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

Cognitive abilities are brain-based skills we need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex. They have more to do with the mechanisms of how we learn, remember, problem-solve, reason out, and pay attention rather than with any actual knowledge.

An inclusive classroom includes each and every category of children in the educational system, regardless of their differences and disabilities. In an inclusive classroom, all creative, gifted, intelligent, backward, mentally retarded children study together.

• Creativity is a cognitive ability to produce something original by offering a fresh perspective. It is the ability possessed by people who are creative, persistent, and imaginative.

Children are divided into different categories based on their interests, behavior, nature, I.Q level, understanding, grasping abilities, etc. Children live through critical phases of development, which influence their behavior.

• Most children learn to adapt well to this changing nature of skill demand, but some of these children find it difficult to do so.
• Further, much problematic behaviour which goes unnoticed or even tolerated in a home setting becomes more conspicuous in the school environment due to competition and frequent evaluation.
• Common problematic behaviours are attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning disability, bullying, and delinquent behaviour.

Problematic children are particularly those who are difficult to teach, due to a lack of self-control and disruptive and antisocial behavior. 
Making an effort to bring change in a child's environment and attitude will be the best way for bringing change in the behavior of a problematic child as: 

• A good learning environment helps in building a culture of mutual trust and respect that engages the learners meaningfully in the task of learning.
• Besides that, it also supports a relationship between teaching and learning that helps in improving childhood mental health and academic performance. 
• By bringing a change in attitude child's thinking, feeling and behavior could be influenced towards a place, people, or situation.

So, it could be concluded that making effort to bring change in a child's environment and attitude will be the best way for bringing change in the behavior of a problematic child.

A slow learner is a child whose IQ is low enough to cause considerable difficulty in keeping up in the classroom. An average IQ is 100. Slow learners score between 70 and 90 on IQ tests. Less than 70 is considered mentally retarded.

Curiosity and Creative ideas are considered a sign of being gifted. Fighting is a confrontation in which two or more people compete for dominance and respect to satisfy their own egos. Thus, it cannot be regarded as a sign of being gifted. Curiosity is a valuable agent in education when it is rightly valued and employed. Curiosity is highly important because it is a starting point of interest. Creative ideas are concerned with a holistic approach to education, focusing upon the learner becoming part of a professional community, involving the dimensions of knowledge, performance and identity formation.

Fear is an emotion that creates high levels of anxiety in a person and causes the loss of courage in a person.

• Fear of failure makes a person scared of failing. It commonly happens to the students. The reason for such fear is due to peer pressure, focusing on the outcome rather than concentrating on the learning.
• It even damages the mental and emotional state. Sometimes the fear overpowers the students in such a manner that they even commit drastic measures.
• Children should be counseled and should be made to understand that failure and errors are natural in the process of learning and they should not focus on failure or success, rather they should put effort into developing their concepts.
• Understanding of errors is necessary in the learning process to give insight into children's thinking. It helps the teacher to be aware of learners' learning styles, to cater to them according to their needs.

​Thus, it is concluded that the 'fear of failure' needs to be discouraged in children within a classroom because failure and errors are a natural part of children's learning.

According to Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibrium are the ways through which children integrate new experiences into already existing cognition structures (schema). 

Extinction (psychology) is observed in both operantly conditioned and classically conditioned behaviours. When operant behaviour that has been previously reinforced no longer produces reinforcing consequences, the behaviour gradually stops occurring.
A partial reinforcement will continue to produce reinforcing consequences and therefore, making it difficult to stop a behaviour from re-occurring.

Noam Chomsky, known as the father of modern linguistics, has made a crucial contribution in the field of linguistics.

The young child learns to speak single, discrete words in the beginning. Later, he can join together these sentences in the form of language. This is Development leads to the integration principle of development.
Development leads to integration: Once the child learns specific or differentiated responses, then, as development continues, she can synthesise or integrate these specific responses to form a whole. For example, the young child learns to speak single, discrete words in the beginning. Later, he can join together these sentences in the form of language. Similarly, a young child may have a specific concept of a car. Later, as she grows, her concept expands as she is able to synthesise new aspects into it.

Jean Piaget, a swiss psychologist, is famous for his work on child development. He made a systematic study of cognitive development in his theory that is categorized in four stages.

• उपर्युक्त गद्यांश के अनुसार भारत में उपभोक्ता आंदोलन 1960 के दशक में शुरू हुए थे।
• 1970 के दशक तक उपभोक्ता आंदोलन केवल आर्टिकल लिखने और प्रदर्शनी लगाने तक ही सीमित थे।

आत्मसंस्कार के लिए आवश्यक है - 'मानसिक स्वतंत्रता'
गद्यांश के अनुसार:-

• विनम्रता का यह कथन बहुत ठीक है कि विनम्रता के बिना स्वतंत्रता का कोई अर्थ नहीं ।
• इस बात को सब लोग मानते हैं कि आत्मसंस्कार के लिए थोड़ी बहुत मानसिक स्वतंत्रता परमावश्यक है –
• चाहे उस स्वतंत्रता में अभिमान और नम्रता दोनों का मेल हो और चाहे वह नम्रता ही से उत्पन्न हो । 

भाषा की कक्षा में बालको की मौखिक अभिव्यक्ति के दौरान किया जाने वाला आकलन बालक किस प्रकार से अपने पक्ष को रखता है।
आकलन एक संवादात्मक तथा रचनात्मक प्रक्रिया माना जाता है, जिसके द्वारा शिक्षक को यह ज्ञात होता है कि विद्यार्थी का उचित अधिगम हो रहा है अथवा नहीं।
भाषा आकलन का अर्थ है भाषा-प्रयोग की क्षमता का आकलन।
इसका उद्देश निदानात्मक होता है, अर्थात शिक्षण अधिगम कार्याक्रम मे सुधार करना, छात्रों व शिक्षकों को पृष्ठपोषण प्रदान करना तथा छात्रों की अधिगम संबंधी कठिनाइयों को ज्ञात करना।
भाषा शिक्षण में आकलन का आशय उन प्रक्रियाओं से हैं जिनकी सहायता से एक शिक्षक विद्यार्थियों के भाषा संबंधी समस्त कौशलों के संबंध में शिक्षण  के दौरान एवं पाठ्यक्रम की समाप्ती पर निर्णय करता है।

भाषा प्रयोगशाला वह स्थान है जहां शिक्षार्थियों को हेडफोन पर सुनना होता है। यह आधुनिक भाषा शिक्षण में सहायता के रूप में उपयोग किया जाने वाला एक ऑडियो या ऑडियो-विजुअल इंस्टॉलेशन है। यहां, छात्र अपनी गलती खुद सुन सकता है और छात्र के सक्रिय बोलने का समय भी काफी बढ़ जाता है।

Language is a tool to communicate with the world. Considering the size of the world, there have been many civilizations in different parts of the world which have developed different languages.

If a teacher tells the students to visit at least three schools in your neighbourhood and find the difference in the English language proficiency of learners and teachers, languages known/spoken by learners, and languages used inside and outside the classroom in the school then she is focusing on multilingualism and language education.

• Multilingualism is a natural phenomenon that relates positively to cognitive flexibility and scholastic achievement.
• Several recent studies have effectively demonstrated the positive relationship of bilingualism with cognitive growth and scholastic achievement. There is a highly positive relationship between bilingualism, cognitive flexibility and scholastic achievement.
• Bilingual children not only have control over several different languages but are also academically more creative and socially more tolerant.
• The wide range of linguistic skills that they control equips them to negotiate different social situations more efficiently. 

Thus it is clear that Neha is focusing on multilingualism and language education.

The synonym of the phrase 'very small' is 'tiny'.

It does not include 'campus radio' as an educational media. This is because it gives only instructions related to their schedules.

Individual difference: Every child is unique and different from others. It should be kept in mind that learners possess different abilities, and personalities, and belong to different backgrounds. The stimulus needs of every learner will be different. Teaching has to be done keeping in mind the individual differences and problems arising out of it.
The teacher should take care of the below points:

• As per the need of the students, the teaching method can vary.
• Generally confused with discrimination, ability grouping is a measure in which students of similar traits are grouped so that the teacher can choose a compatible teaching method.
• Keeping in mind the child-centered education as proposed by the NCF, adjusting the curriculum is no exception because it is the child who has the freedom to choose what he wants to learn.
• The pace of learning should not be a matter of concern for a teacher as every child has his pace and more than results, the attempt to learn is important.

It should be noted that, though self-study improves knowledge, it should not be done simultaneously when the teacher’s responsibility is to teach children.
So, we conclude that for a teacher, leaving children for self-study is not recommended

This is the right answer. The parents may not be able to help the child academically, but this act itself implies that education is considered important and as something valuable, which may motivate the child to study.

This is the correct option because it has been mentioned in the rules that an existing committee member who (or whose relatives) had failed to submit accounts could not be a member of a Sabha as laid down in the inscriptions from Uttaramerur in Chingleput district of Tamil Nadu.

Micro-teaching skills do not include problem solving.

Primary sources are the original materials created at the time under study, which includes first-hand accounts or direct evidence of the event.

• They are essential for historical research and understanding, as they provide an insight into the perspectives, ideas, and beliefs of the people who witnessed or participated in the event.

Spring tide occurs when Sun, Moon and Earth are in the same line.

The children learn more through their experiences. A guided discussion based on their own experiences will prove to be useful.

• If the stars are seen to rise perpendicular to the horizon by an observer then the observer is at the equator.
• The celestial equator is an imaginary circle around the sky directly above the earth's equator.
• The celestial equator is the great circle in which the plane of the terrestrial Equator intersects the celestial sphere.
• It consequently is equidistant from the celestial poles.

Explanation based on the diagram above:

• It can be imagined through this image that the equator can be extended out into space to the stars.
• The equator that the Sun appears to cross is a projection of the Earth's equator onto the sky and is called the celestial equator.
• This may sound confusing, but the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is also called the ecliptic.
• While the person standing over the equator, he/she will observe a star perpendicular to the horizon.
• If the person stays in the northern hemisphere in the wintertime, the star or Sun will appear below the equator.

Hence, the equator is the correct answer in this perspective.

Students best learn by way of activities. 'Learning by doing' is the best way to make students understand the concepts more effectively. The students must be assigned tasks which engage them, and are of interest to them. This way, they will try to make the best use of available resources, along with effective learning.

Social Sciences are essential to provide social, cultural, and analytical skills required to adjust to an increasingly interdependent world, and to deal with political and economic realities.

In our solar system, all the planets have natural satellites except Mercury and Venus.

• Venus and the planet Mercury are the only two planets that don't have a single natural moon orbiting them. 
• Mercury is the first planet from the sun in the solar system as well as the smallest planet among the eight planets.
• Named after the Roman god Mercury, the planet also has the shortest orbital period around the sun due to its closeness to the sun.
• As stated earlier, the planet does not have any known natural satellites.
• Just like Mercury, Venus also does not have any known natural satellites.
• Venus is the second innermost planet from the sun in the solar system.
• The planet has an orbital period of about 243 days although its orbital direction is unlike most of the other planets.

Hence, the correct answer is Mars.