Karnataka TET Paper 2 Mock Test - 3 (Social Science) Free Online Test 2026

A student has the habit of writing with his right hand. Due to loss of his right hand in an accident, he uses his left hand for writing. It is an example of bilateral transfer. Bilateral transfer is an aspect of the transfer of learning and is the transfer of learning or performance from one side of the body after training to the other. So, for example, after training a task with the right hand, there is an improvement in left-handed performance.

Development refers to an increase in structure for better and enhanced functioning of organs. It is a wide and continuous process that starts from the pre-natal stage.
In the pre-natal stage, baby develops inside the mother's womb and becomes a mature one by passing through three different stages of prenatal development.
The three stages of pre-natal development include:

• Germinal period: First 2 weeks after conception.
• Embryonic period: 8 weeks from conception.
• Fetal Period: 9 weeks until birth or 38 to 40 weeks.

Hence it could be concluded that development starts from the pre-natal stage.​

A lesson plan is the teacher's guide for running a particular lesson. A lesson plan is a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction or "learning trajectory" for a lesson. A daily lesson plan is developed by a teacher to guide class learning. Details will vary depending on the preference of the teacher, the subject being covered, and the needs of the students. There may be requirements mandated by the school system regarding the plan. A lesson plan is the teacher's guide for running a particular lesson, and it includes the goal, how the goal will be reached, and a way of measuring how well the goal was reached.

Teachers interacting more with boys than girls is an example of gender bias in teaching.
Gender refers to the socially and culturally constructed system that attributes meaning to what it means to be a male or a female in a particular society.
Gender bias in teaching leads to differential learning experiences, even though the girls and boys of a class sit in the same classroom and attended by the same teacher.

• It refers to the belief when someone prioritize one gender more than the other one.
• The result of the research studies about teachers interacting more with boys than girls is an example of gender bias in teaching.

The Achievement motivation theory narrates personal individualities and circumstantial to a need for achievement and the allied competitive drive to meet standards of excellence. Achievement Motivation Theory (AMT) clarifies the affiliation between an individual’s appearances and his/her need to accomplish roughly in life. In doing so, it also takes into account the kind of reasonable drive a person has to achieve set goals.

Gender Bias is behavior that shows favoritism toward one gender over another. Gender bias occurs when we make assumptions regarding the behaviors, abilities, or preferences of students based upon their gender. Therefore, During classroom discussions, when the teacher pays attention to boys only rather than girls. This shows the scenario of gender biaseness.

Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was the most well-known and influential theorist of cognitive development.

• In his theory of cognitive development, he discussed about the four distinct universal stages, each characterized by increasingly sophisticated and abstract levels of thoughts which always occur in the same order and each build on what has been learned in the previous stage.
• These stages are the sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage and formal operational stage.

उपचारात्मक शिक्षण शिक्षण-शिक्षण कार्यक्रम का एक अभिन्न अंग है, जिसे प्रतिपूरक या सुधारात्मक शिक्षण के रूप में भी जाना जाता है।
अंग्रेजी भाषा में उपचारात्मक शिक्षण के उद्देश्य:

• अप्रभावी आदतों को खत्म करने के लिए।
• अतिरिक्त सहायता देकर शिक्षार्थियों को बेहतर सीखने के लिए।
• विद्यार्थियों को उनकी क्षमताओं और आवश्यकताओं के अनुसार सीखने की गतिविधियाँ और व्यावहारिक अनुभव प्रदान करना।
• ठीक से नहीं सीखी गई भाषा वस्तुओं को फिर से पढ़ाने के लिए।
• प्रेरक उपागमों के साथ सीखने में शिक्षार्थियों की रुचि जगाना।
• विद्यार्थियों को उनकी सामान्य या विशिष्ट कमजोरियों से छुटकारा पाने में मदद करें।
• शिक्षार्थियों को उनकी विविध आवश्यकताओं के अनुसार व्यावहारिक अनुभव प्रेषित करना।
• गहन उपचारात्मक सहायता के साथ व्यक्तिगत शिक्षण प्रदान करना।

इसलिए, हम यह निष्कर्ष निकाल सकते हैं कि उपरोक्त सभी अंग्रेजी भाषा में उपचारात्मक शिक्षण के उद्देश्य हैं।

सीख लीगे भाषा तथा अपेक्षित भाषा मे संवाद करने के लिए प्रयुक्त की जाने वाली भाषा शिक्षण की विधि अनुवाद विधि हैI अनुवाद विधि के गुण :-

• इसे बड़ी सरलता से पढ़ाया ज सकता हैI
• इस विधि मे बोलने की अपेक्षा लिखने और पढने पर तथा भाषा की अपेक्षा भाषा के तत्वों के ज्ञान पर अधिक बल दिया जाता हैI
• द्वितीय भाषा के ढांचों का ज्ञान कराया जाता है तथा भाषा कौशलो मे दक्षता ली जाती हैI
• द्वितीय भाषा के शब्दों एवं वाक्यों का ज्ञान आना चाहिए ना कि नियम व मातृभाषा के अवतरणों का द्वतीय भाषा मे अनुवाद किया जाता हैI

विश्लेषण विधि के अन्तर्गत किसी इकाई को सूक्ष्म खंडों में विभक्त कर शिक्षण कराया जाता है।
विश्लेषण विधि- विश्लेषण विधि में किसी समस्या को पहले छोटे-छोटे भागों में विभाजित किया जाता है। उसके बाद समस्या के बारे में अध्ययन किया जाता है। फिर उसके निष्कर्ष पर पहुंचा जाता है। इस प्रकार के शिक्षण विधि को विश्लेषण विधि कहते हैं। इस विधि से समस्या का हल निकालने से पहले समस्या के बारे में जानते हैं, फिर समस्या के हल के लिए उपयुक्त विधि का चयन करते हैं।
​विश्लेषण विधि की विशेषताएँ:

• इस विधि में छात्रों को खोज करने का अवसर मिलता है।
• इस विधि को क्रियाशील विधि माना जाता है।
• इस विधि द्वारा प्राप्त होने वाले ज्ञान हमेशा स्थाई होता है।
• इस विधि में छात्र हमेशा क्रियाशील रहते हैं।

दिए गए विकल्पों मे उचित उत्तर विकल्प 3 ‘मर्त्य’ है।

• ‘अमर’ का विलोम शब्द ‘मर्त्य’ होगा।
• ‘अमर’ का शाब्दिक अर्थ ‘कभी न मरने वाला’ होगा।
• ‘मर्त्य’ का अर्थ ‘मृत्यु प्राप्त करने वाला’ होगा।

पद्यांश के अनुसार, कवि ने सूरज के लिए सफेद रंग के खरगोश के उछल कूद करने के उपमान का प्रयोग किया है।

• The passage concludes with the statement: "it's crucial to remember that technology is merely a tool—it's how we use it that ultimately defines its impact."
• This implies that the benefits or downsides of technology are not inherent in the technology itself, but in how it is used.
• Based on the above given points, it is clear that the passage suggests that we  view and use technology 'as a tool to be used wisely'.

Therefore, the correct answer is Option 4

The best way to teach this story would be by having the students dramatise it. Story dramatisations are based on a story that students are familiar with. While it is planned by students, a script is not necessary. Students know the story and characters well enough to improvise action and dialogue.
Research has shown the positive effects of improvised story dramatisation on language development and student achievement in oral and written story recall, writing and reading for both younger students (Pellegrini, 1997) and students through middle school (Deasy, 2002; Fiske, 1999).

Inclusive education ensures that children with special needs are taught in regular schools with their age and grade peers with support services provided within the school system. Thus, it reflects the objective of providing quality education to all children by accommodating their needs and learning styles into the general curriculum.

This is the correct option because you will be expected to recognise strategies for promoting fluency with respect to reading rate, reading accuracy and prosodic reading. You may be asked about appropriate strategies for monitoring students' reading fluency development.

Audio-visual aids or technological media are additional devices that help the teacher to clarify, establish, co-relate, and co-ordinate accurate concepts, interpretations, and appreciations and enable him/her to make learning more concrete, effective, interesting, inspirational, meaningful, and vivid. They help in completing the triangular process of learning viz., motivation-clarification-stimulation.

Questioning Skills refer to one’s ability to formulate and respond to questions about situations, objects, concepts, and ideas. Questions may derive from oneself or from other people. There are low-level questions and high-level questions. Low-level questions require one to recall information that has been registered in memory. They operate on the individual’s level of knowledge of a subject. Higher-level questions require one to process information rather than simply recall it. Guideline(s) to Enhance Questioning Skills Among Children in the Classroom:

• Create an atmosphere of trust and encourage questions.
• Encourage divergent questions.
• Respond in an encouraging way.
• Model good questioning skills.
• Reduce the number of questions that can be answered by only “yes” or “no.”
• Do not stop the discussion with the right answer.
• Increase wait-time between asking and answering questions to at least five seconds.
• Provide good halting times.
• Develop sensitive listening techniques.
• Develop silent time.
• Appreciate questions that are appropriate to the developmental level.
• Ask them to come up with their own student questions in the lesson, quiz, or assignments.
• Have interesting topics of discussion.

Therefore, we conclude that all the above points are guidelines to enhance questioning skills among children in the classroom.

John Dewey, an American philosopher has proposed the concept of 'Progressive Education' which emphasizes that learning takes place only through 'hands-on' approach so the students must interact with their environment to adapt and learn.
Belief in the capability and potential of every child is central to the concept of progressive education as it promotes: 

• emphasizes to enhance skills and understanding of the learners by engaging with the contents and experiences.
• promotes 'learning by doing' to make children self-reliant and productive to use their knowledge and talents effectively.
• ensures the active participation of students by working in a group and applying practical knowledge to complete an activity.

So, it could be concluded that belief in the capability and potential of every child is central to the concept of progressive education.

This is the correct option. Teachers can encourage growth of interpersonal intelligence by designing lessons that include group work and planning cooperative learning activities.

The correct answer is They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet, and they smiled rather than laughed.
Let's explore the options:
Option (A) is correct as:
The second line of the last paragraph states, "They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet, and they smiled rather than laughed." 
Option (B) is incorrect as:
According to the passage, the correct statement is, "Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones;".
Option (C) is incorrect as:
According to the passage, the correct statement is, "there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 20th,".
Option (D) is also incorrect as:
According to the passage, the correct statement is, "His father spoke up sharply, and Bobby came quickly and took his place between his father and his oldest brother."

The judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the Constitution and laws and applying their interpretations to controversies brought before it.
Separation of power is the odd one out.

For several centuries, Mahavira's and his disciples' teachings were passed down orally. Around 1500 years ago, they were recorded in Gujarat at a location named Valabhi in the current form that is available today.

• India is one of the most diverse nations in terms of religion.
• Freedom of religion in India is a fundamental right guaranteed by Article 25-28 of the Constitution of India.

The growth of a society is often determined by the way it treats its most vulnerable sections.

• Women and children are among the most vulnerable in a society like ours and safeguarding their rights are of paramount importance.
• Sexual harassment of women in general and such harassment at workplaces is a phenomenon that puts women at higher levels of risk.

The Tibetan Plateau is known as the "Roof of the World."

Central Asia's Tibetan Plateau is justifiably nicknamed "the roof of the world"-its average elevation is more than 4,500 meters (14,764 feet)

Colonisation refers to the act of taking control of a particular area.

The term "cognitive process" refers to the mental functions involved in the acquisition, storage, interpretation, manipulation, transformation, and application of knowledge.

Central Government is the first level of democratic government in India.

Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form". The original rock (protolith) is subjected to heat (temperatures greater than 150 to 200°C) and pressure (1500 bars), causing profound physical and/or chemical change.