Page 1
Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
Directions: Answer the following questions (Q. Nos. 1 to 30)
by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. Which one of the following is a critique of theory of
multiple intelligences?
(1) Multiple intelligence are only the ‘talents‘
present in intelligence as a whole.
(2) Multiple intelligence provides students to
discover their propensities.
(3) It overemphasises practical intelligence.
(4) It cannot be supported by empirical evidence at
all.
2. Which one of the following pair is least likely to be a
correct match?
(1) Children enter in : Chomsky
the world with
certain knowledge
about language
(2) Language and : Vygotsky
thought are
initially two
different activities
(3) Language is : Piaget
contingent on
thought
(4) Language is : B.F . Skinner
a stimuli in
environment
3. Features assigned due to social roles and not due to
biological endowment are called:
(1) Gender role attitudes
(2) Gender role strain
(3) Gender-role stereotype
(4) Gender role diagnosticity
4. Which of the following will be most appropriate to
maximise learning?
(1) Teaching should identify her cognitive style as
well as of her students cognitive style.
(2) Individual difference in students should be
smoothened by pairing similar students.
(3) Teacher should focus on only one learning style
to bring optimum result.
(4) Students of similar cultural background should
be kept in the same class to avoid difference in
opinion.
5. All of the following promote assessment as learning
except.
(1) telling students to take internal feedback.
(2) generating a safe environment for students to
take chances.
(3) tell students to reflect on the topic taught.
(4) testing students as frequently as possible.
6. When a cook tastes a food during cooking it may be
akin to:
(1) Assessment of learning
(2) Assessment for learning
(3) Assessment as learning
(4) Assessment and learning
7. Differentiated instruction is:
(1) using a variety of groupings to meet students
needs.
(2) doing something different for very student in
the class.
(3) disorderly or undisciplined student activity.
(4) using groups that never change.
8. In a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom,
before deciding whether a student comes under
special education category, a teacher should:
(1) Not involve parents as parents have their own
work.
(2) Evaluate student on her/his mother language to
establish disability.
(3) Use specialised psychologists.
(4) Segregate the child to neutralise environmental
factor.
9. Learning disabilities may occur due to all of the
following except.
(1) Teachers way of teaching
(2) Prenatal use of alcohol
(3) Mental retardation
(4) Meaning it is during infancy
10. An inclusive school reflects on all the following
questions except :
(1) Do we believe that all students can learn.
(2) Do we work in teams to plan and deliver
learning enabling environment
(3) Do we properly segregate special children from
normal to provide better care.
(4) Do we adopt strategies catering for the diverse
needs of students.
11. Gifted students are:
(1) Convergent thinkers (2) Divergent thinkers
(3) Extrovert (4) Very hard working
CTET SOLVED PAPER S
Paper - 2 (Mathematics & Science)
1 3 t h Ju l y, 20 1 3
Page 2
Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
Directions: Answer the following questions (Q. Nos. 1 to 30)
by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. Which one of the following is a critique of theory of
multiple intelligences?
(1) Multiple intelligence are only the ‘talents‘
present in intelligence as a whole.
(2) Multiple intelligence provides students to
discover their propensities.
(3) It overemphasises practical intelligence.
(4) It cannot be supported by empirical evidence at
all.
2. Which one of the following pair is least likely to be a
correct match?
(1) Children enter in : Chomsky
the world with
certain knowledge
about language
(2) Language and : Vygotsky
thought are
initially two
different activities
(3) Language is : Piaget
contingent on
thought
(4) Language is : B.F . Skinner
a stimuli in
environment
3. Features assigned due to social roles and not due to
biological endowment are called:
(1) Gender role attitudes
(2) Gender role strain
(3) Gender-role stereotype
(4) Gender role diagnosticity
4. Which of the following will be most appropriate to
maximise learning?
(1) Teaching should identify her cognitive style as
well as of her students cognitive style.
(2) Individual difference in students should be
smoothened by pairing similar students.
(3) Teacher should focus on only one learning style
to bring optimum result.
(4) Students of similar cultural background should
be kept in the same class to avoid difference in
opinion.
5. All of the following promote assessment as learning
except.
(1) telling students to take internal feedback.
(2) generating a safe environment for students to
take chances.
(3) tell students to reflect on the topic taught.
(4) testing students as frequently as possible.
6. When a cook tastes a food during cooking it may be
akin to:
(1) Assessment of learning
(2) Assessment for learning
(3) Assessment as learning
(4) Assessment and learning
7. Differentiated instruction is:
(1) using a variety of groupings to meet students
needs.
(2) doing something different for very student in
the class.
(3) disorderly or undisciplined student activity.
(4) using groups that never change.
8. In a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom,
before deciding whether a student comes under
special education category, a teacher should:
(1) Not involve parents as parents have their own
work.
(2) Evaluate student on her/his mother language to
establish disability.
(3) Use specialised psychologists.
(4) Segregate the child to neutralise environmental
factor.
9. Learning disabilities may occur due to all of the
following except.
(1) Teachers way of teaching
(2) Prenatal use of alcohol
(3) Mental retardation
(4) Meaning it is during infancy
10. An inclusive school reflects on all the following
questions except :
(1) Do we believe that all students can learn.
(2) Do we work in teams to plan and deliver
learning enabling environment
(3) Do we properly segregate special children from
normal to provide better care.
(4) Do we adopt strategies catering for the diverse
needs of students.
11. Gifted students are:
(1) Convergent thinkers (2) Divergent thinkers
(3) Extrovert (4) Very hard working
CTET SOLVED PAPER S
Paper - 2 (Mathematics & Science)
1 3 t h Ju l y, 20 1 3
12. The shaded area represent students in a normal
distribution who fall:
(1) At s = 0 (2) Between 2 s – 3 s
(3) After 3 s (4) Between s – 2 s
13. Which one of the following pair would be most
appropriate choice to complete the following
sentence?
Children __________ faster when they are involved
in the activities that seem to be __________ .
(1) Forget; useful in a classroom
(2) Recall; linked with their classwork only
(3) Memorise; culturally neutral
(4) Learn; useful in real life
14. CBSE prescribed group activities for students in
place of activities for individual students. The idea
behind doing so could be:
(1) to overcome the negative emotional response
to individual competition which may generalise
across learning.
(2) to make it easy for teachers to observe groups
instead of individual students.
(3) to rationalise the time available with schools
most of which do not have enough time for
individual activities.
(4) to reduce the infrastructural cost of the activity.
15. The conclusion ‘Children can learn violent depicted in
movies‘ may be derived on the basis of the work
done by which of the following psychologist?
(1) Edward L. Thorndike (2) J.B. Watson
(3) Albert Bandura (4) Jean Piaget
16. Students observe fashion shows and try to imitate
models. This kind of imitation may be called:
(1) Primary simulation (2) Secondary simulation
(3) Social learning (4) Generalisation
17. If students repeatedly make errors during a lesson, a
teacher should:
(1) make changes in instruction, tasks, timetable or
seating arrangements.
(2) leave the lesson for the time being and come
back to it after some time.
(3) identify the erring students and talk to principal
about them.
(4) make erring students stand outside the
classroom.
18. Following are some techniques to manage anxiety
due to an approaching examination; except.
(1) familiarising with the pattern of question paper
(2) thinking too much about the result
(3) seeking support
(4) emphasising strengths
19. Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchical organisation of
__________ .
(1) achievement goals
(2) curricular declarations
(3) reading skills
(4) cognitive objectives
20. A, B and C are three students studying English. ‘A‘
finds it interesting and thinks it will be helpful for
her in future. ‘B‘ studies English as she wants to
secure first rank in the class. ‘C‘ studies it as she is
primarily concerned to secure passing grades. The
goals of A, B and C respectively are:
(1) Mastery, performance, performance avoidance
(2) Performance, performance avoidance, mastery
(3) Performance avoidance, mastery, performance
(4) Mastery, performance avoidance, performance
21. Even though this was clearly in violation of his
safety needs, Captain Vikram Batra died fighting
in the Kargil war while protecting his country. He
might have:
(1) sought novel experience
(2) achieved self-actualisation
(3) ignored his belongingness needs
(4) wanted to earn a good name to his family
22. Extinction of a response is more difficult following:
(1) partial reinforcement
(2) continuous reinforcement
(3) punishment
(4) verbal reproach
23. Mastery orientation can be encouraged by:
(1) focusing on students individual effort.
(2) comparing students successes with each other.
(3) assigning lot of practice material as home
assignments.
(4) taking unexpected tests.
24. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(1) Physical : Environment
Development
(2) Cognitive : Maturation
Development
(3) Social Development : Environment
(4) Emotional Development : Maturation
25. All the following facts indicate that a child is
emotionally and socially fit in a class except.
(1) develop good relationships with peers
(2) concentrate on and persist with challenging
tasks
(3) manage both anger and joy effectively
(4) concentrate persistently on competition with
peers
26. Which of the following statements support role of
environment in the development of a child?
(1) Some students quickly process information
while others in the same class do not.
(2) There has been a steady increase in students
average performance on IQ tests in last few
decades.
(3) Correlation between IQs of identical twins raised
in different homes is as high as 0.75.
(4) Physically fit children are often found to be
morally good.
Page 3
Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
Directions: Answer the following questions (Q. Nos. 1 to 30)
by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. Which one of the following is a critique of theory of
multiple intelligences?
(1) Multiple intelligence are only the ‘talents‘
present in intelligence as a whole.
(2) Multiple intelligence provides students to
discover their propensities.
(3) It overemphasises practical intelligence.
(4) It cannot be supported by empirical evidence at
all.
2. Which one of the following pair is least likely to be a
correct match?
(1) Children enter in : Chomsky
the world with
certain knowledge
about language
(2) Language and : Vygotsky
thought are
initially two
different activities
(3) Language is : Piaget
contingent on
thought
(4) Language is : B.F . Skinner
a stimuli in
environment
3. Features assigned due to social roles and not due to
biological endowment are called:
(1) Gender role attitudes
(2) Gender role strain
(3) Gender-role stereotype
(4) Gender role diagnosticity
4. Which of the following will be most appropriate to
maximise learning?
(1) Teaching should identify her cognitive style as
well as of her students cognitive style.
(2) Individual difference in students should be
smoothened by pairing similar students.
(3) Teacher should focus on only one learning style
to bring optimum result.
(4) Students of similar cultural background should
be kept in the same class to avoid difference in
opinion.
5. All of the following promote assessment as learning
except.
(1) telling students to take internal feedback.
(2) generating a safe environment for students to
take chances.
(3) tell students to reflect on the topic taught.
(4) testing students as frequently as possible.
6. When a cook tastes a food during cooking it may be
akin to:
(1) Assessment of learning
(2) Assessment for learning
(3) Assessment as learning
(4) Assessment and learning
7. Differentiated instruction is:
(1) using a variety of groupings to meet students
needs.
(2) doing something different for very student in
the class.
(3) disorderly or undisciplined student activity.
(4) using groups that never change.
8. In a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom,
before deciding whether a student comes under
special education category, a teacher should:
(1) Not involve parents as parents have their own
work.
(2) Evaluate student on her/his mother language to
establish disability.
(3) Use specialised psychologists.
(4) Segregate the child to neutralise environmental
factor.
9. Learning disabilities may occur due to all of the
following except.
(1) Teachers way of teaching
(2) Prenatal use of alcohol
(3) Mental retardation
(4) Meaning it is during infancy
10. An inclusive school reflects on all the following
questions except :
(1) Do we believe that all students can learn.
(2) Do we work in teams to plan and deliver
learning enabling environment
(3) Do we properly segregate special children from
normal to provide better care.
(4) Do we adopt strategies catering for the diverse
needs of students.
11. Gifted students are:
(1) Convergent thinkers (2) Divergent thinkers
(3) Extrovert (4) Very hard working
CTET SOLVED PAPER S
Paper - 2 (Mathematics & Science)
1 3 t h Ju l y, 20 1 3
12. The shaded area represent students in a normal
distribution who fall:
(1) At s = 0 (2) Between 2 s – 3 s
(3) After 3 s (4) Between s – 2 s
13. Which one of the following pair would be most
appropriate choice to complete the following
sentence?
Children __________ faster when they are involved
in the activities that seem to be __________ .
(1) Forget; useful in a classroom
(2) Recall; linked with their classwork only
(3) Memorise; culturally neutral
(4) Learn; useful in real life
14. CBSE prescribed group activities for students in
place of activities for individual students. The idea
behind doing so could be:
(1) to overcome the negative emotional response
to individual competition which may generalise
across learning.
(2) to make it easy for teachers to observe groups
instead of individual students.
(3) to rationalise the time available with schools
most of which do not have enough time for
individual activities.
(4) to reduce the infrastructural cost of the activity.
15. The conclusion ‘Children can learn violent depicted in
movies‘ may be derived on the basis of the work
done by which of the following psychologist?
(1) Edward L. Thorndike (2) J.B. Watson
(3) Albert Bandura (4) Jean Piaget
16. Students observe fashion shows and try to imitate
models. This kind of imitation may be called:
(1) Primary simulation (2) Secondary simulation
(3) Social learning (4) Generalisation
17. If students repeatedly make errors during a lesson, a
teacher should:
(1) make changes in instruction, tasks, timetable or
seating arrangements.
(2) leave the lesson for the time being and come
back to it after some time.
(3) identify the erring students and talk to principal
about them.
(4) make erring students stand outside the
classroom.
18. Following are some techniques to manage anxiety
due to an approaching examination; except.
(1) familiarising with the pattern of question paper
(2) thinking too much about the result
(3) seeking support
(4) emphasising strengths
19. Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchical organisation of
__________ .
(1) achievement goals
(2) curricular declarations
(3) reading skills
(4) cognitive objectives
20. A, B and C are three students studying English. ‘A‘
finds it interesting and thinks it will be helpful for
her in future. ‘B‘ studies English as she wants to
secure first rank in the class. ‘C‘ studies it as she is
primarily concerned to secure passing grades. The
goals of A, B and C respectively are:
(1) Mastery, performance, performance avoidance
(2) Performance, performance avoidance, mastery
(3) Performance avoidance, mastery, performance
(4) Mastery, performance avoidance, performance
21. Even though this was clearly in violation of his
safety needs, Captain Vikram Batra died fighting
in the Kargil war while protecting his country. He
might have:
(1) sought novel experience
(2) achieved self-actualisation
(3) ignored his belongingness needs
(4) wanted to earn a good name to his family
22. Extinction of a response is more difficult following:
(1) partial reinforcement
(2) continuous reinforcement
(3) punishment
(4) verbal reproach
23. Mastery orientation can be encouraged by:
(1) focusing on students individual effort.
(2) comparing students successes with each other.
(3) assigning lot of practice material as home
assignments.
(4) taking unexpected tests.
24. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(1) Physical : Environment
Development
(2) Cognitive : Maturation
Development
(3) Social Development : Environment
(4) Emotional Development : Maturation
25. All the following facts indicate that a child is
emotionally and socially fit in a class except.
(1) develop good relationships with peers
(2) concentrate on and persist with challenging
tasks
(3) manage both anger and joy effectively
(4) concentrate persistently on competition with
peers
26. Which of the following statements support role of
environment in the development of a child?
(1) Some students quickly process information
while others in the same class do not.
(2) There has been a steady increase in students
average performance on IQ tests in last few
decades.
(3) Correlation between IQs of identical twins raised
in different homes is as high as 0.75.
(4) Physically fit children are often found to be
morally good.
27. Socialisation includes cultural transmission and:
(1) discourages rebellion
(2) development of individual personality
(3) fits children into labels
(4) provides emotional support
28. A teacher shows two identical glasses filled with an
equal amount of juice in them. She empties them
in two different glasses one of which is taller and
the other one is wider. She asks her class to identify
which glass would have more juice in it. Students
reply that the taller glass has more juice. Her
students have difficulty in dealing with:
(1) Accommodation (2) Egocentrism
(3) Decentring (4) Reversibility
29. Karnail Singh does not pay income tax despite
legal procedures and expenses. He thinks that he
cannot support a corrupt government which spends
millions of rupees in building unnecessary dams.
He is probably in which state of Kohlberg’s stages of
moral development.
(1) Conventional (2) Post conventional
(3) Pre conventional (4) Para conventional
30. Intelligence theory incorporates the mental processes
involved in intelligence (i.e. meta-components)
and the varied forms that intelligence can take (i.e.
creative intelligence)
(1) Spearman’s ‘g’ factor
(2) Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence
(3) Savant theory of intelligence
(4) Thurstone’s primary mental abilities
Mathematics and Science
Directions: Answer the following questions by selecting the
correct/most appropriate options.
31. The number of integers less than – 3 but greater
than – 8 is:
(1) 2 (2) 3
(3) 4 (4) 6
32. The distance between two places is 12 km. A map
scale is 1 : 25000. The distance between the two
places on the map, in cm, is:
(1) 24 (2) 36
(3) 48 (4) 60
33. The reciprocal of
3
8
7
13
is:
(1)
104
21
(2)
-104
21
(3)
21
104
(4)
-21
104
34. The number of vertices in a polyhedron which has
30 edges and 12 faces is:
(1) 12 (2) 15
(3) 20 (4) 24
35. When half of a number is increased by 15, the result
is 39. The sum of digits of the original number is:
(1) 6 (2) 7
(3) 9 (4) 12
36. In DPQT, PQ = PT. The points R and S are on QT
such that PR = PS. If ?PTS = 62° and ?RPS = 34°,
then measure of ?QPR is:
(1) 11° (2) 13°
(3) 15° (4) 17°
37. If for DABC and DDEF, the correspondence CAB ?
EDF gives a congruence, then which of the following
is not true ?
(1) AC = DE (2) AB = EF
(3) ?A = ?D (4) ?B = ?F
38. 40% of (100 – 20% of 300) is equal to:
(1) 16 (2) 20
(3) 64 (4) 140
39. HCF of two numbers is 28 and their LCM is 336. If
one number is 112, then the other number is:
(1) 56 (2) 70
(3) 84 (4) 98
40. If
2
3
06 x = .
and 0.02 y = 1, then the value of x + y
–1
is :
(1) 0.92 (2) 1.1
(3) 49.1 (4) 50.9
41. If
y
x
x
y
2
1
1 ,,
then x equals:
(1)
y
y
2
1
(2)
y
y
2
1
(3)
y
y
2
1
(4)
2
1
-
-
y
y
42. A square and a circle have equal perimeters. The
ratio of the area of the square to the area of the circle
is:
(1) 1 : 1 (2) 1 : 4
(3) p : 2 (4) p : 4
43. ABCD is a square with AB = (x + 16) cm and BC =
(3x) cm. The perimeter (in cm) of the square is:
(1) 16 (2) 24
(3) 32 (4) 96
44. The mean of 10 numbers is 0. If 72 and –12 are
included in these numbers, the new mean will be:
(1) 0 (2) 5
(3) 6 (4) 60
45. The circumference of the base of a right circular
cylinder is 44 cm and its height is 15 cm. The volume
(in cm
3
) of the cylinder is
use =
22
7
:
(1) 770 (2) 1155
(3) 1540 (4) 2310
46. A class VII teacher wants to discuss the following
problem in the class:
“ A square is divided into four congruent rectangles.
The perimeter of each rectangle is 40 units. What is
the perimeter of given square?”
Key Mathematical concepts required to solve this
problem is:
(1) Area of square and rectangle, perimeter of
square and rectangle and definition of square
and rectangle
(2) Meaning of the terms square, rectangle,
congruent, perimeter, etc.
(3) Area of rectangle, perimeter of square
(4) Formation of algebraic equation to solve the
problem
Page 4
Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
Directions: Answer the following questions (Q. Nos. 1 to 30)
by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. Which one of the following is a critique of theory of
multiple intelligences?
(1) Multiple intelligence are only the ‘talents‘
present in intelligence as a whole.
(2) Multiple intelligence provides students to
discover their propensities.
(3) It overemphasises practical intelligence.
(4) It cannot be supported by empirical evidence at
all.
2. Which one of the following pair is least likely to be a
correct match?
(1) Children enter in : Chomsky
the world with
certain knowledge
about language
(2) Language and : Vygotsky
thought are
initially two
different activities
(3) Language is : Piaget
contingent on
thought
(4) Language is : B.F . Skinner
a stimuli in
environment
3. Features assigned due to social roles and not due to
biological endowment are called:
(1) Gender role attitudes
(2) Gender role strain
(3) Gender-role stereotype
(4) Gender role diagnosticity
4. Which of the following will be most appropriate to
maximise learning?
(1) Teaching should identify her cognitive style as
well as of her students cognitive style.
(2) Individual difference in students should be
smoothened by pairing similar students.
(3) Teacher should focus on only one learning style
to bring optimum result.
(4) Students of similar cultural background should
be kept in the same class to avoid difference in
opinion.
5. All of the following promote assessment as learning
except.
(1) telling students to take internal feedback.
(2) generating a safe environment for students to
take chances.
(3) tell students to reflect on the topic taught.
(4) testing students as frequently as possible.
6. When a cook tastes a food during cooking it may be
akin to:
(1) Assessment of learning
(2) Assessment for learning
(3) Assessment as learning
(4) Assessment and learning
7. Differentiated instruction is:
(1) using a variety of groupings to meet students
needs.
(2) doing something different for very student in
the class.
(3) disorderly or undisciplined student activity.
(4) using groups that never change.
8. In a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom,
before deciding whether a student comes under
special education category, a teacher should:
(1) Not involve parents as parents have their own
work.
(2) Evaluate student on her/his mother language to
establish disability.
(3) Use specialised psychologists.
(4) Segregate the child to neutralise environmental
factor.
9. Learning disabilities may occur due to all of the
following except.
(1) Teachers way of teaching
(2) Prenatal use of alcohol
(3) Mental retardation
(4) Meaning it is during infancy
10. An inclusive school reflects on all the following
questions except :
(1) Do we believe that all students can learn.
(2) Do we work in teams to plan and deliver
learning enabling environment
(3) Do we properly segregate special children from
normal to provide better care.
(4) Do we adopt strategies catering for the diverse
needs of students.
11. Gifted students are:
(1) Convergent thinkers (2) Divergent thinkers
(3) Extrovert (4) Very hard working
CTET SOLVED PAPER S
Paper - 2 (Mathematics & Science)
1 3 t h Ju l y, 20 1 3
12. The shaded area represent students in a normal
distribution who fall:
(1) At s = 0 (2) Between 2 s – 3 s
(3) After 3 s (4) Between s – 2 s
13. Which one of the following pair would be most
appropriate choice to complete the following
sentence?
Children __________ faster when they are involved
in the activities that seem to be __________ .
(1) Forget; useful in a classroom
(2) Recall; linked with their classwork only
(3) Memorise; culturally neutral
(4) Learn; useful in real life
14. CBSE prescribed group activities for students in
place of activities for individual students. The idea
behind doing so could be:
(1) to overcome the negative emotional response
to individual competition which may generalise
across learning.
(2) to make it easy for teachers to observe groups
instead of individual students.
(3) to rationalise the time available with schools
most of which do not have enough time for
individual activities.
(4) to reduce the infrastructural cost of the activity.
15. The conclusion ‘Children can learn violent depicted in
movies‘ may be derived on the basis of the work
done by which of the following psychologist?
(1) Edward L. Thorndike (2) J.B. Watson
(3) Albert Bandura (4) Jean Piaget
16. Students observe fashion shows and try to imitate
models. This kind of imitation may be called:
(1) Primary simulation (2) Secondary simulation
(3) Social learning (4) Generalisation
17. If students repeatedly make errors during a lesson, a
teacher should:
(1) make changes in instruction, tasks, timetable or
seating arrangements.
(2) leave the lesson for the time being and come
back to it after some time.
(3) identify the erring students and talk to principal
about them.
(4) make erring students stand outside the
classroom.
18. Following are some techniques to manage anxiety
due to an approaching examination; except.
(1) familiarising with the pattern of question paper
(2) thinking too much about the result
(3) seeking support
(4) emphasising strengths
19. Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchical organisation of
__________ .
(1) achievement goals
(2) curricular declarations
(3) reading skills
(4) cognitive objectives
20. A, B and C are three students studying English. ‘A‘
finds it interesting and thinks it will be helpful for
her in future. ‘B‘ studies English as she wants to
secure first rank in the class. ‘C‘ studies it as she is
primarily concerned to secure passing grades. The
goals of A, B and C respectively are:
(1) Mastery, performance, performance avoidance
(2) Performance, performance avoidance, mastery
(3) Performance avoidance, mastery, performance
(4) Mastery, performance avoidance, performance
21. Even though this was clearly in violation of his
safety needs, Captain Vikram Batra died fighting
in the Kargil war while protecting his country. He
might have:
(1) sought novel experience
(2) achieved self-actualisation
(3) ignored his belongingness needs
(4) wanted to earn a good name to his family
22. Extinction of a response is more difficult following:
(1) partial reinforcement
(2) continuous reinforcement
(3) punishment
(4) verbal reproach
23. Mastery orientation can be encouraged by:
(1) focusing on students individual effort.
(2) comparing students successes with each other.
(3) assigning lot of practice material as home
assignments.
(4) taking unexpected tests.
24. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(1) Physical : Environment
Development
(2) Cognitive : Maturation
Development
(3) Social Development : Environment
(4) Emotional Development : Maturation
25. All the following facts indicate that a child is
emotionally and socially fit in a class except.
(1) develop good relationships with peers
(2) concentrate on and persist with challenging
tasks
(3) manage both anger and joy effectively
(4) concentrate persistently on competition with
peers
26. Which of the following statements support role of
environment in the development of a child?
(1) Some students quickly process information
while others in the same class do not.
(2) There has been a steady increase in students
average performance on IQ tests in last few
decades.
(3) Correlation between IQs of identical twins raised
in different homes is as high as 0.75.
(4) Physically fit children are often found to be
morally good.
27. Socialisation includes cultural transmission and:
(1) discourages rebellion
(2) development of individual personality
(3) fits children into labels
(4) provides emotional support
28. A teacher shows two identical glasses filled with an
equal amount of juice in them. She empties them
in two different glasses one of which is taller and
the other one is wider. She asks her class to identify
which glass would have more juice in it. Students
reply that the taller glass has more juice. Her
students have difficulty in dealing with:
(1) Accommodation (2) Egocentrism
(3) Decentring (4) Reversibility
29. Karnail Singh does not pay income tax despite
legal procedures and expenses. He thinks that he
cannot support a corrupt government which spends
millions of rupees in building unnecessary dams.
He is probably in which state of Kohlberg’s stages of
moral development.
(1) Conventional (2) Post conventional
(3) Pre conventional (4) Para conventional
30. Intelligence theory incorporates the mental processes
involved in intelligence (i.e. meta-components)
and the varied forms that intelligence can take (i.e.
creative intelligence)
(1) Spearman’s ‘g’ factor
(2) Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence
(3) Savant theory of intelligence
(4) Thurstone’s primary mental abilities
Mathematics and Science
Directions: Answer the following questions by selecting the
correct/most appropriate options.
31. The number of integers less than – 3 but greater
than – 8 is:
(1) 2 (2) 3
(3) 4 (4) 6
32. The distance between two places is 12 km. A map
scale is 1 : 25000. The distance between the two
places on the map, in cm, is:
(1) 24 (2) 36
(3) 48 (4) 60
33. The reciprocal of
3
8
7
13
is:
(1)
104
21
(2)
-104
21
(3)
21
104
(4)
-21
104
34. The number of vertices in a polyhedron which has
30 edges and 12 faces is:
(1) 12 (2) 15
(3) 20 (4) 24
35. When half of a number is increased by 15, the result
is 39. The sum of digits of the original number is:
(1) 6 (2) 7
(3) 9 (4) 12
36. In DPQT, PQ = PT. The points R and S are on QT
such that PR = PS. If ?PTS = 62° and ?RPS = 34°,
then measure of ?QPR is:
(1) 11° (2) 13°
(3) 15° (4) 17°
37. If for DABC and DDEF, the correspondence CAB ?
EDF gives a congruence, then which of the following
is not true ?
(1) AC = DE (2) AB = EF
(3) ?A = ?D (4) ?B = ?F
38. 40% of (100 – 20% of 300) is equal to:
(1) 16 (2) 20
(3) 64 (4) 140
39. HCF of two numbers is 28 and their LCM is 336. If
one number is 112, then the other number is:
(1) 56 (2) 70
(3) 84 (4) 98
40. If
2
3
06 x = .
and 0.02 y = 1, then the value of x + y
–1
is :
(1) 0.92 (2) 1.1
(3) 49.1 (4) 50.9
41. If
y
x
x
y
2
1
1 ,,
then x equals:
(1)
y
y
2
1
(2)
y
y
2
1
(3)
y
y
2
1
(4)
2
1
-
-
y
y
42. A square and a circle have equal perimeters. The
ratio of the area of the square to the area of the circle
is:
(1) 1 : 1 (2) 1 : 4
(3) p : 2 (4) p : 4
43. ABCD is a square with AB = (x + 16) cm and BC =
(3x) cm. The perimeter (in cm) of the square is:
(1) 16 (2) 24
(3) 32 (4) 96
44. The mean of 10 numbers is 0. If 72 and –12 are
included in these numbers, the new mean will be:
(1) 0 (2) 5
(3) 6 (4) 60
45. The circumference of the base of a right circular
cylinder is 44 cm and its height is 15 cm. The volume
(in cm
3
) of the cylinder is
use =
22
7
:
(1) 770 (2) 1155
(3) 1540 (4) 2310
46. A class VII teacher wants to discuss the following
problem in the class:
“ A square is divided into four congruent rectangles.
The perimeter of each rectangle is 40 units. What is
the perimeter of given square?”
Key Mathematical concepts required to solve this
problem is:
(1) Area of square and rectangle, perimeter of
square and rectangle and definition of square
and rectangle
(2) Meaning of the terms square, rectangle,
congruent, perimeter, etc.
(3) Area of rectangle, perimeter of square
(4) Formation of algebraic equation to solve the
problem
47. Algebra is introduced in the middle classes. According
to Piaget‘s theory of cognitive development, it is
appropriate to introduce algebra at this stage as:
(1) the child is at sensorimotor stage and
can understand with the help of lots of
manipulatives.
(2) the child is at pre-operational stage and can
understand abstract concepts
(3) the child is at concrete-operational stage and
he can understand and conceptualize concrete
experiences by creating logical structure.
(4) the child is at formal operational stage and is
fully mature to grasp the abstract concepts.
48. Mr. Sharma was assessing the students‘ work on
exponents. One of the response sheet was as follows:
(a) 2
3
× 2
5
= 2
8
(b) 3
2
× 4
2
= (12)
4
(c) 3
3
÷ 3
5
= 3
–2
(d) 7
20
÷ 7
14
= 7
6
(e) 9
3
÷ 18
6
=
1
2
3
On the basis of this response sheet Mr. Sharma can
make the following observation:
(1) Child has understood the laws of exponents and
can apply them well.
(2) Child has understood the laws of exponents but
has made clerical errors.
(3) Child has understood the laws of exponents
but has not practised the questions involving
division of two numbers.
(4) Child has understood the law of exponents
for the cases where the base is same and has
missed the concept for the case where the base
is different.
49. According to Van Hiele level of Geometric thought
the five levels of geometric understanding are
visualization, analysis, informal deduction, formal
deduction and rigour. Students of class VII are
asked to classify the quadrilaterals according to their
properties. These students are at..............level of Van
Hiele Geometrical thought.
(1) Visualization (2) Analysis
(3) Informal Deduction (4) Formal Deduction
50. A task assigned to the class VIII student is as follows:
An open box is to be made out of metallic sheet of 50
cm × 65 cm. Length and breadth of the box is 30 cm
and 15 cm respectively. What is the possible height
of the box ? Also find the volume of this box.
This task refer to
(1) lower level cognitive demand as it requires the
knowledge of formulae of volume of cuboid.
(2) lower level of cognitive demand as there is no
connection between concepts involved and
procedure required.
(3) higher level of cognitive demand as the
problem can be solved by making diagrams and
connections between many possible situations.
(4) higher level of cognitive demand as it requires
the use of conceptual understanding that
underline the procedure to complete the task.
51. Mr. Nadeem gave the following task to his class after
completing the topic lines and angles:
Speak for 2 minutes on the following figures using
your knowledge about lines and angles:
This task is :
(1) Reflective in nature, can be used to pass time
(2) Exploratory in nature, can be used for summative
assessments.
(3) Reflective as well can be used for formative
assessment.
(4) Communicating and can encourage
Mathematical Talk in the classroom during free
time.
52. A child of class VII defines the rectangle as follows:
“Rectangle is a quadrilateral whose opposite sides
are parallel and equal.”
The definition reflects that the child
(1) cannot recognize the shape
(2) do not know the correct properties of the shape
(3) knows the properties of the shape, but repeated
some properties in definition
(4) knows some properties but missed some
important to complete the definition.
53. A very common error observed in addition of linear
expression is 5y + 3 = 8y.
This type of error is termed as
(1) Clerical error (2) Conceptual error
(3) Procedural error (4) Careless error
54. Read the following question from the class VI text-
book:
“Prabal deposited ` 5,000 in a bank at the rate of 5%
interest per annum. After 2 year he withdrew the
money to purchase the study table for ` 3,500. He
deposited the money left with him again at the rate
of 5% interest per annum for another two years.
How much amount will be receive after two years ?”
What values can be inculcated in students through
this question?
(1) Honesty
(2) Habit of saving money and spending it
wisely
(3) Sincerity
(4) Simplicity and helping others
55. Following is a problem from text-book of class VI:
“Express the following statement through linear
expression:
Neha has 7 more toffees than Megha. If Megha has
x toffees, how many toffees does Neha have?”
This problem is based on:
(1) Knowledge (2) Comprehension
(3) Analysis (4) Synthesis
56. If p = 3
2000
+ 3
–2000
and q = 3
2000
– 3
–2000
, then the
value of p
2
– q
2
is:
(1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 3 (4) 4
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Time: 2 hours 30 mins. Total Marks: 150
Child Development and Pedagogy
Directions: Answer the following questions (Q. Nos. 1 to 30)
by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
1. Which one of the following is a critique of theory of
multiple intelligences?
(1) Multiple intelligence are only the ‘talents‘
present in intelligence as a whole.
(2) Multiple intelligence provides students to
discover their propensities.
(3) It overemphasises practical intelligence.
(4) It cannot be supported by empirical evidence at
all.
2. Which one of the following pair is least likely to be a
correct match?
(1) Children enter in : Chomsky
the world with
certain knowledge
about language
(2) Language and : Vygotsky
thought are
initially two
different activities
(3) Language is : Piaget
contingent on
thought
(4) Language is : B.F . Skinner
a stimuli in
environment
3. Features assigned due to social roles and not due to
biological endowment are called:
(1) Gender role attitudes
(2) Gender role strain
(3) Gender-role stereotype
(4) Gender role diagnosticity
4. Which of the following will be most appropriate to
maximise learning?
(1) Teaching should identify her cognitive style as
well as of her students cognitive style.
(2) Individual difference in students should be
smoothened by pairing similar students.
(3) Teacher should focus on only one learning style
to bring optimum result.
(4) Students of similar cultural background should
be kept in the same class to avoid difference in
opinion.
5. All of the following promote assessment as learning
except.
(1) telling students to take internal feedback.
(2) generating a safe environment for students to
take chances.
(3) tell students to reflect on the topic taught.
(4) testing students as frequently as possible.
6. When a cook tastes a food during cooking it may be
akin to:
(1) Assessment of learning
(2) Assessment for learning
(3) Assessment as learning
(4) Assessment and learning
7. Differentiated instruction is:
(1) using a variety of groupings to meet students
needs.
(2) doing something different for very student in
the class.
(3) disorderly or undisciplined student activity.
(4) using groups that never change.
8. In a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom,
before deciding whether a student comes under
special education category, a teacher should:
(1) Not involve parents as parents have their own
work.
(2) Evaluate student on her/his mother language to
establish disability.
(3) Use specialised psychologists.
(4) Segregate the child to neutralise environmental
factor.
9. Learning disabilities may occur due to all of the
following except.
(1) Teachers way of teaching
(2) Prenatal use of alcohol
(3) Mental retardation
(4) Meaning it is during infancy
10. An inclusive school reflects on all the following
questions except :
(1) Do we believe that all students can learn.
(2) Do we work in teams to plan and deliver
learning enabling environment
(3) Do we properly segregate special children from
normal to provide better care.
(4) Do we adopt strategies catering for the diverse
needs of students.
11. Gifted students are:
(1) Convergent thinkers (2) Divergent thinkers
(3) Extrovert (4) Very hard working
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12. The shaded area represent students in a normal
distribution who fall:
(1) At s = 0 (2) Between 2 s – 3 s
(3) After 3 s (4) Between s – 2 s
13. Which one of the following pair would be most
appropriate choice to complete the following
sentence?
Children __________ faster when they are involved
in the activities that seem to be __________ .
(1) Forget; useful in a classroom
(2) Recall; linked with their classwork only
(3) Memorise; culturally neutral
(4) Learn; useful in real life
14. CBSE prescribed group activities for students in
place of activities for individual students. The idea
behind doing so could be:
(1) to overcome the negative emotional response
to individual competition which may generalise
across learning.
(2) to make it easy for teachers to observe groups
instead of individual students.
(3) to rationalise the time available with schools
most of which do not have enough time for
individual activities.
(4) to reduce the infrastructural cost of the activity.
15. The conclusion ‘Children can learn violent depicted in
movies‘ may be derived on the basis of the work
done by which of the following psychologist?
(1) Edward L. Thorndike (2) J.B. Watson
(3) Albert Bandura (4) Jean Piaget
16. Students observe fashion shows and try to imitate
models. This kind of imitation may be called:
(1) Primary simulation (2) Secondary simulation
(3) Social learning (4) Generalisation
17. If students repeatedly make errors during a lesson, a
teacher should:
(1) make changes in instruction, tasks, timetable or
seating arrangements.
(2) leave the lesson for the time being and come
back to it after some time.
(3) identify the erring students and talk to principal
about them.
(4) make erring students stand outside the
classroom.
18. Following are some techniques to manage anxiety
due to an approaching examination; except.
(1) familiarising with the pattern of question paper
(2) thinking too much about the result
(3) seeking support
(4) emphasising strengths
19. Bloom’s taxonomy is a hierarchical organisation of
__________ .
(1) achievement goals
(2) curricular declarations
(3) reading skills
(4) cognitive objectives
20. A, B and C are three students studying English. ‘A‘
finds it interesting and thinks it will be helpful for
her in future. ‘B‘ studies English as she wants to
secure first rank in the class. ‘C‘ studies it as she is
primarily concerned to secure passing grades. The
goals of A, B and C respectively are:
(1) Mastery, performance, performance avoidance
(2) Performance, performance avoidance, mastery
(3) Performance avoidance, mastery, performance
(4) Mastery, performance avoidance, performance
21. Even though this was clearly in violation of his
safety needs, Captain Vikram Batra died fighting
in the Kargil war while protecting his country. He
might have:
(1) sought novel experience
(2) achieved self-actualisation
(3) ignored his belongingness needs
(4) wanted to earn a good name to his family
22. Extinction of a response is more difficult following:
(1) partial reinforcement
(2) continuous reinforcement
(3) punishment
(4) verbal reproach
23. Mastery orientation can be encouraged by:
(1) focusing on students individual effort.
(2) comparing students successes with each other.
(3) assigning lot of practice material as home
assignments.
(4) taking unexpected tests.
24. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(1) Physical : Environment
Development
(2) Cognitive : Maturation
Development
(3) Social Development : Environment
(4) Emotional Development : Maturation
25. All the following facts indicate that a child is
emotionally and socially fit in a class except.
(1) develop good relationships with peers
(2) concentrate on and persist with challenging
tasks
(3) manage both anger and joy effectively
(4) concentrate persistently on competition with
peers
26. Which of the following statements support role of
environment in the development of a child?
(1) Some students quickly process information
while others in the same class do not.
(2) There has been a steady increase in students
average performance on IQ tests in last few
decades.
(3) Correlation between IQs of identical twins raised
in different homes is as high as 0.75.
(4) Physically fit children are often found to be
morally good.
27. Socialisation includes cultural transmission and:
(1) discourages rebellion
(2) development of individual personality
(3) fits children into labels
(4) provides emotional support
28. A teacher shows two identical glasses filled with an
equal amount of juice in them. She empties them
in two different glasses one of which is taller and
the other one is wider. She asks her class to identify
which glass would have more juice in it. Students
reply that the taller glass has more juice. Her
students have difficulty in dealing with:
(1) Accommodation (2) Egocentrism
(3) Decentring (4) Reversibility
29. Karnail Singh does not pay income tax despite
legal procedures and expenses. He thinks that he
cannot support a corrupt government which spends
millions of rupees in building unnecessary dams.
He is probably in which state of Kohlberg’s stages of
moral development.
(1) Conventional (2) Post conventional
(3) Pre conventional (4) Para conventional
30. Intelligence theory incorporates the mental processes
involved in intelligence (i.e. meta-components)
and the varied forms that intelligence can take (i.e.
creative intelligence)
(1) Spearman’s ‘g’ factor
(2) Sternberg’s triarchic theory of intelligence
(3) Savant theory of intelligence
(4) Thurstone’s primary mental abilities
Mathematics and Science
Directions: Answer the following questions by selecting the
correct/most appropriate options.
31. The number of integers less than – 3 but greater
than – 8 is:
(1) 2 (2) 3
(3) 4 (4) 6
32. The distance between two places is 12 km. A map
scale is 1 : 25000. The distance between the two
places on the map, in cm, is:
(1) 24 (2) 36
(3) 48 (4) 60
33. The reciprocal of
3
8
7
13
is:
(1)
104
21
(2)
-104
21
(3)
21
104
(4)
-21
104
34. The number of vertices in a polyhedron which has
30 edges and 12 faces is:
(1) 12 (2) 15
(3) 20 (4) 24
35. When half of a number is increased by 15, the result
is 39. The sum of digits of the original number is:
(1) 6 (2) 7
(3) 9 (4) 12
36. In DPQT, PQ = PT. The points R and S are on QT
such that PR = PS. If ?PTS = 62° and ?RPS = 34°,
then measure of ?QPR is:
(1) 11° (2) 13°
(3) 15° (4) 17°
37. If for DABC and DDEF, the correspondence CAB ?
EDF gives a congruence, then which of the following
is not true ?
(1) AC = DE (2) AB = EF
(3) ?A = ?D (4) ?B = ?F
38. 40% of (100 – 20% of 300) is equal to:
(1) 16 (2) 20
(3) 64 (4) 140
39. HCF of two numbers is 28 and their LCM is 336. If
one number is 112, then the other number is:
(1) 56 (2) 70
(3) 84 (4) 98
40. If
2
3
06 x = .
and 0.02 y = 1, then the value of x + y
–1
is :
(1) 0.92 (2) 1.1
(3) 49.1 (4) 50.9
41. If
y
x
x
y
2
1
1 ,,
then x equals:
(1)
y
y
2
1
(2)
y
y
2
1
(3)
y
y
2
1
(4)
2
1
-
-
y
y
42. A square and a circle have equal perimeters. The
ratio of the area of the square to the area of the circle
is:
(1) 1 : 1 (2) 1 : 4
(3) p : 2 (4) p : 4
43. ABCD is a square with AB = (x + 16) cm and BC =
(3x) cm. The perimeter (in cm) of the square is:
(1) 16 (2) 24
(3) 32 (4) 96
44. The mean of 10 numbers is 0. If 72 and –12 are
included in these numbers, the new mean will be:
(1) 0 (2) 5
(3) 6 (4) 60
45. The circumference of the base of a right circular
cylinder is 44 cm and its height is 15 cm. The volume
(in cm
3
) of the cylinder is
use =
22
7
:
(1) 770 (2) 1155
(3) 1540 (4) 2310
46. A class VII teacher wants to discuss the following
problem in the class:
“ A square is divided into four congruent rectangles.
The perimeter of each rectangle is 40 units. What is
the perimeter of given square?”
Key Mathematical concepts required to solve this
problem is:
(1) Area of square and rectangle, perimeter of
square and rectangle and definition of square
and rectangle
(2) Meaning of the terms square, rectangle,
congruent, perimeter, etc.
(3) Area of rectangle, perimeter of square
(4) Formation of algebraic equation to solve the
problem
47. Algebra is introduced in the middle classes. According
to Piaget‘s theory of cognitive development, it is
appropriate to introduce algebra at this stage as:
(1) the child is at sensorimotor stage and
can understand with the help of lots of
manipulatives.
(2) the child is at pre-operational stage and can
understand abstract concepts
(3) the child is at concrete-operational stage and
he can understand and conceptualize concrete
experiences by creating logical structure.
(4) the child is at formal operational stage and is
fully mature to grasp the abstract concepts.
48. Mr. Sharma was assessing the students‘ work on
exponents. One of the response sheet was as follows:
(a) 2
3
× 2
5
= 2
8
(b) 3
2
× 4
2
= (12)
4
(c) 3
3
÷ 3
5
= 3
–2
(d) 7
20
÷ 7
14
= 7
6
(e) 9
3
÷ 18
6
=
1
2
3
On the basis of this response sheet Mr. Sharma can
make the following observation:
(1) Child has understood the laws of exponents and
can apply them well.
(2) Child has understood the laws of exponents but
has made clerical errors.
(3) Child has understood the laws of exponents
but has not practised the questions involving
division of two numbers.
(4) Child has understood the law of exponents
for the cases where the base is same and has
missed the concept for the case where the base
is different.
49. According to Van Hiele level of Geometric thought
the five levels of geometric understanding are
visualization, analysis, informal deduction, formal
deduction and rigour. Students of class VII are
asked to classify the quadrilaterals according to their
properties. These students are at..............level of Van
Hiele Geometrical thought.
(1) Visualization (2) Analysis
(3) Informal Deduction (4) Formal Deduction
50. A task assigned to the class VIII student is as follows:
An open box is to be made out of metallic sheet of 50
cm × 65 cm. Length and breadth of the box is 30 cm
and 15 cm respectively. What is the possible height
of the box ? Also find the volume of this box.
This task refer to
(1) lower level cognitive demand as it requires the
knowledge of formulae of volume of cuboid.
(2) lower level of cognitive demand as there is no
connection between concepts involved and
procedure required.
(3) higher level of cognitive demand as the
problem can be solved by making diagrams and
connections between many possible situations.
(4) higher level of cognitive demand as it requires
the use of conceptual understanding that
underline the procedure to complete the task.
51. Mr. Nadeem gave the following task to his class after
completing the topic lines and angles:
Speak for 2 minutes on the following figures using
your knowledge about lines and angles:
This task is :
(1) Reflective in nature, can be used to pass time
(2) Exploratory in nature, can be used for summative
assessments.
(3) Reflective as well can be used for formative
assessment.
(4) Communicating and can encourage
Mathematical Talk in the classroom during free
time.
52. A child of class VII defines the rectangle as follows:
“Rectangle is a quadrilateral whose opposite sides
are parallel and equal.”
The definition reflects that the child
(1) cannot recognize the shape
(2) do not know the correct properties of the shape
(3) knows the properties of the shape, but repeated
some properties in definition
(4) knows some properties but missed some
important to complete the definition.
53. A very common error observed in addition of linear
expression is 5y + 3 = 8y.
This type of error is termed as
(1) Clerical error (2) Conceptual error
(3) Procedural error (4) Careless error
54. Read the following question from the class VI text-
book:
“Prabal deposited ` 5,000 in a bank at the rate of 5%
interest per annum. After 2 year he withdrew the
money to purchase the study table for ` 3,500. He
deposited the money left with him again at the rate
of 5% interest per annum for another two years.
How much amount will be receive after two years ?”
What values can be inculcated in students through
this question?
(1) Honesty
(2) Habit of saving money and spending it
wisely
(3) Sincerity
(4) Simplicity and helping others
55. Following is a problem from text-book of class VI:
“Express the following statement through linear
expression:
Neha has 7 more toffees than Megha. If Megha has
x toffees, how many toffees does Neha have?”
This problem is based on:
(1) Knowledge (2) Comprehension
(3) Analysis (4) Synthesis
56. If p = 3
2000
+ 3
–2000
and q = 3
2000
– 3
–2000
, then the
value of p
2
– q
2
is:
(1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 3 (4) 4
57. The square of 9 is divided by the cube root of 125.
The remainder is:
(1) 1 (2) 2
(3) 3 (4) 4
58. The value of
16 84
is:
(1) 16 (2) 8
(3)
82
3
(4) 16 2
59. One-half 1.2 × 10
30
is:
(1) 6.0 × 10
30
(2) 6.0 × 10
29
(3) 6.0 × 5
30
(4) 1.2 × 10
15
60. If
2
3
23
30
9
10
11
15
4
5
,, , and
are written in ascending
order, then the fraction in the middle most will be:
(1)
23
30
(2)
4
5
(3)
2
3
(4)
11
15
61. The steps required for the conversion of kitchen
garbage into manure are given below in a jumbled
form.
A. Put the garbage in the pit.
B. Cover the bottom of the pit with sand.
C. Cover the pit loosely with grass or a gunny bag.
D. Add worms.
The correct sequence of these steps is:
(1) B, A, C, D (2) B, C, A, D
(3) B, A, D, C (4) B, D, A, C
62. Two organisms are best friends and live together.
One provides shelter, water and nutrients while
the other prepares and provides food. Such an
association of organisms is termed as:
(1) Autotrophy (2) Parasitism
(3) Heterotrophy (4) Symbiosis
63. In the alimentary canal the swallowed food moves
downwards because of:
(1) the contraction of muscles in the wall of food
pipe.
(2) the flow of fluid material taken with the food.
(3) gravitational pull.
(4) force provided by the muscular tongue.
64. Frogs and earthworm breathe through their skin
because of which the skin of both the organism is:
(1) dry and rough (2) dry and slimy
(3) moist and rough (4) moist and slimy
65. While going for a picnic a student noted the reading
on the odometer on the bus after every 10 minutes
till the end of the journey. Later on he recorded the
reading in a table shown below:
Time
(AM)
Odometer reading
(km)
8.00 78752
8.10 78758
8.20 78768
8.30 78780
8.40 78791
8.50 78800
9.00 78806
The average speed of the bus in the entire journey
in metres per second was:
(1) 15 (2) 18
(3) 30 (4) 54
66. You are provided with a concave mirror, a concave
lens, a convex mirror and a convex lens. T o obtain an
enlarged image of an object you can use either:
(1) concave lens or convex lens
(2) concave mirror or convex mirror
(3) concave mirror or concave mirror
(4) concave mirror or convex lens
67. Select from the following a set of Kharif Crops:
(1) Cotton, paddy, pea, linseed
(2) Paddy, maize, cotton, soyabean
(3) Gram, mustard, groundnut, wheat
(4) Maize, paddy, linseed, soyabean
68. Study the following statements about the effects of
weeds on the crop plants:
(A) They help crop plants to grow healthily.
(B) They interfere in harvesting.
(C) They affect plant growth.
(D) They compete with crop plants for water,
nutrients, space and light.
The correct statements are:
(1) C and D only (2) D only
(3) B, C and D (4) A, B and D
69. When we add aluminium foil to freshly prepared
sodium hydroxide solution a gas is produced. Which
of the following correctly states the property of this
gas?
(1) Colourless and odourless gas which extinguishes
a burning match stick.
(2) Colourless and odourless gas which promotes
burning of a candle.
(3) Brown coloured pungent smelling gas.
(4) Colourless and odourless gas which produces
a ‘pop‘ sound when a burning match stick is
brought near it.
70. Aqueous solution of which of the following oxides
will change the colour of blue litmus to red?
(1) Copper oxide (2) Iron oxide
(3) Magnesium oxide (4) Sulphur dioxide
71. Which of the following is a pair of exhaustible
natural resources?
(1) Coal and soil
(2) Petroleum and water
(3) Minerals and wildlife
(4) Natural gas and sun-light
72. Which of the following statement is true about
endemic species?
(1) They are not affected by the destruction of their
habitat.
(2) They are found only in zoos and botonical
gardens.
(3) They are found exclusively in specific habitat.
(4) Endemic species can never become endangered.
73. Which of the following pairs is related to the
inheritance of characters?
(1) Chromosomes and genes
(2) Chromosomes and mitochondria
(3) Cell membrane and cell wall
(4) Cell membrane and chloroplast
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