The primary greenhouse gases are water vapour,
carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.
14. (1,3) Cold Desert is a region which has harsh
climatic conditions. The climate of cold desert of India
can be attributed to two factors. One is its location on
the leeward side of the Himalayas, which makes it a
rain-shadow zone inaccessible to the annual
South-Western monsoon winds which provides a good
amount of rainfall to the rest of the country, thus
creating desert conditions with low levels of
precipitation. Second is its very high elevation (ranging
from 3000 - 5000m). Thus, both these conditions add
coldness in its environment.
15. (3) The Taj Mahal is turning yellow due to pollution
and presence of sulphur dioxide in the air which is
released from Mathura refinery nearby.
16. (4) Golconda Fort lies next to the Mahakali Temple to
the West of Hyderabad. Golconda Fort was first built by
the Kakatiya dynasty, who built this fort as part of their
Western defenses along the lines of the Kondapalli Fort.
17. (3) We are given the density and volume, thus, we
have to rearrange the equation to solve for the mass
Density × Volume = Mass/Volume × Volume Density
× Volume = Mass
15 g/mL × 3 mL = Mass
Thus, the object has a mass of 45 g.
18. (2) A scalar quantity is a one dimensional
measurement of a quantity, like temperature or mass.
19. (2) An object in which no light rays can pass through
is called as opaque.
sOLVED PAPER 2018 Hints&Solutions
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1. Which is most relevant to the mid-day meal time in school?
(1) It wastes a lot of precious time of teaching-learning
(2) It has nothing to do with teaching-learning
(3) It is a good teaching-learning opportunity for EVS teaching-learning
(4) It is for children who come empty stomach to school
2. What does ‘Learning without Burden’ in the context of Environmental Studies imply?
(1) The EVS curriculum needs to be reduced to half
(2) Less weight of schoolbag
(3) Less number of chapters in EVS textbooks
(4) Load of incomprehension needs to be reduced
3. What purpose does group learning serve in an EVS classroom?
(1) To manage students easily and reduce workload
(2) Boys and girls can learn separately
(3) To segregate high performers and low achieving students and to do remedial teaching
(4) To inculcate values of cooperation and working together to enable each child participate actively and learn
4. What is the full form of ‘BALA’?
(1) Braille Aided Learning Assessment (2) Brain Aided Learning Assignment
(3) Braille as Learning Aid (4) Building as Learning Aid
CTET SOLVED PAPERS
Paper - 1 ( EVS)
09 December, 2018
5. What do ‘alternative frameworks’ mean?
(1) All ideas that are firmly held by children
(2) Textbook explanations of various physical
phenomena
(3) Ideas that differ from the formally accepted
explanations of the concepts
(4) Ideas presently held by scientists and social
scientists
6. Women are weaker than men. It is a
(1) superstition (2) myth
(3) scientific fact (4) stereotype
7. What is the location of Jammu and Kashmir
and Goa with respect to Bihar in India?
(1) South-West and North-East
(2) East and West
(3) West and East
(4) North-West and South-West
8. Under which of the following conditions will
the process of evaporation be slowest?
(1) Both surface area and temperature decrease
(2) Both surface area and temperature increase
(3) Surface area increases but temperature decreases
(4) Surface area decreases but temperature increases
9. The ability to understand relative position of
places, distances and directions is
(1) graphic skill (2) directional skill
(3) mapping skill (4) positional skill
10. Which National Curriculum Framework
(NCF) recommended Environmental Studies
to be taught as an integrated curricular area
at the primary level?
(1) NCF-1975 (2) NCF-2005
(3) NCF-1988 (4) NCF-2000
11. Which region has the practice of shifting
cultivation in India?
(1) South-Eastern region
(2) North-Eastern region
(3) Southern region
(4) North-Western region
12. Which one of the following statements is not true
for hydropower generated from river dams?
(1) Dams displace indigenous people from their
river lifelines
(2) Dams encourage sustainable growth
(3) It does not pollute water or air
(4) Hydropower facilities can have large
environmental impacts
13. Which of the following is/are greenhouse
gas/gases?
(1) Water vapour (2) Carbon dioxide
(3) Methane (4) All of these
14. Why are cold deserts in India not affected
by the monsoon?
(1) Cold deserts are at a very high altitude
(2) Cold deserts have hot summers and
extremely cold winters
(3) Cold deserts lie in the rain shadow of the
Himalayas
(4) Air is very thin in cold deserts
15. Which one of the following is responsible
for turning Taj Mahal yellow?
(1) Chlorine (2) Nitrogen dioxide
(3) Sulphur dioxide (4) Sulphur
16. Who built the Golconda Fort?
(1) Pallava Dynasty (2) Chola Dynasty
(3) Chalukya Dynasty (4) Kakatiya Dynasty
17. What is the mass of an object with a
density of 15 g/ml and a volume of 3 ml?
(1) 12 g (2) 18 g (3) 45 g (4) 5 g
18. Which one of the following is a scalar
quantity?
(1) Weight (2) Mass
(3) Gravity (4) Momentum
19. An object in which no light rays can pass
through is called
(1) convex (2) opaque
(3) translucent (4) transparent
20. What will be the weight of an object on
the surface of the Earth whose mass is 10
kg on the Moon’s surface?
(1) 10 N (2) 60 kg (3) 10 kg (4) 60 N
21. The rate of dissolution of a solute depends
on
(1) weight (2) pressure
(3) temperature (4) surface area
22. Sushma wants her students to be
sensitised for ‘conservation of trees’.
Which one of the following is the most
suitable strategy to do so?
(1) Helping children to adopt and nurture a plant
(2) Conducting a debate in classroom
(3) Group discussion
(4) Poster making
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23. Abhay asked his students to do a survey
in groups on diseases that people in their
neighbourhood suffered from. The survey
is not mentioned in the textbook. Which
option is not relevant for this
teaching-learning strategy?
(1) It helped the community understand the
diseases that they suffered from
(2) It provided opportunity to interact with
community
(3) It helped children connect learning with real
life
(4) It enabled children understand data handling
and work together
24. To talk about emergency situations, Priya
asked children’s experiences when they
faced any emergencies. Children narrated
their experiences with fire, electric shock
and road accidents. She asked questions,
assessed their existing understanding and
discussed safety aspects using resources
such as road safety advertisements from
newspapers and also used LPG and electric
bill to discuss safety guidelines on fire and
electric shock, respectively. Which is the
most appropriate approach that Priya
employed?
(1) Humanistic approach
(2) Cognitive approach
(3) Experiential learning approach
(4) Enquiry approach
25. ‘Community’ is an important teaching and
learning resource, because
(1) one can accept all knowledge available in the
community uncritically
(2) it is inexpensive and accessible
(3) elderly people are wise and have time
(4) it provides learning opportunity in real
setting
26. In EVS teaching-learning, linking classroom
learning to life outside school and enriching it
implies
(1) going beyond curriculum
(2) going beyond the textbooks
(3) linking textbooks to global environmental issues
and concerns
(4) whole school approach
27. To class III students, Rama taught that a
father, mother and their children constitute
nuclear family and if grandparents and other
relatives stay along, then it is an extended
family. What do you think of this?
(1) The concept of family has to be taught like this
(2) The definition of a family is incorrect
(3) Rama is insensitive towards her students
(4) The teaching-learning approach is not inclusive
28. Which of the following is/are
activity/activities in EVS classroom?
(1) Use of blackboard
(2) Picture reading
(3) Field visit
(4) All of the above
29. Environmental Studies curriculum may lead
to holistic learning of children if it is
(1) thematic (2) integrated
(3) inclusive (4) All of these
30. The EVS textbook has a chapter on snake
charmer. It is intended to make children
aware and be sensitised
(1) that animal keeping is good source of livelihood
(2) that it is an illegal act
(3) for snake charmers as children do not see them
often these days
(4) that snake charmers may not harm snakes and they
need to be provided with alternatives before
depriving them of their livelihoods
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11 (2) 12 (2) 13 (4) 14 (1,3) 15 (3) 16 (4) 17 (3) 18 (2) 19 (2) 20 (2)
21 (3) 22 (1) 23 (4) 24 (4) 25 (4) 26 (2) 27 (4) 28 (4) 29 (4) 30 (4)
1. (4) The Mid-day Meal Scheme is a school meal
programme. It was launched by the Government of India
in 1995. It was designed to provide better nutritional
food to school going children of primary and upper
primary classes in government, government aided
schools. It is for children who come empty stomach in
schools.
2. (2) A National Advisory Committee, known as Yash
Pal Committee was set up by the Government in March
1992 under the chairmanship of Prof. Yash Pal. This
committee suggested ways and means to reduce academic
burden on school students to reduce the weight of school
bag and gave the report of ‘Learning without Burden’.
3. (4) The purpose of group learning in Environmental
Studies (EVS) is to inculcate values of cooperation and
working together to enable each child participate actively
and learn.
4. (4) Building as Learning Aid or BALA is a concept
which was originally developed by Vinyas, Centre for
Architectural Research and Design with support from
UNICEF. It is an innovative concept towards qualitative
improvement in education, through developing
child-friendly learning and fun based physical
environment building in school infrastructure.
5. (3) The term Alternative Framework was first time
used by Driver and Easley in 1978. It is widely used to
discuss the opinions of students than a proper concept as
proposed by the educationists and scientists.
6. (4) Women are weaker than men is a gender
stereotype. Women should be communal and avoid
being dominant, men should be independent, masculine
in appearance, avoid being weak, emotional, shy etc are
some examples of gender stereotype.
7. (4) Jammu and Kashmir lies on the North-West
direction and Goa lies on the South-West direction of
Bihar State.
8. (1) Evaporation takes place when a liquid turns into a
gas. The process of evaporation becomes slowest when
both surface area and temperature decrease.
9. (3) The ability to understand relative position of places,
distances and directions is known as mapping skill.
10. (4) National Curriculum Framework, 2000
recommended that Environmental Studies be taught as
an integrated course for the entire primary stage.
11. (2) Shifting cultivation is a type of agriculture in which
a piece of land is used for quite some years until the
fertility is dropped. After some years farmers leave that
land and move to the new plots. This cultivation is mainly
done over a large part of North-East India.
12. (2) To construct dams over rivers have some
advantages, but these also pose great threat to the life of
human and biodiversity too. On one side, they generate
hydroelectricity without causing pollution but on the
other hand, they displace indigenous people from their
river lifelines. They also degrade large tracts of forests
because of their construction.
13. (4) Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called
Greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases cause the greenhouse
effect. The primary greenhouse gases are water vapour,
carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.
14. (1,3) Cold Desert is a region which has harsh
climatic conditions. The climate of cold desert of India
can be attributed to two factors. One is its location on
the leeward side of the Himalayas, which makes it a
rain-shadow zone inaccessible to the annual
South-Western monsoon winds which provides a good
amount of rainfall to the rest of the country, thus
creating desert conditions with low levels of
precipitation. Second is its very high elevation (ranging
from 3000 - 5000m). Thus, both these conditions add
coldness in its environment.
15. (3) The Taj Mahal is turning yellow due to pollution
and presence of sulphur dioxide in the air which is
released from Mathura refinery nearby.
16. (4) Golconda Fort lies next to the Mahakali Temple to
the West of Hyderabad. Golconda Fort was first built by
the Kakatiya dynasty, who built this fort as part of their
Western defenses along the lines of the Kondapalli Fort.
17. (3) We are given the density and volume, thus, we
have to rearrange the equation to solve for the mass
Density × Volume = Mass/Volume × Volume Density
× Volume = Mass
15 g/mL × 3 mL = Mass
Thus, the object has a mass of 45 g.
18. (2) A scalar quantity is a one dimensional
measurement of a quantity, like temperature or mass.
19. (2) An object in which no light rays can pass through
is called as opaque.
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20. (2) If an object has a mass of 10 kg on the surface of
the moon, then its weight will be 60 kg on the earth’s
surface.
21. (3) The rate of dissolution of a solute depends on
temperature.
22. (1) By helping children to adopt and nurture a plant
will help then to built a good habit to nurture a plant on a
daily basis. It will make them environment friendly and also
develop their observational skill.
23. (4) To conduct a survey may help students to interact
with their community members. The community
members also get the opportunity to speak openly about
their problems. Data-handling is not suitable for the
primary age group students.
24. (4) Enquiry -Based Learning is a method of teaching
and learning. It is based on self-directed enquiry or
research by the student. It is student-centred approach in
which students share their experiences in the class which
enhance students’ learning experience.
25. (4) Community helps students to learn in a better
way as it provides all the facilities which are essential for
effective learning. Community provides its various
resources like schools, parks, hospitals, libraries,
law-enforcement substations, social clubs and recreation
centers and so on.
26. (2) When an EVS teacher links classroom learning to
life outside school and enriching it implies going beyond
the textbooks. As it provides opportunity to students to
think out of the box.
27. (4) To teach the concept of family, a teacher should
use such a classification which does not support any
particular group, as there are many schools which use
inclusive learning approach. In an inclusive classroom
students come from different backgrounds and have
different thoughts and abilities. Thus, the method of
teaching should be inclusive in nature.
28. (4) In EVS classroom a teacher should use
miscellaneous activities time to time to make the
subject interesting and easy to understand. These
activities can be use of blackboard, picture reading
and field visit and so on.
29. (4) The EVS curriculum may lead to holistic learning
of children if it is thematic, integrated with other subjects
and inclusive in its nature.
30. (4) The purpose to include such chapter like ‘Snake
Charmers’ in EVS helps children to be aware about their
environment, to know the conditions of the poor peoples
and also the alternative sustainable livelihood ways
which the government is providing to them.
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