TS TET Paper 2 Mock Test - 2 (Social Science) - TS TET MCQ

Disadvantaged Learner-

• The socially disadvantaged child is one who is from a socially and economically backward section of the community, who cannot profit from school because of deprivation of one sort or another. Such children show cumulative academic deficits, high dropout rate, and progressive decline in intellectual functioning. 

Deprived Learner-

• The term 'underprivileged' refers to the disadvantaged section of people who are economically, socially, and vocationally in an unfavorable situation compared to the rest of the population of society. Thus it is a relative term. They are underprivileged in relation to the middle-class or upper-class people of their society. 

When a child gets bored while doing a task, it is a sign that the task may have become mechanically repetitive.
These activities have the following characteristics to avoid boredom in the classroom:

• It allows vigorous physical activity as children are energetic. Keeping this in mind, plan play activities involving running, jumping, climbing, catching and throwing.
• During the day there should be some indoor and some outdoor play activities. Outdoor play is generally vigorous and indoor activities are usually quieter.
• There must be a balance between structured activities initiated by you and free play initiated by the children. For example, taking the children out on a trip or organizing activities around a particular theme are structured activities. 
• During the day you must organize both group and individual activities. The group activities will foster a spirit of cooperation and social skills, while the individual activities will give the child a chance to be alone and do something on her own, hence children are intelligent enough to do things by their own, and are capable of learning. 
• The schedule of activities should be at a reasonable pace throughout the day. This means that you should allow enough time to children. But it should not be too slow that children begin to repeat it after completing it, else it will make children bored.

According to Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, Cognition develops through the interaction between the child and the environment.​ Piaget’s theory focuses not only on understanding how children acquire knowledge but also on understanding the nature of the child’s intelligence.

Inclusive Education: It is concerned with the learning and participation of all students vulnerable to exclusionary pressures not only those with impairments or those who are categorised ‘having special educational needs’. Inclusion is all about embracing all.

If teacher will ask the students to do right things, then only the students will achieve the right result which is most important.

Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation, commonly known as 'CCE', was introduced as a school-based evaluation system by the CBSE in 2009 with the enactment of the Right to Education Act.

• Continuous and comprehensive Evaluation mainly aims at promoting Inclusive education. 
• CCE can be incorporated in the inclusive classroom while engaging in teaching through a variety of activities.
• Incorporating strategies for attending to diverse needs in classrooms would be particularly useful in developing CCE processes for the classroom.

Aims of CCE:

• Emphasizing continuity and regularity of assessment.
• Assessing both scholastic and co-scholastic aspects of a child's growth.
• Emphasize the thought process and de-emphasize memorization as CCE includes all aspects of students' development.
• Recording the methods of learning to make the required improvements.
• Making evaluation an integral part of learning through diagnostic and remedial teaching.
• Evaluating children comprehensively rather than focus only on cognitive or intellectual functioning. 
• Ensuring all-around development of students including cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains.
• Evaluate every aspect of the child during their presence at the school.
• Developing a student's cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains.
• Assessing both scholastic and co-scholastic aspects of a child's growth.
• Evaluation of the interest of the child during their presence at the school.
• Observing and recording the methods of learning to make improvements.

So, we can conclude that Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation mainly aims at promoting Inclusive education.

'Socialisation' is a process by which children and adults learn from society that includes family, peers as well as school.

The sociocultural context refers to a person's social and cultural milieu in which he lives at a certain time period.

• Socio-cultural context includes race, class, ability, different learning conditions and styles, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality and other dimensions that make up the identity of the individual student and impact his or her learning experience.
• Social institutions and systems develop through history, culture, and heritage. The caste system, the joint family system, child marriage, sati, and the patriarchal family are all examples of social institutions and systems.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition in which a person has trouble paying attention and focusing on tasks, tends to act without thinking, and has trouble sitting still. It may begin in early childhood and can continue into adulthood. Reducing the time allotted to complete an assignment to make it coincide with time of attention and increasing this time in a phased manner will be best suited to deal with ADHD children.

प्राची शब्द का अर्थ 'पूर्व दिशा' है।

• प्रतीची शब्द का अर्थ: 'पश्चिम दिशा'
• वायव्य शब्द का अर्थ: उत्तर -पश्चिम दिशा 
• आग्नेय शब्द का अर्थ: 'दक्षिण - पूर्व दिशा'

भाषा शिक्षण वह प्रक्रिया है जिसमें एक बच्चा किसी भाषा पर संप्रेषणीय समझ या प्रवाह प्राप्त करता है। इसमें शिक्षार्थियों द्वारा अभ्यास शामिल है जहां एक शिक्षक द्वारा सुविधा प्रदान की जाती है।
भाषा सीखना:

• यह एक विशिष्ट भाषा के मूलभूत कौशल की बेहतर समझ के लिए जानबूझकर और सचेत प्रयास का परिणाम है। यह व्याकरणिक नियमों और संचार में उनके उपयोग का एक बुनियादी ज्ञान है।
• भाषा सीखने के लिए इनपुट-समृद्ध संचार वातावरण एक पूर्वापेक्षा है। यह एक विशिष्ट भाषा सीखने के लिए शिक्षार्थियों की रुचि और जिज्ञासा को जगाता है।
• इनपुट में पाठ्यपुस्तकें, शिक्षार्थी द्वारा चुने गए पाठ, और विभिन्न प्रकार की शैलियों के लिए अनुमति देने वाली कक्षा पुस्तकालय शामिल हैं। उदाहरण के लिए, युवा शिक्षार्थियों के लिए बड़ी पुस्तकें, एक से अधिक भाषाओं में समानांतर पुस्तकें और सामग्री, रेडियो/ऑडियो कैसेट, और "प्रामाणिक" सामग्री।
• साथ ही, ये इनपुट और पर्यावरण जो इस प्रकार के संसाधनों से समृद्ध है, समझ और भाषा सीखने के बीच के अंतर को कम करने में मदद कर सकता है, यानी किसी भाषा की व्याख्या करने और समझने की अक्षमता और किसी भाषा को व्यावहारिक रूप से समझने और उपयोग करने की क्षमता।

इसलिए, भाषा सीखने के संबंध में दोनों कथन सत्य हैं।

• राष्ट्रभाषा सारे देश की संपर्क भाषा है।
• राष्ट्रभाषा के साथ जनता का भावात्मक लगाव रहता है क्योंकि उसके साथ जनसाधारण की सांस्कृतिक परंपरायें जुड़ी रहती हैं। 

Global comprehension means understanding the general meaning of what you are listening to or reading. It can be compared to selective comprehension, which means understanding specific information in the text and detailed comprehension, which means understanding everything. Here, option (3) presents a global comprehension question as it is related to the general idea of deforestation and hunting in the passage.

Let's look at the highlighted lines in the 1st paragraph of the following passage.

• Nature is a great teacher. Early man was thrilled with the beauty and wonders of nature. The Aryans worshipped nature. One can learn lessons in the vast school of nature. Unfortunately, the strife, the stress and the tension of modern life have made people immune to the beauties of nature. Their life is so full of care that they have no time to stand and stare. They cannot enjoy the beauty of lowing rivers, swinging trees, flying birds and majestic mountains and hills.

The author is saying that the life of the people is miserable because of the stress and tensions that's why they are unable to enjoy the beauty of nature. 
Hence, the correct answer is "option 3"

Option (4) presents a theme related to the passage and gives the student an already reached conclusion. So, it is incorrect. Option (2) is the correct answer as there can be different interpretations based on the characters of the rabbit and the sparrow.

"Although he noted down the date, he forgot to attend the meeting" is the sentence that contains an adverb clause of concession. An adverb clause of concession begins with a subordinating conjunction (such as after, if, because and although). Moreover, here we are talking about the past, so 'noted' is used here.

The spinning of Earth around its axis is called its rotation. The time it takes for the planet to complete one spin is its rotation period. For Earth, this period of time is approximately 24 hours, or one Earth day.

Trading is not a primary economic activity.
The primary sector of the economy is the sector of an economy making direct use of natural resources. This includes agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining. In contrast, the secondary sector produces manufactured goods, and the tertiary sector produces services.

The cult of Jagannath has been greatly influenced by the Savari tantra as He is the deity of the Savara tribals.

D. K. Basu Guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court of India are about procedures to be used by various agencies for the arrest, detention and interrogation of any person.

In commercial farming, crops are grown and animals are reared for sale in market. The area cultivated and the amount of capital used is large. Most of the work is done by machines.

A tsunami is a large tidal wave caused by the movements of the ocean floor.

• A tsunami is caused by the movement of the ocean floor like an earthquake, landslides, and volcanic eruptions.
• In the Indian Ocean, a Tsunami was struck on 26 December 2004.
• It was a result of an earthquake whose magnitude was 9.0 marking the epicenter in Sumatra.
• The tsunami traveled at the speed of 800 km per hour.
• It submerged most of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
• It displaced the ocean floor to 10-20m.
• The tsunami caused major destruction in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and some of the Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh.

Thus, we can conclude that on 26 December 2004, a tsunami struck the Indian Ocean.

Studies in the field of social sciences are based on data that are collected from two sources: primary sources and secondary sources. 

• Data and information from primary sources are collected first hand. Hence, collecting data from primary sources involves a direct investigation by the researcher. For example, if we want to know which brand of washing soap is most popular among the low-income group in a city, we would identify colonies in which the population of the low-income group people is high.
• Thereafter, we would go to the shop and find out from the shopkeepers which brand of washing soap is sold most.
• Subsequently, we would speak to some of the buyers to find out the reasons for which they choose a particular brand over others. This is the process of direct investigation that yields primary data. 

Thus the correct sequence is c, a, b.

IUCN is best known for compiling and publishing the IUCN Red List, known as a Red Data Book, which assesses the conservation status of species worldwide.

According to Census 2011, literacy rate is defined as the total percentage of the population of an area at a particular time aged seven years or above who can read and write with understanding. Here, the denominator is the population aged seven years or more.
Hence, option (3) is correct.

Deserts are areas that receive very little precipitation.
Deserts are found on every continent and cover about one-fifth of Earth’s land area. 
Geographically speaking, most deserts are found on the western sides of continents or—in the case of the Sahara, Arabian, and Gobi deserts and the smaller deserts of Asia—are located far from the coast in the Eurasian interior.
They tend to occur under the eastern sides of major subtropical high-pressure cells. These huge wheels of wind spiral clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere in the subtropics over the oceans; however, their behavior affects nearby continents.

Members to the Rajya Sabha are elected (indirectly) or nominated. Rajya Sabha consists of not more than 250 members – 238 members representing the states and union territories and 12 members nominated by the President.

1 hour 12 min
1 degree = 4 min
Time in Kolkata = 88 x 4 = 352 min
Time in Chennai = 70 x 4 = 280 min
Time difference = 72 min
= 1 hour 12 min

• A heat budget is a perfect balance between incoming heat absorbed by the earth and outgoing heat escaping it in the form of radiation.
• The heat budget is important because it explains, why the earth neither warms up nor cools down despite the huge transfer of heat that takes place.
• The heat budget of the planet earth. The earth as a whole does not accumulate or lose heat. It maintains its temperature.
• This can happen only if the amount of heat received in the form of insolation equals the amount lost by the earth through terrestrial radiation.
• Consider that the insolation received at the top of the atmosphere is 100 percent.
• While passing through the atmosphere some amount of energy is reflected, scattered, and absorbed.
• Only the remaining part reaches the earth’s surface. Roughly 35 units are reflected back to space even before reaching the earth’s surface.
• Of these, 27 units are reflected back from the top of the clouds and 2 units from the snow and ice-covered areas of the earth.
• The reflected amount of radiation is called the albedo of the earth.
• The remaining 65 units are absorbed, 14 units within the atmosphere and 51 units by the earth’s surface.
• The earth radiates back 51 units in the form of terrestrial radiation.
• Of these, 17 units are radiated to space directly and the remaining 34 units are absorbed by the atmosphere (6 units absorbed directly by the atmosphere, 9 units through convection and turbulence, and 19 units through latent heat of condensation). 48 units absorbed by the atmosphere (14 units from insolation +34 units from terrestrial radiation) are also radiated back into space.

Thus, the total radiation returning from the earth and the atmosphere respectively is 17+48=65 units which balance the total of 65 units received from the sun. This is termed the heat budget or heat balance of the earth.
The balance of incoming and outgoing heat on Earth is referred to as its heat budget. As with any budget, to maintain constant conditions the budget must be balanced so that the incoming heat equals the outgoing heat. 

One of the scientific disciplines, social science is concerned with examining how societies function and how people interact within them.